Environment Portfolio

Climate Solutions aims to stop global warming at the earliest point possible by helping the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia become world leaders in practical and profitable solutions. Climate Solutions' programs work to develop innovation in clean energy technologies, mobilize rural communities to produce more clean energy and establish strategic partners to address climate policy.

2007 Grant: $61,000
Cumulative Grants: $211,000 over four years
Paul Horton – Managing Director
Steve Sundquist – SVP Lead Partner


Facing the Future is a sustainability education organization focused on developing young people’s capacity to build more healthy, peaceful and sustainable local and global communities. Their focus is on developing standards and activity-based environmental sustainability curriculum and integrating sustainability education into middle and high schools.

2007 Grant: $56,000
Cumulative Grants: $96,000 over two years
Wendy Church – Executive Director
Jeff Thiel – SVP Lead Partner


ONE/Northwest delivers innovative tools and strategies to organizations and the environmental movement as a whole in order to engage people in preserving the quality of life in the northwest. ONE/NW specializes in helping environmental organizations engage people in their work and network more effectively with their partners.

2007 Grant: $45,000
Cumulative Grants: $85,000
Gideon Rosenblatt – Executive Director
Todd Dunnington – SVP Lead Partner