The Conservation Alliance (TCA) announced the recipients of its Winter 2023 Grants. In this cycle, $650,000 in grants were dispersed to 17 organizations working to protect outdoor spaces and wild places throughout North America. An additional $70,000 in grants were awarded to four organizations through discretionary funds. TCA is on track to award $2.2 million by the end of this year.
TCA staff and board members evaluated 50 proposals before narrowing the field. Final grantees for the Winter 2023 cycle were chosen by TCA member companies through a nomination and voting process.
The 21 projects are located across 12 U.S. states – Alaska, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Utah, Virginia, and Washington and one Canadian province, the Yukon.
The Conservation Alliance works with more than 270 member companies to identify conservation projects that seek to protect wild places and outdoor spaces. Each member company contributes annual dues to a central grant fund that are distributed through discretionary opportunities, the Confluence Program and a winter and summer grant cycle to the grassroots groups working to secure conservation outcomes.
Projects funded in the winter grant cycle are:
| Organization | Project Name | Grant |
| Alaska Wilderness League | Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge | $50,000 |
| Bears Ears Intertribal Coalition | Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition Tribal Sovereignty Advancement | $50,000 |
| California Wilderness Coalition | Southern California National Monuments | $50,000 |
| Central Oregon LandWatch | Save Skyline Forest | $25,000 |
| Conservation Lands Foundation | Caja del Rio Protection Campaign | $35,000 |
| Greater Yellowstone Coalition | Yellowstone Boundary Gold Mine: Extinguishing the last remaining gold mining threat to Yellowstone National Park | $50,000 |
| New Mexico Wilderness Alliance | Greater Chaco Protection Campaign | $40,000 |
| Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness | Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters | $50,000 |
| Outdoor Alliance | Protecting North Carolina’s Mountain Treasures | $45,000 |
| Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership | Protecting the Oregon Owyhee Canyonlands | $35,000 |
| The Wildlands Conservancy | Cottonwood Wash Acquisition | $35,000 |
| Trust for Public Land | Tualatin Mountain Forest | $40,000 |
| Washington Wild | WA Flagship Outstanding Resource Waters Designation | $25,000 |
| WaterWatch of Oregon | The Campaign to Remove Winchester, Pomeroy and Murphy Dams | $35,000 |
| Western Rivers Conservancy | Willapa Bay – Expanding a National Wildlife Refuge on Washington’s Bear River | $40,000 |
| Wild Montana | The Lowerstone Yellowstone River Project | $25,000 |
| Wilderness Workshop | Thompson Divide Administrative Mineral Withdrawal | $20,000 |
Total $650,000
Projects funded through the discretionary grant program are:
| Organization | Project Name | Grant |
| CPAWS Yukon | More than gold: Protecting the Dawson Region and preparing to protect its neighbor, the Northern Tutchone Region | $20,000 |
| Southern Environmental Law Center | Securing the Designation of Shenandoah Mountain National Scenic Area | $10,000 |
| The Sanctuary at Crystal Lake | “Newburgh Wants a Park Campaign” to Protect Crystal Lake | $15,000 |
| Tuleyome | Protecting Molok Luyuk | $25,000 |
Total $70,000
For complete information about The Conservation Alliance, visit www.conservationalliance.com.
