Stone with Rainforest Partnership CEO, Niyanta Spelman.
Rainforest Partnership
Each year, millions of trees are removed from our world's rainforests to extract oil and raise cattle. These trees are essential for the air we all breathe. The burning of these trees alone contributes to over 15% of carbon emissions each year. We strive for something better.
The good news is that we can make a difference. We work side-by-side with indigenous communities who have called the rainforest home for millennia. These communities need sustainable micro-economies to withstand powerful outside interests. We’re their partners in this. Together we protect the forest.
THE WELDON PROJECT
Imagine losing everything, your freedom, your family, your future because of a nonviolent cannabis offense. Now imagine watching others build businesses, earn awards, and make millions from the same plant that cost you your life.
That’s the reality for tens of thousands of people still incarcerated for cannabis in the U.S., despite legalization spreading across the country and billions being made in the legal market.
The Weldon Project is dedicated to justice, freedom, and equity for those still paying the price for yesterday’s laws. We won’t stop until every cannabis prisoner is free and no one is left behind.
GIVING PEOPLE A HAND UP!
“What Weldon does, so powerfully, is draw attention to all the things that are broken about this system—so much of it he represents in his one story about how the system has become a perversion of justice.”
Sen. Cory Booker | “UNLIKELY ALLIES”
Movember Prostate Cancer Foundation
The Movember Foundation.
We’re the only charity tackling men’s health on a global scale, year round. We’re addressing some of the biggest health issues faced by men: prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and mental health and suicide prevention.
We know what works for men, and how to find and fund the most innovative research to have both a global and local impact. We're independent of government funding, so we can challenge the status quo and invest quicker in what works. In 13 years we’ve funded more than 1,200 men’s health projects around the world.
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Stone discusses the Movember Foundation with local CBS News.
Stone and Kristin have opened their home to Austin Pets Alive fosters, including one memorable foster fail.
Austin Pets Alive
February 2017 marks six years of Austin’s no kill status. Austin Pets Alive! has played a critical role in achieving this milestone by developing innovative programs that support animals most at risk in a shelter setting, including large dogs needing behavior support, unweaned kittens, puppies with parvovirus, and cats with ringworm.
Austin Pets Alive! has saved more than 40,000 cats and dogs from euthanasia, and those numbers continue to rise.
Stone and his wife Kristin take in and foster dogs and cats from the Austin Pets Alive network. They had an official “foster fail” in 2017 when they took in a momma dog that had just delivered a litter of puppies that same day. All the puppies were adopted, including their new family member, Frank. On a cool side note, the momma dog Rosie was later adopted by fellow APA volunteer Justin Theroux.
“It’s a lot of work but so very rewarding to see these little guys get adopted.” — StoneVisit Austin Pets Alive
Mack, Jack & McConaughey
Mack, Jack & McConaughey (MJ&M) is the annual joint fundraising effort of Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, ACM Award-winning recording artist Jack Ingram, and coaching legend Mack Brown.
The two-day fun-filled event offers music, golf and fashion benefiting select non-profit organizations that each reflect the MJ&M goal to empower kids.
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