National Wildlife Federation

National Wildlife Federation 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.

History

Founded in 1936 by editorial cartoonist Jay Norwood Darling a.k.a. "Ding" Darling, the National Wildlife Federation has emerged as the nation's premiere grass-roots conservation organization, with over 4 million members and supporters and 46 state affiliate organizations.

NWF was founded when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt convened the first North American Wildlife Conference to stimulate public interest in the management and development of America's natural resources. Even then, America's land, water and wildlife were threatened. Recognizing the link between the people's health, the environment, and our quality of life, conference participants set out to protect them all. They understood that it would take millions of informed, motivated people to do the job. So the General Wildlife Federation (later changed to National Wildlife Federation) was founded, with a central mission of educating and empowering people to make a difference.

Nearly 60 years later, NWF's primary focus remains education. Books, magazines and hands-on nature programs seek to provide information and inspiration linking children and families back to nature and showing them how to protect it.

Budget: $80 million Staff: 600Members: 5 million CEO salary: More than $180,000 including benefits." [1]

• Thomas Kimball - Executive Director (1961-81)
• Mark Van Putten - Former CEO (1996-2003)
• Larry Schweiger - President and CEO
• Jerome Ringo - former Chair

Funding (Fiscal 2005)

"In fiscal 2005, National Wildlife Federation revenues totaled $122 million, with 84 percent coming from supporters through memberships, publications and sales of nature education materials. Nearly $38 million in donations, grants and bequests came from generous individual supporters including members, Guardians of the Wild, Leaders Club, Heralds of Nature, Regents of Nature donors and members of our estate planning program, Rara Avis Society. â??

â??Foundations and corporations provided support for National Wildlife Federationâ??s conservation and education programs totaling $5 million. Major foundation grants were awarded by The McKnight Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, The Wege Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Home Depot Foundation, and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.â?

Revenues generated by National Wildlife Federation's publications and films totaled $21 million, and sales of nature education materials produced $45 million. Realized investment gains totaled $8 million and royalties and other income yielded the remaining $6 million.� [2]

In 2008 there biggest and only funder giving them over $1 million was the Walton Family Foundation. [3]

Affiliated organisations

• The Planning and Conservation League

Directors

Source: http://www.nwf.org/about/staff.cfm

• Jerome C. Ringo, Chair
• Thomas G. Gonzales, Chair-Elect
• Stephen E. Petron, Vice Chair
• Craig D. Thompson, Vice Chair
• Spencer Tomb, Vice Chair
• Stephen K. Allinger, Director
• Paul Beaudette, Director
• Andrew C. Brack, Director
• Magalen Bryant, Director (Maggie Bryant
• Clark Bullard, Director
• David Carruth, Director
• John Mack Carter, Director
• Lyvier Conss, Director
• Michael Dombeck, Director
• Kathleen Hadley, Director
• Mark W. Heckert, Director
• Levi Joseph Holt, Director
• Jerry Little, Director
• James T. Martin, Director
• Earl B. Matthew, Director
• Gerald H. Meral, Director
• Gene T. Oglesby, Director
• J. Stephen O'Hara, Jr., Director
• Charles E. Olmsted, III, Director
• Bryan T. Pritchett, Past Chair
• Paul A. Rose, Director
• Rebecca L. Scheibelhut, Past Chair
• Deborah Spalding, Director
• Christine P. Thompson, Director
• Walter Umphrey, Director
• Beatrice Busch von Gontard, Director

Presidents Advisory Council

Source: http://www.nwf.org/about/annualreport/2005/presidentscouncil05.pdf

• R. E. Turner III
• Robert H. Gardiner
• Leslie Shad
• Kay Kelley Arnold
• Joseph Brennan
• Magalen O. Bryant
• John and Patricia Carver
• Dr. Peter Blaze Corcoran
• Clayton and Geralyn Davis
• Leslie Devereaux
• Paul R. Dimond
• Rick Flory and Lee Robert
• Jameson French
• Anne Gardiner
• Ray and Linda Golden
• Barbara Goodbody
• Kathleen Kemper
• Catherine Ladnier and J.M. Robinson
• Dr. Robert S. Lawrence
• Hunter Lundy
• Dr. Gilbert S. Omenn and Martha Darling
• Gilman and Margaret Ordway

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• Amherst H. and Jan Turner]]
• Beatrice Busch von Gontard and Adalbert von Gontard]]
• Peter M. Wege
• Madelin Martin Wexler

Contact details

National Wildlife Federation
11100 Wildlife Center Drive
Reston, VA 20190-5362
Phone: 1-800-822-9919
Web: http://www.nwf.org/

Resources

SourceWatch Resources

• Natural Resources Council of America
• Larry Amon - former COO
• Chris Palmer - media
• Big Green

External links

• Jeffrey St. Clair and Bernardo Issel, "A field guide to the environmental movement", In These Times, 28 July 1997.
• John Stauber, Endangered Wildlife Friends Are Here!, PR Watch Quarterly, Third Quarter, 2001.
• Steve Kelly, "Cheap Chips, Counterfeit Wilderness: Greenwashing Logging on Montana's Biggest National Forest", Counterpunch, December 10, 2007.
• Joann Hari, The wrong kind of green, "The Nation", March 22, 2010.