The David Samuel Orr Fund for the Earth Supports grassroots organizing by Indigenous Peoples working on urgent environmental issues throughout the Southwest and David’s home state of Nevada.
What Moves Us
We are deeply moved by the work our grantees are doing, and applaud their collective vision. They work energetically to protect and heal their communities. We are motivated by the unjust and unlimited financial and political power of exploitative energy industries that care little for the health of their native hosts, the water, the sky, and Mother Earth.
In addition to providing grants to groups working to achieve protection from polluting resource companies and wayward government policies, we support tribal organizers whose projects promote the long-term wisdom of tribal investment in green alternatives. For example, some of our grantees are teaching their youth to farm in traditional ways and to become leaders for change; others are creating models for clean, renewable-energy economies and sustainable agriculture.
Our family-run fund was founded in 1998 to honor the spirit of David Samuel Orr, our son, brother, and uncle. He died at the age of 24 having just begun his passionate work towards environmental justice in tribal communities. It was David’s mother, Susan Orr, whose idea it was to remember him this way.
As a working board, we work collaboratively with each other on grantmaking and fundraising projects. Through our striving to support grassroots organizers we learn so much from them about the important issues they are working on.
We hope you'll consider joining us in this rewarding cycle of giving. The work our grantees do is vitally important to their communities and beyond. Your donation makes a difference.
In addition to providing grants to groups working to achieve protection from polluting resource companies and wayward government policies, we support tribal organizers whose projects promote the long-term wisdom of tribal investment in green alternatives. For example, some of our grantees are teaching their youth to farm in traditional ways and to become leaders for change; others are creating models for clean, renewable-energy economies and sustainable agriculture.
Our family-run fund was founded in 1998 to honor the spirit of David Samuel Orr, our son, brother, and uncle. He died at the age of 24 having just begun his passionate work towards environmental justice in tribal communities. It was David’s mother, Susan Orr, whose idea it was to remember him this way.
As a working board, we work collaboratively with each other on grantmaking and fundraising projects. Through our striving to support grassroots organizers we learn so much from them about the important issues they are working on.
We hope you'll consider joining us in this rewarding cycle of giving. The work our grantees do is vitally important to their communities and beyond. Your donation makes a difference.
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David's mother Susan was a beloved lifelong organizer for peace and justice, defender of Mother Earth, accomplished artist, healer, Buddhist teacher, and spiritual leader. She passed away in Sacramento, California on September 9, 2018, but her indelible influence remains and we now do this work with both Susan and David in our hearts and minds.
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Supporting environmental justice of, by, and for Indigenous Peoples of the Southwest. |
