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
Upstate New York’s Tug Hill region, also known as Tug Hill Plateau, is known for its timber industry, snowfall...
Faith and Food
In partnership with The Duke Endowment, 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 advanced by communities, agencies and organizations.
Underserved Communities
Food and Farm Initiative
Though the region is surrounded by large agricultural lands, half of North Carolina’s “food deserts” are located in the...
Urban Food Forest at Browns Mill
Atlanta’s Food Forest is the first of its kind, providing fresh produce in a community that has limited access...
Expanding Green Space and Improving Social Resilience in South Cook County, IL.
The Southeast Cook County Land Acquisition Plan is a data-driven plan to dramatically expand permanently protected land holdings and...
Balancing Nature & Commerce
Appalachian Gateway Communities Initiative
Since 2007, The Conservation Fund’s Conservation Leadership Network, with generous support from the Appalachian Regional...
Balancing Nature and Commerce in the Pennsylvania Wilds
The Pennsylvania Wilds (PA Wilds) has a lot to offer. With more than two...
Madison/Boone Resource & Recreation Action Plan
Advancing placemaking to enhance natural and cultural assets, recreation options, community health, and lasting...
Climate Resiliency & Water Management
Saginaw Bay Watershed Initiative Network
The largest watershed in Michigan, Saginaw Bay is located between the thumb and forefinger of Michigan’s “mitten” on the...
Sustaining Urban Waters in the Southeast
Thanks to the generous support of the Pisces Foundation, we are pioneering a new approach to how two growing...
Adapting to Climate Change at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
Scientists predict that, if no action is taken, virtually all of today’s tidal wetlands in the Chesapeake Bay will...
Aquaculture
Get to Know the Freshwater Institute’s West Virginia-Raised Salmon
At the Freshwater Institute, we are leaders in the development and design of aquaculture systems that make it possible...
Researching and Restoring West Virginia’s Declining Brook Trout Population
West Virginia’s native brook trout populations are struggling. A collaboration between the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources and...
Supporting the Viability and Expansion of Land-Based Aquaculture
The Freshwater Institute has received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service for a five-year plan...
Working Farms Fund
Love is Love Cooperative Farm
Love is Love Cooperative Farm is a Certified Organic diverse vegetable, fruit, and flower partnership of five talented and...
Garlic eScape
The Garlic eScape LLC is a vertically integrated, woman-owned farm with the mission of growing and crafting healing foods...
Atlanta Harvest
Atlanta Harvest started 11 years ago in Dublin, Georgia with a conscious commitment to develop a food production system...
