Annual Report 2010 - Cultural Survival

CULTURAL SURVIVAL MEMBERS
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Anne St. Goar
Making a difference as a family: The Balcoms
Anne St. Goar has been a Cultural Survival member and donor
since 1989, when cofounder David Maybury-Lewis gave a talk at
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston where she was a
primary care physician. Now 88, Anne is retired; she is an active
member of the Unitarian Universalist church, an avid amateur
horticulturist, and enjoys traveling and spending time with her
children and eight grandchildren.
Why she became a donor to Cultural Survival:
“It’s important to keep cultures alive. Maintaining the
culture is central to Indigenous Peoples’ lives.”
What she sees as a current challenge: “Climate change is
affecting Indigenous Peoples disproportionately.”
The Balcom family of Clovis, California— Jan, Mark, and daughter Heather—have been involved in Global
Response campaigns since Heather was in middle school. Jan relates, "Our daughter found it empowering as
a relatively powerless youngster to be able to help make a difference by writing letters." While their
daughter is now grown, Jan is still actively involved: writing letters and reading and then passing on her copy
of the Cultural Survival Quarterly to her local library (where she assures us it "is prominently displayed"), and
donating to Cultural Survival.
Today, Jan says, "I appreciate the important work of the Global Response program and of Cultural Survival.
We NEED the cultural knowledge and wisdom that we endanger and extinguish every day — knowledge our
civilization has largely forgotten of how to live sustainably with this world. Cultural Survival recognizes this
and does something about it."
MEMBERSHIP
Our members continue to make all our work possible, writing letters to governments and corporations, offering
ideas and help, and providing the financial resources needed to carry out our mission. This year 1,203 people joined
the organization.
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