The financial picture of Oregon's forest collaboratives
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Date
2019
Authors
Davis, Emily Jane
Santo, Anna
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Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon
Abstract
Over the past two decades, there has been
a rise in organized “forest collaborative”
groups of multiple stakeholders meeting
regularly for dialogue about forest management
priorities on a given area of national forest land.
The Forest Service, state agencies, communities,
and others have placed significant expectations
on collaboratives such as increased social agreement
about forest management, and concomitant
ecological and economic outcomes. As expectations
of forest collaboratives have grown, two primary
grant programs have emerged to support them:
Collaborative Capacity grants from Oregon’s Federal
Forest Restoration Program (FFRP) and Forest
Service Region 6 Community Capacity and Land
Stewardship (CCLS) program grants administered
by the National Forest Foundation. These funders
and others who work with forest collaboratives increasingly
require updated information about how
groups use funds and their future needs. In addition,
there are limited formal opportunities for collaboratives
to develop knowledge about and benefit
from the financial picture of their peers. At the request
of the Oregon Department of Forestry, which
administers the FFRP, we undertook this study to
address questions of sources of collaborative funding,
diversity of sources, match leveraged, and collaborative
preferences for future grant offerings.
We gathered information about 23 collaboratives in
Oregon that have received FFRP or CCLS funding
between 2013–2018 using grant documentation and
information requests to collaborative coordinators.
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28 pages