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 10,980

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

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

  • Appropedia:About
Page data
Authors Chris Waterguy
License CC-BY-SA-3.0
Cite as Chris Waterguy (2007–2025). "Appropedia Foundation". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025.