The National Forest Foundation Conservation Finance Program develops new ways to fund restoration projects on National Forests. National Forest provides valuable goods and services, like clean water, carbon sequestration, and recreation-based economies.
Our Conservation Finance Program explores opportunities to quantify and value these goods and services to spur investment from individuals, businesses, or local governments that want to maintain or improve the delivery of specific services. Conservation Finance both increases the amount of funding available for projects, and uses finance mechanisms to change the timing of funding to accelerate restoration.
The program currently focuses on three primary areas of work: environmental markets, Innovative Finance for National Forests, and fund aggregation.