{"id":29,"date":"2012-02-08T02:28:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T02:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonic\/website\/templatesquare\/tsdemo\/wordpress3\/performs\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-03-01T01:10:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T01:10:47","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ircf.org\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"boldtext\">Mission Statement<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft frame\" src=\"https:\/\/ircf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/aboutircf.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The IRCF is an organization that pursues the conservation of reptiles, amphibians, the natural habitat and ecosystems that support them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NonProfit: <\/strong><span class=\"colortext\">The IRCF is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization.<\/span> All donations are tax deductible in the USA. Further, the Foundation serves as a conduit and facilitates donations and grants to programs which themselves are unable to offer U.S. tax deductions. IRCF support is applied where it is most effective and operates under a policy of accountability to its donors.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"boldtext\">WHY THE IRCF?<\/h3>\n<p>IRCF helps support conservation, awareness, and educational efforts.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"boldtext\">WHO IS THE IRCF?<\/h3>\n<p>The Directors are responsible for governing and setting policy for IRCF. All IRCF Board members serve five-year terms, without pay.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"boldtext\">Board Members<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>John Binns, CEO, President<\/li>\n<li>Sandra Binns, Vice President<\/li>\n<li>Juliann Sweet, Director, Special Projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"boldtext\">Staff<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Brad Lock, Director, Guatemalan Programs<\/li>\n<li>Chris Pellecchia, Special Projects<\/li>\n<li>Tri Luu, Information Analyst<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"boldtext\">IRCF Journal Editors<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert Powel, Editor in Chief<\/li>\n<li>AJ Gutman, Editor<\/li>\n<li>Michael Ripca, Art Director<\/li>\n<li>Gad Perry, Associate Editor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"boldtext\">Editorial Board<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Allison Alberts, Zoological Society of San Diego<\/li>\n<li>Frederic J. Burton, Blue Iguana Recovery Programme<\/li>\n<li>Arthur C. Echternacht, University of Tennessee<\/li>\n<li>L. Lee Grismer, La Sierra University<\/li>\n<li>Robert W. Henderson, Milwaukee Public Museum<\/li>\n<li>John B. Iverson, Earlham College<\/li>\n<li>Charles R. Knapp, Zoological Society of San Diego<\/li>\n<li>Gunther Kohler, Senckenberg Museum of Natural History<\/li>\n<li>Kenneth L. Krysko, Florida State Museum of Natural History<\/li>\n<li>Jan Ramer, Indianapolis Zoo<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Wiewandt, Wild Horizons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Statement The IRCF is an organization that pursues the conservation of reptiles, amphibians, the natural habitat and ecosystems that support them. NonProfit: The IRCF is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization. All donations are tax deductible in the USA. Further, the Foundation serves as a conduit and facilitates donations and grants to programs which themselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ircf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ircf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ircf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ircf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ircf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ircf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ircf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}