Grant Highlights
Informing and promoting climate-wise policies and practices
The organization leverages science and policy to achieve its mission of protecting and restoring America’s rivers for the benefit of people, wildlife and nature. A two-year grant bolsters the nonprofit’s capability to promote sustainable water-resources management programs and proactive climate-change policies at the state and federal level.
To ensure a more sustainable future for the American West, this organization identifies challenging situations, engages concerned stakeholders, and crafts innovative strategies and solutions. This two-year grant renews support for Carpe Diem, an initiative to rethink how water is stored and delivered so that ecosystems are protected, agricultural economies are sustained, and all residents have access to clean water.
With climate change looming, the conservation organization has shifted its focus to the challenges global warming poses to ecosystems and biological diversity. A two-year grant supports work with the U.S. Geological Survey’s new National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, the Obama administration and others to develop and implement a national climate-change adaptation strategy.
The trust works with landowners, forest managers, public agencies and local communities to sustain working forests. The grant supports the organization’s work building coalition support and an economic case for its climate-wise forest policy on the federal, regional and state levels.