Conservation Finance
Conservation Lending

Healing Nature in Los Angeles with TreePeople
Although Los Angeles is known for its concrete sprawl, TreePeople is at the forefront of a movement to re-imagine...

Boston Public Market
With 28 outdoor seasonal farmers markets, Boston has a vibrant local food scene. And like the city itself, these...

Atlanta BeltLine
It’s the most comprehensive development effort ever undertaken in the City of Atlanta – transforming 22 miles of an...
Conservation Easements

Helping the YMCA of Duluth Save Camp Miller
For more than a century, the YMCA of Duluth has offered summer resident camps and outdoor, environmental education opportunities...

Supporting the Sage Grouse and Family Ranches in the West
The greater sage grouse requires wide open spaces for its survival. In recent years, the sage grouse’s habitat has...

Preserving Habitat While Maintaining Military Readiness—Camp Williams, Utah
Protecting valuable habitat that surrounds our military installations is vital to both our national security and the species that...
Conservation Grants

Grant Program for Transporting Healthy Food
Final round of grant program provides funding to community organizations working to improve healthy food distribution in underserved communities.This...

Clay County Community Revitalization Association
These days, when we talk about rural America, we hear a lot about the scarcity of opportunities and optimism....

Trees NC
When Trees NC founder Owen George relocated from California back to his hometown of Asheboro, North Carolina, he was troubled by...
Small Business

Earthseed Land Cooperative
The eight co-founders of Earthseed Land Cooperative (ELC) have a vision: to use land to support the collective health,...

Swift Level Farm
Swift Level Farm, a 152-acre historic landmark located in West Virginia’s Greenbrier Valley, has been in Jennifer “Tootie” Jones’...

River's Edge Treehouse Resort
When Laila and Doug Mortimer retired to Robbinsville, North Carolina, they did not expect to be building treehouses.
But the...
Land Trusts

Farm Creek Preserve, Norwalk Land Trust
The mud flats and salt marshes of Long Island Sound’s tidal estuaries are havens for oysters, osprey, herons, egrets...

Big Sur Land Trust
Created in 1978 to protect and nurture the lands of Monterey County, California, the Big Sur Land Trust inspires...

Denny Cove, Tennessee
Located just 30 minutes northwest of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Denny Cove is a recreational landmark that is part of the...
Ecosystem Services

Lake County Green Infrastructure Strategy
About halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee, on the shores of Lake Michigan, lies Lake County. Rich with prairies, wetlands,...

Atlanta Green Space Assessment
In 2005, the City of Atlanta was losing 500 acres of open space each week to development. Historically, the...

Ecosystem Services for Houston-Galveston
Greater Houston is America’s sixth-largest metroplex—and growing. By 2040, the Houston-Galveston area is expected to gain 3.5 million people,...