UNDUE INFLUENCE

 

Pacific Environment

and Resources Center

 

Undue Influence by Ron Arnold

PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER (PERC)
1440 Broadway, Suite 306
Oakland, CA 94612

Phone: 510-251-8800
Fax: 510-251-8838
Email: info@pacificenvironment.org

Website:
http://www.pacificenvironment.org
EIN: 94-2628924
Form 990s available at www.guidestar.org

Pacific Environment is an anti-forestry, anti-petroleum, anti-fish farming, anti-trade, anti-capitalist activist group operating in the U.S., China, Japan and Russia. The group has close ties to ISAR (Initiative for Social Action and Renewal in Eurasia, formerly the Institute for Soviet-American Relations): ISAR Executive Director Eliza Klose sits on PERC Board of Directors.

Revenue and Expenses: Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2001

  Revenue     Expenses
Contributions $1,166,727
Government Grants $0
Program Services $2,010
Investments $0
Special Events $0
Sales $0
Other $25
 
Program Services $578,945
Administration $150,854
Fundraising $20,172
Total Expenditures $749,971
Total Revenue $1,196,155   NET GAIN/LOSS $446,184
Board of Directors
Chair: Debbie Chapman   Vice Chair: Kevin Rowney
Phillip S. Berry, Esq. Eliza Kellogg Klose
Gary Cook Lisa Tracy
Keley R. Petersen Mary Wells
Stephen Fowler Shannon Wright
Thomas B. Gold  

Executive director: Catriona MacGregor Glazebrook, Ph.D. J.D.
Formerly Texas Audubon Society, executive director
Previously, director, Environmental Policy Institute, a small non-profit organization in New Hampshire
Former faculty member at Antioch New England Graduate School and Vermont College of Norwich University.

                             
David Gordon, associate director.
Most visible US Russia Far East campaigner, fluent in Russian.
Gordon also serves on the board of directors of the Russian Far East office of ISAR in Eurasia (ISAR-Far East), is an advisor to the Global Greengrants Fund, and is co-chair of the Ecology Sector for the Ad Hoc Working Group for Russian Far East-U.S. West Coast Business Development.
Close association with NGO colleagues and foundation program staff:

NGO colleague: Mike Beltz, International Program Coordinator of The Ecology Center (Montana), who worked with Josh Newell on poster map for Friends of the Earth-Japan’s RFE Hotspots. Beltz set up GIS lab for Sakhalin Environment Watch. Gordon worked with Beltz & Newell.

Foundation program staff: Peter Riggs, program director, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, has traveled extensively in the RFE with Gordon, has favored PERC with generous grants largely due to Gordon’s work.

Doug Norlen, Policy Director. Staff since 1995. Specializes in pressuring multilateral trade and finance institutions and bi-lateral export credit agencies (ECAs). Based in Washington, DC, (c/o Center for International Environmental Law, 1367 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 10036) Norlen was appointed by Clinton Secretary of Commerce William Daley and US Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky to be the first environmental representative to the US Trade Representative's Industry Sector Advisory Committee (ISAC) for paper products.


 

Peter Riggs (left) of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund,  Elena Popova, Kamchatka Association of Independent Experts, and David Gordon (right) traveling together in southern Kamchatka, Russian Federation, in 1997.

 

 

PERC grants summary - 55 grants from 18 foundations

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation $1,120,000 2001-1998
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc $885,000 2000-1997
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $725,000 1997-2000
W. Alton Jones Foundation, Inc. $705,000 1993-1998
Trust for Mutual Understanding $420,000 1993-2001
Turner Foundation, Inc. $370,000 1996-2000
Ford Foundation $114,200 1994
Columbia Foundation $103,000 1994-1996
Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund $105,000 1994-2000
Marin Community Foundation $73,000 1994-1999
San Francisco Foundation $65,000 1994-1997
Weeden Foundation $40,000 1997-1998
Moriah Fund $35,000 1994
Walter and Elise Haas Fund $30,000 1995
David and Lucile Packard Foundation $15,800 1997
Foundation for Deep Ecology $10,000 2001
Compton Foundation, Inc. $10,000 1999
Bullitt Foundation $10,000 1997
Plus a US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant of $39,500 in 2002-2003

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