Bringing Conservation To Life

Who We Are

Synchronicity Earth USA was set up to support and raise funds for Synchronicity Earth, a UK-registered charity that analyzes, explores and develops the most effective approaches to funding conservation for some of Earth’s most threatened and overlooked species and natural environments.

Synchronicity Earth believes that conserving and restoring species and ecosystems is a human endeavor that benefits not just nature but all of us. The aim of the charity is to provide people with the tools they need to protect the natural world by:

  • supporting conservationists working in challenging contexts to maintain and enhance the diversity of Earth’s species and habitats;
  • developing innovative approaches to conservation funding to help ensure that all donors are better able to support conservation that works for people and planet and
  • celebrating and championing biodiversity to give the natural world a more powerful voice across diverse sectors where it most counts.

Synchronicity Earth USA is a non-profit organisation with tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

“We need new solutions to identify and support critical projects on the cutting edge of saving the planet’s habitats and species. Synchronicity Earth's vision and energy are leading the way.”
— Professor William Sutherland, Miriam Rothschild Professor of Conservation Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge

Funding Synchronicity Earth

Synchronicity Earth USA is for donors who want to fund urgent and overlooked conservation challenges and understand the impact their money can have on the natural world. Whether you are an individual donor, a foundation or a corporation, we have a range of funding options.

For more information, and to donate to our work, please contact Victoria Steele at supporters@synchearthusa.org

“Knowing where best to donate funds to protect the world’s species and ecosystems can be complicated, but Synchronicity Earth makes this easy by conducting high quality research to identify robust initiatives that will have the biggest impact.”
— Professor Jonathan Baillie, Chief Scientist & Executive Vice President, Science and Exploration, National Geographic Society

Flourishing Diversity Around The World

The United States is blessed with an astonishing diversity of species and natural habitats, and many Americans choose to support nature conservation. While the US public has shown strong philanthropic support for its national parks, wild places and species, there has traditionally been less support for conservation in the rest of the world. Between them, Africa, Asia and Latin America - which contain the lion’s share of the world’s natural diversity - receive a very small proportion of US philanthropy directed towards protecting the natural world.

Synchronicity Earth understands that the natural world is not defined by national borders, trade barriers or political affiliations. Species and ecosystems are our global heritage. What happens to the oceans, rivers, forests and the millions of species that make up our planet’s extraordinary ecosystems impacts us all. Unfortunately, our relationship with the natural world is one of give and take. Nature gives and we take. The natural world is getting a raw deal: if we are serious about protecting the natural world, we need to dramatically increase the level of funding for conservation, globally. Our aim with Synchronicity Earth USA is to grow our pool of funders and drive more effective conservation in the places where it is most needed for the benefit of all of us.

World map of color coded density of vertebrate species. Saving Species/Globaia, 2012
“Synchronicity Earth communicates on a level that is really embedded within science, but that uses art, entertainment, humour, passion to get people to realise that we are all connected and that what we do to nature, we do to ourselves. You want to get behind organizations that leave the planet in a better place; and Synchronicity Earth really ranks high on that score.”
— Sylvia Earle, Marine Explorer and founder of Mission Blue

Synchronicity Earth USA Board

Jessica Sweidan
Jessica Sweidan
Chair

Jessica Sweidan has been an active philanthropist for the last 20 years. Her journey began almost straight out of university, when she formed a partnership with Adam Sweidan, to create The Synchronicity Foundation.

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Edward A. Cunningham, IV
Edward A. Cunningham, IV

Professor Edward Cunningham is Director of the Ash Center China Programs at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, which has trained nearly 2,000 senior Chinese government officials, NGO leaders, and business executives since 1999.

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Emma Lindsay
Emma Lindsay

Emma Lindsay is a partner at Withers and leads the firm’s international arbitration team in the Americas. Specializing in investor-state arbitration, international commercial arbitration and public international law, Emma represents corporations, governments, individuals and organizations around the world and across a wide range of industries.

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Tom Fernandez
Tom Fernandez
Treasurer

Tom Fernandez is a founder of Balto Therapeutics, a specialty pharmaceutical company in New York. Previously, he co-founded Retrophin, Inc., a public biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and marketing innovative therapies for rare, catastrophic childhood diseases.

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Katy Scholfield
Katy Scholfield

Katy Scholfield is Director of Strategic Grantmaking, Great Apes and Gibbons Program, at Arcus Foundation. Katy came to Arcus after 10 years at Synchronicity Earth, most recently as head of biocultural diversity, where she co-led programs and led efforts to center indigenous rights and the revival and protection of biocultural diversity across the organization.

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