To contract development of restoration designs and baseline monitoring for two priority riparian restoration sites within the Colorado River Delta in Mexico
Support for Precision Conservation Management (PCM), an innovative program created to empower farmers to address the water quality problems related to commercial row crop in the Mississippi River
Support to lead a team to assess the motivations for and barriers to farmers adopting improved practices, and to recommend ways to overcome the barriers
Support for the University of Minnesota's Green Lands Blue Waters program to improve conservation programs in the Midwest, with a focus on Illinois, Iowa and Indiana
To incentivize the creation of new fisheries improvement projects (FIPs) within Chile, Peru and Mexico and also to support basic capacity building within the local NGO communities related to the design and implementation of FIPs
To support grantee's initiative to develop a strategy to address the cash-flow challenges of the 15-year payout period of the Deepwater Horizon settlement, in order to accelerate implementation of priority projects, especially diversions.
To facilitate learning through two guided field trips, agricultural/conservation webinars/phone meetings, and the development of online tools that can be shared among Environmental Water Transaction (EWT) practitioners in the Colorado River basin over the next nine months
To educate river and water managers on how to support water management practices through guided water markets in the upper Colorado River Basin and through stream management planning in Colorado.
To support grantees project of Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC) which develops and hosts "design sprints" aimed at innovating how Environmental Impact Statements are created for permitting applications in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
To support the position of grantee's National Fisheries Institute’s Crab Council’s (NFI) envoy in implementing the blue swimming crab fishery improvement project (FIP) in Indonesia.
Support for Ocean Unite, in producing the Asamblea del Oceano Pacifico, a convening of high-level North and South American policy makers to galvanize the development of comprehensive domestic ocean policies and foster regional/international Ocean leadership.
To advance a national strategy for shark and ray (elasmobranch species) conservation and management in Indonesia, together with Conservation International (CI) and other partners
To support the Water Funder Initiative (WFI), for grantees project to direct and increase support for projects from a variety of funders and philanthropic organizations, and to improve water management in the Western United States.