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Funding Support
One of the most challenging aspects of conducting restoration work can be acquiring and maintaining adequate funding to support on-the-ground restoration efforts. To that end, we have developed a variety of tools intended to help practitioners secure funding to support this work.
Restoration Funding Tools:
- Creating the Restoration Funding Database, stocked with a host of current and ongoing funding opportunities
- Lead the Restore Our Rivers initiative
- Coordinated and implemented the Funding Webinar Series
- Advocating towards long-term Sustainable Funding solutions
- Connecting people with funding resources online via the Resource Center
- Conducting outreach to funders about the importance of riparian restoration work
How RiversEdge West Can Help:
In addition to these resources, depending on our capacity and resources RiversEdge West staff can provide the following services to partnerships:
- Year-by-year program budget development and cost refinement
- Assessment of current funding program and recommendations for expansion
- Identification of new public and private grant programs specific to the program needs
- Development of a diversified funding plan
- Funding tracking resources and assistance
- Identification and assessment of innovative funding mechanisms and private/corporate donor opportunities
- One-on-one or group training in new funding areas
- In-kind tracking tools
- Assistance developing outreach tools and messages to attract donations
- Capacity assistance and development tools
- Funding subcommittee coordination
- Grant-writing assistance
- Engagement with federal, state and private funding programs
- Access to research about and knowledge of innovative funding tools
- Information about fundraising training courses
- Webinars on restoration funding techniques
Please feel free to contact our Funding Program Coordinator, Kristen Jespersen, kjespersen@riversedgewest.org with questions about our Funding Program and to seek assistance developing a funding portfolio.
RiversEdge West's
mission is to advance the restoration of riparian lands through collaboration, education, and technical assistance.