NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL TREASURE

The NET also models an unusual organizational structure, one that puts primacy on relationships, partnerships and coordinated joint actions. The NET is committed to remaining a virtual-based organization, and will not central hard infrastructure. Rather, it reaches into communities through existing networks and innovative partnerships - both with traditional and non-traditional allies of the environment, working through others, while retaining a small central core. This unique administrative structure allows the NET to minimize its administrative costs, and, as an operating principle, we commit to taking no more than 10% of monies generated for administration... The NET is continuing to build its endowment fund slowly over the years, and has yet to secure a national distribution system for collecting a loonie from every Canadian. We are the first not for profit environmental trust in Canada. Our goal is to keep building a long-term trust fund for grassroots environmental initiatives..

Also known as: NET