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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.
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How Green Infrastructure Yields Urban Safety and Health

Kat Friedrich
September 23, 2018
  • Topics:
  • Agriculture
  • Fresh Water
  • Land Conservation
  • Blended Finance
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Funding
  • Public Policy
  • Climate
  • 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.
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...

A Collaborative Safety Net for Wildfire Reduction

Kat Friedrich
February 27, 2018
  • Topics:
  • Forest
  • Impact Investing
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Funding
  • Public Policy
  • Climate
  • Habitat
What does it take to pull together a coalition of diverse stakeholders to prevent wildfires from growing explosively in the western United States? Blue Forest Conservation is listening to a broad range of views as it seeks to build traction for the Forest Resilience Bond on the local, state and...

How Houston Could Reduce Storm Flooding

Kat Friedrich
February 21, 2018
  • Topics:
  • Fresh Water
  • Land Conservation
  • Cities
  • Blended Finance
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Funding
  • Public Policy
  • Climate
National news coverage of Hurricane Harvey in 2017 painted a bleak picture of Houston’s ability to face severe storms. Some articles portrayed urban sprawl as having wiped out the city’s ability to cope with natural disasters, saying Texas policies were to blame.
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Blueprints for Conservation Investment Can Expand the Market

Jeffrey Conti
January 25, 2018
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  • Forest
  • Agriculture
  • Fresh Water
  • Land Conservation
  • Oceans
  • Cities
  • Blended Finance
  • Impact Investing
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Funding
  • Climate
  • Habitat
Forward-thinking nonprofits and environmentally driven investors are increasingly using blueprint reports to help develop conservation finance markets. Blueprints are in-depth proposals designed to provide investors and stakeholders with creative ways to source cash flows and investment opportunities within key conservation areas.
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Land Trusts Talk Carbon at Rally Conference

Eve Boyce
December 20, 2017
  • Topics:
  • Forest
  • Land Conservation
  • Philanthropy
  • Climate
  • Habitat
It’s no secret that land trusts nationwide are facing dwindling grant-funding sources for their land-acquisition work. They are being pushed to test new forms of financing. At Rally 2017: National Land Conservation Conference, which ran from Oct. 25-28 in Denver, three land trusts shared their experiences with one of these...

Investors Can Calm Western Wildfires

Kat Friedrich
October 23, 2017
  • Topics:
  • Forest
  • Impact Investing
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Funding
  • Public Policy
  • Climate
  • Habitat
As severe wildfires leave their charred mark on the western United States this season, Network interviewed Blue Forest Conservation staff about the Forest Resilience Bond project. This massive collaboration is bringing private finance to bear on ecological restoration to reduce the risk of these catastrophes.
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Cultivating Market Maturity Will Unlock Billions for Conservation

Leigh Whelpton
September 07, 2017
  • Topics:
  • Forest
  • Agriculture
  • Land Conservation
  • Blended Finance
  • Impact Investing
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Funding
  • Public Policy
  • Habitat
What if the development of these approaches could be responsibly accelerated? What if we could shorten the time it takes for environmental markets and investment vehicles to be defined, piloted, scaled, and matured—without cutting corners? The Network’s recent report, “Private Capital and Working Lands Conservation: A Market Development...

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