Friends of Rio Vista is honored to have received a grant from the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, to be used for general operating support. We’re truly grateful for this vote of confidence in our work from the CFSA Combined Unrestricted Fund held at the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona.
This gift allows us to continue our mission to protect and enhance the ecological values of Rio Vista Natural Resource Park. The grant is particularly timely, as we’ve recently begun a partnership with Tucson Audubon Society for a long-term conservation plan for the park. Support from the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona will be the nucleus of our fundraising campaign for planning and implementation with Tucson Audubon.
Our vision for the park is a haven for native plants and wildlife that offers a unique visitor experience of nature in midtown Tucson and that models collaborative conservation in the City of Tucson park system. Heartfelt thanks to the donors and staff at the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona and to Jeff Anderson, who has volunteered for the foundation and asked that this grant be directed to Friends of Rio Vista. Jeff is the retired executive director of the Portland (Oregon) Parks Foundation and a Rio Vista advocate.
We also send deep gratitude to all of you, the stakeholders of Rio Vista, for your dedication to the future of this natural treasure in our midst.
Since 1980, the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona (CFSA) has been a trusted philanthropic partner helping individuals, families, businesses, and nonprofits work together to create a strong community. These funding partnerships allow CFSA to improve the quality of life throughout southern Arizona by stewarding donor and community resources to measurably affect change. CFSA serves communities south of the Gila River. CFSA primarily serves Pima and Santa Cruz Counties and secondarily serves Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, and Yuma Counties.