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Neal Majorie Neufer facebook facebook.com/ncconservationnetwork Carolina Solar Energy James Emery LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MISSION REVENUE Dear Supporters & Friends, • If the NC General Assembly allows fracking The North Carolina Conservation Network is a 49% to begin in our state, farms could be lost, water statewide network of nearly 100 environmental, GRANTS 36% n 2013, we launched our 10-year action plan could be tainted, and communities destroyed. community, and environmental justice CONTRIBUTIONS to protect North Carolina’s environment. organizations focused on protecting North IIt is an ambitious plan that puts us on the • If President Obama’s administration allows Carolina’s environment and public health. path of stopping environmental rollbacks while sonar testing for offshore oil reserves to begin Our mission is to support, train, and coordinate also making progress to protect our state for on our coast it could pave the way for drilling, diverse groups and directly advocate to achieve generations. While much work remains, we putting our over 300 miles of pristine coastline equitable and sustainable solutions for our are proud of what we accomplished in 12 short and over 2 billion tourism dollars at grave risk. environment. months. Last year, we: 0.5% • If the Environmental Management 2013 BOARD: INTEREST & 1. Grew. We more than tripled the size of our MISCELLANEOUS Public Alert network and now reach over Commission decides to throw away decades worth of clean water protections, our waterways 70,000 activists. We also grew our Facebook Julie Mayfield Marilynn Marsh- 1.5% 3% 10% page to over 60,000 followers. could become polluted and lifeless. Western NC Alliance; Chair Robinson EVENTS AFFILIATE Environmental Defense Fund CONTRACTS Kemp Burdette DUES 2. Started to make the environment a top But, what if we came out on the right side of Cape Fear River Watch; Vice- Don Moffitt Chair Eno River Association issue for North Carolinians. We created a these watershed moments? What if we were able comprehensive communications plan, hired to make Duke Energy clean up all of their coal Peter Raabe David Paynter EXPENSES our first Communications Director, and earned American Rivers; Secretary NC Coastal Federation ash lagoons? What if our state decides not to a growing drumbeat