Organizations Filed Purposes:
The Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, (the Organization) is committed to facilitating a global conversation about democratic and environmental rights, and supporting a global movement to secure those rights through lawmaking at the municipal, state, and national levels of government. To attain its goals, the Organization works to educate community organizations, environmental organizations, and governmental officials about the failure of existing governmental systems to recognize and enforce environmental rights, and provides assistance to them to fashion new laws and new legal systems, which create and enforce environmental rights. The Organization will then assist them to enforce and defend those laws.
I.Support of Florida Educational Work Around Rights of NatureDuring Program Year 2019, CDER worked with the Florida Rights of Nature Network (FRONN) - a network of nonprofit groups organized in twelve Florida counties - to provide educational trainings to those groups. Those trainings included webinars, several in-person workshops, and teleconferences focused on educating the general public about legally enforceable rights of nature and lawmaking rights of municipal governments. The work included the co-hosting of a Rights of Nature Conference at the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida (Gainesville), and the seminal gathering of the constituent organizations of the Florida Rights of Nature Network (FRONN).II.Support of Virginia Educational Work Around Democratic RightsDuring Program Year 2019, CDER partnered with the Virginia Network for Democracy and Environmental Rights (VNDER) a nonprofit organization established to work with municipalities and local groups on the expansion of democratic and environmental rights in Virginia. That partnership included the provision of educational trainings to the board of VNDER, and strategic assistance provided to the local organizations working with VNDER. III.Support of Berkshires Rights of NatureDuring Program Year 2019, CDER partnered with the Berkshires Rights of Nature organization in Massachusetts to provide educational training to the groups board, and to the general public in the Berkshires region. IV.International WorkDuring Program Year 2019, CDER provided educational trainings and strategic assistance to organizations in Australia, Nepal, Ecuador, and the Philippines. Assistance and support included educational webinars, and strategic assistance for the drafting of laws recognizing the legally enforceable rights of nature and ecosystems.
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 |
|---|
| Mari Margil | Vice President | 55 | $0 |
| Thomas Linzey | President | 55 | $0 |
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