Organizations Filed Purposes:
Friends of the River is dedicated to preserving and restoring Californias rivers, streams, and their watersheds as well as advocating for sustainable water management.
Friends of the Rivers program work seeks to protect and restore California rivers through public engagement, education, government relations, and litigation when necessary. In 2019 this program work focused on the three following areas:PROTECTING RIVERS FROM COSTLY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY DESTRUCTIVE DAMS AND DIVERSIONSFOR led the effort to protect the Wild and Scenic McCloud River and Tribal lands from a plan to expand Shasta Reservoir. FOR organized allied organizations, generated earned media, and filed litigation, along with the California Attorney General, to secure a preliminary injunction halting the project.PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE AND CLIMATE RESILIENT WATER SOLUTIONSFOR engaged in Governor Newsoms effort to craft a Water Resilience Portfolio to ensure it will lead us to a sustainable water future that decreases our reliance on water diverted from rivers. We organized more than 250 businesses, organizations, farmers, and water agencies to craft more than 100 pages of comments with specific actions on how the Portfolio can advance a sustainable water future that protects rivers. BUILDING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR RIVERSFOR connected hundreds of people to rivers through our rafting and canoe programs, helped cultivate the next wave of leaders by recruiting nine organizers for our River Advocacy Training School, and led facilitation for the One Water Networka collaboration co-founded by FOR with watershed groups across California.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Eric Wesseleman | Executive Direc | 40 | $85,000 |
| Mark Dubois | Director Emerit | 1 | $0 |
| Garrick Chang | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Heike Schmitz | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jonas Minton | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jann Dorman | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Donelle Morgan | Director | 3 | $0 |
| Scott Armstrong | Director | 1 | $0 |
| John Yost | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Richard Weiss | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
| Marian Bender | Treasurer | 2 | $0 |
| Jeff Depew | Vice Chair | 3 | $0 |
| Bob Cushman | Chair | 8 | $0 |
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