Working in partnership AT THE INTERSECTION OF EQUITY, ECONOMY, & ENVIRONMENT

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The Milky Way seen above Hoopa Valley, Calif. Sean Gutierrez | During a debris monitoring field training with Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership and The Blueprint Foundation, 2020 Green Workforce Academy participants canoe through a slough at Kelley Point Park in Portland, Ore. Michelle Pearl Gee | Apples at Willow Brook Organics farm. Roland Dahwen | Cayuse Singers celebrate Antone Minthorn in 2022. Connor Meyer | Desolation Creek. Brian Kelly | Saving seeds at Mudbone Grown farm. Noah Thomas | Rebecca Smith of Ice Queen PDX distributing paletas at a Legacy Hospital event for participants of the Institutional Purchasing Pathways program. FLI Social | Lichen is collected during a forest walk with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. Noah Thomas | Leaping salmon. Sam Beebe

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The Milky Way seen above Hoopa Valley, Calif. Sean Gutierrez

Welcome

Ecotrust is a collaborative nonprofit, working with community members and organizations toward a vision of an equitable, prosperous, and climate-smart future

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2024 Progress Report

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About us

For more than thirty years, our mission has been to inspire fresh thinking that creates economic development, social equity, and environmental well-being. We approach our work with the leadership and vision of frontline communities from California to Alaska.

Current projects

We work in partnership across our region at the intersection of equity, the economy, and the environment. Explore some of our 50+ current projects below.

Slideshow: Team and partners behind Local Link 2022, Supreme Optics Photography | Returning home to Sitka, Alaska (Sheet’ká Ḵwáan) after a winter deer hunt, with Mount Verstovia leading the way, Bethany Sonsini Goodrich

Supporting tribal timber markets

Partnering with tribes throughout the region to help market tribal wood products and support data-driven decision-making.

Climate resilience, Forestry, Indigenous leadership, Storytelling, Tools & mapping

California, Oregon, Washington

Equitable Evaluation Toolkit

This downloadable toolkit contains six tools and is meant to be adapted to the needs of your project.

Racial equity, Tools & mapping

Alaska, California, Canada, Oregon, Other, Washington

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Our strategic goals connect us to this place, to our communities, and to each other. We uplift powerful, community-centered and self-determined initiatives in pursuit of climate resilience, intergenerational wealth-building, and lands and waters stewardship.

—Olivia M. Rebanal, Chief Impact Officer

Stories & news

Hear the voices of our region’s leaders and explore stories of home. See some of our latest news below.

Slideshow: The 2021-2022 Viviane Barnett Fellows enjoy a meal with program staff at Black Futures Farm, Jason Hill | Salmon from a fishing trip with Keex’ Kwaan Community Forest Partnership crew members and Organized Village of Kake Natural Resource staff, Bethany Sonsini Goodrich | Blueberries harvested in the alpine of Harbor Mountain near Sitka, Alaska, Bethany Sonsini Goodrich

Telling the stories of land stewardship

Alisha Howard October 22, 2024

PHOTO ESSAY | See photos and hear from the storytellers of the Restoration Through Storytelling Series

Theresa Sheldon, board of directors, Tulalip

Jackleen De La Harpe October 16, 2024

PARTNER VOICES | Learn more about Theresa Sheldon, board of directors for the Tulalip Tribes, who is honored with a 2024 Indigenous Leadership Award.

Corinne Sams, Board of Trustees, Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Indian Reservation, Umatilla

Megan Foucht October 15, 2024

PARTNER VOICES | The 2024 Indigenous Leadership Awards honors Corinne Sams for her steadfast advocacy for and commitment to the preservation of cultural connections between the peoples of the Umatilla and salmon.

Impact

We are accountable to ourselves, our partners, and our community.

Being transparent about who we are, what we have accomplished, and where we can improve is an important part of becoming an anti-racist organization, and we are committed to growing these practices at Ecotrust.

Ecotrust staff and board during a gathering at the Natural Capital Center, 2023. Photo credit: Jason Hill