National Audubon Society

National Audubon Society is considered a Big Green environmental group, one of the largest and most prominent in the world. It is a member of Natural Resources Council of America. "One of the oldest and most high-brow of American conservation groups, the Audubon Society has long been a bastion of Rockefeller Republicans. It demonstrates a particular obsession with Third World birth rates, advocating harsh population control measures. In 1991, the group fired Les Line, the award-winning editor of Audubon magazine, and replaced him with Malcolm Abrams, former editor of The Star tabloid. The group takes in hundreds of thousands of dollars from conservative foundations, such as Pew Charitable Trusts (Sun Oil), the J.M. Kaplan Fund (a former pass-through for CIA moneys) and the Ford Foundation. It has also raked in millions from royalties on oil and gas wells in its Rainey Wildlife Reserve in Louisiana. Last year, the group purged staff, including Brock Evans, widely regarded as the best eco-lobbyist on Capitol Hill. Former staffers say the new president, John Flicker, wants to turn the group into a Nature Conservancy for the birdwatching crowd. Local chapters, such as Sassafras Audubon in Bloomington, Ind., and Kalmiopsis Audubon in Port Orford, Ore., often demonstrate a refreshing degree of independence.

Peter Berle, an Audubon Society lawyer commanding $200,00 a year, trimmed the conservation staff and gloated "Unlike Greenpeace, Audubon doesn't have a reputation as a confrontational organization." (Washington Babylon, 200)


 * President (as of 2010) - David Yarnold
 * Former President - Russell Peterson

Overview

 * Budget: $44.9 million
 * Staff: 300
 * Members: 550,000
 * CEO Salary: More than $180,000 including benefits"

Funding
The National Audubon Society is corporate-funded. For example, it received a portion of $5 million in funding from Monsanto, one of the "Big 6" Biotech Corporations (shared with two other groups: Delta Wildlife and the Nature Conservancy) in 2012.

In 2012, the organization also received funding from:


 * 3M Company
 * Adp Foundation
 * Aetna Foundation
 * AIG Matching Grants program
 * Alliance data
 * American Express
 * Ameriprise Financial Employee Matching Gift Program
 * Amgen Foundation Matching Gifts Program
 * Amica Companies Foundation
 * Aon Foundation
 * Apache Corporation
 * Arch Chemicals Inc.
 * Arch Insurance Group
 * Archer Daniels Midland Foundation
 * Assurant Health Foundation
 * Assurity Life Insurance Co.
 * AXA Foundation
 * Bank of America Matching Gifts
 * The Bank of New York Mellon Board Matching Gift Program
 * Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
 * BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
 * The Boeing Company Boeing Gift Matching Program
 * BP Foundation, Inc.
 * Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
 * Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation in Honor of Phil Swan
 * Cardinal Health
 * Casey Matching Gift Program
 * Charles Schwab Foundation
 * Chevron Corporation
 * Chubb & Son Inc.
 * Citizens Charitable Foundation
 * CnA Foundation
 * Coca-Cola Foundation, Inc.
 * Community Shares of Minnesota
 * Computer Associates International, Inc.
 * Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
 * Cooper Industries Foundation
 * Dell Foundation
 * Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation
 * Dominion Foundation Matching Gift Program
 * Eaton Charitable Fund
 * Edison International
 * Elsevier Foundation
 * Energizer
 * Energy XXI
 * Expedia Inc.
 * ExxonMobil Foundation
 * First Data Corp - Matching Gift Coordinator
 * Fleet Matching Gift program
 * FM Global Foundation
 * Follett Corporation
 * The Ford Foundation
 * Frank Russell Company
 * The Freddie Mac Foundation
 * Freeport McMoRan
 * Freescale Employee Giving Campaign
 * Gap Foundation
 * GE Foundation
 * Genentech Givingstation
 * General Mills Foundation
 * Genworth Foundation
 * GlaxoSmithKline
 * GlaxoSmithKline Foundation
 * Global Impact
 * Goldman Sachs & Company
 * Goodrich Foundation
 * Google
 * Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company
 * Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
 * The H&R Block Foundation
 * Hewlett-Packard
 * Home Depot Foundation
 * Houghton-Mifflin Company
 * HP Company Foundation
 * HSBC Philanthropic Programs
 * IBM Matching Gifts Program
 * Institutional Investor, Inc.
 * International Monetary Fund
 * ISO Matching Gifts Program
 * ITG, Inc.
 * ITW Foundation
 * JP Morgan Chase Foundation
 * John Hancock Financial Services, Inc.
 * Johnson & Johnson
 * Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the NW
 * Ketron Financial
 * Keybank Foundation
 * Kraft Foods Matching Gifts Program
 * Kresge Foundation
 * Legal & General America Inc.
 * LexisNexis
 * Lilly Endowment Inc.
 * Lincoln Community Foundation, Inc.
 * Lumina Foundation for Education
 * Macy's Foundation Matching Gifts
 * Markem Corporation
 * Masco Corporation
 * The McKnight Foundation
 * McMaster-Carr Supply Co.
 * Merck Partnership for Giving
 * Merrill Lynch and Co. Foundation, Inc. Matching Gifts
 * Microsoft Matching Gift Program
 * Mineral Technolgies
 * Monsanto Fund
 * Moody's Foundation
 * The Motorola Solutions Foundation
 * MSNBC
 * Neiman Marcus Group Matching Gift Program
 * Neon Liberty Capital Management
 * New York Community Trust
 * NGM Charitable Foundation
 * Nordson Corporation
 * Northrop Grumman Corporation
 * Odyssey Reinsurance Company
 * Pearson Group (USA) Inc.
 * PepsiCo Foundation Inc.
 * The Pew Charitable Trusts
 * Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts
 * PG&E Matching Gifts Program
 * Pitney Bowes
 * PPG Industries
 * Precor Incorporated
 * The Prudential Foundation Matching
 * R.U.S.A. Matching Gift Program
 * Random House
 * Regence Blue Shield
 * Reynolds American Foundation
 * Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
 * The Rockefeller Foundation
 * Saint-Gobain Corporation Foundation
 * Springleaf Finance Foundation Inc.
 * Sprint Foundation
 * Stanley Black & Decker
 * Swiss Re America Holding Company
 * Swordspoint Foundation
 * T. Rowe Price Foundation
 * Temple-Inland Foundation
 * Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
 * Thunderbird Charities
 * Tyco Electronics
 * Tyco Matching Gifts program
 * UBS
 * United Technologies Corp.
 * United Way of New York City
 * United Way of the Bay Area
 * The Vanguard Group Foundation
 * Venture Investors, LLC
 * Verizon Foundation
 * W.K. Kellogg Foundation
 * The Walt Disney Company
 * Wellington Management Company, LLP
 * Wells Fargo - Lomas Office
 * The William Penn Foundation
 * The Williams Companies
 * The Windhover Foundation
 * XL America
 * Zurich Insurance Company

Directors (2008)
Accessed October 2008:


 * Steven R. Beissinger
 * Carol M. Browner
 * A. Peter Cannon, Jr.
 * Caroline C. Coe
 * Alan R. Dolan
 * Lynn Dolnick
 * Margot Ernst
 * David B. Ford
 * Frank Gill
 * Ralf Graves
 * David B. Hartwell
 * Charles F. Kahle
 * Allen J. Model
 * Jane-Kerin Moffat
 * Peggy Montano
 * Jess Morton
 * Sarah Muyskens
 * Margery Aylwin Nicolson
 * Adan A. Ortega
 * Andrew Sansom
 * Lloyd Semple
 * Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff
 * Don McKee
 * Michael Stolper
 * Virginia K. Stowe
 * Holt Thrasher
 * John A. Whittle
 * Alan Wilson
 * Roger Wolf
 * William P. Yellowtail

Former Directors (Accessed 2006)
Source: http://www.audubon.org/nas/board/#P53_2450
 * Juliet P. Tammenoms Bakker
 * Steve Beissinger, Ph.D.
 * Steve Blank
 * Carol Browner
 * A. Peter Cannon, Jr.
 * Caroline C. Coe
 * Leslie Dach
 * Lynn Dolnick
 * Margot Ernst
 * David B. Ford
 * Juliet V. Garcia
 * Christopher M. Harte
 * David B. Hartwell
 * Vivian Johnson
 * Charles F. Kahle
 * William W. McQuilkin, Jr.
 * Allen J. Model
 * Peggy Montano
 * Sarah Muyskens
 * Margery A. Nicholson, Ph.D.
 * Adan A. Ortega, Jr.
 * Geoffrey Cobb Ryan
 * Andrew Sansom
 * Richard Schlosberg
 * Lloyd Semple
 * Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff
 * Robert G. Stanton
 * Michael Stolper
 * Virginia Stowe
 * Ione Werthman
 * John Whittle
 * Alan Wilson
 * Roger C. Wolf
 * William P. Yellowtail
 * Steven T. Zimmerman

Contact Details
225 Varick Street 7th Floor New York, NY 10014 Phone: (212) 979-3000 Fax: (212) 979-3188 Email: smontgomery AT audubon.org Web: http://www.audubon.org

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