CHRISTY WALTON SUPPORTS MYRIAD GROUPS & INITIATIVES
EDUCATION | CONSERVATION & SCIENCE | FOOD, CULTURE, & ARCHITECTURE | COMMUNITY & CIVIL SOCIETY
“Early on, my husband John and I decided that the main way to improve lives is through education. It is still an important component of what I do.”
empowers the world's youth to take an active role in conservation while increasing ecological literacy.
inspire curiosity, engagement, and leadership through transformative place-based education.
promotes positive social change by empowering vulnerable populations including women, youth and seasonal migrant workers.
is a continuing education program that teaches educators how to incorporate environmental science into their own classrooms and curriculum.
offers spaces for book discovery and science development through their libraries, workshops in public schools, and a reading program in state boarding schools.
provides basic support of food and education for children and adolescents from impoverished areas to give them the opportunity to complete their education and improve the quality of their lives.
creates and employs community and urban food gardens to teach healthy lifestyles.
specializes in conservation, environmental education and wildlife rehabilitation with an emphasis on amphibians and reptiles.
Christy helped with the purchase of Isla Espíritu Santo to ensure its long-term protection by Mexico's National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP).
works with lawyers and scientists to protect the environment through the development, implementation, and enforcement of national and international law.
features natural history and biodiversity exhibits, hosts environmental education programs, and is engaged in binational scientific research.
researches alternatives to fossil fuels in order to reduce pollution and pollution-related diseases.
is one of the most important centers for ocean, earth and atmospheric science research, education, and public service in the world.
explores two remarkably different, but inextricably linked worlds — the Gulf of California and the Baja California desert. Proceeds from this giant-screen film support further conservation, education, and research.
restores coastal communities by strengthening their collective leadership. The communities in turn restore their environments, which eventually provide sustainable incomes from harvesting and fishing.
is a top-tier academic medical center that improves health through innovative research, education and patient care.
delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of people worldwide.
combines the efforts of over 200 nonprofits and businesses to ensure that everyone has enough food during the COVID-19 pandemic and that medical professionals have the resources needed to effectively treat patients.
is a global initiative helping to protect the world from mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever.
protects the environment and improves the quality of life in Mexico, Latin America and beyond. For decades, much of Christy’s philanthropy has been implemented through ICF.
integrates a group of business leaders and stakeholders committed to the economic, human, and environmental development of the region surrounding the Gulf of California.
– the above represents a sample of Christy’s contributions –