Press Releases

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today announced it has garnered external funding to support the third and final phase of work leading to the development of a softwood lumber products check-off.   Check-off programs have been used for more than fifty years by U.S. agricultural commodity producers to generate funds to educate […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities announced that it has partnered with  The Conservation Fund to launch an online marketplace to benefit working forests and rural communities.  The marketplace will link individual donors and groups of donors with small-scale entrepreneurs whose enterprises help retain working forests across the country.  The project will launch in […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today announced its latest “Request for Pre-Proposals (RFP).”  “For almost a year we’ve been working with land conservation interests in government and not-for-profit sectors to define the possibilities and potential of a single national database to view lands covered by conservation easements,” said Endowment President Carlton […]

On October 21st, 2008, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) hosted a workshop in Seattle, Washington, to formally roll-out its work and recommendations on commodity check-offs and their potential to benefit forests, forest-reliant communities and the greater forest industry across North America.  The session was attended by more than 30 CEOs and […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities’ Board of Directors completed its review of current and expected economic conditions and budgets for 2009.  At its fall meeting, held November 3-4 in Minneapolis, the Board charted a new course for programmatic funding for the next three years.  “Just as we were implementing our course for programmatic […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) and the National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO) co-hosted a workshop in Chicago, December 10-11, 2008, “Keeping Working Forests in Forests:  Looking for Common Ground to Achieve Common Objectives.”  The primary purpose of the session was to consider needs and means to keep landscape-scale working forests […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities today released a report entitled, “Considerations for Creating a National Conservation Easement Database.”  The report is a follow-up to a meeting the Endowment hosted in early 2008 (see related story dated January 8, 2008) and a report, “Forest Conservation Easements:  Who’s Keeping Track?” that served to scope interest and […]

The Endowment continues to utilize an electronic grant-making system which is in line with the lean staff model employed. “It is important that our grant-making system is easy to use and, if problems arise, that our staff is available to help,” said Endowment Vice President Diane Snyder. Survey responses were solicited from organizations that responded to the […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities announced that it had joined the Ford Foundation in supporting the creation of a National Community Forestry Trust.  “Our recent study of community-based forestry across America pointed to a need to assist communities in acquiring and managing certain vitally important forested lands in and around them,” said Endowment […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities today announced an agreement with the Biomass Energy Resource Center (BERC) of Montpelier, Vermont (www.biomasscenter.org) to conduct work on community-scale uses of woody biomass for energy.  “The results of this work will serve as a companion to that already underway at the University of Tennessee (UT)” (see related […]