The Great Lakes Funder Collaboration is comprised of more than 50 funders across the United States and Canada who are interested in protecting and restoring the Great Lakes. These funders are faced with many challenges and opportunities both in understanding and addressing this critical and complex system and the role they play, individually and collectively, in protecting and restoring it. The funders in the collaborative annually grant more than $75 million to advance work on Great Lakes issues.
Leadership
The Great Lakes Funder Collaboration steering committee for 2023 includes:
Jon Beard, Great Lakes Fishery Trust
Geoffrey Burt, Consecon Foundation
Shannon Donley, Great Lakes Protection Fund
Casey Eggleston, Fund for Lake Michigan
Amanda Herzog, Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Foundation
Annette Jimenez Gleason, Rochester Area Community Foundation (Co-Chair)
Aaron Koch, Crown Family Philanthropies (Co-chair)
The Great Lakes Funder Collaboration meets annually.
The collaboration periodically holds webinars and conference calls on topics of interest for funders. There are quarterly work group calls on water infrastructure, nutrient pollution and legacy pollutants/emerging contaminants.
Funders interested in joining are enthusiastically encouraged to join. To join or if you have questions about the Collaboration, please contact Shelley Cooper, program coordinator: GLFC@growthcap.net.
