WHO WE AREGLA has coalition members from the United States and Canada, in core cities throughout the Great Lakes region. These members will help organize events and manage them annually. These members will work closely with community, state, and international organizations that lead the way in Great Lakes protection, fresh water conservation and smart growth planning. Strengthening the environmental nonprofit sector in the United States, our efforts will support more than just freshwater ecosystem sustainability and the reform of international finance and trade institutions. With our outreach, concerts, media visibility and GLA's program/grant-making efforts, we will provide leadership, financing and guidance to sustainable efforts throughout the Great Lakes region - and be a model for programs worldwide. The first step in this process, however, is to make sure that the core staff of Great Lakes Aid has proper funding for the pre-concert planning process, which will take between 6 and 12 months prior to the Summer 2007 concert. GREAT LAKES AID FOUNDERSTom Fuhrman President and Executive Director, Lake Erie Region Conservancy (LERC). U.S. Treasurer Great Lakes United. 2001, founded LERC as a land trust. Major accomplishments have been to secure over $4 million in environmental grants, led the effort that successfully acquired in 2003, 540 acres of undeveloped lakefront property which will become a new State Park, and was named 2004 Environmentalist of the Year by the Presque Isle Audubon Society. Steve Franco Board member of North Branch Land trust and the Alliance for Sustainable Communication, Steve is working on a number of projects to generate awareness and funding for conservation initiatives. Founder of the Regional Communications Initiative and Projects with a Purpose LLC and developer of Comtools.org and Practicalenvironmentalism.org. Steve is also working to found a "Sustainability Farm Project" which will make environmental and sustainable development concepts accessible to community members...and financially sustained through profitable and ecologically sound business enterprises on the property.
GREAT LAKES AID SUPPORTERSJohn Jackson, Great Lakes United, Waterloo, Canada Dave Dempsey, Michigan Environmental Council, Ann Arbor, MI Sr. Pat Lupo, Lake Erie Allegheny Earth Force, Erie, PA John Andersen, The Nature Conservancy, Chicago, IL Dave Ulrich, Great Lakes Cities Initiative, Chicago, IL Andrew Buchsbaum, National Wildlife Federation, Ann Arbor, MI Cam Davis, Lake Michigan Federation, Chicago, IL Margaret Wooster, Buffalo, NY Terry Stewart, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, OH Derek Stack, Great Lakes United, Ottawa, Canada Steve Franco, Projects with a Purpose, Pittston, PA Tom Fuhrman, Lake Erie Region Conservancy, Erie, PA Lee Berry, Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI Mike Shriberg, Ph.D., National Association of State PIRG’s, Ann Arbor, MI Molly Flanagan, Ohio Environmental Council, Columbus, OH. Margaret Frisbee, Friends of the Chicago River, Chicago, IL Elaine Marsh, Ohio Greenways, Akron, OH David Higbey, Environmental Associates of New York |