Organization: ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION
Mission: EGA is a member network that represents the big tent of environmental philanthropy that fund efforts that support people, place and planet. EGA works with its members and partners to promote effective environmental philanthropy by sharing knowledge, fostering debate, cultivating leadership, facilitating collaboration, and catalyzing action. What unites EGA members is a commitment to a world with healthy, equitable, and sustainable ecosystems, communities, and economies.
Activities: The Environmental Grantmakers Association was formed in 1987 following a meeting of environmental funders in Washington, DC to discuss common interests and to learn about each others programs. As a result of the enthusiasm generated at the meeting, 12 member foundations from across the United States made plans for future gatherings, exchanged grants lists, and published a directory of foundation program interests. Subsequent meetings reaffirmed the groups interest in facilitating increased communication among grantmakers through EGA. Over 30 years later, our membership spans more than 230 foundations, donor and giving program, spanning large and small in terms of giving level and staff size, and includes multiple types of foundations that are concerned with protecting the environment. In 2019, EGA offered a bold array of programming through gathering its members at signature events and sharing deep knowledge through research and collaborative learning to advance strategic environmental philanthropy. Blue Sky Funders Forum is a working group within EGA that connect people and nature. EGA also partnered across the sector to advance shared goals of environmental philanthropy.
NTEE category: Environment
Secondary category: Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations