The Gund Foundation's environmental program officer Jon Jensen will soon be leaving Cleveland to become executive director of the Park Foundation in Ithaca, NY. At the August 21, 2007 Entrepreneurs for Sustainability networking event, the region's sustainability community will gather to celebrate Jon's many years of grant making.
Prior to the meeting, we're inviting people to share their memories about Jon. Click on the 'add new comment' link above to add yours. (If you are not a registered user of the site, you will first have to sign up for a user account here.)
Thank you, Jon!
Rich Cochran Says:In 1995 Jon Jensen made a grant to an all volunteer land trust called Chagrin River Land Conservancy. That grant made possible the hiring of CRLC's first employee. Since then Jon and the Gund Foundation have had a continuous and transforming effect on land conservation efforts in the region. Their support helped to fund the largest ever merger of land trusts (8) in 2006, which merger created Western Reserve Land Conservancy. Jon's constant support in so many ways (the funding and so much more) had a great positive effect on our land conservation mission, and it is fair to say that without his leadership our community of conservationists would be vastly lesser. Jon, you are exceptional, and we wish you all the best!
He also coined a new phrase for me, which I love and will share with him as an anecdote. Many of us always wondered how Jon could posssibly be so many places and do so many things and never be rushed or flustered. We'd see him at the City Club one day and in Denver the next day at a national rally, etc. One day I told him I had back to back to back to back meetings. He said, "I hope they are not scheduled like Star Trek meetings. That's when you have to be in Cleveland from 1 - 2 pm, and then you have a 2 pm meeting in Akron. Some people think they can just beam me up."
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