Press Releases

At its most recent Board of Directors meeting in Denver, the U.S. Endowment adopted an update to its programmatic spending policy. “This refinement to our policy allows programmatic [...]

In keeping with its commitments to openness and transparency in all its affairs, the U.S. Endowment’s Board of Directors has adopted a policy to formalize an approach to addressing any [...]

The U.S. Endowment’s Audit Committee Chair Peggy Clark provided the Endowment Board of Directors a detailed review of the organization’s first external audit. The work done by Dixon [...]

The U.S. Endowment’s Board of Directors convened in Denver for its first in-person meeting of 2008. Among key agenda items were updates from principals leading work on two [...]

The U.S. Endowment today released its fourth Request for Pre-proposal (RFP). “This particular project is an exciting first-step to scope the potential to pull disparate sources of land [...]

The Board of Directors of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities has voted unanimously to endorse the “Rural Compact” — a set of principles for building stronger rural [...]

The U.S. Endowment today released a report entitled, Forest Conservation Easements: Who’s Keeping Track. The document not only summarizes findings from a convening of conservation interests [...]

At the request of the Blandin Foundation and its “Vital Forests/Vital Communities” initiative, U.S. Endowment President Carlton Owen today conducted an hour-long “webinar.” The webinar was [...]

“One of our core values is openness and transparency in all that we do,” says Endowment President Carlton Owen. “That’s why we work hard to update our website, share our thinking and progress and [...]

The Consortium for Community Forestry is researching community-based forestry (CBF) in the U.S. as part of a project for the Endowment. This research aims to identify and understand the rich [...]