The Conservation
Finance Network

Toolkits + Other Resources

CFN distills and disseminates information about best practices and promising funding and financing strategies. Our resources include and draw on updates from our network and partner organizations and case studies developed by graduate students at Yale and Duke Universities. These include:

 

Topics tracked by CFN: 

Our content is categorized by four comprehensive categories: Topic, Funding Source, Item Type or Format, and Tools. We recommend using key words to search our content, such as “conservation easements”, “philanthropy”, and “land restoration”. Below is the full list of categories we track to help you in your search of our content. 

 

Topics: 

  • Land conservation 

  • Land restoration 

  • Agriculture 

  • Forestry 

  • Grasslands and prairies 

  • Biodiversity 

  • Water 

  • urban 

Funding Source: 

  • Public funding 

  • Private funding 

  • philanthropy 

Item Type/Format: 

  • Case study 

  • Report 

  • News item 

  • Recordings 

  • Toolkit 

  • CFN events 

Tools: 

  • Blended finance 

  • Impact investing 

  • Tax incentives 

  • Interim finance 

  • Ballot measure 

  • State revolving funds 

  • Pay for success 

  • Carbon offsets 

  • Ecosystem services 

  • Seller financing 

  • Public private partnerships 

  • Mitigation 

  • Conservation easements 

  • Corporate investment 

Resource Type