Endowment Elects Board Members and Officers
At its Board of Directors meeting in Minneapolis, MN, November 3-4, 2008, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) re-elected four members to new three-year terms. Those [...]
Cluster Study Team Seeks Input
Dovetail Partners, a collaborator with the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, this week issued a call for assistance in identifying information from across the nation regarding business [...]
Endowment Rolls-out Check-off Study as Phase Two of Project Concludes
The U.S. Endowment hosted a meeting in Seattle on September 21st where a broad cross section of forest industry leaders from Canada and the U.S. gathered to drill down on learnings from the [...]
University of Tennessee Selected to Lead Energy Work for Industrial Sector
The University of Tennessee (UT) has been selected to take the lead on RFP 2008-005 “The State of Wood-based Bio-Energy/Technologies and Industries in North America.” “We are especially pleased [...]
Quick Turn-Around Sought on Survey — “Keeping Forests in Forests”
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities and the National Alliance of Forest Owners today released a survey to solicit input on barriers as well as possible incentives to “keeping large [...]
Endowment Releases Results of Study on “Check-offs” for Forest Products
The Endowment today released the results of a study — Commodity “Check-offs” The Potential for North American Softwood Lumber: Overview — reviewing the potential to use [...]
Williams Joins Endowment as 2008-2009 Intern
Art Williams joined the Endowment team as the Fall 2008/Spring 2009 Intern. Williams is a May 2008 graduate of Furman University with a degree in History and Concentration Study in Earth and [...]
Work on Woody Biomass and Biofuels Takes Two Tracks
The Endowment is pursuing work on woody biomass and potential biofuels along two tracks. To learn more about the thinking behind these efforts, read the latest Blog — “Wood, Trees [...]
Endowment Launches Phase I of Conservation Easement Project
The Endowment has engaged Danyelle O’Hara, an independent consultant from Norman, OK, to lead Phase I of a project to determine interest in and parameters necessary to develop a single [...]
Forest Investment Zones Concept Moves into Action
The Endowment today announced its latest Request for Proposal (RFP). This solicitation seeks partners to assist with Forest Investment Zones. The RFP seeks partners to implement one of the [...]