International Rivers

International Rivers mission "is to protect rivers and defend the rights of communities that depend on them." One of the cofounders of the network was Mark Dubois.


 * Patrick McCully, Executive Director
 * Glenn Switkes, Latin America Program Director

Foundation Funders (2006)

 * Aveda Corporation
 * Ford Foundation
 * Global Environment Project Institute
 * Heinrich Böll Foundation
 * Kendeda Fund
 * Libra Foundation
 * George and Miriam Martin Foundation
 * McKnight Foundation
 * Steve J. Miller Foundation
 * Moriah Fund
 * Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
 * Open Society Institute
 * Oxfam America
 * Oxfam Australia
 * Oxfam Great Britain
 * Sigrid Rausing Trust
 * Swedish Society for Nature Conservation
 * Tides Foundation
 * Wallace Global Fund
 * Walton Family Foundation
 * Weeden Foundation
 * Working Assets

2006 Funding
 * Grants $1,515,670
 * Contributions $166,041
 * Fund for International Rivers $80,000
 * Other income $29,706
 * Total income $1,791,417

Directors
Accessed September 2008:


 * Martha Belcher (Chair) - Vice President for Sustainable Business Practices, Sungevity
 * Andre Carothers - Senior Fellow, Rockwood Leadership Program
 * Robert Hass - Poet; Professor of English, University of California at Berkeley
 * Marcia McNally - Associate Adjunct Professor, University of California at Berkeley, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning; Partner, Community Development by Design
 * Carlos E. Mejia - Vice President, Youth Leadership Institute
 * Milan Momirov - Entrepreneur and investor
 * Deborah Moore - Executive Director, Green Schools Initiative
 * Cymie Payne - Director, Global Commons Project; Associate Director, California Center for Environmental Law and Policy, University of California at Berkeley, School of Law
 * David N. Pellow - Professor and Martindale Chair of Sociology, University of Minnesota
 * Lori Udall - Program Director, Sacharuna Foundation
 * Meeta Vyas - Partner, SRV International; Board Member, MIT South Asian Alumni; Advisory Board Member, South Asian Women's Leadership Forum

International Advisory Board
Accessed September 2008:


 * Celio Bermann - University of São Paulo, Brazil
 * Joan Carling - Cordillera Peoples Alliance, Philippines
 * Gustavo Castro Soto - Mexican Movement of Dam-Affected Peoples, Mexico
 * Nga Dao - Center for Water Resources Conservation and Development, Vietnam
 * Shripad Dharmadhikary - Manthan Resource Centre, India
 * Philip Fearnside - National Institute for Research in the Amazon, Brazil
 * Liane Greeff - Writer/Photgrapher; African Rivers Network, South African Water Caucus, South Africa
 * Nicholas Hildyard - The Corner House, England
 * Naeem Iqbal - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Pakistan
 * Frank Muramuzi - National Association of Professional Environmentalists, Uganda
 * Astrid Puentes - Inter-American Association for Environmental Defense, Mexico/Colombia
 * Lucia Schild Ortiz - Friends of the Earth, Brazil
 * Himanshu Thakkar - South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People, India

US Advisory Board
Accessed September 2008:


 * Dan Beard - Chief Administrative Officer, US House of Representatives
 * Patricia W. Chang - Former President and CEO, Women’s Foundation of California
 * Gigi Coe - Board President, The Bay School of San Francisco
 * Peter Coyote - Actor and writer
 * Christina L. Desser - Fellow, Tomales Bay Institute
 * Huey D. Johnson - Founder and President, Resource Renewal Institute
 * Barbara Rose Johnston - Center for Political Ecology; Professor, Michigan State University
 * Dorka Keehn - Commissioner, Commission of the Status of Women for the City and County of San Francisco; Chair, San Francisco’s Justice and Courage Domestic Violence Panel
 * Lauren Klein Hayes - WELL Network
 * Nion McEvoy - Chairman and CEO, Chronicle Books
 * Sylvia McLaughlin - Conservationist; Co-founder and former president and board member of Save the Bay
 * Juliette Majot - Activist; non-profit consultant; former Executive Director, International Rivers
 * Mutombo Mpanya - Professor of international environmental studies; Director of the Science and Humanities Integration Project, Sonoma State
 * Mayumi Oda - Artist; Co-founder, INOCHI and Plutonium Free Future organizations
 * Drummond Pike - Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Tides Network
 * Brian Smith - Partner, Heller Ehrman LLP
 * Gary Snyder - Poet; Professor Emeritus, University of California at Davis
 * Paul Strasburg - Activist, farmer. Former Chair, International Rivers Board of Directors
 * Lara Truppelli - Chair, Ocean Beach Vision Council, City and County of San Francisco; Co-founder and proprietor, San Francisco's Beach Chalet Brewery & Restaurant and Park Chalet Garden Restaurant

Contact

 * Web: http://www.internationalrivers.org

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Anne Fitzgerald
 * Conservation Strategy Fund
 * 50 Years Is Enough