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Peter Stangel
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Peter is Director of Science & Evaluation at National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. He joined the Foundation after graduating from SREL/UGA in 1990. While at SREL he was one of Mike Smith’s students and completed a dissertation on the genetic variation and population structure of the red-cockaded woodpecker. At the Foundation Peter oversees a staff of about 35 who are responsible for developing and implementing conservation grant making. The Foundation is based in Washington, DC, and has small regional offices in Minneapolis, Portland, OR, and San Francisco. The Foundation is a not for profit that was established by the Congress in 1984 to build partnerships between the federal natural resource agencies and the private sector. It serves as the foundation for both the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and works directly with another dozen federal agencies including Bureau of Land Management, US Forest Service, and Natural Resources Conservation Service. In 2008 the Foundation invested about $60 million in conservation from a variety of different sources and awards about 500 grants annually. Over the past three years Peter has hired a team of six Ph.D. scientists to help transform the Foundation into a highly targeted, conservation outcome based donor. This team has identified about 20 conservation initiatives into which the Foundation will concentrate its investments with the goal of demonstrating measurable impact. Species (percent gain in populations toward specified goals) are the “unifying metric” across these initiatives by which success will be measured. The Foundation’s initiatives are listed on the www.nfwf.org website, and include a diversity of taxa, from bog turtles to river herring, pronghorn, and American oystercatchers. Peter also oversees several of the Foundation’s corporate partnerships, including the Wal-Mart Acres for America program (land acquisition), Southern Company Power of Flight (bird conservation) and Longleaf Legacy (longleaf pine restoration) programs, and the ConocoPhillips SPIRIT of Conservation (migratory birds). After graduating from UGA Peter joined the Foundation to develop the Partners in Flight migratory songbird program. After about eight years in the Washington, DC office, he moved to Atlanta to open the Southern Region office. In 2007 he assumed his current position and also moved back to Aiken and SREL. Peter is happy to talk about fundraising, proposal-writing, and related activities from the donor’s perspective with anyone that is interested. |
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