new scholarship at F&ES
Yale alumnus and national conservation leader Strachan Donnelley has endowed a scholarship at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) designed to help develop a new generation of environmental leaders.
In announcing the new Strachan and Vivian Donnelley Endowed Scholarship Fund, F&ES Dean Gus Speth said, "What this wonderful and generous gift will ensure is a steady stream of Donnelley Fellows attending our school -- outstanding young leaders who otherwise could not afford to be here."
"Yale's major push to be a home for global environmental studies is a very exciting and significant venture," said Donnelley, a 1964 graduate of Yale College. "In that venture, scholarship money is really needed." Donnelley has been an active member of the F&ES Leadership Council since its founding more than two years ago, and is a long-time patron of environmental studies at Yale.
Donnelley is president and founder of The Center for Humans and Nature, a recently organized non-profit organization with offices in Chicago, New York and South Carolina. From 1998 until last year, Donnelley was head of the Humans and Nature program at the Hastings Center, a leading research and educational institution based in Garrison, New York. Previously, he held senior positions at Hastings and is credited with founding the center's Environment and Ethics program.
The new Center for Humans and Nature reflects many of the concerns of the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, which Strachan Donnelley chaired until recently and which is named for his late mother and father. The latter, a 1931 Yale College graduate, was a conservationist and former chair of R.R. Donnelly & Sons, one of the largest U.S. printing and communications companies.
The Donnelley Foundation supports efforts to promote healthy human communities and natural environments in the Chicago region and the Charleston region of South Carolina by preserving natural lands, restoring degraded natural lands and informing community debate on these issues.
The Center for Humans and Nature has similar goals. It is dedicated to exploring, articulating and promoting social and ethical responsibilities to both humans and nature through interdisciplinary research, education and outreach.
According to Donnelley, in most communities today, the concerns for human beings and those for nature are treated separately. For instance, land use, wetlands or biodiversity often aren't taken into account on transportation issues, he noted, while human cultures and communities aren't usually taken into account on land use matters.
Donnelley hopes to change that. "That's probably one of the unique, singular dimensions of our center. We take ethical concerns for humans and nature equally," he said.
On the practical side, Donnelley said, the center has begun working with civic organizations on development, open space and land conservation issues. It has organized public forums and produced publications to present its research and views.
Donnelley's patronage of environmental studies at his alma mater also has included a memorial gift honoring his father that established both a Fund in Studies in the Environment and an Environmental Fellows Program at the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (where he serves on the external advisory board) and a gift supporting the New Century Fund at F&ES.
"It is great to see the greening of Yale and New Haven," Donnelley said. "Let's hope that the White House, Washington and North America, in general, quickly follow Gus Speth and F&ES and face their long-term global responsibilities to both humans and nature."
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