The Colcom Foundation is leading the way in its advocacy efforts preventing human overpopulation while sustaining a more environmentally-sound planet through humanitarianism and grantmaking initiatives. Founded by humanitarian Cordelia S. May in 1996, the organization has been funding national projects with the focus on lessening the impact human population growth has on the environment ever since. The three main areas of funding interest for the Colcom Foundation include: Carrying Capacity, Local Environment, and Local Community.

Carrying Capacity

The first funding interest arena the Colcom Foundation focuses on is the overall number of people the planet is able to carry before it has reached its capacity. The foundation believes through harnessing control in the areas of Family Planning– or helping prevent unplanned, unwanted births to control the birth rate– and supporting a sustainable immigration policy, it will decrease the population and reduce its ecological footprint. They educate people on family planning through their Population Media Center.

Local Environment

Colcom Foundation supports environment and conservation projects, organizations, and nonprofit grassroots, with those efforts being based in the Southwestern Pennsylvania region. In addition, they use media and education, legal services, national research databases, stewardship organizations, trails, waste management groups, and youth associations to help facilitate their environmental advocacy mission.

Local Community

Finally, through the support of arts and culture, community and economic development, education, health and human services, leisure and recreation, and public safety projects, the foundation feels they are helping advance the quality of life in the southwestern PA region.

Cordelia May believed there was a delicate balance between the natural and human world, but that balance was being compromised and needed to be addressed. May passed away in 2005, however, her legacy of maintaining the balance in a beneficial way lives on through the Colcom Foundation. Refer to this article to learn more.

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