Funders

Participating Foundations
Alice Goh

Gerstner Philanthropies

"We in this generation, must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves.

– Rachel Carson

Alicia Wittink

Park Foundation

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

– Mary Oliver

Amanda Nickson

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

– Barack Obama

Andi Pearl

The Volgenau Foundation

"Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility.

– Richard St Barbe Baker

Carlo De La Cruz

Sequoia Climate Foundation

"The movement must go beyond its leaders. It must be something that is continuous, with goals and ideals that the leadership can build on.

– Philip Vera Cruz

CR Hibbs

The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global

"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

– Rachel Carson

Chris Gee

Oak Foundation

"If it was easy someone else would have done it.

– Unknown

Daniel Katz

Overbrook Foundation

"I arise in the mornings torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the day.

– E.B. White

Jennifer Volgenau Wiley

The Volgenau Foundation

"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

– Henry David Thoreau

Jim Angell

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

– John Muir

Megan Saynisch

Grace Communications Foundation

"For while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us.

– Amanda Gorman

Lisa Volgenau

The Volgenau Foundation

"It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

– Rachel Carson

Dr. Robert A. Cook

The Zegar Family Foundation

"Environmentalism isn't a spectator sport. You actually have to stand up and demand that we be vigilant in protecting our air and water.

– Lisa P. Jackson

Rosie O'Connor

Point Break Foundation

"Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sally Liu

Tundra Glacier Fund

"It is our collective and individual responsibility...to preserve and tend to the world in which we all live.

– Dalai Lama

Sara Lowell

Marisla Foundation

"Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

– Jane Goodall

Shorey Myers

Bloomberg Philanthropies

"People who say change is impossible are usually pretty happy with things just as they are.

– NK Jemisin

Team Members
Ame Trandem

Program Manager Europe, PSF

"We must undertake struggle in all parts of the world, wherever we may be, because we have no replacement planet, we only have this one, and we have to take action.

– Berta Cáceres

Bernardo Luis Mc Kelligan

Fund Development Assistant, PSF

"At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity.

– Chico Mendes

Malti Gadgil

Program Manager Asia, PSF

"Indifference is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.

– Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar

Meenakshi Abbi

Senior Advisor, Sponsored Projects, RPA

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

– Thoreau

Nicky Davies

Executive Director, PSF

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

– Maya Angelou

Alberto Herrera Aragon

Managing Director, PSF

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.

– Albert Einstein

Emy Rodriguez Rancier

Program Manager US, PSF

"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting our time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

– Lilla Watson

Projects

The Work We're Funding

61
Countries

engaged in a global wave of change

128
Organizations

supported financially to help rid the world of plastic

$84
Million

in grants from our fund’s partners and members