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Facilitating Solutions For Forests And Communities

Photo by Tiffany Folkes
Forest Service staff and partners gather at a project site near Gold Creek for a collaborative planning session, reviewing maps and discussing restoration priorities surrounded by treated timber. Forest Service staff and partners gather at a project site near Gold Creek for a collaborative planning session, reviewing maps and discussing restoration priorities surrounded by treated timber.

Community Convening Program

The National Forest Foundation’s Community Convening Program creates spaces where people can solve problems together. We connect stakeholders, facilitate conversations, and guide partnerships that lead to lasting results for forests, public lands, and the communities that depend on them.

Why Facilitation Matters

Healthy forests provide clean water, recreation opportunities, wildlife habitat, and timber and forest products. Healthy forests also protect adjacent communities from severe wildfire. Balancing these different uses is complex. That’s why collaboration and partnerships are essential.

Our team brings people together to understand each other’s needs, build trust, and create solutions for broad support and adoption. With skilled facilitation and strategic process design, we help partners pool their resources and expertise to achieve more together.

Our Services Include:

  • Convening & Facilitation: Designing and leading meetings, workshops, and long-term collaborative processes.
  • Partnership Building: Connecting partners to find common ground.
  • Strategic Planning: Helping groups set priorities and create clear roadmaps.
  • Capacity Building: Strengthening collaborative efforts with training, grants, peer learning, and assessments.

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    Proven Experience
    Wildfire burning the Los Padres National Forest. Wildfire We’ve led national and regional dialogues to address the ever-growing wildfire crisis. This work has identified treatment priorities in at-risk landscapes and shifted policy and strategy to support this work nationally.
    River surrounded by wildflowers and mountains. Landscape Partnerships We manage the Southwest Idaho All-Lands Partnership, a coalition of land managers, businesses, nonprofits, and community members working to restore forests and reduce wildfire risk across 2 million acres of private and public lands.
    Seedling. Forest Restoration In Colorado’s southern Front Range, we convened partners and the Forest Service to develop a shared roadmap for forest thinning projects to reduce wildfire risk across 2 million acres of public and private lands.
    Snowboarding down the mountain. Winter Recreation We brought together motorized and non-motorized recreation users to create a community-supported plan for winter management of the Idaho Panhandle National Forest. This work overcame deep divides to provide balance between recreation and wildlife protection.
    Stakeholder Collaboration We facilitate the ongoing Panhandle Forest Collaborative and Shoshone Benewah Forest Collaborative, bringing diverse voices together to shape the future of the Idaho Panhandle National Forest.
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