Press Releases

U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) Board Member, Bruce Miles, has been inducted into the Texas Forestry Museum’s Hall of Fame 2008.  Mr. Miles holds a Bachelor of [...]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today announced its participation in a bold new initiative, “Advancing Forest Health through Biotechnology.”  Designed to seek new [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]