2006 ANNUAL REPORT THE MORRIS K. UDALL FOUNDATION preserve and protect A program for environmental their national heritage policy research and environmental through studies in the conflict resolution at the University environment and of Arizona’s Udall Center for Native American Studies in Public Policy. health and tribal The U.S. Institute for public policy. The Environmental Conflict Resolution, Udall Foundation also which provides mediation and is committed to other services to assist in resolving promoting the federal environmental conflicts. principles and practices of The Native Nations Institute for environmental Leadership, Management, and conflict resolution. Policy (NNI), which focuses on leadership education for tribal Programs of the leaders and on policy research. Udall Foundation The Udall Foundation and the include the University of Arizona cofounded following: NNI, building on the research Annual programs of the Harvard Project scholarships and on American Indian Economic fellowships to Development. outstanding The Udall Foundation’s educational students who activities are supported by the interest intend to pursue accrued in a federal trust fund and by Morris K. Udall careers related to the environment. contributions from the private sector. Photo credit: Anonymous; The University of Arizona Library, Special Collections, Morris K. Udall Papers, MS 325, Box 738, Annual scholarships and Annual appropriations and revenues Folder 1 internships to outstanding Native from fees for services support the U.S. American and Alaska Native Institute for Environmental Conflict The U.S. Congress established the college students who intend to Resolution. The Udall Foundation is Morris K. Udall Scholarship and pursue careers in health care and an independent executive branch Excellence in National Environmental tribal public policy. agency. Congress has authorized the Policy Foundation in 1992 to honor Udall Foundation to provide a portion Parks in Focus, which takes young Morris K. Udall’s 30 years of service in of its education funds to support NNI. the House of Representatives. people into national and state parks to expose them to the The President of the United States Morris Udall’s career was distinguished grandeur of the nation’s natural appoints the Udall Foundation’s board by civility, integrity, consensus, and a resources and instill a sustainable of trustees with the advice and commitment to the preservation of the appreciation for the environment. consent of the U.S. Senate. nation’s natural environment. An annual conference or Consistent with these values, the Udall discussion of contemporary Foundation is committed to educating environmental or Native American a new generation of Americans to issues. Cover photo credits (l to r): 1) © 1975, 2006 Shepard Sherbell/Corbis; The University of Arizona Library, Special Collections, Morris K. Udall Papers, MS 325, Box 737, Folder 12; 2) and 3) Anonymous; The University of Arizona Library, Special Collections, Morris K. Udall Papers, MS 325, Box 738, Folder 1 Due to space limitations, permission was granted to crop several of the original archival images in this Annual Report. 1 Politics and issues come and go, but in the end, we’ll all be remembered for the way we treated other people. – Morris K. Udall Morris K. Udall in front of Will Rogers’ statue in the U.S. Capitol, part of the National Statuary Hall Collection, during his 1976 Presidential campaign. Photo credit: ©1975, 2006 Shepard Sherbell/Corbis; The University of Arizona Library, Special Collections, Morris K. Udall Papers, MS 325, Box 737, Folder 12 2006 ANNUAL REPORT REPORT FROM THE CHAIR Terrence L. leadership of our wonderful education agenda and the birth of the next Bracy staff—and the Udall alumni generation of leaders who will take themselves—we have embarked on hold of an American political system an ambitious, yearlong celebration that is in desperate need of reform. A NEW GENERATION that will combine more than 50 public So keep an eye out for that biodiesel OF PUBLIC service projects all across the country bus. Think of it as a sign of hope and SERVANTS with a nationwide bus tour—actually, as a symbol of gentle but determined a biodiesel bus! The tour is expected generational change, which has been Jared Duval is the national director of to begin in Washington, DC, on June the signature of the Udall family the Sierra Club’s Sierra Student 13, 2007, and will end in Tucson, legacy for generations. Arizona, at the 2007 Udall Scholar Coalition; Deron Marquez is the chair Finally, I want to note that the Udall Orientation on August 3, 2007. of the San Manuel Band of Mission Foundation has created a new Fourteen alumni of the Foundation’s Indians in California; Maryana category of advisor to be known as education programs will ride the Iskander is the executive vice “Trustee Emeritus.” This honor will be Legacy Bus, lending a hand to service president of the National Planned extended to retiring trustees whose projects such as developing campsites Parenthood Federation of America; service has been deemed on tribal lands in Oregon and Betsy Tannian is director of the indispensable and who are willing to assisting with bioremediation efforts Malaseet Indian Child Welfare Service continue to lend their expertise, in New Orleans. Along the way, our and was recently honored by Harvard without compensation, to the alumni will meet with mayors, city University; Gabe Galanda is an management of this enterprise. The and tribal governments, and citizen attorney who represents tribes in first such honor has been extended to groups who are promoting fresh complex lawsuits and on economic Dr. Peter W. Likins who recently solutions to issues of transportation, development issues, and who has retired as president of the University energy, and urban planning. been named one of “The Best Lawyers of Arizona. I speak for the Board and in America”; Holly Welles works on No doubt the bus tour will be a lot of staff when I say we are thrilled that environmental policy for Pacific Gas fun, but I would like to suggest that this gifted, wise, and visionary leader and Electric Company; and Andrew in many ways it symbolizes something accepted our offer to remain within Lee is the creator of the hot, new, more serious and profound: the the extended Udall family. online “Fantasy Congress” league you reemergence of the environment on may have read about in the New York the top of the nation’s political Times. What do they all have in common? Each is a Udall Scholar, Intern, or Fellow. Together they represent but a sample of the burgeoning society of nearly 1,000 Udall awardees who are taking their place in the nation’s leadership circles. They are also reflective of something greater—a generation that is ambitious, skilled, highly educated, and dedicated to public service. In FY 2007, we are celebrating the Dr. Peter W. Likins, trustee emeritus, speaks to Udall Foundation staff and community tenth anniversary of the Udall guests at the November 2006 Board of Trustees dinner in Tucson, Arizona. education programs. Under the Photo credit: Ryan Mihalyi 3 REPORT FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Christopher contributions of Mo and Stewart, was L. Helms on display for three months in the Arizona Capitol Museum beginning in October 2005. Our thanks go to EXCEPTIONAL Trustee D. Michael Rappoport for PEOPLE MAKE FOR arranging to have a photographer at the opening event and for the AN EXCEPTIONAL production and printing of this YEAR beautiful publication. On behalf of the Udall Foundation 2006 was an enormously productive staff and all who support the Udall year for the Udall Foundation. We Foundation, I thank the Trustees for kicked off the tenth anniversary of their guidance, dedication, and hard “The Udall Brothers: Voices for the our education programs with a Environment” traveling exhibit at the work. Behind the scenes, it is they community-wide celebration in Arizona Capitol Museum, October 2005. who assure the well-being of the Tucson, Arizona, recorded by C-Span, Photo credit: James Eastwood, SRP institution, and we are grateful to and the U.S. Institute provided case them. We join Chair Terry Bracy in country and for developing the U.S. support for more than 50 thanking former Trustee Dr. Peter W. Institute for Environmental Conflict environmental conflicts. You will see Likins and congratulating Dr. Likins Resolution from a start-up operation details in the reports that follow. (If on his designation as our first Trustee only a few years ago into a highly you missed the C-Span broadcast, by Emeritus. Dr. Likins’ successor to the respected institution. Among these the way, you can purchase a copy board is the new president of the exceptional employees for the last online at C-Span.org by searching for University of Arizona, Dr. Robert N. three years was Monica Nuvamsa, Udall Family Political Legacy in the C- Shelton. We welcome him. who managed our Native American Span Store.) Congressional Internship Program. The day-to-day activities of the Udall Most of the planning for the Ten-Year Monica has left the Udall Foundation Foundation are carried out by an Celebration of Public Service taking and plans to work with Hopi tribal incomparable staff. It is these place in late 2006 and 2007 was done programs. We salute her for her enormously hardworking people who in 2006. Crucial to the success of the wonderful work and wish her the deserve credit for making the Udall Legacy Bus Tour portion of the best. Foundation scholarship programs celebration was the initial fundraising. among the most sought after in the We are particularly grateful to the Bert W. Martin Foundation for its generosity with this effort and to Trustee P. Lynn Scarlett who helped guide us toward several federal agencies that will be sponsoring the tour.