{"id":792944,"date":"2023-07-27T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forests.org\/?p=792944"},"modified":"2023-08-29T14:55:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:55:53","slug":"2023-community-grants-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forests.org\/fr\/2023-community-grants-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Forestry Initiative Announces 2023 Community Grants To Promote Forest-Focused Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C. and Ottawa, ON\u2014<\/strong>The Sustainable Forestry Initiative\u00a0(SFI) is proud to announce 16 new SFI\u00a0Community Grants<\/a> to support meaningful initiatives in communities across the United States and Canada while strengthening SFI\u2019s mission of advancing sustainability through forest-focused collaboration.<\/p>\n

SFI Community Grants are awarded for collaborative community-based projects, activities, and events that connect communities to forests. Since the SFI Community Grant Program started in 2010, SFI has awarded 118 grants totaling more than $1 million invested to foster community-building projects. The 16 new grants of the 2023 program represent a record-breaking number of projects supported and more than $215,000 in total funding announced.<\/p>\n

\u201cSFI is excited to invest in so many initiatives that promote collaboration and connect communities to forests, and I\u2019m extremely proud to see the growth in this program,\u201d said Kathy Abusow, President and CEO of SFI. \u201cThis year\u2019s SFI Community Grant recipients allow us to live our mission to advance sustainability through forest-focused collaboration. We work with so many diverse partners and communities, and they are key to our success. That\u2019s why we are so pleased to invest in community collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n

These new grants will engage communities across North America to explore and connect with forests through the following:<\/p>\n