US Endowment for Forestry and Communities

It was an exciting and productive May and June for the Endowment and our partners! Learn more about what we've been up to in our latest News Wrap: https://bit.ly/4f4QoP5

U.S. Endowment News Wrap – May & June 2024 Clemson University's Wood Utilization + Design Institute Hosts Workshop Highlighting the Decarbonizing Benefits of Building with Wood Speakers from 22 different colleges and universities came to Clemson, South Carolina to learn about mass timber design and building, as well as strategies for incorpo...

the Endowment supports lumber and paper-based packaging “check-off” programs—also known as U.S. Department of Agriculture Research & Promotion Programs—that improve, maintain, and expand markets for traditional forest products? Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3zvdeiy

Commodity Check-Off Programs - U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities, Inc. Learn about the Commodity Check-off Programs facilitated by the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, designed to enhance market opportunities and drive innovation within the forestry sector. Discover how these programs support sustainable practices and promote industry growth.

Thanks to the recent landmark funding from the U.S. Forest Service, and in collaboration with key partners, including the SFLR: Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Network, Mano Y Ola, LLC, and KHUBA International, the Endowment is supporting our partners as they build capacity and expand their outreach efforts to help underserved landowners. By breaking down barriers to financing, underserved and small-acreage landowners can access the resources needed to equitably participate in emerging markets, build generational wealth, and maintain land ownership for future generations while advancing climate mitigation efforts. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3WEhLZG

Asset Creation - U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities, Inc. Discover the Asset Creation initiatives by the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, focused on fostering economic growth and sustainability in forest-rich communities. Learn about strategies to create and manage assets that contribute to environmental stewardship and community resilience.

🌲RFP Alert!🌲 The Endowment is seeking proposals for one or two minority-led organizations to advise and assist the U.S. Forest Service in elevating the contributions of minority-based, natural resource conservation organizations within its own programs, as well as with outreach, communication, networking, and opportunity-growth associated with the Collaborative Wildfire Risk Reduction Program and implementation of the Wildfire Crisis Strategy. Collaboration between applicants on proposals is welcome. The deadline for submission is Monday, July 15, 2024, at 11:59pm EDT. For more information, please visit the Funding Opportunities page on our website: https://bit.ly/4c8ClWW

Funding Opportunities - U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities, Inc. Explore funding opportunities offered by the U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities. Find details on current grants and initiatives designed to support sustainable forestry, forest health, and community development. Access comprehensive information on eligibility, application processes, deadlines...

The Endowment, in partnership with New Leaf Climate Partners, is excited to release the first module of the 2024 US Land Restoration Demand Assessment prepared with support from The Rockefeller Foundation. This report builds on our 2023 Forest Nursery Landscape Assessment (https://bit.ly/4bCNpv7) to provide crucial data and context on the U.S. reforestation and restoration project landscape. New Leaf’s research aims to turn intent into action for sustainable land use. 🌱 Read more here: [https://bit.ly/3WZEv6v]

Demand Assessment of US Land Restoration and Reforestation Value Chain: Module 1 — New Leaf Climate Partners New Leaf Climate Partners is happy to share our assessment of the US reforestation and restoration project landscape. As an accompaniment to our 2023 Forest Nursery Assessment which analyzed the supply of seedlings, this new research describes the where and why of sustainable land use projects in

The Endowment is seeking proposals from a developer of web based platforms to incorporate multiple user-friendly online tools and provide transparent, credible forest and manufactured forest product carbon data throughout the value chain. The platform will serve as a primary source for comprehensive standardized carbon data across the forest sector, in partnership with the USDA. The deadline for proposals is 5:00 PM EST on Friday, June 21.

Find the link with the full scope of this RFP on the Funding Opportunities page of our website: https://bit.ly/4bKglSe

Funding Opportunities - U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities, Inc. Funding Opportunities Our applicants come to us through Requests for Proposals or an invited process. Sign up to receive email notifications here to ensure you don’t miss out on any funding opportunity announcements. We will also share information via appropriate newsletters and social media. Plea...

Great news! The Endowment recently received two distinct $300K grants from the U.S. Forest Service to help fund two important projects benefitting private forest landowners in rural communities. The Endowment is also excited to match the financial support of each grant dollar-for-dollar to elevate the impact of both projects.

📢🌲Webinar alert!🌲📢 Please join the Endowment and our partner, Quantified Ventures, on Thursday, May 30th at 12:00 p.m. PDT/3:00 p.m. EDT to learn about project financing opportunities available for forestry and wood sector projects through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's $20 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Register NOW for this important informational webinar. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3R0fDrI

Forest and Wood Products GGRF Request for Information (RFI) | Quantified Ventures Learn more about Quantified Ventures national Request for Information (RFI) to build a $1 billion pipeline for environmental infrastructure projects - including forestry and wood products - to receive GGRF investment. Submit your project ideas by May 31, 2024.

The latest issue of the Endowment News Wrap is out! Read about all the exciting happenings from March and April, including our largest grant award ever and a new funding opportunity available: https://bit.ly/44QWSwk

U.S. Endowment News Wrap – May 2024 Endowment's 2023 Annual Report Available The Endowment’s 2023 annual report, “Shaping the Future of Forestry,” highlights a year of partnerships with public and private entities all striving to promote the health and vitality of our nation’s working forests and forest reliant communities. In...

May is National Clean Air Month, a time to celebrate the air-purifying qualities of our nation's managed forests! Endowment partner, National Alliance of Forest Owners, has great information on the clean air benefits (as well as many other benefits) of working forests: https://nafoalliance.org/clean-air/

Clean Air | National Alliance of Forest Owners By providing a continuing cycle of planting, growing and harvesting, active forest management optimizes a forest’s ability to sequester and store carbon and improves resiliency, maintaining the ability to sequester carbon in the future.

The Endowment is excited to welcome Morgan Franklin as program coordinator! A graduate of Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) (master's degree), and University of Tennessee at Martin (bachelor's degree), Morgan brings robust forestry industry experience in both project management and grant administration to her new role, including a prior tenure with ForesTrust council member organization, Thompson Appalachian Hardwoods. Learn more about Morgan: https://bit.ly/4bpNkKY

Forest Economy Initiative Helps Launch New Products, Spurs $14 Million Private Investment in Sector The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment), along with its key partners Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Network (SFLR), Khuba International and mano-Y-ola, LLC, proudly announces the receipt of a $20 million award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USD...

Meet Endowment Vice President for Special Products, Matt Krumenauer! Matt helps lead our bioenergy and carbon & new market development, working from Salem, Oregon to elevate the development of innovative forest products. His years of senior-level experience in forestry, agriculture, finance, policy, and energy, coupled with his two degrees from the University of Wisconsin (MBA/Wisconsin School of Business and BS in Environmental Science and Policy/UW-Green Bay), uniquely equip Matt to inspire and affect change within the forestry industry. Learn more about Matt: https://bit.ly/49xOxzm

Matt Krumenauer - U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities, Inc. Matt Krumenauer Vice President – Special Projects [email protected] Matt Krumenauer of Salem, Oregon, joined the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities in August of 2017. Matt is responsible for leading the Endowment’s Wood-to-Energy Initiative and is working on the ground to accelerate ...

Happy !🌲🌳 Today's a great day to shine a light on Endowment partner, the U.S. Forest Service, and their innovative Forest Stewardship Program! The program fosters collaboration between state forestry agencies, cooperative extensions, and conservation districts to connect private landowners with the information and tools they need to manage their forests and woodlands. Learn more: https://bit.ly/49z0fsC

For the Endowment and our valued partners, every day is . Through innovative programs and projects, we work collaboratively to ensure the health and sustainability of our nation's working forests and forest-rich communities. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3Jh0Wwd

What We Do - U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities, Inc. What We Do 2022 Funding Recipients 2023 Funding Recipients Traditional Markets Future Markets Ecosystem Markets Asset Creation Forest Retention & Health

Through our Restoration Fuels initiative, forest products—like this large mountain of carbon-sequestered, soil-amending biochar Endowment VP of Special Projects, Matt Krumenauer is shown here celebrating—will keep reducing wildfire risks and keep forest-based communities working.

Through our partnership with Dovetail Partners, Inc., the manufacturing of mass timber and its use in the construction of buildings have both increased. The Endowment was an early investor in efforts to expand the use of mass timber, working to advance building codes and demonstrate the safety of these materials so that this innovative forest product can be adopted for widespread use. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3OYpFsc

Dovetail Partners

Please join the Endowment’s U.S. Forest and Wood Products Sector Inclusion Council on Wednesday, March 27 from 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET, for an insightful leadership panel discussion on the role of diversity and inclusion in the U.S. Forestry and Wood Products industry. Joining Endowment SVP, Alicia Cramer, as a speaker for this event will be:

• Terry Baker, CEO, Society of American Foresters
• Al Davis, Director, Texas A&M Forest Service
• Kedren Dillard, Board Member, Dovetail Partners
• Colin Moseley, Chair, Green Diamond Resource Company and Simpson Investment Company
• Bethaney Wilkinson, Executive Director, Sustainable Forestry & African-American Land Retention Network

Register today using this link ➡️ https://bit.ly/43gBG2d

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January and February were full of great projects and wonderful partnerships! Learn what the Endowment was up to as we kicked off the new year in our latest News Wrap: https://bit.ly/3PnL8Ld

U.S. Endowment News Wrap – March 2024 Calling All Voices for the Future of Forestry The Forest and Wood Products Workforce Analysis Survey, commissioned by the Forest and Wood Products Sector Inclusion Council and led by the Endowment, is now open for participation. This comprehensive study delves into the present and future landscape o...

EXCITING NEW FUNDING for underserved landowners across the U.S.! To further amplify the incredible $20MM in funding just issued to the Endowment by the U.S. Forest Service, $7MM will also be added thanks to collaborative efforts of our philanthropic partnerships. This landmark funding will better enable key partners of the Endowment—including SFLR: Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Network, Mano Y Ola, LLC, and KHUBA International—to support underserved landowners in gaining equitable access to emerging forest markets and other generational wealth-building opportunities. Read more about this historic funding event: https://bit.ly/3VlrJhY

that aside from the funding mentioned above, the U.S. Forest Service is also accepting proposals up to $2MM from other applicants before August 21st? Visit the Forest Service website for information on current opportunities. ➡️ https://bit.ly/48R7jRb

U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities Receives $20 Million in Funding to Support Underserved Forest Landowners - U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities, Inc. The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment), along with its key partners Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Network (SFLR), Khuba International and mano-Y-ola, LLC, proudly announces the receipt of a $20 million award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USD...

The Endowment’s U.S. Forest and Wood Products Sector Inclusion Council is conducting a comprehensive research study to better understand opinions around inclusion, recruitment, and retention in the forestry and natural resources sectors. As part of the study, the partnership is seeking input through a Workforce Analysis Survey. Please consider making your voice heard by completing the survey using this link: https://bit.ly/3T7pkoq

Validating and monetizing non-traditional forest products—like water and carbon—can help landowners in rural communities build generational wealth. Learn more about the Endowment’s ecosystem markets: https://bit.ly/3RNnQ1J

Ecosystem Markets - U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities, Inc. Ecosystem Markets Water is the most important of all forest products. Non-traditional forest markets, such as the monetization of ecosystem services such as water, can provide landowners with revenue and incentivize sustainable forest management for generations to come. Carbon IFNF Healthy Watershed...

In a collaborative effort to keep America's forest-rich rural communities healthy and working, the Endowment partnered with the U.S. Economic Development Administration and the Northern Forest Center to help fund 13 projects aimed at growing and supporting the development of markets for wood products within the Northern Forest Region. Learn more about this initiative: https://bit.ly/3Uj9uJz

Advancing Rural Economy - Northern Forest Center Northern Forest Center programs bring innovation to the forest economy, creating jobs and building local wealth through economic opportunities that advance sustainable use of the forest.

The Endowment is excited to share today’s announcement from our friends and partners at the U.S. Forest Service that their collaborative Wildfire Crisis Strategy has received a boost of nearly $500 million from the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America program. Most of this funding will benefit 21 designated priority landscapes; $100 million will expand work outside these landscapes in high-risk wildfire areas where national forests and grasslands meet homes and communities. Learn more about today’s historic announcement: https://bit.ly/3uJrfr1

USDA Announces $500 Million to Confront the Wildfire Crisis as Part of Investing in America Agenda | US Forest Service Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the Biden-Harris Administration is investing nearly $500 million from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to expand work on the USDA Forest Service’s Wildfire Crisis Strategy to reduce risk to communities, critical infra

We join the SFLR: Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Network in welcoming Bethaney Wilkinson as their first Executive Director. Congrats to Bethaney and the Network on this momentous next step!

📢 SFLR and the U.S. Endowment are thrilled to announce the appointment of Bethaney Wilkinson as the first Executive Director of The Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Program! 🎉

Alton Perry, SFLR Program Director, says that the network is energized by Ms. Wilkinson’s appointment. “Bethaney brings experience and enthusiasm to our mission of elevating SFLR to new heights, in creating new partnerships and greater opportunities for African American forest owners.”

Please join us in welcoming Bethaney 👏🏿 and read more about our new Executive Director at our website: https://sflrnetwork.org/2024/02/executive-director/

We’re excited to announce that a grant issued by the Endowment to non-profit consultants, Dovetail Partners, Inc. and Cambium Consulting, has resulted in a newly released concept paper. The paper outlines key questions that will guide the two firms in their exploration of potential effects of an expanding forest carbon market on both forest health and forest-dependent communities. Learn more about this important work: https://bit.ly/3HI8QxF

Concept Paper Examines Forest Carbon Market Impact on Forest-Dependent Communities and Forest Health - U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities, Inc. A U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities’ Grant Funds Research by Dovetail Partners in Collaboration with Cambium Consulting Concept Paper Examines Forest Carbon Market Impact on Forest-Dependent Communities and Forest Health Greenville, S.C. – January 23, 2024 – A newly released concept...

In a landmark conservation effort, 2,808.16 acres of Pierce’s Low Grounds in Greensville County, Virginia, have been permanently protected, securing a vital ecological asset for future generations.

Pierce’s Low Grounds Preserved: 2,808.16 Acres of Ecological Treasure Safeguarded in Greensville County, VA - U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities, Inc. Photo credit: Virginia Outdoors Foundation Pierce’s Low Grounds Preserved: 2,808.16 Acres of Ecological Treasure Safeguarded in Greensville County, VA Greenville, S.C. — February 2, 2024 – In a landmark conservation effort, 2,808.16 acres of Pierce’s Low Grounds in Greensville County, Virgin...