Interview 13445 – Caption Index: 296
What kind of broad per percentages would you say that this endowment that you help to build gives to the zoo as opposed to donations or other things?… Read More
What kind of broad per percentages would you say that this endowment that you help to build gives to the zoo as opposed to donations or other things?… Read More
How much of the percent of the zoo’s operating budget do you think the endowment is helping?… Read More
Prior to that, we’ve had Wells Fargo advisors. We’ve had written house investments out of Philadelphia. We’ve had some very good investment people, and you never can stop learning about that. Now we talked about the zoo in general, with financing. Read More
Well, your personal investing help in your role as head of the endowment?… Read More
It’s all grown, I think pretty much the same way. I had some mutual funds that I was invested in through a 401k plan early on, but since I’ve been involved with the zoo and I’ve been exposed to some very good managers. And I’ve come to realize that asset… Read More
Me personally, or for the endowment?… Read More
Do you feel that because many people of influence and money knew that Gladys Porter and the Sams Foundation were subsidizing the zoo, that they didn’t feel they needed to give money?… Read More
In the beginning, that was true through the ’80s, up until ’80, I would say that was true. After 1982, ’83, they started to realize that the foundations were not going to be able to provide the support we needed in order to grow. And so that’s when we started… Read More
Yeah, one couple gave us a half a million dollars that we had no idea was hanging out there. And came about because the lady’s father had died and had left them a very large estate and they were gonna have a state tax issues. And they felt they’d rather… Read More
Were there any surprise donations?… Read More
I mean, we know Gladys Porter and the Sams would give you money, but outside of them, were there any surprise donations?… Read More
But the shrimp industry then said, what can we do to help balance this out?… Read More
And some of their members have put in not only just money to support the Kemps Ridley program to protect the beaches in Mexico, when the animals come in and lay their eggs, the local people don’t come and dig them all up to eat ’em. And this has worked… Read More
I think a lot of this would come through the education programs, seeing the children in particular, as they first become aware of the importance of wildlife conservation or of even things like recycling, saving our water resources, basic things like this, making the public aware and usually you have… Read More
There have been instances where this is. I’m most particularly aware of the ones with rhinoceros because I’ve had to deal with them in helping ride a lot of the permits and working with the rhinos. But no, it goes from reptiles to fish. Read More
And on the other end of the coin, during your 10 years as director of the zoo, what would you say were some of your happier moments that you really were got excited about because something occurred or your program had made it happen something like that?… Read More
Oh no. Read More
That’s in any taxon that you want to pick?… Read More
Does that occur specifically with the Rhinoceros Group?… Read More
Gladys Porter supported in-situ conservation primarily through supporting our zoo, which allowed us to make grants to the International Rhino Foundation, to the International Iguana Foundation to Galapagos for turtle conservation, to the Kemps Ridley program for sea turtle conservation. So she made money available so that the zoo could… Read More