Tahoe Fund
The Tahoe Fund is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization registered in the states of California (May 2010) and Nevada (January 2011), where it is officially registered as the Lake Tahoe Conservation Fund. It is headquartered in Incline Village, NV. Formation of the Tahoe Fund is generally credited to Patrick Wright, former Executive Director of the California Tahoe Conservancy, a California state agency located in South Lake Tahoe, CA, who began meeting with various Lake Tahoe stakeholders in 2009 to encourage formation of a non-profit organization dedicated to funding Environmental Improvement Program projects in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Formation of the Tahoe Fund was announced by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in August 2010 at the organization’s first fund-raising event at the West Shore Cafe in Homewood, CA.[1]
Organization history[edit]
The first founding officers of the Board of Directors listed on applications for non-profit status were Tahoe City Public Utilities District General Manager Cindy Gustafson, President and Chair of the Board; local developer Roger Wittenberg, Vice-president/Vice-Chair; Homewood Mountain Resort/JMA Ventures owner Art Chapman, Treasurer; and League to Save Lake Tahoe, Keep Tahoe Blue Board Member/Former President Tom Mertens, Secretary. Ex-officio officers in the initial Board of Directors were Patrick Wright (California Tahoe Conservancy) and Jim Lawrence (Nevada Department of State Lands). Allen Biaggi replaced Wittenberg as Vice-Chair within a few weeks of the Fund’s establishment.[2] The board consists of a wide representation of stakeholders in the Tahoe Basin.[3]
The board briefly adopted the motto “Together, We Put Projects in the Ground” before changing it to “Together Creating a Legacy” and it also established the original mission statement: “The Tahoe Fund will protect and improve the extraordinary natural environment of the Lake Tahoe Basin by building broad support for projects and programs that preserve the Lake for the enjoyment of current and future generations.” Organizational and fundraising efforts were performed by members of the Board of Directors and various contractors prior to the hiring of its first CEO, Amy Berry, in 2012. The mission statement changed slightly over the years.[4]
The Fund focused its mission on raising private funds that could be presented to public government agencies as matching funds to motivate government agencies to invest in environmental projects at Lake Tahoe. Among its first successes were helping fund the opening of the new Van Sickle Bi-State Park spanning Nevada and California at Stateline, NV and South Lake Tahoe, CA; providing final funding to complete a bike path in Tahoe City; coordinating the 15th Annual Lake Tahoe Summit hosted by Senator Dianne Feinstein;[5] and contributing funds for restoration work in the Blackwood Creek (CA) and Third Creek (NV) watersheds.[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://www.sierrasun.com/news/vicki-kahn-tahoe-fund-launched-at-the-west-shore-cafe/
- ↑ https://www.tahoefund.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/TF_AR.pdf
- ↑ https://www.tahoefund.org/about-us/our-governance/board-of-directors/
- ↑ https://www.tahoefund.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/TF_AR.pdf
- ↑ https://www.tahoefund.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/TF_AR.pdf
- ↑ https://www.tahoefund.org/projects/
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