Endowment Board Sets Financial Targets
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 […]
Keeping Working Forests in Forests: Common Ground
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 […]
Endowment Releases Second Report on Conservation Easements
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 […]
Survey Responses Stimulate Changes
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 […]
Endowment and Ford Support Community Forestry Trust
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 […]
BERC Selected for Second Aspect of Bioenergy Work
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 […]
Endowment Announces Selection of Forest Investment Zones
November 17, 2008: Greenville, SC – for immediate release The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today announced the selection of three areas as “Forest Investment Zones” under a multi-million dollar initiative designed to advance healthy working forests and vibrant forest-reliant communities across America. The organizations and areas identified as Forest Investment Zones […]
Blandin Foundation Leaders Share Experiences
Jim Hoolihan, President of the Minnesota-based Blandin Foundation and Bernadine Joselyn, Blandin’s Director, Public Policy & Engagement, met with the Endowment’s Board of Directors at its recent meeting in Minneapolis. “We took advantage of our Minnesota visit to hear and learn from one of the most successful foundations in America…and we learned a great deal,” […]
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 with terms expiring and who were re-elected were Peggy Clark, Mil Duncan, Bruce Miles and Jim Rinehart. Additionally, two officers — Mil Duncan, Vice Chair and […]
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 clustering within the forest products sector. The intent is to assess the existence of “clusters” that lead to increased value, efficiency or productivity for all participants. For […]