Deadline: 1-Mar-21
The Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation is seeking applications for its Sustainable Forests and Communities Initiative to promote the creation of environmentally and economically sustainable forest communities in the regions of the United States where the Weyerhaeuser Family’s business interests originated.
The Initiative supported projects within specific communities that promoted, in an integrated fashion, forest ecology, the creation of jobs or businesses based on sustainable forestry, and public consensus-building on how best to go forward in these areas.
Program Priorities
The Foundation gives priority to projects that promote vibrant forest-based communities that address one or more of the following outcome areas:
- Environment: Employ sustainable forest management, conservation, and ecological restoration.
- Economy: Develop and encourage enterprise-based sustainable economic activities.
- Community: Use innovative social and locally-based business processes to meet agreed upon environmental and economic sustainability goals.
- Forest Ecosystem Services: Use innovative business or policy models to better establish prices and markets for ecosystem services. (Forest ecosystem services can include, but are not restricted to, carbon sequestration, forests’ role in the carbon, nutrient, and water cycles, providing habitat to support biodiversity, and providing aesthetic, educational, and other cultural services.)
Funding Information
- The average grant size for the Sustainable Forests and Communities Initiative is $25,000 or less
Eligibility Criteria
- Organization Eligibility:
- Organizations must be classified by the Internal Revenue Service as 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations.
- Applications from an organization acting as a fiscal sponsor will be considered when a Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement has been signed by both parties and submitted with the application. Fiscal Sponsor’s must be able to demonstrate substantial and direct fiscal and program oversight. The foundation does not accept application from fiscal agents.
- Geographic Focus:
- The Foundation focuses on supporting activities in the regions in which the family’s business interests originated: Idaho, Oregon, Washington, northern California, western Montana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
- Organizations operating within these geographic areas are eligible to apply. Priority may be given to regional or national organizations that partner with local organizations; The Foundation may consider funding exceptional projects outside of these geographic regions.
Restrictions
The Foundation will not consider proposals in the following areas:
- Relief and rescue programs.
- Ongoing projects or general operating support for an organization.
- Programs whose purpose is to create specific media, film, photography, or books.
- Capital projects, including land acquisition or the construction of buildings.
- Grants or scholarships to individuals.
- Programs that attempt to change behavior by education of the general public.
- Camps or cultural exchange programs.
- Lobbying prohibited by the Internal Revenue Code.
- Conferences.
- Endowments.
- Start-up costs for new organizations.
- Research projects.
For more information, visit https://wfamilyfoundation.org/what-we-fund/sustainable-forests-and-communities-initiative/