From the Executive Director:

I t has been an absolute honor and privi-lege to serve the Switzer Foundationfor the past 20 years. This will be my

last letter to you as Executive Director, butas a 1992 Fellow I am sure this is not mylast word as part of this vibrant networkof environmental leaders! The search for

my successor is underway and the boardwill finalize its decision by spring. The heart and soul of the Foundationis the Switzer Fellows program and thesupportive Network that fosters sharedlearning, collaboration and advancing ourrespective fields. I am proud of the suc-cesses of all of our Fellows and how theFoundation responds to the emergingissues of our time. In climate change action we wereamong the first signatories to commit tofully divesting from fossil fuels. Wereached that goal in 2016, the firstfoundation in Maine to do so. In turn, weincreased our stake in clean energy andclimate-sustaining solutions while seeking

investments that support our mission,rather than acting counter to it. Over the last two years we also com-mitted to embed equity into our programsand operations. We adjusted our guide-lines, selection process and leadershiptraining for a more racially and socioeco-nomically diverse leadership cohort. Wecontinue to learn and are grateful to ourFellows who are truly the ones leading us. I am profoundly grateful to have ledthis community. Thank you all for helpingthese 20 years fly by with great joy. In gratitude,

Lissa

From the Board Chair:

I t has been a momentous year for the SwitzerFoundation as we prepare for the transition of ourlong-time leader, Lissa Widoff, whose program

innovations and mentorship have been so influential inmaking the Fellowship such a valued and impactfulprogram. The board is preparing for Lissa’s departurewith a clear vision for the future of our work. We will continue our two-year effort to embed equityfully into our programs in a way that builds on our success and prepares for the future.This framework has three parts—Environmental Leadership, Equity, and Impact.

� The Switzer Foundation will continue to invest in environmental leaders throughacademic fellowships and project grants, with a focus on intersectional approaches,collaborative leadership, scientific integrity and policy impact

� We acknowledge the historic and ongoing unfair burden of environmental impactplaced on low income and communities of color. We will contribute to an inclusiveenvironmental sector by ensuring that future leaders are engaging on issues ofsocial equity as well as environmental improvement.

� Switzer Fellows are leaders across many disciplines and sectors. They bring high-level expertise; we offer a network to support and grow their leadership.

In today’s political climate, we can’t take independent science in the service of aclean and healthy environment for granted, , especially as we see the impacts of climatechange becoming more dangerous. We will support Switzer Fellows to have an impactat all scales. As we look toward new leadership, I’d like to express on behalf of the entire boardand decades of Switzer Fellows our deep appreciation to Lissa for her tremendousleadership and the intelligence, warmth, and thoughtfulness she has brought to herwork for the Switzer Foundation. We offer Lissa our warmest congratulations on thistransition, and our best wishes for success in all her future endeavors.

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FY 2018 Annual Report of the Robert & Patricia

Switzer Foundation

J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 9

The Robert and Patricia SwitzerFoundation was formed in 1985 inCleveland, Ohio. Its core givingprogram is the SwitzerEnvironmental Fellowship program,which supports talented graduatestudents who are dedicated toenvironmental problem solving.Beyond the Fellowship program, the Foundation offers a variety ofprofessional and leadershipdevelopment grants and resourcesto Fellows throughout their careers.The Foundation intends itsgrantmaking to be instrumental increating a cadre of highly motivated,trained, and committed individualswho will be the environmentalleaders of tomorrow. All grantprograms are administered throughthe Foundation’s office in Belfast,Maine.

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2018 Highlights:

News from our 2018Leadership and NetworkInnovation Grants� Putting science to work in therapidly-warming Gulf of Maine:Our $25,000 Leadership Grant toManomet in Brunswick, Maine,assisted with the hiring of FellowMarissa McMahan as SeniorScientist. Marissa has grown theapplied fisheries science programfor the organization, assisting coastal Maine fishing communities adapt to a rapidlywarming Gulf of Maine. Among Marissa’s many accomplishments for the year:developing a new fishery for invasive European green crabs which are voraciouspredators of Maine’s lucrative soft-shell clams—protect the clams by eating thecrabs! Read more about Marissa’s innovative work under this grant.

� Air Quality andEnvironmental Justice onthe U.S./Mexico Border:The Environmental HealthCoalition, National City,California, hired FellowCarolina Prado as SeniorResearch Scientist withsupport from a $25,000Switzer Leadership Grant.Carolina led two commu-nity-based studies on airquality and public health inTijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, California. The data collected by Carolina and citizenscientists resulted in San Diego’s first truck ordinance, regulating where largetrucks can and cannot go in an effort to keep air quality in residential neighborhoodscleaner. Data collected in Tijuana will be used to inform the process of phasing outcertain land uses deemed unhealthy in Tijuana neighborhoods. Read more.

� Fracking moves closer to sensitive areas in the Marcellus Shale region:Fellows Evan Hansen, President of Downstream Strategies in Morgantown, WestVirginia, and Lara Cushing, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Education,San Francisco State University, teamed up to study whether fracking operationsare moving closer to places where people live, work and play in West Virginia.The results of their study indicated that fracking operations are expanding incloser proximity to living spaces, and that roughly 20% of the chemicals found inwater supplies in these areas are identified as toxic to human health. Read more.

� A $3,125 Professional Development Grant to COMPASS supported individualpolicy communications coaching for two Fellows, Josh Stoll and KristenGoodrich, following their completion of our annual Policy Communications train-ing. Kristen Goodrich works with the Tijuana River National Estuarine ResearchReserve; with coaching from COMPASS she arranged meetings withCongressional staff to advocate for continued funding of the National EstuarineResearch Reserve (NERR) system in the 2018 federal budget. Josh Stoll, AssistantProfessor in Marine Science at the University of Maine, also received coaching inanticipation of meetings on Capitol Hill in which he shared his research findings,made important policy connections, and learned much about how his research caninform marine policy in the near- and longer term.

OUR VALUESBelief in Individuals

Environmental Stewardship

Sustainability and SystemsThinking

Interdisciplinary and InnovativeProblem-solving

Maximizing Impact

Accountability and Results

Staff TransitionsIn 2018, our longtime AdministrativeDirector, Don Brackett, left the SwitzerFoundation to begin his well-deservedretirement! Don was with the Foundationfor 14 years and was part of the staffteam that oversaw tremendous growthin our programs and Network of Fellows,playing a key role in managing ourfinances and administrative processes.They say that one door closes andanother one opens, and this wascertainly true for us in this case, as wewere able to welcome our newest staffmember, Laine Kuehn, to the team!

Laine, our new AdministrativeCoordinator and Office Manager, comesto us from the Maine Humanities Council.Laine looks forward to putting her energyinto environmental work.

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2018 Highlights:

OUR VISIONBy 2026, Switzer Fellows will be recognized leaders drivingpositive environmental changefor the benefit of natural andhuman communities.

With over 630 Switzer Fellows acrossthe country and around the world, wehave awarded:

Over $8,105,000 in Fellowships

$6,500,000 in Leadership Grants

$401,500 in Collaborative andNetwork Innovation Grants

$116,000 in ProfessionalDevelopment Grants

Fall Retreat training focuses on equity and leadershipOur annual fall retreats, which welcome new Fellows and bring alumni together toconnect with each other, staff, and the new Fellows, took place in Ashland, MA, andSausalito, CA in September 2018. The focus of the fall retreat is a leadership- andcohort-building training, and this year we worked with Angela Parkwho led a work-shop on “Equity as a 21st Century Leadership Competency.” In addition, Fellows inNew England heard from David Queeley, Director of Eco-Innovation at the CodmanSquare Neighborhood Development Corp. in Dorchester, MA, about his leadershippath and his work bridging environmental justice and sustainable development tounderserved neighborhoods in the Boston area. In California, two Fellows who areaffiliated with California Native Tribes spoke about bringing traditional ecologicalknowledge into environmental policy.

Spring Retreat and Policy CommunicationsIn conjunction with our 2018 Spring Retreat Policy Communications Training,Fellows arranged and attended 35 meetings with 26 different offices in Washington,DC, including with U.S. Congressional legislative staff from the offices of SenatorsKamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Dianne Feinstein, Kristen Gillibrand, SheldonWhitehouse, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and manymore; with federal agency staff (including the National Forest Service, Bureau ofIndian Affairs, EPA); the U.S. Agency for International Development; and policy-ori-ented NGOs like Earthjustice. Important connections were made, Fellows learnedthe policy context of their work, and were able to share important information withdecision makers.

Fellow discussions on Race and Equity in theenvironmental movementIn 2018, we launched a new Fellows’ read-ing and discussion group that focuses onissues of race and equity in the environ-mental field. Members of this groupshare readings and hold regular net-working calls and webinars with speak-ers whose work encompasses issues ofenvironmental justice or who are leadersin the movement to make the environ-mental field more inclusive. Topics haveincluded environmental justice along theU.S./Mexico border; Breaking the GreenCeiling: building equity, inclusion andjustice for the environmental movement;and the linkages between public/envi-ronmental health disparities and socialand economic inequity. We look forwardto continuing these important conversa-tions in the coming years.

In our 2018 Fiscal Year, Fellows werebusy writing and presenting their workto local, regional, state, national andinternational audiences. Four Fellowspublished books, and 35 were quoted innational or international press.

� Natalya Gallowas named one of theForbes List top leaders in the Sciencecategory for Leaders and InnovatorsUnder 30.

� Kimberley Rain Miner produced avideo through the University ofMaine's Climate Change Institutedetailing her work assessing thethreat of pesticides, including DDT,that have been trapped in glacial iceand are now entering watersheds asthe glaciers melt.

� Erin Satterthwaite and ErikMartinez both received CaliforniaSea Grant State Fellowships. Erin isbased at NOAA’s SouthwestFisheries Science Center; Erik isbased at the California CoastalCommission.

� Rachel Morello-Frosch’s work onsegregation and pollution wasfeatured in the New York Times.

� Jonathan Moch, PhD Candidate inEarth and Planetary Sciences atHarvard University, was featured inthe New York Times, CNN, andother outlets for his groundbreakingwork on smog in China.

� Joe Aldywas quoted by CNN onwhy red and blue states divide overenvironmental policies.

� David Gonzalez, PhD Candidate atUCLA in Atmospheric and OceanicSciences, became the Co-Chair ofUCLA’s Organization for CulturalDiversity in Science.

� Shaye Wolfwrote an opinion piecefor The Hillwebsite about PresidentTrump's rescision of a funding pool toassist climate-related disasters justdays before Hurricane Harvey.

� Sarah Myhrewas named one of theMost Influential Seattleites of 2017for her work as a climate changescientist and social justice activist,working to close the gap betweenscience and society.

� Evan Hansen won a seat in theWest Virginia House of Delegates,representing Monongalia County.

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2018 Highlights:

OUR STRATEGIESTo accomplish our mission andcarry out our vision, theFoundation awards academicfellowships and project grants,supporting a continuum ofenvironmental leadership fromgraduate school throughprofessional careers, and nurturingleaders who will be instrumental indriving environmental change. TheFoundation sponsors professionaldevelopment activities, facilitatescollaboration and communicationamong Fellows, and fosters agrowing Network of SwitzerFellows, environmentalpractitioners and organizations.

Grants awarded in Fiscal Year 2018:The Switzer Foundation awarded three Leadership Grants in our 2018 Fiscal Year, fora total of $72,000. Leadership Grants bring a Fellow together with an organization toaddress a critical issue, elevate the Fellow’s leadership on the issue, and increase theorganization’s capacity to address the issue. The three grants awarded were as follows:

� $25,000 to the New Hampshire Sustainable Energy Association (Concord, NH) tohire 2016 Fellow Henry Herndon as its first Director of Local Energy Solutions,leading a network of policymakers, businesses, municipalities, and individuals toadvance clean energy solutions for New Hampshire.

� $25,000 to California Native Plant Society (Claremont, CA) to hire 2016 FellowNick Jensen as Southern California Conservation Analyst, taking charge of thisstatewide organization’s conservation and advocacy efforts in Southern California.

� $22,000 to Silent Spring Institute (Newton, MA) to hire 2017 Fellow LaurenRichter as Research Scientist to lead a community-based participatory researchproject on drinking water contamination, which will inform the organization’sregional and national advocacy efforts on chemicals regulation.

We also awarded two Network Innovation Grants over the 2018 Fiscal Year, for atotal of $13,000. Network Innovation grants provide the means (up to $10,000) forFellows to work together across sectors and expertise areas, focusing on a specificcurrent issue. Network Innovation Grants awarded were:

� $5,000 to American Bird Conservancy (Santa Cruz, CA) for three Fellows (BradKeitt, Jonathan Scheuer, and Jason Delborne) to develop a strategy to engagecommunities in Hawaii on solutions to stemming the spread of avian malaria inHawaiian forest birds.

� $8,000 toManomet (Brunswick, ME) for three Fellows (Marissa McMahan, JoshStoll, and Caitlin Cleaver) to lead a statewide effort in Maine to develop a long-term vision for aquaculture, an industry which is quickly taking hold in Maine.

In addition, we awarded $5,100 in Professional Development Fund grants, which pro-vide direct support for professional development opportunities for Switzer Fellows.Fellows attended important conferences where they presented research, made criti-cal networking connections, and increased their individual skill sets.

Switzer Fellows in Action

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT FY 2017 FY 2018

Assets (at market value)Common Stocks $ 6,961,243 $ 10,419,925Fixed Income & Alternatives 11,013,860 8,021,133Liquidity 279,819 282,938Other Assets (equipment) 951 445Total Assets $ 18,255,873 $ 18,724,441

Liabilities and EquityLiabilities $ 175,095 $ 207,000Equity (unrestricted net assets) 18,080,778 18,517,441Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 18,255,873 $ 18,724,441

STATEMENT OF REVENUE AND DISBURSEMENT

Income From InvestmentsInterest Income and Dividends $ 289,612 $ 312,916Capital gains distribution 0 0Realized Gain/Loss 379,709 1,189,892Other income 119 132Total Operating Revenues $ 669,440 $ 1,502,940

Disbursements From IncomeGrants Paid $ 366,675 $ 396,833Investment management expenses 152,337 119,945Operating and Admin Expenses * 520,835 522,687Total Expenses $ 1,039,847 $ $1,039,465

* includes excise tax expense

Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation 2018 Annual Financial Report(FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2018)

FISCAL YEAR 2018 SWITZERFOUNDATION TRUSTEES:Carol Tucker (Chair)Joe AldyAdrienne AlvordBruce KahnElise SwitzerJessica Switzer GreenRachel Morello-Frosch

STAFFLissa Widoff, Executive DirectorErin Lloyd, Program DirectorLaine Kuehn, AdministrativeCoordinator/Office ManagerLauren Hertel, CommunicationsManager

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SWITZERFOUNDATION MISSIONThe Robert and Patricia SwitzerFoundation identifies and nurturesenvironmental leaders who havethe ability and determination tomake a significant impact, andsupports initiatives that will havedirect and measurable results toimprove environmental quality. The Foundation accomplishes thisby awarding academic fellowshipsand project grants, sponsoringprofessional development activities,and fostering a growing network of Switzer Fellows, environmentalpractitioners and organizations.