Press Releases

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today announced it has garnered external funding to support the third and final phase of work leading to the development of a [...]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities announced that it has partnered with  The Conservation Fund to launch an online marketplace to benefit working forests and rural communities.  The [...]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today announced its latest “Request for Pre-Proposals (RFP).”  “For almost a year we’ve been working with land conservation [...]

On October 21st, 2008, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) hosted a workshop in Seattle, Washington, to formally roll-out its work and recommendations on commodity [...]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities’ Board of Directors completed its review of current and expected economic conditions and budgets for 2009.  At its fall meeting, held November 3-4 [...]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) and the National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO) co-hosted a workshop in Chicago, December 10-11, 2008, “Keeping Working Forests [...]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities today released a report entitled, “Considerations for Creating a National Conservation Easement Database.”  The report is a follow-up to a meeting [...]

The Endowment continues to utilize an electronic grant-making system which is in line with the lean staff model employed. “It is important that our grant-making system is easy to use and, if [...]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities announced that it had joined the Ford Foundation in supporting the creation of a National Community Forestry Trust.  “Our recent study of [...]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities today announced an agreement with the Biomass Energy Resource Center (BERC) of Montpelier, Vermont (www.biomasscenter.org) to conduct work on [...]