Conservation Finance Network

While launching our website, we’ve created a video library of playlists you can explore. Visit the videos below - and our new YouTube channel - to learn the nuts and bolts of conservation finance techniques and see how they are applied in the field.

“We don’t have a water crisis, we have a water-management crisis,” said Joe Whitworth, president of The Freshwater Trust, a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Ore., when he spoke at the Social Capital Markets Conference (SOCAP15) in San Francisco on Oct. 8.

Pay for Performance (PFP) Bonds, also known as Pay for Success Bonds or Social Benefit Bonds, have been gaining significant traction during the past several years as a way to entice private capital to help address challenging social problems. Now, a group called Blue Forest Conservation is exploring the nation’s...