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 grantee's initiative to write and produce a public strategy document for the Seafood Markets strategy based on the templates completed for Indonesia and Chile.
To build U.S. leadership in addressing Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing by making the connection between the social and environmental impacts of IUU fishing to issues of national security
To maintain staff capacity dedicated to improving bottomland hardwood reforestation policy and administration in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV) states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas
Platinum-level sponsorship of grantee's annual Capital Conservation Awards Dinner April 26, 2017 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.
