The Park Foundation is an American nonprofit foundation founded in 1966 by entrepreneur and media mogul Roy H. Park. The foundation supports a variety of liberal and environmental causes, and has been a major supporter of the anti-

fracking Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of bedrock formations by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the high-pressure injection of "frack ...

movement as well as education. From 2009 to 2012, the foundation gave over $3 million to dozens of advocacy groups and other institutions that oppose fracking, including $175,000 to produce the documentary ''

Gasland ''Gasland'' is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Josh Fox. It focuses on communities in the United States where natural gas drilling activity was a concern and, specifically, on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), a method ...

''. In 2013, the foundation gave $50 million to endow the

Park Scholarships The Park Scholarships program is an undergraduate scholarship program in the United States. The mission of the program is "to bring exceptional students to North Carolina State University based on outstanding accomplishments and potential in sc ...

program at

North Carolina State University North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universit ...

. It is based in

Ithaca, New York Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, Ithaca is the seat of Tompkins County and the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area. It is named a ...

and is chaired by Park's daughter, Adelaide Park Gomer. Rachel Leon is the Executive Director. In 2003, the

Triad Foundation The Triad Foundation is an American nonprofit foundation formed in 2003 as a spin-off of the Park Foundation. The triad in the newer foundation's title refers to Park Jr. and his children Roy Park III and Elizabeth Park Fowler. The foundation's en ...

was spun off from the Park Foundation, as a result of political disputes between Park's children.

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