Specialty: Municipal Engagement

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.

Maine West is a partnership of local and regional organizations dedicated to addressing systemic rural challenges and enhancing community well-being in western Maine through increased collaboration across the economic, education, health, and conservation sectors.

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.

Downeast Conservation Network works in Maine's Washington and Hancock Counties to promote the mutual well-being of human and natural communities; making connections between conservation, research, education, and individuals. They identify areas of research important to the region’s climate resilience, biodiversity, and economic well-being, and provide research resources to better understand the region

Friends of the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge is a network of more than 70 public and private organizations and individuals whose collective efforts forge mutually beneficial partnerships and strengthen the health of the Connecticut River watershed throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine, and the communities that live in and are served by it.

The Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership is a collaboration of conservation organizations in the coastal region of Maine and New Hampshire that promotes landscape-scale land conservation and stewardship