Helen Taylor, The Nature Conservancy's Michigan director, accepts one of the four trucks donated by GM Cardmembers in April.
Posted on 03/13/2003 11:16:11 PM PST by farmfriend
The Nature Conservancy and General Motors
In 1994, The Nature Conservancy and General Motors began a relationship that was unprecedented for both organizations because of its size and scope; $10 million in cash and trucks over 10 years. General Motors was drawn to the Conservancy because its collaborative approach promotes a healthy economy and a healthy environment. It also generates innovative initiatives within local communities that preserve our landscapes, help local economies and save precious places around the world.
During the past eight and one-half years, GM has donated more than $6.6 million in cash and more than 150 trucks to aid the often-rugged conservation work of the Conservancy. GM's funding supports many different projects within the Conservancy, including five preserves in the U.S. and four abroad.
In addition, GM has provided $10 million to the Conservancy to restore and protect about 30,000 acres of endangered land in the Atlantic Rainforest Restoration Project in Brazil.
Helen Taylor, The Nature Conservancy's Michigan director, accepts one of the four trucks donated by GM Cardmembers in April.
In 1999 and 2000, the GM Card Group invited its cardmembers to donate a portion of their earnings to the Conservancy through the "Cardmembers for Conservation" program. Generous cardmembers contributed 19 Chevrolet trucks, including four Chevy S-10 electric pickups, and $175,000 in cash, for a combined donation total of $768,000.
In 2001, The Conservancy celebrated its 50th anniversary with a photographic exhibition, "In Response to Place: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places." The 4 ½-year traveling exhibit, featuring the work of 12 internationally recognized photographers, is sponsored by GM and its Cadillac division.
GM employees also have been very generous. Through the employee-giving program, employees are allowed to donate a portion of their pay to The Nature Conservancy. Since 1998, GM employees have pledged and donated $395,000. GM Chairman Jack Smith sits on the Conservancy's international Board of Governors and co-chairs its billion-dollar Campaign for Conservation.
The Nature Conservancy is a private, international, non-profit organization that preserves plants, animals and natural communities representing the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. To date, the Conservancy and its more than one million members have been responsible for the protection of more than 14 million acres in the United States and have helped preserve more than 80 million acres in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific.
Helen Taylor, The Nature Conservancy's Michigan director, accepts one of the four trucks donated by GM Cardmembers in April.
Rest assured this "Director" draws a fat salary, perks, etc.- paid by the group... who extorts money from GM's customers...
( Corporations do not pay taxes, fines, or other such fees- they pass the costs on to their customers...)
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The day will come when those who say they are tyring to save the world, destroy it with their own misguided actions.
Nature Conservancy report from Better Business Bureau's Charity site, www.give.org (2000)
The following information is based on TNC's consolidated audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000.
Note 1: In reaching the conclusion that TNC meets the standard calling for a reasonable percentage (at least 50%) of total income from all sources to be applied to programs and activities directly related to the purposes for which the organization exists, the BBB Wise Giving Alliance (the Alliance) considered the following, among other things. TNC believes that although their land purchases for conservation purposes are considered a fundamental part of their program expenditures they cannot be recognized as a program expense within an audited financial statement as a result of accounting rules. The 2000 audit report for TNC shows that it spent $310,448,000 or 38%, of total income ($786,848,000) on program service activities. If these figures are adjusted to incorporate land purchases as a program expense, then TNC spent program expense, then TNC spent $429,064,000, or 67%, of adjusted total income ($640,680,000) on program service expenses.
Source of Funds Contributions for land and other conservation projects 204,144,000 Investment income 161,181,000 Contributions for operations 125,829,000 Land contributed for conservation 86,082,000 Sales of conservation land to governmental agencies and other conservation organizations 81,925,000 Government grants 60,086,000 Royalties, fees and other 21,203,000 Contributions to endowments 18,773,000 Mitigation and contracts 14,052,000 Contributions of goods and services 5,416,000 Contributions of trade lands 4,885,000 Contributions for land preservation fund 3,272,000
Total Income $786,848,000
Boy are you wrong. They take money from the government (your tax dollars) buy land and give it to the government. Some of the land they sell to developers. There is one around the San Fransisco area where they operate a golf course to raise money. They are not honest about how they do this either.
Huh? What part of that income list in #10 hints at any form of capitalism.
TNC gets taxpayer money from the government to force unwilling property owners to sell out at below-market prices; then they sell land back to the government at inflated prices.
It should be noted, since their largest source of income is "contributions": what liberals call "contributions" includes any unearned money begged, borrowed, defrauded, or taken at gunpoint from unwilling participants.
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