Wilburforce Foundation

04/16/2026

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06/20/2024

We are honored to be partners in this important work.

05/22/2024

Join our team! Wilburforce Foundation is hiring a Grants Administrator to join our Grants Management team.

This position is based in the dog friendly Wilburforce offices in the Greenfire Campus in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. No relocation budget is associated with this position, and employees are expected to reside in the Puget Sound region at the time of employment.

The Grants Administrator (GA) supports the mission of the Wilburforce Foundation by managing grant transactions and providing grantee support throughout the entire grantmaking lifecycle, including invitation, application, due diligence, approval, payment, and reporting. The GA collaborates across the Foundation’s program areas to ensure consistent implementation of our grantmaking processes and policies, maintaining compliance with IRS regulations, while creating straightforward and inclusive procedures that effectively support our grantee partners.

Additionally, the GA works to support the day-to-day grantmaking process, maintain and enhance grantmaking procedures, and provide high-quality service to grantees and the Foundation’s staff and board.

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https://wilburforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-Grants-Administrator.pdf

05/13/2024

Join our Team! Wilburforce Foundation is hiring a Program Officer for the Alaska and British Columbia program.

This position is located in the dog-friendly Wilburforce offices in the Greenfire Campus in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. Positions at Wilburforce Foundation are hybrid, with all employees required to reside within a reasonable commute of Wilburforce’s office.

Wilburforce's Alaska and British Columbia Program (AKBC) includes five geographic regions: Arctic (Alaska/Yukon), Tongass National Forest, Great Bear Rainforest, transboundary AK/BC watersheds, and BC's Central Interior. The Foundation’s goal is to achieve landscape-scale connectivity and climate resilience by protecting and connecting wildlife and healthy ecosystems across the region. The Foundation supports collaborative efforts that sustain biodiversity, landscape connectivity, climate resilience, and communities.

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05/08/2024

We have some exciting news to share!

We are restructuring some staff positions to improve collaboration, create efficiencies, and better serve our partners.

We’re transitioning to a Program Director/Program Officer structure for our regional/place-based conservation programs, and we’re adding Grants Officer and Grants Administrator positions to increase our grants management capacity. These changes will enable our program teams to increase their focus on partner relationships and strategic priorities and will enable our grants management team to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in our work. Over time, our current Program Officers will move into the new Program Director roles, and our Program Associates will become our Program Officers and our Grants Officer. We’ll let you know when those changes occur.

This restructuring also means that we are seeking new colleagues!

In the coming weeks, we’ll post two job openings: A Program Officer to work with our Alaska-British Columbia Program Director and a Grants Administrator to be part of our grants management team. Keep your eye out for those announcements and please share with anyone you think may be interested in applying for either position.

Thanks for bearing with us as we go through this “under construction” phase – and please know that Wilburforce’s mission, values, and commitment to wildlife, communities, and wild places remains unchanged.

In partnership,

The Wilburforce Team

Photo of Yellowstone wolves courtesy of the National Park Service.

12/21/2023

Along with many of our fellow biodiversity funder colleagues and over 100 environmental organizations. we applaud the Biden-Harris Administration's announcement proposing protections for our nation's old growth forests.

In a joint statement with other funders, our Executive Director Birch Beaudet said, "We applaud the Biden Administration’s recognition of the irreplaceable value of current and future old growth forests to both wild and human communities: clean water, clean air, carbon storage, biodiversity, and essential fish and wildlife habitat, as well as healthy and robust local economies. We are highly supportive of the inclusion of Indigenous Knowledge systems alongside western science as a means to ensure the highest standards of stewardship of our shared natural systems. We look forward to working with the
Administration to advance forest and wildlife habitat protections and resilience throughout the West."

You can read the joint statement here: http://tinyurl.com/4nfxpv7y

And the White House Press Brief here: http://tinyurl.com/3vwj9mpr

10/05/2023

The Wilderness Society (TWS) presented its prestigious Robert Marshall Award to two leaders in conservation at a September 28 ceremony at the Seattle Art Museum.

Our President and Founder, Rose Letwin was one of two who received TWS's highest award presented to a private citizen who has never held federal office but has devoted long-term service to and has had a notable influence upon conservation and the fostering of an American land ethic.

We are thrilled for Rose, and grateful to the Wilderness Society for honoring her and other conservation heroes.

Read on for more information: https://www.wilderness.org/articles/press-release/wilderness-society-award-its-highest-conservation-honor-two-washingtonians-seattle-event-september-28th

09/25/2023

We are honored to receive the Defenders of Wildlife Legacy Award, presented in recognition of more than 20 years of an exceptional partnership. This award means a lot to the staff and board at Wilburforce. Defenders of Wildlife works in ways that are aligned with our own mission, vision, and values. We are more powerful working together in efforts to protect habitat, advocate for species, defend conservation laws, use science, and forge relationships that connect wildlife, wildlands, and people.

Defenders of Wildlife has awarded its Legacy Award to the Wilburforce Foundation for more than 20 years of exceptional partnership and commitment to conservation science, diversity, equity and inclusion and protecting threatened and endangered species like grizzly bears, beavers and wolves and the h...

08/09/2023

This rings so true after yesterday's Monument declaration and the weeks-long celebration of Coast Salish culture through the Paddle to Muckleshoot. Respect.

Today is the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. Let us acknowledge all the Indigenous people in the world. Let's celebrate continuing the resilience and protecting our culture and traditions for future generations.

08/08/2023

Today, we are celebrating President Biden's declaration of Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints Grand Canyon National Monument, almost 1 million acres of the ancestral homelands of the Tribes of the Colorado Plateau, doubling the amount of protected lands around our iconic Grand Canyon National Park. The President took this action on behalf of the 13 Tribes of the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition (who will co-manage the Monument with the Federal Government), their allies in the NGO community, and political leadership in the state of Arizona.

These new protections are the culmination of decades of patient work by the Tribes and their allies, and will permanently withdraw toxic uranium mining from the new Monument's lands, protect wildlife habitat and connectivity from southern Nevada through northern Arizona to southern Utah, and prevent degradation of springs and riparian systems on the Canyon’s north rim.

We are beyond grateful to the Tribes and our grantee partners for their creativity, patience, and perseverance to protect this incredible landscape.

The entire Grand Canyon region has been a cultural homeland since time immemorial. Native peoples are the canyon's original stewards, and they are still here…

04/12/2023

We are delighted to welcome Desiree Pena as our new Office Manager. Desiree is responsible for supporting the entire Wilburforce team by undertaking core administrative functions. She holds an Associate’s degree in Business from Tacoma Community College, and joins us as an experienced Office Manager with time at corporations of various sizes.

When she's not working hard to support our mission, she enjoys day trips to the mountains, paddle boarding in the summers, and exploring different dessert spots. Originally from Florida, Desiree made her cross country trek to Seattle in 2018, and has been here ever since. She hopes to one day convince her entire family to make the trip and settle in the PNW!

We couldn't be happier to have her on board!