Since 1984 California Environmental Associates (CEA) has worked at the nexus of markets, policy and science to address environmental challenges in California, the United States and around the world. CEA helps strengthen the philanthropic community by designing, managing, supporting and evaluating environmental grants and investments. CEA helps foundations and individual donors with both short-term projects and long term engagements. Its expertise includes climate change, energy policy, fisheries and aquaculture, land preservation, sustainable agriculture, air quality and chemical and waste management. CEA draws upon its deep knowledge of the environmental challenges facing philanthropists as it provides tactical and strategic advice to its clients.
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a family foundation guided by the enduring business philosophy and personal values of Lucile and David Packard, whose innovative approach to management helped transform a small electronics shop in their garage into one of the world’s leading technology companies. The Foundation works on the issues its founders cared about most: improving the lives of children, enabling the creative pursuit of science, advancing reproductive health, and conserving and restoring the earth’s natural systems. In the Conservation and Science Programme, grant-making is focused on ocean and land conservation, climate-change mitigation and scientific research. The Foundation invests in action and ideas that conserve and restore ecosystems while enhancing human well-being. It supports public policy reforms, changes in private sector practices and scientific activities to develop essential knowledge and tools for addressing current and future priorities.