Specialty: Fundraising and Conservation Finance

The Quabbin to Cardigan Initiative (Q2C) is a collaborative, landscape-scale effort to conserve the Monadnock Highlands of north-central Massachusetts and western New Hampshire. The Q2C partners share a vision of consolidating the permanent protection of the region’s most ecologically significant forest blocks, and key connections between them for wildlife passage and human recreation.

The Quiet Corner Initiative (QCI) is the outreach and engagement arm of the Yale Forests and was created to improve the capacity for sustainable land management and stewardship in northeastern Connecticut. QCI’s programming focuses on three main topic areas: the promotion of sound forestland management, the development of renewable energy, and the expansion of small-scale agriculture

The Resilient Taunton Watershed Network (RTWN) overarching goal is to promote the resiliency of the Taunton Watershed of Massachusetts in the face of climate change and development, considering ecological outcomes as well as economic, social, and environmental justice issues.

The 12 Rivers Conservation Initiative accelerates conservation of the forested landscape from the Kennebec River to the Georges River in Maine with the goal of doubling the amount of protected lands and ensuring multiple human benefits for generations to come.

The Belknap Range Conservation Coalition promotes the conservation of open space, responsible stewardship, and low-impact public enjoyment of the scenic, natural, recreational, and historical resources of the Belknap Mountain Range, a small range in the lakes region of New Hampshire.

The Berkshire Wildlife Linkage Partnership works to protect and conserve the forested habitat corridor of the Berkshire and Taconic Highlands of Western Massachusetts, which links the Green Mountains in Vermont to the Hudson Highlands in New York and beyond.

The Berkshire-Taconic Regional Conservation Partnership envisions a region in which the fabric of the natural and scenic landscape, including the region’s forests, farms, rivers, and wetlands, remains intact and functional, supporting and interdependent with local and regional economies and high quality of life. The organization spans the Taconic Mountain region through Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and Vermont.

The mission of the Chittenden County Uplands Conservation Project is to conserve the ecological integrity and rural character and working landscape of the eastern uplands of Chittenden County, Vermont, an intact landscape of alpine, montane foothill, and valley habitats within a rich assemblage of landforms