Environmentalist, abstract artist, teacher, licensed professional counselor, and philanthropist Wayne Hollomon Price loved spending time as a child at the family's legendary Flat Top Ranch, where her grandfather restored grasslands, built ponds and dams, and created natural habitats for bass, quail, white tail deer and other wildlife. Those early experiences produced a deep appreciation of the natural world and its creatures, and a lifetime of support for environmental causes.
In 1999 she established the Wayne Hollomon Price Foundation, gathering her closest friends to serve as board members, wanting them to share in the joy of improving the well-being of this earth and its inhabitants. In its first two decades, the foundation awarded more than $8 million in far-reaching grants---all with personal involvement of its Trustees as was so important to Hollomon-Price. Through an early grant to survey native trees and plants in Manitoba, Hollomon-Price forged a friendship with members of the Poplar Nation. She remained personally engaged with its leaders through regular telephone calls until her death in 2011. They still remember her charming, caring nature and how she valued their reflections and experiences almost as much as she did the environmental work. Closer to home, when she became interested in saving endangered raptors, she invited John Karger from Last Chance Forever to bring some to her house for an up-close and personal visit. The San Antonio River Foundation, which created the extraordinary Confluence Park and Mission Reach Trails, and the beautiful Headwaters Sanctuary of the San Antonio River also have received support.
Her love for the natural world, first instilled in her as a child on her grandfather's ranch, has fueled important preservation and restoration projects all over the world. Her foundation's board members carry forward the personal connection to each project, and a passion for the planet, that were so important to Hollomon-Price. Government Canyon, the San Antonio Botanical Garden, and Bracken Bat Cave, (an iconic wild landscape, a repository of native plants and flowers, and the home of some amazing creatures of the night) are just a few local entities that have benefitted from her foundation's support. That support knows no geographic boundaries. It extends to the Amazon rainforest, the Paris Climate Accord, habitat restoration in Africa, and anywhere else on the planet she loved. All who knew her say she was happiest spending time with friends---especially those who shared her commitment to protecting and preserving the people, plants, animals, and natural systems of this world.
Her favorite quote, by anthropologist Margaret Mead, were the words she lived by:
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."