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The Defense Department helps this Minnesota wolf defend its turf.

The Defense Department helps this Minnesota wolf defend its turf.  (Photo by Julie DeJong, Minnesota DNR, via the US Army Flickr feed.)

Unlocking Partnership, Opening Paths: Inside the REPI Program

Christina Kohler
May 19, 2022
  • Topics:
  • Blended Finance
  • Land Conservation
  • Public Policy
The United States' military apparatus depends on stable land for security at its sites. A partnership with land trusts and other stewards makes conservation hay from that conviction.
BIg Spring Run development site, with wetlands

(Photo by Sam Feibel/Franklin & Marshall College.) This restored wetland brings life back to a Pennsylvania site that once posed a threat to the Chesapeake Bay. 

Removing Sediment to Restore Wetlands Clears Revenue Paths

Sam Feibel
January 24, 2022
  • Topics:
  • Fresh Water
  • Habitat
  • Land Conservation
  • Public Policy
By removing "legacy sediment" from dam diversions, scientists can expand wetlands and their conservation oomph. In Pennsylvania, a commercial real estate firm learned how this wetland protection can create more developable land - and more profit.
Everyone learns in meetings - but what can we learn about how to run meetings?

With the International Land Conservation Network, CFN offers a handbook for handling gatherings to boost impact. 

How to Bring People Together to Unlock Scaled Conservation Impact

Helen Rogers, Leigh Whelpton
November 23, 2021
  • Topics:
  • Blended Finance
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Policy
Intractable social and environmental problems require collective action. These challenges demand that we step beyond individual mission statements and business models to craft strategies, chart paths forward, and unlock scaled impact—together. A new guide draws on lessons from convenings around the world to make gatherings more enjoyable and effective.
The Land Trust Alliance's 2021 Rally raised defining questions from start to restart.

What makes a land trust earn its trust? 

Digging In: Our Recharge From Rally

Sawyer Cresap, Katie Michels, Jackson Moller, Helen Rogers, Angela Xue
October 21, 2021
  • Topics:
  • Environmental Justice
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
  • Public Policy
Every year, the Land Trust Alliance Rally unites practitioners across the conservation finance firmament. The 2021 rally weighed more in our memories, marking an end to isolation and raising our prospects. Our team members reflect below.
US capitol

A Pioneering Environmental Impact Bond for DC Water (Updated)

Abby Martin, Alec Appelbaum
September 27, 2021
  • Topics:
  • Blended Finance
  • Cities
  • Climate
  • Fresh Water
  • Impact Investing
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District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) created a municipal bond that covers the downside risk of using green infrastructure to control stormwater runoff. By offloading risk to investors, the utility drew new financing -and time to get its practices right. Now other cities are following its lead.
Wetland restoration aerial photo

In the wake of Katrina, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries
and the state of Louisiana teamed up to rebuild
significant portions of a 19-mile expanse of
barrier islands off Barataria Bay. Newly
rebuilt beaches and dunes were erected from
2006-2009, and scientists today continue to
monitor for changes in elevation, vegetation
and species abundance at this site. To learn more
about this project, visit the NOAA website.
(Credit: NOAA)

Louisiana Environmental Impact Bond May Reduce Coastal Land Loss

Kat Friedrich
September 25, 2018
  • Topics:
  • Fresh Water
  • Land Conservation
  • Oceans
  • Public Funding
  • Public Policy
  • Climate
  • Habitat
Bordered by beautiful wetlands along the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana is a hub of transportation and industry. A pilot environmental impact bond could seed a set of wetland-restoration projects for the state. Environmental Defense Fund, Quantified Ventures, and their project partners are proposing to draw on funding from the Deepwater...
Philadelphia

How Green Infrastructure Yields Urban Safety and Health

Kat Friedrich
September 23, 2018
  • Topics:
  • Agriculture
  • Fresh Water
  • Land Conservation
  • Blended Finance
  • Philanthropy
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  • Habitat
Greenprint Partners is field-testing a green infrastructure-financing approach that could help make communities healthier and safer in a small group of Rust Belt cities. In an interview, Nicole Chavas, the company’s CEO and cofounder, and Rose Jordan, its marketing director, said the models have expansion potential. If adopted on a...
Desert Rose

Donor-Advised Funds Are an Untapped Source of Impact Capital

Nathalie Woolworth
August 22, 2018
  • Topics:
  • Forest
  • Agriculture
  • Fresh Water
  • Land Conservation
  • Oceans
  • Cities
  • Impact Investing
  • Philanthropy
The National Philanthropic Trust’s 2017 Donor-Advised Fund Report found that the capital housed in donor-advised funds across the United States exceeded $85 billion in 2016. This represents an almost 10-percent increase since 2015 and a 28-percent increase since 2012.

The Economic Benefits of Mexico’s Community-Forest Management

June 25, 2018
  • Topics:
  • Forest
  • Public Funding
  • Public Policy
  • Habitat
The community of Ixtlán de Juárez in Oaxaca, Mexico is a great example of the multiple economic, ecological and social benefits of a sustainably managed community forest. Forest management and ownership has fostered social and economic prosperity in this community while protecting the unique environmental values of its land. It...
Plover

New Jersey Shields Its Fragile Shoreline Ecosystems

Kat Friedrich
May 21, 2018
  • Topics:
  • Land Conservation
  • Oceans
  • Cities
  • Blended Finance
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Funding
  • Public Policy
  • Climate
  • Habitat
Among the piping plovers and marsh grasses of New Jersey’s scenic coast, environmentalists and communities are busy creating green infrastructure to shield the shorelines from storm damage while supporting local economies. The Coastal Resilience Collaborative, the New Jersey Resilient Coastlines Initiative, and the NJ Climate Adaptation Alliance are bringing financial...

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