List of Supporters

Foundations
The Urban Greenspaces Institute was founded in 1999 with generous capacity grants from the late William H. Brod, the Penney Family Foundation and Common Counsel of Oakland California, and the Ralph Smith Foundation.

Since then the Institute has received support from the following foundations:

• William M. Brod Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation

• Meyer Memorial Trust Small Grants Program

• Ralph L. Smith Foundation

• Spirit Mountain Community Fund

• Lee H. and Marion B. Thompson Foundation

• Willamette Fun(d)

• Bullitt Foundation

Urban Greenspaces Supporter’s Circle

• Portland General Electric

• Charles Swindells

Individual Donors
A large share of the Institute’s annual budget comes from individual donations. We encourage you to consider donating to the Institute’s general fund to help support our mission:

To ensure that parks, regional trail systems, greenways and greenspaces are integrated with the built environment in the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region; and to promote urban greenspace efforts nationally and internationally.

"In the long run, this mass estrangement from things natural bodes ill for the care of the earth. If we are to forge new links to the land, we must resist the extinction of experience. We must save not only the wilderness but the vacant lots, the ditches as well as the canyonlands, and the woodlots along with the old growth."

-- Robert Michael Pyle, The Thunder Tree, 1993