Andrew Clark joins the Foundation for America’s Public Lands as Grants Administrator. Andrew comes to the Foundation from the Bureau of Land Management Office of Financial Assistance Policy where he served most recently as the Financial Assistance Policy Manager and before that as a Policy Analyst in the same office. Prior to his time at BLM Andrew worked in the Office of Gulf Coast Restoration at the U.S. Treasury. Andrew’s experience includes 18+ years managing federal grants and cooperative agreements in areas of agricultural research, museum collections conservation, workforce development, tourism promotion, public infrastructure, wildfire mitigation, and environmental restoration. Andrew believes that relationship building, consistency, and transparency are the cornerstones of successful projects and grants management, and Andrew has spent his career working on tools and strategies to achieve those goals. A botanist by training, outside of work Andrew is in his garden with his wife, two kids and a flock of chickens and ducks in Southern Maryland.
