Michigan League of Conservation Voters

Seventh Annual Innovation in Conservation Awards Gala
2019-11-06 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Detroit) | Governor Whitmer Celebrates Long-Awaited PFAS Clean Up at Wurtsmith Base in Oscoda – Weight 2
Join us on Wednesday, November 6th, 2019 for our Seventh Annual Innovation in Conservation Awards Gala!
The event will be taking place from 6 – 9PM at the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center located at 3711 Woodward Ave in Detroit. We have chosen to honor Attorney General Dana Nessel as our 2019 Public Official of the Year and Ahmina Maxey as our 2019 Advocate of the Year! Stay tuned for more exciting announcements over the next few weeks.
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Our Water Our Legacy - Michigan LCV Fundraiser with Governor Whitmer
2019-08-08 12:00 - 13:30 | Michigan LCV Team for WMEAC Mayor’s Grand River Cleanup and Kickoff Celebration!
Join us in discussing the current state of Michigan’s waterways and our vision for a powerful conservation movement in 2020 and beyond. We are thrilled to announce that Governor Gretchen Whitmer will be joining us as our featured speaker!
Thursday, August 8th
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Cherry Republic Public House
6026 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI 49636
RSVP and purchase tickets here.

Fifth Annual Innovation in Conservation Awards Gala
2017-10-05 17:30 - 21:00 | Home
Join Michigan LCV at the Detroit Westin Book Cadillac to celebrate the key role Michigan’s cities, business leaders, and philanthropic community play in setting Michigan on course toward a sustainable future.
It’s going to be an evening that you won’t want to miss.
Reserve your tickets today!

People's Climate March - Kalamazoo
2017-04-29 14:30 - 16:30 | Text
The “People’s Climate March for Jobs, Justice, and the Climate” will be held in DC and communities across the country on April 29, 2017. Join us in Kalamazoo to stand in solidarity and make sure our elected officials know that our families and communities demand protection. We deserve clean land, air, and water! RSVP, save the date, and share the Facebook event to let your friends know you’re going!
Photo: South Bend Voice via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

People's Climate March - Traverse City
2017-04-29 12:00 - 15:00 | CCU-9.6-1
The “People’s Climate March” will be held in DC and communities across the country on April 29, 2017, join us in solidarity in Traverse City to make sure our elected leaders know that our air, land and water demand protection! RSVP, save the date, and share the Facebook event to let your friends know you’ll be there!
Photo: South Bend Voice via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Telephone Town Hall with Special Guest Senator Gary Peters
2017-03-09 18:30 - 19:00 | MI
Special guest Senator Peters will be joining us to talk about water quality here in Michigan and what he’s doing in Washington to protect our clean water. As you’d expect for the Great Lakes State, there’s a lot to cover.
We’ll be talking about a wide variety of issues including pipeline safety, Great Lakes restoration and protection, recovery efforts in Flint, and more. There will also be a question-and-answer section for folks like you to ask the Senator questions and to hear back from him in real-rime.
*In order to participate in the Telephone Town Hall, you must include a valid phone number. Other than that, all you have to do is answer your phone on Thursday at 6:30PM!

Annual Holiday Party
2016-12-15 17:30 - 19:30 | Gov. Whitmer’s MI Healthy Climate Plan is state roadmap to tackling climate change
JOIN US FOR OUR ANNUAL HOLIDAY CELEBRATION
Thursday, December 15 / 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Ann Arbor Office / 3029 Miller Road
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We are located in the Forest Cove Complex in the third (last) building on the second floor and we have plenty of free, well-lit parking.
No donation required or expected.
This event honors our generous volunteers, members, donors, board of directors and team!
Your support has allowed us to continue protecting Michigan’s land, air, and water. We would love for you to join us to enjoy food, drinks, and festive music to kick-off a season of holiday cheer!

2016 Christine Green Award Honorees
This year we are especially thrilled to award two stellar individuals with the Christine Green Award for their commitment to protecting our state’s natural resources and the health of our communities.

Cameron Burden
Cameron first volunteered with Michigan LCV in 2014 when he helped collect pledge cards in support of the Clean Power Plan. Since then he has been a committed volunteer, lending his free time to help protect Michigan’s land, air, and water. Although Cameron had never done door-knocking or phone-banking prior to his experience with Michigan LCV, he jumped in head first to this incredibly important work. In the two years since he started volunteering, Cameron has made countless phone calls and conversation to educate voters on clean energy policy legislation in Lansing, recruited for multiple Michigan LCV field events including a town hall on energy policy, and knocked on hundreds of doors in the successful efforts to elect Senator Gary Peters, Representative-elect Abdullah Hammoud, and Representative-elect Darrin Camilleri. With Southeast Michigan serving as a battleground for elections in 2016, Cameron was integral to successfully electing two new conservation champions to the Michigan House. In total, Cameron has completed over 60 volunteer shifts and helped Michigan LCV build relationships with members and volunteers across the state.
George Davis
George Davis is the Michigan LCV Board Secretary and has served on the board since 2014; in addition to serving with other environmental organizations across Michigan, including Board President of the Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision, Co-Chair of the Detroit Climate Action Committee Business and Industry Work Group, and member of the Energy and Environment Committee of the Detroit Regional Chamber. George has actively committed to connecting talented and passionate individuals with Michigan LCV’s work–including recruitment of new members, staff, and board members. With the Flint Water Crisis being a critical issue in 2016, George served on the Steering Committee of our Fourth Annual Innovation in Conservation Gala honoring many leaders committed to protecting our environment including Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha. George makes calls day after day to ensure that the Detroit community knows that Michigan LCV is at the forefront of the fight to protect what matters to the health and future of the state he loves and calls home.

Many thanks to our generous in-kind donors for making this special evening possible!

Northern Michigan Water Quality Tele-Town Hall
2016-10-20 19:00 - 20:00 | MI
Join Michigan LCV’s Northern Michigan tele-townhall to hear from local leaders and experts about the pressing problems facing waterways and drinking water resources throughout the Great Lakes State.
The conversation will cover a number of rising issues and will provide information on the work Michigan LCV is doing statewide and in Northern Michigan to address them (and ways you can help!).
It’s going to be an interesting conversation about issues that affect all of us. Be sure to RSVP below–we hope you can join us!

Kalamazoo Water Quality Tele-Town Hall
2016-10-19 19:00 - 20:00 | MI
Join Michigan LCV to hear from local leaders and experts about the pressing problems facing waterways and drinking water resources throughout the Great Lakes State.
The conversation will cover a number of rising issues and will provide information on the work Michigan LCV is doing statewide and in the Kalamazoo area to address them (and ways you can help!).
It’s going to be an interesting conversation about issues that affect all of us. Be sure to RSVP below–we hope you can join us!

Fourth Annual Innovation in Conservation Gala
2016-10-13 17:30 - 21:00 | Home
You are invited to join the fight for Michigan’s clean air, clean water and healthy communities.
Please join us for:
THE FOURTH ANNUAL INNOVATION IN CONSERVATION AWARDS GALA
OCTOBER 13, 2016 / 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM
WESTIN BOOK CADILLAC HOTEL
1114 Washington Blvd. Detroit, MI 48226
COCKTAIL RECEPTION: 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
AWARDS GALA: 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
DESSERT AFTERGLOW: 8:30 PM – 9:00 PM
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Questions? Contact our development team at events@michiganlcv.org or 734-222-9650.

Meet This Year’s Honorees
tHE HONORABLE joe schwarz, lifetime achievement award

Throughout his many years in public office, Dr. Schwarz was a dedicated conservationist and advocate for environmental health issues. As a Republican State Senator with a fifteen-year record of support for land, air and water issues, he was elected to represent Michigan’s seventh congressional district from 2005 to 2007 in the US House of Representatives. Today, Dr. Schwarz continues to see patients at the Family Health Center in his home of Battle Creek and he teaches at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. For all of these reasons and more, join Michigan LCV on October 13 to honor this remarkable leader for a lifetime of dedicated service to our state.
Let’s not forget how fortunate we are to call Michigan home, no matter our party affiliation. And, let’s not forget that the update of our clean energy policy provides a real opportunity to bridge the partisan divide and set us on a path toward a cleaner future that our children, grandchildren and Michiganders down the line can enjoy.” – excerpt from MLive op-ed co-authored by Congressman Schwarz and State Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer calling for clean energy policy that protects our Great Lakes

DR. MONA HANNA-ATTISHA, ADVOCATE OF THE YEAR

Dr. Hanna-Attisha earned national attention this year for her leadership on exposing the rising rates of lead poisoning in Flint children and the underlying and widespread Flint Water Crisis. Her dedication to her patients and her commitment to bringing to light an environmental health disaster forced leaders in Michigan to pay attention and be held accountable for failing to protect our children and our natural resources from lead contamination.
Suddenly the city, the state that used to be so proud, was put out there as a sort of petri dish of pollution, corruption, austerity, injustice. They called us tragic and they called us sad. And I can tell you I felt sad. And I felt angry. And I felt betrayed. But then I got to work, because our focus had to be on our kids.” – Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha
Want to hear what uncovering the crisis was like and what Dr. Hanna-Attisha and her colleagues are focused on going forward? Listen to the doctor herself tell the story in this powerful address she delivered at the 2016 Mackinac Policy Conference:

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Public Official of the Year
Since being named Executive Director and Health Officer for the Detroit Health Department in 2015, Dr. El-Sayed has already set himself apart as a champion for clean air and healthy families. From building on the city’s efforts to track and prevent lead poisoning in Detroit kids to holding the Marathon Petroleum refinery accountable for controlling its sulfur-dioxide emissions, Dr. El-Sayed has proven himself to be a champion for Detroit families and an example of public service at its best. In a community striving toward a brighter future, the people of Detroit are lucky to have Dr. El-Sayed as one of their strongest advocates.
This assault on public health in Detroit has to stop. Detroiters have suffered disproportionately from diseases that are far less common just eight miles northward. For example, the life expectancy gap between men in Wayne and Oakland counties is nearly six years.” – excerpt from this Detroit Free Press op-ed authored by Dr. El-Sayed in opposition to a proposal to weaken air pollution limits for the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Southwest Detroit.

Thank you to our many generous sponsors!
Sponsorship opportunities are still available for this year’s event! Find more information on event sponsorship here.

Superior Sponsors

*(Gift Made to Michigan LCV Education fund)

*(Gift Made to Michigan LCV Education fund)

LARRY BELL

Michigan Sponsors

JANIS BOBRIN AND MIKE ALLEMANG
DOUG GLANCY*
KIRK MARTIN*

JENNIFER POTEAT AND MIKE STAEBLER

Erie Sponsors

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DR. BRIAN ATHEY
JOANIE BINKOW
FRED BLANCK
CHARLES BORGSDORF
JOHN CARVER
GREG CURTNER
MARTHA DARLING AND GIL OMENN *
PAUL DIMOND
ELIZABETH GOODENOUGH AND JAMES G. LEAF
CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM
JOHN HUNTING
ANGELA JACKSON
LISA AND HANNAN LIS
JIM AND CHRISTINE MACINNES
DOUG & CATE MCCLURE
MICHAEL PENSKAR & MAUREEN MARTIN
BILL PHILLIPS AND MARIANNE UDOW-PHILLIPS
RAY PITTMAN
PHIL & KATE ROOS
DENISE THAL AND DAVID SCOBEY
BRUCE WALLACE & SUSAN CANNELL
EMMA & STEPHANIE WHITE
WOZNIAK WOMEN
THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION*

Ontario Sponsors

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HONORABLE DAVID AND JUDY BONIOR
BEVERLY GHESQUIERE
NED STAEBLER

*This gift was made to the Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund.

2015 innovation in conservation gala
Thank you to our 2015 sponsors!
View the full program and find all of our photos from last year’s event below:
2015 Innovation in Conservation photos here.

Days of Action to Elect Abdullah Hammoud
2016-07-20 08:00 - 2016-07-31 20:00 | Oscoda Water Advocates, Congressman Dan Kildee Demand Action on PFAS Cleanup in Oscoda After 10 Years of Foot Dragging
Join us for our upcoming days of action to elect Abdullah Hammoud as the next State Representative for Michigan’s 15th House District. With only a few weeks until Primary Election Day, let’s get all hands on deck to elect a great candidate to office.
On Wednesday, July 20th and Wednesday, July 27th from 5:30 – 7:30 PM we are hosting community phone banks to get the word out about our opportunity to elect Abdullah Hammoud, an outstanding community leader and an advocate for clean air and water, to represent Dearborn and the 15th House District. Join us!
On Saturday, July 23 – Sunday, July 24 and Saturday. July 30th – Sunday, July 31st we are organizing community canvasses of volunteers to walk the neighborhoods of the 15th House District together, connect with voters and get out the vote for Abdullah Hammoud. Join us!
Volunteers like you make the difference in close races — thank you! Use this form to sign up:

Breakfast of Conservation Champions
2016-05-23 07:30 - 09:00 | Maintaining Democracy in Times of Crisis
Thank you for making the Second Annual Breakfast of Conservation Champions a huge success! See you next year!
EVENT DETAILS:
MAY 23, 2016 / 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS & SCULPTURE PARK
1000 EAST BELTLINE AVE. NE, GRAND RAPIDS, MI
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VIEW PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT HERE
Questions? Contact Lauren Mallas at events@michiganlcv.org or 616-459-6459.

Our 2016 Honorees

OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AWARD HONOREES
JOHN HUNTING AND ELIZABETH WELCH

GEORGE HEARTWELL AWARD HONOREE
ANNE MARIE HERTL, COMMUNITY ACTIVISM MANAGER FOR WEST MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COUNCIL (WMEAC)

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Andrew Hoffman
Education Director, Graham Sustainability Institute
Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business/School of natural resources University of Michigan
