Appropedia Foundation

Organization data
Type	Nonprofit organization
Active	Yes
Year founded	2006
Founders	Lonny Grafman
Location	California, United States
Website	appropedia.org
Green hosting	Yes
Member of	Open Sustainability Network
Impact	10,970

The Appropedia Foundation is the organization that manages the Appropedia website, provides leadership on the promotion of projects, and actively supports related projects in open knowledge, sustainability, development, and service-learning in related areas.

The Appropedia Foundation is a California non-profit organization and has 501(c)(3) status under United States law. The Foundation's Federal EIN (Tax ID) is 20-8982657.

Board of directors[edit | edit source]

Main page: Appropedia:Board of Directors

Name	Username	Brief bio	Location
Lonny Grafman	User:Lonny	Instructor at Cal Poly Humboldt	Arcata, California
Chris Watkins	User:Chriswaterguy	Water and sanitation engineer; fair trade importer	West Java, Indonesia, and Sydney, Australia
Curt Beckmann	User:Curtbeckmann	Engineering development manager and entrepreneur	Los Gatos, California
Andrew Lamb	User:Andrew.lamb	Internet of Production; Field Ready; former CEO of Engineers Without Borders UK; RedR; UNESCO.	London, UK
Emilio Velis	User:Emilio	Industrial engineer	San Salvador, El Salvador
Former directors
Catherine Laine	User:Claine1	Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group	Boston, Massachusetts
Joel Scott	User:Joel.scott	Attorney	Bay Area, California

See also[edit | edit source]

Appropedia:About

Page data
Keywords	npo
SDG
Authors	Chris Watkins
License	CC-BY-SA-3.0
Language	English (en)
Translations	Serbian, Spanish
Related	2 subpages, 43 pages link here
Redirects	Appropedia:Appropedia Foundation, The Appropedia Foundation, Appropedia.org
Views	1,529 page views (analytics)
Created	May 1, 2007 by Chris Watkins
Last edit	June 12, 2025 by Felipe Schenone
Cite as	Chris Watkins (2007–2025). "Appropedia Foundation". Appropedia. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
API queries	basic, semantic, html, files, more