Core Principles:

• Relevance: We continually seek information regarding significant opportunities in our region and in our focus areas to ensure that we are responding to current needs and opportunities.
• Community Engagement: We seek to foster community engagement in protecting wildlife and habitat and in engaging youth skills to build directly on community needs and strengths.
• Focus on Place: Grounded in the Northwest, we fund in urban, rural and tribal communities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington where people work to improve the places that they live.
• Expand Opportunity: We give special consideration in our grantmaking to benefit and expand opportunities for underserved populations in our region.

Promoting Biodiversity in a Changing Climate:

• Conservation efforts that consider the impacts of climate change when selecting areas for protection.
• Engaging a community of citizens, scientists, and conservationists in educating the public about biodiversity and climate change.
• Restoring important lands for biodiversity, focal species, and landscape connectivity, including but not limited to:
  • Assessments to identify species and communities at risk, including strategies to work toward ecosystem resilience.
  • Identification of barriers to migration and mitigation measures to enhance landscape connectivity.
  • Adaptive restoration strategies based on predicted species range expansion and contraction.
  • Promoting the biodiversity of the marine and freshwater environments.