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Introduction
IIn response to the continuing worldwide decline of environmental quality,
Environmental Education and Conservation Global (EECG) was created in 2001
to help conserve and enhance the earth's biological diversity. EECG works
with education and environmental organizations and agencies in developing
countries and employs a unique combination of education, social marketing,
and business activities to achieve its goals. EECG believes that behavior
change is essential to the conservation of biological diversity and that
this behavior change must be viewed as a positive alternative by the people
involved. EECG also believes that to be effective, conservation efforts
must enhance the quality of life for those directly dependent on the planet's
biological bounty and must promote the equitable sharing of benefits derived
from the world's natural resources.
Applied Environmental Education
When EECG refers to environmental education, it is specifically referring
to the combination of education, communication, and environmental social
marketing activities that professionals in the field call applied environmental
education. Applied Environmental Education is a systematic educational
process that equips and motivates people to participate effectively in cooperative
efforts to resolve environmental problems.
EECG Programs
EECG is organized into three interrelated programs areas. The program
areas provide a focus for important core activities, allow systematic
planning and integration, and facilitate fundraising and long-term sustainability.
Training and Capacity Building Program
Area. As its core programmatic activity, EECG works
internationally and in the United States
to develop and implement an overall capacity building and networking
model that will support long-term applied environmental education activities.
Depending on the country and an assessment of the state of environmental
education in that country, a variety of activities will
be planned and implemented in order to reach the critical mass required
to sustain a nationwide initiative.
Consulting Program Area.
EECG provides consulting services in fundraising, capacity development,
facilitation, planning, and training in the United
States and abroad to organizations
that can afford to pay for these services. EECG uses revenues produced
through consulting activities to underwrite core objectives in the Training
and Capacity Building Program Area.
Administrative and Fundraising Program
Area. EECG manages all activities in an efficient,
effective manner and works to ensure that needed resources are available
from a diversified funding base.
Organization
Structure. EECG is
incorporated in the United States
as a not-for profit organization in the State of New
York. Federal 501 (c.) 3.
tax-exempt status has been granted. By incorporating as a
tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization, EECG is able to accept donations
that result in tax savings for donors from the United
States.
Management. Edward
J. McCrea, President and CEO, and James L. Massey, Senior Vice-president,
head EECG’s management team. Mr.McCrea brings 30 years of international
experience in environmental education, training, fundraising, and management
of non-profit organizations. Mr.Massey brings 35 years of experience
working with national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and domestic
and international conservation organizations in planning, training,
and field operations.
A board of directors governs EECG, with the EECG President being Chief
Executive Officer. Board members are invited
to serve based on their knowledge of environmental and conservation
issues, applied environmental education, fundraising, and other related
skills that can benefit the organization. Bylaws spell out governance
and organizational details.
