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Staking the State of Nature, With Data and Urgency

Dimitria Spathakis
March 21, 2023
  • Topics:
  • Climate
  • Environmental Justice
  • Forest
  • Fresh Water
  • Habitat
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
  • Oceans
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Funding
  • Public Policy
In December 2022 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) advocated urgency for an expedited 2025 timeline to more than double finance flows in nature-based solutions (NbS) to limit climate change to below 1.5°C, halt biodiversity loss, and achieve land degradation neutrality. UNEP published the second edition of its “State of...
Elizabeth Schuster, Environmental Economist, Sustainable Economies Consulting

Elizabeth Schuster, Environmental Economist, Sustainable Economies Consulting

Partners Unite to Share Lessons Around Regenerative Agriculture, Forestry, and Conservation

Leigh Whelpton
February 09, 2023
  • Topics:
  • Agriculture
  • Climate
  • Environmental Justice
  • Forest
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Policy
The Network (CFN) convened partners for their 10th CFN Roundtable, hosted in Durham, NC on November 2-3, 2022. The roundtable brought together nearly 70 practitioners representing nonprofit organizations, foundations, private sector firms, governmental agencies, and universities. The event was organized around nine different panels on a variety of...
CFN Boot Camp

Apply for CFN's 2023 Boot Camp, In Person at Yale University

January 20, 2023
  • Topics:
  • Climate
  • Environmental Justice
  • Impact Investing
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Funding
CFN is pleased to announce our 17th annual Boot Camp will be held June 5-9, 2023, at the Yale School of the Environment in New Haven, CT, in partnership with the Yale Center for Business and the Environment. The Boot Camp is a week-long intensive workshop that helps mid-career professionals...
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.
Philadelphia

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.
Colorado river

Blueprints for Conservation Investment Can Expand the Market

Jeffrey Conti
January 25, 2018
  • Topics:
  • 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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