Endowment 5th Annual Report Highlights Early Successess
One cent. That’s all it may take to start a revolution, at least for financing to protect the forested watersheds that clean our drinking water. The healthier the forests in a community’s watershed, the lower the storage and water treatment costs are likely to be. So, investing a small amount now in watershed conservation could […]
Endowment Opens Field for New Year-long Intern
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) formally announced today an opening for the year-long internship position in the Greenville, South Carolina office. Having just marked its fifth anniversary, this will continue a tradition of successful and engaged interns, offering recent graduates “in the weeds” experience with a nationally-recognized non-profit. Previous interns have […]
Endowment Assists Defense Department with Forest Conservation
At military bases across the country, encroachment by non-compatible development (housing, for instance) threatens the military mission as it limits full use and capability of core lands for training purposes. The Department of Defense (DoD) today announced the availability of a special $5 million fund for land conservation to benefit select military bases in Georgia […]
Conservation Fund Benefits Low-Wealth Communities
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) and our partners such as The Conservation Fund believe that forestland conservation can have positive economic impact for low-wealth rural people. Indeed, there is already exciting impact in our programs to use forests for the economic and cultural benefit of low-wealth and minority communities. For example, […]
Endowment Video Spotlights Healthy Watersheds Work
Water. It’s everywhere, or almost so. Yet, in a nation with more than 308 million inhabitants, water — especially safe drinking water — could well become the defining natural resource issue of the 21st Century. Strengthening the link between clean water and healthy forests is vital to ensure that future generations will have the water they need. […]
ShadeFund Introduces “Crowd-Funding” to Jump-Start Green Entrepreneurs.
It has been used to send disaster aid across the globe with a simple text. It has been used to help farmers in Latin America expand their crop production. Artists around the world have used it to craft innovative projects in music, writing, and filmmaking. Now, donors can use it to help green entrepreneurs grow […]
Endowment Plans Georgia Wood-to-Energy Project to Test Model for Asset Creation
As vitally important as family-supporting jobs are — especially in this economy — can a private business be “designed” to do more than provide jobs and generate profits for its owners? That’s the question that the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) hopes to answer with its investment in a wood-to-energy facility slated for […]
Endowment Releases External Review of Biomass Investments
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today released the results of an external review commissioned to provide an assessment of its programmatic investments in the rapidly-changing woody biomass/wood-to-energy sector. ” Among the greatest challenges facing healthy working forests is the lack of markets for small-diameter, dead, or dying wood,” says Endowment President […]
Canada Names Farrell to Liaison Role
The Honorable Ed Fast, Minster of International Trade for the Government of Canada, has named James Farrell as “Canadian liaison” to the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment). Farrell, most recently served as Assistant Deputy Minister of the Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, a position he held from 2006 to December 2010. “We’re […]
“Connections” Made Easier with Catalogue of Forestry and Related Organizations
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) has a dual mission often simply stated as “advancing healthy working forests and family-supporting jobs in rural forest-reliant communities.” “We know that each community has many needs and challenges that are well beyond our expertise and limited resources,” says Endowment President Carlton Owen. “So to improve […]