2024-10-10T13:16:00-07:00 2024-03-31 460796445 Shining Star Consulting LLC 1831 Solano Ave Unit 8058 Berkeley CA 947075056 990 2023-04-01 946121854 Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills GREE 6509687243 3921 E Bayshore Blvd Palo Alto CA 94303 Julie Hutcheson Executive Director 2024-10-10 true true Suzanne Pon P03097587 5109996712 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z Julie Hutcheson 3921 E Bayshore Blvd Palo Alto CA 94303 1946761 false X www.greenfoothills.org X 1964 CA To protect the open space, farmland, and natural resources of San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties for the benefit of all through advocacy, education, and grassroots action. 15 15 11 50 0 1635223 1835695 3825 1150 19072 76439 -93353 13401 1564767 1926685 1050 2549 0 880322 980639 0 238879 321350 327571 1202722 1310759 362045 615926 1744586 2527331 97589 161797 1646997 2365534 To protect the open space, farmland, and natural resources of San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties for the benefit of all through advocacy, education, and grassroots action. false false 440593 100 Advocacy: Green Foothills champions climate resilience and biodiversity by advocating for protecting nature, wildlife, and people in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San Benito Counties through advocacy, education, and grassroots action. Our work helps to advance California's 30x30 strategy by protecting biodiversity, expanding access to nature, building resilience to climate change, advancing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, strengthening tribal relationships, and sustaining our food supply. The desired impacts of our work are: 1) Land use decisions affirm and support open space, biodiversity, climate resilience, and natural resources and 2) Diverse leaders and communities champion conservation and inclusion. We achieve these impacts by 1) Engaging in Local Land Use Issues: We engage in land use policy, proposals, and planning processes that pose an opportunity or threat to our natural environment. We conduct thorough research and seek community input to inform our advocacy goals, 2) Educating Decision Makers and Community Leaders: We provide the support and information needed for current and future decision-makers to be champions for conservation and inclusive public processes, and 3) Partnering With and Mobilizing Community Members: We bring together and mobilize people to navigate the land use process effectively. We train, mentor, and learn from diverse leaders and communities in equitable, inclusive environmental activism. In 2023, we won stronger protection for wildlife habitat in the Stanford Foothills, ensured a healthier environment with the closure of the cement kiln at Lehigh Quarry, and protected 227 low-income families in the Pillar Ridge community in Moss Beach from the ongoing health and safety threat of an adjacent propane facility. We launched our Upper Pajaro Watershed program with the addition of a new advocate dedicated to protecting this area's vast natural landscapes from urban sprawl and its wildlife linkages from inappropriately located development. We were steadfast in our ongoing work to protect Bay wetlands from excessive office development, Coyote Valley from increased commercial development along the Coyote Creek corridor, the Amah Mutsun's most sacred site - Juristac - from a proposed open-pit sand and gravel mine near Gilroy, and supporting new, safe, affordable, farmworker housing along the San Mateo County coast. In addition, we continue to build trust with local tribes and Indigenous groups and provide resources to add capacity to their tribes and nonprofit organizations, including leadership development and grant writing assistance. 2023 Impact metrics: From the coast to the Baylands, from the valley to the hillsides, our advocates engaged on 28 land use issues in 2023, speaking up for the most at-risk habitats. We worked on 22 issues in collaboration with 110 tribes, organizations, and community leaders. We achieved 6 victories out of 7 concluded land use issues resulting in 3,453 acres of open space protected or benefited, 7 key wildlife and plant species benefited, 2 policies or plans were adopted by governmental agencies, 21,464 comment letters sent in response to our 10 calls to action with 5 favorable outcomes, and 3 outcomes still pending. 145 additional letters were sent in response to our call to thank legislators for their votes. 440214 2449 1150 Leadership Program (Community Building): We launched the 10th Leadership Program cohort of local change-makers in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San Benito Counties in 2023. The program trains and invests in community members of all backgrounds in equitable, inclusive environmental activism to advance the transformation of the local conservation movement. This was the first year we offered the program tuition-free and in Spanish and English to help remove barriers to building an inclusive environmental movement. The Program aims to shift power by creating viable pathways for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to engage in and lead climate action, and by building community leader capacity that harnesses the power of collaboration within communities and mobilizes change agents to advance equitable, inclusive environmental activism locally. Leadership Program alumni 1) assume leadership roles where they apply a lens of environmental advocacy and cultural humility in their work; 2) initiate and join successful campaigns that advance Green Foothills' mission and vision; and 3) are involved in the Green Foothills community. 2023 Impact metrics: 17 local changemakers graduated (including 6 Spanish speakers) for a total of 259 alumni since 2014. 13 alumni took on new leadership roles for a total of 122 since 2014, 13 initiatives were won by alumni for a total of 50 initiatives since 2014, and another 13 initiatives were launched or joined by alumni for a total of 53 since 2014. 880807 true true false true false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false true 15 0 true 11 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 15 15 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true false false CA X X Gretchen Hayes 6509687243 3921 E Bayshore Blvd Palo Alto CA 94303 Megan Fluke Executive Dir. 40.00 0.00 X 121965 0 8557 Julie Hutcheson Executive Dir. 40.00 0.00 X 110884 0 1226 Ian Bain President 5.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Hyma Menath Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Lisa Munro Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Nancy Federspiel Secretary 5.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Jon Adams Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Manjeet Singh Bhamra Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Greg Boro Treasurer 5.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Anand Madhavan Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Ann Monroe Vice President 5.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Arpana Tiwari Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Margaret Laffan Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Jeff Segall Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Shruti Gopinathan Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Susan Hansch Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Claudia Rossi Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 232849 9783 2 false false false 0 284908 117683 1433104 44571 1835695 Tuition 611430 1150 1150 1150 76439 76439 0 0 0 0 33477 284908 20076 13401 0 0 0 1926685 1150 76439 2549 2549 0 0 0 206927 119513 37499 49915 0 655695 528482 20111 107102 3001 2575 426 50642 39395 2536 8711 64374 48545 4183 11646 0 0 81350 81350 0 0 0 79269 60312 1056 17901 9474 8101 314 1059 75106 25673 29656 19777 29327 11202 3201 14924 0 28942 19280 4292 5370 2919 2667 53 199 0 14213 11571 1056 1586 0 0 1410 942 205 263 5561 5561 0 1310759 880807 191073 238879 234677 204077 75000 0 204384 389164 0 0 0 0 0 8417 6667 9270 8525 2155 745 1219953 1926678 0 0 0 0 1744586 2527331 78024 155166 19565 6631 97589 161797 X 528874 880918 1118123 1484616 1646997 2365534 1744586 2527331 615926 102611 X false false false X 1022194 1211519 1574786 1635223 1869172 7312894 0 0 1022194 1211519 1574786 1635223 1869172 7312894 425019 6887875 13943 12689 15206 19072 76439 137349 0 5639 130 5769 7456012 124909 0.92380 0.93480 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED false false 2482 1463 3945 1227174 1231119 198112 49528 false 186438 237731 195272 198112 817553 1226330 7621 16763 5290 3945 33619 46610 59433 48818 49528 204389 306584 1297 8988 2582 2482 15349 8825 8080 745 445 445 745 false CA Nature's Inspiration 318385 284908 33477 4029 4845 8385 2817 318385 284908 33477 4029 4845 8385 2817 20076 13401 X 4 40542 FMV false false false Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Form 990 is reviewed by the Executive Director, the Finance Committee and Finance personnel prior to filing, and copies are also provided to the Board for their review. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The policy is signed annually by all Board members and staff. Executive Director and the Executive Committee are responsible for monitoring issues related to conflict of interest. Board and / or staff are expected to raise any concerns they may have. Board members are asked to recuse themselves from a meetings where issues with potential conflicts may arise. Discussion is brought first to the Executive Committee of the Board, and then to the full Board if necessary. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a Compensation review is done annually in the fall and winter by the Executive Committee of the Board, and they conduct the Executive Director's salary and performance review. At that time, goals are set for the following year. Salary recommendations are made during the budget preparation process during January and February, and approved along with the adoption of the new budget in March. The Committee carefully reviews recent salary surveys focusing on comparable nonprofits, e.g. similar sized Bay Area environmental nonprofits to make sure the salaries are aligned with our compensation philosophy and well supported with survey data. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Copies of governing documents, policies and financial statements are made available upon reasonable request.