Gayle Valentine Boise ID PO Box 25 208/334-2648 208/334-2148 (FAX) President: Sandy Emerson Coeur d'Alene ID First Vice President: Gail Siemen Pocatello ID Second Vice President: R. Brooks Potter Boise ID Secretary: Phyllis Kochert Boise ID Treasurer: Stephen Barton Boise ID David P. Bobbitt Spokane WA John E. Burns Carmen ID (Ex-officio) Merlyn Clark Boise ID Kenneth E. Davis Whitebird ID Daniel S. Deagle, CPA Buhl ID Floyd Harvey Lewiston ID Charles Hervey Boise ID Robert Koontz Boise ID Patrick J. Mills Boise ID Pam Morris Ketchum ID Janet DeVlieg-Pope Clarkston WA Michael J. Preece Kimberly ID Wesley G. Rose, O.D. Jerome ID Jim Smith Carmen ID Administrative Staff Marcy Dugger Fish and Game Staff: Phyllis Kochert Senior Secretary 208/334-3781 208/334-2148 (FAX) |
Mission: To facilitate the organization and funding of selected fish, wildlife, education and habitat projects throughout Idaho deemed meritorious by the Foundation's Board of Directors. What is the Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation? Sometimes people have great ideas but need help getting the money to accomplish them. This can be especially true when those ideas revolve around fish and wildlife. A river of red tape exists in many overlapping bureaucratic jurisdictions and laws surrounding various funding sources in the public and private sectors. The Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation (IFWF) was created to help people cross that river and get on with the important projects they want to accomplish. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of natural resources: fish, wildlife and habitat. Among its goals are habitat conservation and restoration, public education and community/grassroots organization, and funding of resource projects. It meets these goals by forging partnerships between the public and private sectors and by supporting conservation activities that inform and educate the general public. Headquartered in Boise, the Foundation was established in September 1990. Interest in forming the Foundation came from several different needs, beginning with the Morrison Knudsen Nature Center. An entity was needed to facilitate this and similar large-scale public/private projects. In this instance, parts of the project (such as building the Visitors Center by high school students) could not effectively happen through a state agency, and because funding sources (such as the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust) could give to nonprofits, but not to government agencies. Today, the Foundation serves as a fund-raising entity that taps new and additional sources of income and support for the state¡¦s wildlife and associated educational programs which are typically under-funded or without a reliable annual source of income. It seeks grants, plans special events and is developing a major donor program as well as exploring other funding options. It also responds to frequent requests from community organizations for program coordination and organizing assistance. |
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