Founded in Pittsburgh in 1968 under the will of Alex C. Walker, the Foundation is structured as a charitable trust under Pennsylvania Law.

Making Working Community Forests Work: Leveraging Private Capital   “Making Working Community Forests Work” project will complete the sale of a conservation easement on the 50,000-acre Usal Redwood Forest; this will prohibit fragmentation and development, require FSC certification, and assure sustainable harvesting. The easement...

Taking Private Property for Law Enforcement Profit   Civil asset forfeiture threatens the property rights of all Americans. These laws allow the police to seize your home, car, cash, or other property upon the mere suspicion that it has been used or involved in criminal activity. Civil forfeiture is a legal ficti...

Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery & Grazing Permit Retirement In Greater Gila   WildEarth Guardians received a $25,000 grant from the Alex C. Walker Foundation in support of a campaign to protect the threatened wildlands and endangered wildlife of the Greater Gila Ecosystem through a market-based approach that will retire high conflict cattl...

Supplement: Protection for eelgrass beds: Overcoming Economic Imbalances through Marine Conservation Agreements and Community Involvement in Frenchman Bay and the Gulf of Maine   The supplement amount will be used for outreach and education. After several meetings funded by the Alex C. Walker Foundation and Maine Coastal Program, Frenchman Bay Stakeholders have decided to form a partnership~~The mission of the Frenchman Bay Partnership...

Development of Economic Incentives and Environmental Markets to Promote Sustainable Land-Use Practices in the Tropics   This project will build upon SHI’s work in crop commercialization and the development of markets to create economic incentives for rural farmers to preserve tropical forests. SHI will identify potential buyers of farmers’ goods and services and build the capacit...

Walker Conservation Fellow   The Walker Conservation Fellow will perform all of the steps required to develop a Marine Payment for Ecosystem Services (MPES) scheme in the Upper Florida Keys, allowing reef restoration activities to become financially self sustaining. This model has the poten...

Wildlife Conflict Resolution Project (Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge)   The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) resolves conflict between wildlife and livestock through the market approach of compensating ranchers for retiring problematic grazing leases on federal land. Restoring wildlife populations has been linked to recovering heal...