Donating to RFA
The Rivers Foundation of the Americas is a public foundation dedicated to promoting and funding the protection and restoration of rivers in the Americas. Your passion for environmental preservation and social justice is a passion shared by all RFA board and staff members and by the organizations the Rivers Foundation helps to fund.
- We support activists and their organizations with grants, technical and policy support; and in-kind donations.
- We are also an operating foundation. That means, in addition to raising an endowment to give grants and other resources to environmental leaders and organizations, we also do projects.
- We actively work to change environmental policies in the Americas.
- Our science and research team works on direct restoration efforts.
- We educate adult decision-makers about the connections between land use, water pollution, water use, and ecosystem and human health.
Our goal is to raise an initial $30 million for three endowment funds collectively called River CPR™: Conservation, Preservation, and Restoration. With these funds, the Rivers Foundation will grant money to nonprofit organizations in carefully selected areas in North, Central and South America. Our vision is bold and exciting; our implementation team - Board of Directors, CEO, Advisory Board and volunteers - has an extraordinary record of producing results throughout the Americas and around the world. We know how to locate and leverage River CPR™ Leaders. We know the "why" and "how" to strategically supply grants, build capacity and sustain efforts and support for local leaders in critical areas of need throughout the Americas.
Donate Online
You can donate directly to the Rivers Foundation of the Americas using the Network for Good Giving System here. It's a safe and easy way to give directly to the RFA.
To donate by phone call 503-274-7704, or for more information. We accept all kinds of donations from in kind materials, to real estate, vehicles, stocks and bonds, bequests and planned giving and, of course, cash donations.
Explore Our Watersheds
Copper River
The Copper River Delta has the largest concentration of nesting shorebirds in North America, is an important nursery for prized salmon and other fisheries, and is a relatively unspoiled wilderness area with keystone predators including wolves and grizzlies.
Columbia River
The Columbia River watershed is a critical link in the mega-linkages of the Pacific flyway and predator migration corridor. It is the nerve center for salmon restoration, and one of the world's most highly manipulated great river systems.
Colorado River
The Colorado River system flows 1,450 miles through nine states and Mexico; the Grand Canyon was created by its waters. The aridity of most of this region has made its water into a valuable commodity, and the fragile desert, canyon, and delta ecosystems it supports have suffered as a result.
RFA Programs
Clean Water, Biodiversity, and Environmental Justice Initiative
This initiative links RFA's policies of supporting indigenous peoples, drumming home the common sense linkages between clean healthy water for human use, strong biodiverse and healthy ecosystems, and environmental justice for indigenous peoples and economically disadvantaged people throughout the Americas. Continue reading below for more about this initiative, or go to Global Water Policy Initiative to learn about RFA's other main initiative.
Global Water Policy Initiative
This initiative works at the heart of water policy issues, especially the global debate on the privatization of fresh water resources and growing water supply controversies throughout the United States and the hemisphere. We believe that all children and all people deserve clean water, and that access to a subsistence level of water is a basic human obligation. Continue reading below for more about this initiative, or go to Clean Water, Biodiversity, and Environmental Justice to learn about RFA's other main initiative.
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