Press Releases

November 17, 2008: Greenville, SC – for immediate release The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today announced the selection of three areas as “Forest Investment Zones” [...]

Jim Hoolihan, President of the Minnesota-based Blandin Foundation and Bernadine Joselyn, Blandin’s Director, Public Policy & Engagement, met with the Endowment’s Board of Directors at its [...]

At its Board of Directors meeting in Minneapolis, MN, November 3-4, 2008, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) re-elected four members to new three-year terms.  Those [...]

Dovetail Partners, a collaborator with the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, this week issued a call for assistance in identifying information from across the nation regarding business [...]

The U.S. Endowment hosted a meeting in Seattle on September 21st where a broad cross section of forest industry leaders from Canada and the U.S. gathered to drill down on learnings from the [...]

The University of Tennessee (UT) has been selected to take the lead on RFP 2008-005 “The State of Wood-based Bio-Energy/Technologies and Industries in North America.”   “We are especially pleased [...]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities and the National Alliance of Forest Owners today released a survey to solicit input on barriers as well as possible incentives to “keeping large [...]

The Endowment today released the results of a study — Commodity “Check-offs” The Potential for North American Softwood Lumber:  Overview — reviewing the potential to use [...]

Art Williams joined the Endowment team as the Fall 2008/Spring 2009 Intern.  Williams is a May 2008 graduate of Furman University with a degree in History and Concentration Study in Earth and [...]

The Endowment is pursuing work on woody biomass and potential biofuels along two tracks.  To learn more about the thinking behind these efforts, read the latest Blog — “Wood, Trees [...]