Press Releases

The U.S. Endowment’s Board of Directors met in Greenville, South Carolina, November 5-6, 2007. Among major actions taken, the Board completed a year-long strategic review leading to the adoption of a programmatic focus for its work. Work will concentrate in three inter-related initiatives: 1) retaining and restoring working forests; 2) promoting and capturing multiple value […]

More than two-dozen rural community practitioners, academics, natural resources professionals and others accepted the U.S. Endowment’s invitation to convene for a two-day workshop to offer guidance as part of the Endowment’s focal initiatives review. The Greenville-based event was facilitated by Barbara Wyckoff and attended by all Endowment staff as well as four members of the […]

Chuck Leavell, the legendary keyboarder for The Rolling Stones and a member of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities board, rocked Greenville’s Centre Stage Theater to benefit land trusts in the Upstate Counties of South Carolina. More than 250 people enjoyed an intimate evening with selections from Chuck’s career that spans work with the […]

More than 250 people have responded to the Endowment’s call to share their views on issues, priorities and potential focal initiatives as part of an on-going due diligence process and in a desire to engage the broader community. The online survey will remain active until the Endowment’s special “Focal Initiatives Workshop” to be held in […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities in honor of its hometown, Greenville, SC, announced a special benefit concert featuring legendary rocker Chuck Leavell fresh off the highly successful Rolling Stones “A Bigger Bang Tour” of Europe. All monies raised will go to benefit Upstate Forever, Spartanburg Area Conservancy, The Conestee Foundation, Friends of the […]

“If there is one thing the Endowment’s Board of Directors has been clear about it is the importance of focusing our work on a few truly important areas where, over the long-haul, we can make a difference in sustainable forestry and forest-reliant communities,” says Carlton Owen, President & CEO of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry […]

Matthew Rutledge, a 2006 graduate of The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia joins the U.S. Endowment staff on August 27th for our fall 2007 Internship. Matt graduated with a B.A. in History receiving a 3.26 GPA. Returning to his hometown of Greenville, he is now working to complete his second major in […]

The U.S. Endowment today announced procedures that formalize a college internship program that began as a trial in the spring of 2007. “We have just identified our fourth intern who will be joining us for the fall 2007 semester,” said Carlton Owen. “The program has been so successful for us and our university interns that […]

The due diligence process is on-going as the Endowment seeks to review potential strategic focal initiatives. As part of this continuing process, the Endowment will convene a diverse group of sustainable forestry and rural community “thinkers and practitioners” in Greenville, South Carolina in early November. “Our biggest challenge has been to maintain an intimate group […]

We are delighted to have two talented interns joining the U.S. Endowment in recent weeks. Sally Stephenson joined our Greenville staff on July 2. Her two-month assignment will be spent focusing on sustainable forestry aspects of our potential focal initiative work. Sally, a Greenville native, is a Spanish major at Davidson College, NC carrying a […]