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© CI/Photo by Haroldo Castro
© CI/Photo by Haroldo Castro
      

With an extended family of supporters, including some of today's leading influentials and pioneers in green issues, CI events are both successful in generating conservation dollars and in igniting new ideas and discussion about worldwide conservation.

June 14th, 2012
Los Angeles Dinner

May 30, 2012
New York Dinner

May 11, 2012
San Francisco Dinner

October 20, 2011
Washington, D.C. Dinner

June 27, 2011
New York Dinner

May 16, 2011 ​
Los Angeles Dinner

March 29, 2011
A Bid to Save the Earth
Christie's Auction House, New York City

March 3, 2010
San Francisco Dinner

November 11, 2010
Seattle Dinner

Tom Friedman at Washington, D.C. Event
“It’s much more important to change your leaders than to change your lightbulbs.” These bold words were delivered by New York Times columnist Tom Friedman from the podium at CI's November 1, 2007 dinner.
2007 Seattle Dinner
2007 Jackson Hole Dinner
Two real life Indiana Joneses took the stage at CI’s 11th Annual Los Angeles Dinner. Adventure photographer Art Wolfe shared stories of his travels and CI President Russ Mittermeier discussed CI’s work worldwide.
We hosted our most successful dinner ever at the American Museum of Natural History on May 17, 2007. The event, CI’s 10th Annual New York Dinner, raised a record $1.9 million.
We brought Wal-Mart’s Rob Walton and UCLA geography professor Dr. Jared Diamond together to discuss the stake all of us have in the future health of our planet.
Conservation is not the concern of just a small niche of the American public. Protecting nature is strategic, economic, and even patriotic, making conservation everyone’s issue.
Asked by Tom Brokaw why he was concerned about the environment, Ted Turner replied, “If we don’t stop doing things wrong and start doing things right, if we keep acting stupidly instead of acting smartly, we’ll be extinct.”
Best-selling author Bill Bryson told guests that not only were they lucky to be enjoying CI’s 10th Annual Los Angeles Dinner, they were also extraordinarily lucky to be living on Earth.
“How do you make the circle wider?” was the question Peter Seligmann, CI's Chairman and CEO, posed to a group of more than 100 who gathered at The Ruins in Seattle on January 9 to celebrate and support Conservation International’s work.
2005 Washington, D.C. Dinner
Human welfare took center stage at CI’s second Washington D.C. Dinner on November 3, 2005.
CI hosted one of its most successful fundraisers ever for its Eighth Annual New York Dinner on May 3, 2005. With more than 800 guests, the event raised over $1.5 million for CI’s conservation efforts around the world.
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