Just in. As an ex-board member I will have an opinion piece on this tomorrow.
People for Puget Sound is ceasing operations
People for Puget Sound, one of the Northwest’s highest profile conservation groups, will cease operations later this fall and try to transfer its work to other environmental activists.
“We don’t have the runway to keep going,” said Tom Bancroft, People for Puget Sound executive director, who succeeded PPS’s founding boss Kathy Fletcher when Fletcher retired last year after 20 years at the post.
Bancroft explained that the organization experienced rapid growth in membership and activities over the past few years but that “our revenues did not keep up.” The organization took out a $300,000 loan in 2010, which has come due.
People for Puget Sound endured a mass layoff last fall, which saw six full-time and five party time staff members — out of a staff of 25 — lose their jobs.
More at
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2012/09/11/people-for-puget-sound-is-ceasing-operations/