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Patricia Bauman is the daughter of Lionel Bauman, the original funder of the Bauman Family Foundation. She has been the President and Co-Director of the Bauman Family Foundation since its establishment in 1987. Before that, she worked in Congress, at the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, and in other government and non-profit settings on health and environment issues. Bauman is a graduate of Radcliffe College and the Columbia University School of Public Health, and she received her JD degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. She is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia.
Bauman is also a Board Member of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a Member of the Pew Environmental Health Commission, Chairman of the Preamble Center, a Trustee of the Beldon Fund, the Treasurer of Trust for America's Health, and a member of the Health and Environment Advisory Board of the National Environmental Education & Training Foundation.
Bauman gave $75,000 to America Coming Together (ACT), a Democrat 527 shadow group that supported John Kerry's 2004 run for the Presidency. She was present at the December 2004 Environmental Grantmakers Association's Federal Policy Briefing, a gathering of the major figures in the environmentalist movement and their leftwing funders. She was also a speaker at Democratic GAIN, a training, strategic planning and policy-coordinating forum for Democrats and progressives, held during the four days of the Democratic Convention in 2004.
In 2001 Bauman, using her influence as a Trustee of the Beldon Fund, gave a $15,000 grant to the Preamble Center (of which she is the Chairman), for its support of the Washington D.C.-based National Black Environmental and Economic Justice Coordinating Committee (NBEEJCC). Specifically, the money was earmarked to fund NBEEJCC's "meetings on alternative economic development and clean production strategies for communities."
Using her influence as President of the Bauman Family Foundation, Bauman authorized several grants to the Natural Resources Defense Council. These grants included: $150,000 in 2000; $350,000 in 2001; $250,000 in 2002; $300,000 in 2003; and $400,000 in 2004.
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