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.
The Omnibus Public Lands Act of 2009 designates over 23,000 acres of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument backcountry as the Soda Mountain Wilderness -- and enables a permanent end to public lands cattle grazing on up to 106,000 acres in and near the Monument in Oregon through a voluntary private buyout plan. The Brainerd Foundation has supported the Soda Mountain Wilderness Council in their quest to protect this rare 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.