MBCA financially supports community conservation efforts in the Morongo Basin and beyond. Here are some of our past and current recipients:

 

• Yucca Valley High School – Funded Field Ecology class activities and equipment (Julia with sleeping bag pictured). Here is the latest thank-you letter from teacher Cindy Zacks describing how the program used MBCA's most recent donation.
• Save Our Desert - Contributed to Archaeology Study for Black Lava Buttes.
• National Park Service/Mojave National Preserve – Supported Tortoises Through the Lens book.
• National Parks Conservation Association – Contributed to hydrology research on the Cadiz Water Project. 
• Twentynine Palms Water District – Funded prizes for a School Poster Contest. 
• Joshua Basin Water District – Contributed to the Water Tank Mural Painting.
• Rose Foundation – Provide maintenance support for the Interactive Conservation Priorities map.
• Sunrise Movement – Contributed via support of Hannah Bacon’s cross-country walk (pictured).
  • Joshua Basin Water District
– Supported their Celebration of Victoria Fuller’s life.
• Community ORV Watch – Printed educational materials.
• Tribal Members Transportation – Supported transportation costs for desert tribal members to attend public comment meetings.
• California Desert Coalition – Supported several desert advocacy workshops.
• Basin & Range Watch – Supported their conservation work.
• Morongo Basin Dark Sky Alliance – Helped fund GIS mapping overlays.
• Native American Land Conservancy – Helped to organize and fund a Gathering of Tribes event.
• Desert Protection Society – Supported their work on the Eagle Crest Project.

• ALS Foundation – Donated in memory of former Board member Deb Bollinger’s husband Ron Cone.
• Three $1000 scholarships for Morongo Basin students pursuing higher education and committed to conservation or environmental interests.
• Sponsor for Big Read Morongo Basin 2020
• Became a supporter for the 2021 Arts Innovator MicroGrant.