2019-05-08T18:28:37-07:00 2018-12-31 990EZ 2018-01-01 770480093 CLOUD FOREST INSTITUTE CLOU 7078953243 PO Box 1435 Ukiah CA 95482 Jenny Burnstad Treasurer 7078953243 2019-05-08 75.54.124.245 2018 2019-02-21 02:37:17Z X www.cloudforest.org X X 102407 X 93971 7361 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1075 600 475 0 101807 53842 0 7200 2240 1919 212 1250 66663 35144 77659 0 112803 77659 112803 0 0 0 0 77659 112803 0 0 77659 112803 Cloud Forest Institute is an educational and scientific non profit corporation. CFI encourages bioregional endeavors to re-establish balance within ecological systems by way of environmental education, forest reciprocity and resilient community development CFI sponsors the campaign to raise funds to rebuild the Himalayan English Boarding School that was demolished by earthquakes shortly after it opened in 2014. The boarding school serves up to 200 children, some of them orphans. It will help stem the tide of language and cultural extinction of the Sherpa people of Tibetan descent living in the Himalayan region of Nepal. The only school located in rural Lukla it gives parents in the region the option of keeping the children home rather then sending them away to boarding schools in Kathmandu where they assimilate into modern western culture and lose their local language, customs, and family connections. The Himalayan English Boarding School will help prevent the Sherpa language from disappearing by the end of this generation as predicted. 26703 7200 The Noyo Headlands Unified Design Group endeavors to foster the planning and implementation of an integrative and viable natural restoration of the Georgia Pacific mill site in Fort Bragg, California. Following the Hanover Principles, which includes creating long term value, eliminating waste and relying on natural energy flows, the group is dedicated to creating a diverse, multi-use public/private project to serve as a model development for communities around the world. 7200 5444 Forest Reciprocity Group. FRoG seeks to work collaboratively to unburden forestlands of overcapacity fire fuel load small diameter poles. This burden can become our solution. When we tend our forests for regenerative health, we are reciprocated with an abundance of valuable raw material that can provide economic incentives to revitalize local economies. Small diameter poles are a practical choice for framing fire-safe, earthen encased affordable housing and a plethora of other uses. In November 2018 FRoG received a seed grant from the Rose Foundation for public outreach. FRoG is actively giving educational presentations and demonstrations throughout fire affected regions of Northern CA during 2019. 20000 1675 Project Northwoods works to conserve the ecology and culture of the Wisconsin Northwoods through education, research and global outreach. Our programs educate students of all ages, including early learners, K-12, college students and adults. Research projects utilize the knowledge of locals and long-time seasonal visitors and benefit the many threatened and endangered species of flora and fauna that are found in the Northwoods, some of which have geographic ranges no larger than the boundaries of these specific forests. Outreach programs educate people from around the world, especially focusing on tourists to the area, about the importance of these forests, the native species and the rich cultures found throughout the area. Any opportunity to get people outside and appreciating the out-of-doors will be utilized to teach about our local environment and its role in the global ecological community. 8726 8600 Ometepe Sustainability Group develops and implements sustainable solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice to children and families on Ometepe Island, Nicaragua. Three related projects will raise the ability of the people on the island to create their own abundance and reduce their severe poverty. Children and families on this double-volcano island of Ometepe, now devastated by political unrest and tropical storms, have few resources with which to develop their amazing work ethic and cultural strengths. This project works in partnership with local communities to sustainably develop markets that can feed families help them to educate their children thereby creating a pathway to increased prosperity while respecting local cultural values and social institutions. The Group has started three support projects, a local farmer's market program, Market Money coupons (30 cents each) are distributed to children to buy food and school supplies at the market. These coupons also guarantee some money to the vendors in a cash-poor economy, as they learn marketing skills. Transportation is provided to and from outlying villages so that buyers and sellers can get to the market and back in one day. Organic and sustainable agricultural practices are mentored and supported, which will provide more food and will increase the products they can sell. Partnering with schools to teach business skills. Liaisons will assist teachers to develop courses in marketing, basic accounting, English classes and hospitality management, using the farmer's market as a classroom. The first step is to providing solar reading lights to each child and books to encourage learning. 6300 3761 Donations to evacuees of the catastrophic fire in Paradise California specifically at an event called the Spirit of Christmas Dinner. Food, clothing and gift cards were given to approximately 750 people 5980 5980 32660 Charles Payne Director 1 0 0 0 Lynda McClure Secretary 1 0 0 0 Jenny Burnstad Treasurer 5 7200 0 0 Dara Zimmerman President 1 0 0 0 Govinda Dalton Director 1 0 0 0 Michael Garver Director 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CA Jenny Burnstad PO Box 1435 Ukiah CA 95482 7078953243 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 49127 67086 98496 56306 95047 366062 5116 4241 11241 3383 7361 31342 54243 71327 109737 59689 102408 397404 397404 0 0 0 0 0 0 54243 71327 109737 59689 102408 397404 1 1 0 0 X Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 Anderson Valley Foodshed 1618, Fundacion Cambugan 90, Mendocino Environmental Center 675, Noyo Headlands Unified Design Group 5444, Ometepe Sustainability Project 3761, Paradise Fire Evacuees 5979, Project Northwoods 8600, Himalayan English Boarding School 26703, Space Treaty Project 356, Ukiah Bicycle Kitchen 616, Forest Reciprocity Group 1675 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Non Profit Insurance