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Ecotrust CDE awarded $40 million in New Markets Tax Credits

  • Megan Foucht
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  • Federal funding will be invested in climate and community resilience projects

Ecotrust Announces 2024 Indigenous Leadership Award Recipients

  • Megan Foucht
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  • Group of six leaders will be honored at a ceremony on October 16 at the Redd on Salmon Street

Alaska Mariculture Cluster to Begin Measuring Impacts

  • Megan Foucht and Noah Enelow
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  • Group seeks to deepen understanding of outcomes from $49M investment in growing area of economic opportunity

Ecotrust and Broadstreet Launch New Partnership in Support of Climate and Community Development Financing

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  • Partners will offer comprehensive, customized impact measurement, reporting, and evaluation services to awardees of the landmark $27B Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund

Direct Marketing Seafood Businesses Sought for Third Cohort of No-Cost Business Accelerator Program

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  • Applications now open for SAIL Catalyst business accelerator

Call for Nominations: 2024 Indigenous Leadership Awards

  • Megan Foucht
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  • $100,000 in cash awards to be distributed to Indigenous leaders throughout the Pacific Northwest

Kara Briggs Joins Ecotrust as VP of Tribal Lands & Waters Stewardship

  • Megan Foucht
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  • Newly-developed role to be catalyst for deepening natural resource-related work with tribes in Ore, Wash., and Calif., and Alaska Native Communities

Farm to School Institutes to pilot in Oregon and Washington

  • Angela Hedstrom
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  • A new project brings comprehensive farm to school and farm to early childhood programming to the Pacific Northwest

Ecotrust CDE receives $60 million New Markets Tax Credit allocation

  • Emilie Chen
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  • Community Development Entity to direct federal funding toward high-impact community projects

$1.5 million investment from the USDA to support urban agriculture efforts in Portland Metro

  • Emilie Chen
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  • A $1.5M cooperative agreement will support utilization of USDA programs among farmers historically underserved or discriminated against by the agency

Ecotrust Announces 2023 Indigenous Leadership Awardees

  • Emilie Chen
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  • Eight awardees to be celebrated during October 18 ceremony at the Redd on Salmon Street

Ecotrust names Ronda Rutledge its next Executive Director

  • Emilie Chen
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Coalition of Partners Secures Funding For Tribal Agroforestry

  • Jessica Douglas
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  • A coalition of partners has secured a $2.5M grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture to support tribal agroforestry.

New grant supports Tribal Marine Stewards Network

  • Doe Hatfield
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  • Funding from 11th Hour Project supports more capacity for Indigenous-led management

Ecotrust endorses Oregon Farm to School funding in 2023

  • Angela Hedstrom
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  • Coalition of advocates urge Oregon legislators to maintain investment in impactful program.

New Investment in the Green Workforce Academy

  • Doe Hatfield
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  • Black and Indigenous Pathways to Green Sector Jobs Supported by Portland Clean Energy Fund