The Alex C. Walker Educational and Charitable Foundation, founded in Pittsburgh in 1968, is a charitable trust that addresses issues related to market imbalances, explores market-based solutions, protects the free enterprise system, and disseminates relevant information. Operating as a family foundation with family trustees and a corporate trustee, the foundation focuses on grant-giving to support projects that promote economic balance and environmental protection.
The foundation's grants have supported various initiatives, including addressing energy demands for mining projects, mitigating the social cost of carbon, maximizing ecosystem services and biodiversity protection, building support for carbon pricing, phasing out greenhouse gas pollution, resolving wildlife conflicts, and promoting market-driven solutions to climate change through the State Climate Policy Network and Dashboard.
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