AZLCVEF's Recent News and Press
Congressional District 3 Candidate Forum
Our congressional district 3 candidate forum was a great success! Almost 100 people turned out to hear what the
candidate for CD3 had to say about environmental issues. Congressional hopefuls Bob Branch, Leann Hull, Paulina Morris
and Michael Shoen attended and spent 2 hours answering questions posed by the co-sponsors and members of the audience.
Click on the following topics to watch video responses on YouTube:
Click
here for Jon Hulburd's written answers to our CD3 Forum questions.
Click
here for Ben Quayle's written answers to our CD3 Forum questions.
Earth Night 2010
We want to thank everyone that came out for our Earth Night event! It was a great evening highlighted by beautiful scenery, good company, live jazz music, tasty food and drink, and a silent auction filled with a wide variety of items. This was our first annual Earth Night and, based on its success, our annual Earth Night will be an event that you can’t miss.
The AZLCV and AZLCV Education Fund brought together members, supporters, politicians, and candidates to discuss current environmental issues and the future of our organizations. The Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Center was a fantastic setting and despite the rainy weather in other parts of Arizona, we were spared! There are a few pictures below, and more pictures can be found on our AZLCV Facebook pages.
We want to thank our sponsors and contributors. This event wouldn’t have been possible without BBVA Compass, Cox Communications, Earth Friends, The Nature Conservancy, Tucson Audubon Society, Prescott College, Riester, Ziemba Waid, Blue Global Media, Jon Hulburd, Arizona Conservation Partnership, Gabrielle Giffords for Congress, Roselyn O'Connell, P3, Phoenix Parks & Conservation Fund, Rose Law Group, Ruben Gallego & Kate Widland, FICO/Green Valley Pecan, Sierra Club, Sky Island Alliance, and Sonoran Institute. Our catering and drinks were also generously provided by Atlasta Catering, Four Peaks Brewery, Sonoran Brewery, Alcantara Vineyards, Dos Cabezas WineWorks, Granite Creek Vineyards, and Callaghan Vineyards. And again, a special thanks to all who attended and contributed.
Arizona League of Conservation Voters and Arizona League of Conservation Voters Education Fund Hire Executive Director for the Future.
The Arizona League of Conservation Voters, which turns environmental values into priorities for Arizona's elected officials, has hired a new Executive Director. Steve Arnquist, a long-time conservationist and dedicated staffer with the League, has been elected to serve the League as its new Executive Director. “The League’s two sister organizations have mapped out aggressive visions for the next five years, and I am thrilled to have been chosen to lead both of those efforts.” said Arnquist.
Steve has been active in politics his whole life. “I come from a very politically active family and developed environmental values early in life,” said Arnquist. After graduating from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1998, Steve moved to Arizona. Since coming to Arizona, Steve has personally registered thousands of voters and has implemented efforts that have registered more than 60,000 new Arizona voters. Before coming to the League in 2005, Steve was the Southern Arizona Director of the Moving America Forward Foundation, a non-partisan organization that registered Latino and Native American voters. Prior to that Steve designed and worked on electoral campaigns for local and federal candidates and issues.
“I believe that Mr. Arnquist has the vision, the skills and the experience to once again make conservation relevant in Arizona politics,” said Kevin Gaither-Banchoff, President of the Arizona League of Conservation Voters Education Fund. “Steve’s background in grassroots outreach, fundraising, and electoral campaigns is combined with a passion that has not only inspired me, but will enable him to build a proactive movement of NGO’s, voters and decision makers that allows us to further our collective conservation goals and protect Arizona’s natural heritage.”
Click here to read the full press release
AZLCV and AZLCV Education Fund are moving to our new offices in central Phoenix!
Beginning on June 15th AZLCV and AZLCV Education Fund are moving to central Phoenix. We have found a great new location at 825 N. 3rd Avenue in central Phoenix that we will be sharing with the Arizona Wilderness Coalition. We will now be located in a charming historic home, with fantastic meeting space. We know this will be a great new location to host events and meetings as well as a pleasant place to work.
We plan to be fully moved in by June 30th, hope to see you there sometime soon.
Our Mission
The Arizona League of Conservation Voters Education Fund Education Fund works to educate and coordinate citizens and organizations in the basic techniques of effective participation in government to further conservation goals and protect Arizona's natural heritage. We also work to Get Out the Conservation Vote and heighten the importance of the environment to the electorate and those elected officials that are responsible to the electorate.
