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GOVERNANCE
CIPA is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation and has
tax-deductible status under Section 501(c)(3) and public foundation status
under Section 509 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
The Institute’s board is responsible for broad policies and oversight. For
each of CIPA's convening projects, it appoints a steering committee whose
members represent different interests, perspectives, and geographic areas.
CIPA's
main office is in Sacramento, the state capital. CIPA also has a base in
Claremont, in Southern California, where the Institute was centered until
1989. Since the early 1970s, CIPA has been formally
affiliated with Claremont Graduate University,
part of the Claremont Colleges consortium located 35 miles east of
downtown Los Angeles.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Paul F. Smith (Chairman), attorney, Pasadena
and Twentynine Palms, California
David W. Henson (Secretary), Henson &
Associates, Pasadena, California and
Pahrump, Nevada
Lawrence W. Stewart (Treasurer), certified public
accountant, Pasadena, California
Arturo Gándara, Professor of Law, University
of California, Davis, California
Elisabeth Kersten, CIPA
Senior Associate; formerly Director, Senate Office of
Research, California Legislature, Sacramento, California
Michael Paparian, Special Consultant, California
Environmental Protection Agency, Sacramento, California
Ted Trzyna, President, California Institute of
Public Affairs, Sacramento and Claremont, California
FUNDING AND PARTNERSHIPS
CIPA is
supported primarily by grants and publication sales. The Institute also
consults for governmental and international agencies and for other
organizations on projects in the public interest.
Donors
Our donors
have included the following (partial list):
Asia Foundation
Atlantic Richfield Foundation
California Council for the Humanities
California Counties Foundation
German Marshall Fund of the United States
GTZ: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische
Zusammenarbeit GmbH
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
Walter and Elise Haas Fund
John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
IUCN – The World Conservation Union
Jerome Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Sierra Club Foundation
L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation
Strong Foundation
Thaddeus Stephen Trzyna Family Trust
Chevron U.S.A.
Dow Chemical Co.
International Paper Co.
McKesson Corporation
Southern California Edison Co.
Waste Management, Inc.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
California Legislature
California Department of Food and Agriculture
California Department of Health Services
Resources Agency of California:
- Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
- Department of Parks and Recreation
- Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy
Mountains Recreation and Conservation
Authority
French Ministry of the Environment
United Nations Environment Programme
Partners
Most of
CIPA’s projects are carried out in collaboration with other organizations.
The following is a representative sample of cosponsors:
Executive
Office of the President of the United States
Governor of
California
Lieutenant
Governor of California
Senate
President pro Tempore, California Legislature
Senate
Office of Research, California Legislature
State Lands
Commission
Association
of Bay Area Governments
California
State Association of Counties
League of
California Cities
Southern
California Association of Governments
Brazilian
Foundation for Conservation of Nature
California
Cattlemen’s Association
California
Council for Environmental and Economic Balance
California
Farm Bureau Federation
California
Medical Association
Claremont
Graduate University
Development
Alternatives (New Delhi, India)
Earthscan
(London)
The
Environment Council (London)
Environmental Defense Fund
INFORM
League of
Women Voters of California
Marquis Who’s Who, Inc.
Planning and
Conservation League
Public
Health Institute
Sierra Club
University
of California (various units)
University
of Southern California
Western
States Petroleum Association
World Future
Society
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