Build Vibrant Communities
The Fund builds vibrant communities and supports community prosperity through:
- Inspiring resilient and equitable development in urban communities
- Supporting rural investment and natural resource-based economies
- Promoting healthy and sustainable, local food and farming
RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Kendall Forest: Supporting Rural Economies and Traditions in New York’s Tug Hill Region
Protecting the abundant and often remote forests and waters of Central New York’s Tug Hill region is...
Faith and Food
Resourceful Communities provides rural churches with training to strengthen skills, small grants to ...
Zion Regional Recreation Management Plan
The Plan will foster coordination and collaboration for recreation-related projects and initiatives ...
UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES
Food and Farm Initiative
North Carolina’s Coastal Plains and Sandhills regions are home to half of the state’s “food deserts,...
Urban Food Forest at Browns Mill
Atlanta’s Food Forest is the first of its kind, providing fresh produce in a community that has limi...
Expanding Green Space and Improving Social Resilience in South Cook County, IL.
The goal of the Strategic Land Acquisition Plan for Southeast Cook County was to develop a model tha...
BALANCING NATURE & COMMERCE
Appalachian Gateway Communities Initiative
Our regional workshops provide the skills to achieve sustainable economic development, cultural heri...
Balancing Nature and Commerce in the Pennsylvania Wilds
The PA Wilds has grown to be one of the largest and most successful rural regional branding efforts ...
Madison/Boone Resource & Recreation Action Plan
Advancing placemaking to enhance natural and cultural assets, recreation options, community health, ...
CLIMATE RESILIENCY & WATER MANAGEMENT
Saginaw Bay Watershed Initiative Network
The largest watershed in Michigan, Saginaw Bay includes more than 7,000 miles of rivers and streams,...
Sustaining Urban Waters in the Southeast
Thanks to the generous support of the Pisces Foundation, we are pioneering a new approach to how two...
Adapting to Climate Change at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
If no action is taken, virtually all of today’s tidal wetlands in the Chesapeake Bay will erode to o...
AQUACULTURE
Get to Know the Freshwater Institute’s West Virginia-Raised Salmon
Our Atlantic salmon is raised at The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute facility in Shepherdst...
Researching and Restoring West Virginia’s Declining Brook Trout Population
A collaboration between the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources and The Conservation Fund’s ...
Supporting the Viability and Expansion of Land-Based Aquaculture
A five-year plan to support the research and sustainable growth of land-based, closed-containment fi...
WORKING FARMS FUND
Love is Love Cooperative Farm
Love is Love Cooperative Farm is a Certified Organic diverse vegetable, fruit, and flower partnershi...
Garlic eScape
On behalf of Garlic eScape, The Conservation Fund is investing in 30 acres of land, including a 1920...
Atlanta Harvest
By acquiring the 90-acre cattle farm in Milner, Georgia, The Conservation Fund more than tripled Atl...