Once again, the Conservation Finance Network, Land Trust Alliance, Chesapeake Conservation Partnership and National Park Service are offering a chance to learn from the leading experts in the conservation finance field. Are you interested in accessing new sources of...

Since our origins in 2009, the Chesapeake Conservation Partnership has held an annual meeting every Fall to set the agenda for the coming year. 2020 was no different.  No, wait, it was very different! But was the pandemic-imposed difference a shortcoming? We’re not so...

The Chesapeake Conservation Partnership engaged scores of participants from across the watershed in three October 2020 workshops to gather guidance and generate ideas on how to operationalize a new draft public health goal (see below) and its clear focus on...

Participants in the 2019 Conservation Finance Intensive learned from a dozen experts in innovative conservation finance practices. A new initiative will expand on this course. (Photo: CFN) Conservation takes money. And it takes knowing how to find it, especially in...

Geospatial data and analysis is more available than ever before and conservationists use it. But do we have and use the data and analysis we need for addressing issues around public health, equity and conservation? Here's just one example, mapping population by race...

Urban to the left (Baltimore MD). Rural to the right (near Wrightsville PA). In either case, most of these kids had never been in or on the water before these experiences, despite living just short distances away.(Photos: left - James Chang for NPS; right - NPS) In...