Press Releases

Outcomes from the first Endowment convening designed to assess the state of conservation easement data systems in the U.S.   View PDF

Two RFPs Announced Today, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities released its third Request for Proposals (RFP). This RFP seeks to shed light on the status of business [...]

With perhaps as much as 2.2 million acres of open spaces — farms, forests and rangelands — being converted to developed uses each year, it is critical that conservation interests [...]

The Endowment and the Forest Resources Association are convening a group of the nation’s top logging sector professionals, academicians, equipment manufacturers and others January 30-31, [...]

As part of its continuing commitment to openness and transparency in all of its affairs, the Endowment today posted the third in its series of “stewardship reports.” “We hope [...]

The U.S. Endowment announced its first “request for pre-proposals.” This call seeks to establish “state of the issue” understanding about community-based forestry and [...]

  The U.S. Endowment today released “Mapping a Course of Action: Results of a Survey and Workshop Designed to Assit the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities.” [...]

At its November 5-6, 2007 meeting, the U.S. Endowment Board of Directors agreed to consider how forest certification fit into strategic focal initiatives. By unanimous consent the Board adopted [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]