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CHESAPEAKE CURRENCY: A Current Snapshot of Private Investment Flowing Into Watershed Conservation and Restoration

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CFN partnered with the Environmental Policy Innovation Center to provide a rough estimate of the current state of private capital investment in Chesapeake land conservation, restoration, and mitigation through a survey of relevant stakeholders in Chesapeake Bay states.

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Increasing Conservation Finance in the Great Lakes: A Partnership-Driven Playbook

The North Coast can lap up investment

 

A guide from a partnership of CFN and the Great Lakes Impact Investment Platform offers practical steps for drawing more, quicker, and more productive capital to a vital North American ecosystem.

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Connect & Mobilize: A Guide to Conservation Finance Convenings

CONSERVATION FINANCE CONVENING GUIDE

 

This guide aggregates wisdom from network weavers across the globe on how to convene across sectors to increase capital for conservation finance efforts. It emphasizes the importance of convening across sectors—not just conservationists and funders, but a collaborative of practitioners from public agencies, private finance and business, community development nonprofits, academic institutions, and philanthropic entities. 

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Enduring Arches: Building Conservation Finance Projects for Impact

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The Arch Framework Infographic

A recent assessment of the experiences and outcomes of 25 of these projects offers insights and lessons for impact investors, funders, and project proponents. It points towards key considerations when developing innovative conservation finance models, which impact investors and funders should be aware of as they evaluate their investment decisions and work with project proponents to move conservation finance forward. 

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The Conservation Finance Roundtable: Impact Report 2015-2020

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In 2015, CFN received a Conservation Innovation Grant from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service to launch the Conservation Finance Roundtable. This report distills CFN’s experience from convening the Roundtable from 2015-2020, and presents outcomes attributed to practitioner engagement in the Roundtable. From this analysis, CFN presents a set of challenges, lessons learned, and next steps that will guide not only future Roundtables and CFN programs, but also the broader practitioner community working to increase social and environmental outcomes across America’s private working lands.

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Private Capital for Working Lands Conservation

In this report, CFN aims to socialize and expand the body of knowledge on market development by capturing and disseminating findings from our Conservation Finance Roundtable. The resulting market development framework is intended to serve as a road map and decision support tool for conservation investors, public agents, foundation professionals, and environmental practitioners alike. It is designed to help market participants set realistic goals, expectations and timeframes for deliverables and objectives. By distilling the roles and deliverables of market maturation and highlighting how relevant stakeholders may better structure partnerships and efforts, those involved may be able to accelerate the pace and scale at which private capital is leveraged for conservation outcomes on working lands across the Unit­ed States.

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Conservation Finance and the Monongahela National Forest

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The U.S. Forest Service, National Forest Foundation, and the Conservation Finance Network hosted the Monongahela National Forest Conservation Finance Technical Assistance Workshop from July 10-12, 2018, to explore how alternative funding and financing strategies could address forest management goals, challenges, and opportunities. The objectives of this three-day workshop were to bring together USFS staff with external stakeholders and experts to evaluate how various conservation finance strategies could be applied on the National Forest, build a case for strategies that show potential, and brainstorm how these strategies could be implemented. This report provides recommendations on the management strategies discussed at the workshop, and identifies potential resources, partners, case studies, and further context to aid in implementation.

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Expanding Finance Opportunities to Support Private Land Conservation in Australia

Expanding Finance Opportunities to Support Private Land Conservation in Australia

The Australian Land Conservation Alliance, in collaboration with the Australian Government Department of Environment and Energy and CFN, undertook this desktop review of both international and domestic conservation finance approaches which may be developed, deployed and/or expanded to support private land managers in restoring, conserving and managing Australia’s landscapes, waterways and populations of threatened species.

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