The Brainerd Foundation is a Northwest-focused family foundation that provides grants to strengthen the ability of nonprofits, communities, and decision-makers to protect our region’s air, land and water. Read More
Our Conservation policy program invests in regional or state-level policy priorities that build a track record of success and demonstrate the benefits of pro-conservation policies to public officials.
Photo by Montana Environmental Information Center
In February 2010, leaders of Montana and British Columbia said they will ban drilling and mining in a remote valley along the US-Canada border that energy companies have tried to develop for more than a quarter-century. This area, known as the Crown of the Continent for its grand mountain peaks, is just upstream from Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park. Brainerd grantee, Wildsight, continues to work hard for increased protection of this critical landscape.
- Get a window into the way the Brainerd Foundation thinks. Read about our mission, vision, values and methods on our Strategy & Focus pages.
- The Brainerd Foundation will sunset within the next ten years. Read more about what this decision means for the foundation, our grantees and the conservation community.
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Weathering the Storm
This excellent report from Training Resources for the Environmental Community details how environmental nonprofits in the U.S. and Canada have responded to the economic climate of the last year. Their data suggest that the recession will have significant impacts on environmental nonprofits.