Endowment Adopts Strategic Focus

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 streams from working forests; and 3) enhancing community capacity, collaboration and leadership in forest-reliant communities. Identification of initiatives is supported by an adopted “theory of change” developed using internal review by board and staff members along with a broad-reaching external survey and national workshop outcomes. For more details see the Focal Initiatives and Theory of Change.

In other actions the Board elected David Dodson, Karl Stauber and Mack Hogans, originally serving one-year terms, to new three-year terms. Dick Molpus was elected to a two-year term as Chairman while Mil Duncan and Duane McDougall were re-elected as Vice Chair and Treasurer respectively.