National Community Forestry Service Center Strategic Partners

Cascade Land Conservancy: provides national policy support that would allow nonprofit organizations to use tax-exempt municipal bonds to purchase tracts of forestland, and pay off the bonds by cutting trees.

The Center for Heirs Property Preservation: provides support on the issue of community ownership of forests as a tool for addressing heirs’ property in dispute.

The Center for Social Inclusion: provides support on the issue of community ownership of forests as a means to stem the loss of Black-owned lands.

Coastal Enterprises: provides support on the issue of financing community forests through New Market Tax Credits.

The Communities Committee: pioneering organization that provides community forestry research and policy.

The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation: provides support on facilitating four SC counties to work collaboratively on economic and environmental development through a united strategic plan.

The Kellogg Foundation: provides support on financing the initial acquisition costs for the Lac Vieux Desert Band community forest and financing capacity-building work.

The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation: provides support on facilitating SC community economic development groups and SC conservation groups.

Northern Initiatives: provides support on the issue of financing community forests.