The Conservation Alliance (TCA) announced the recipients of its latest round of grants. As part of the Winter 2024 cycle, $510,000 in grants were awarded to 12 organizations that work to protect outdoor spaces and wild places throughout North America. Additionally, three organizations received $45,000 in discretionary grants, while TCA awarded one two-year, $120,000 grant as part of its priority campaign efforts.
TCA staff and board members evaluated 5S6 proposals in all before narrowing the field, with final grantees chosen by TCA member companies through a nomination and voting process. Idaho Conservation League will support a TCA priority campaign for its work on removing four Snake River dams.
“We are at a pivotal moment as we look to protect the natural spaces that are important to so many communities, individuals and habitats. Our newest round of grants, to both long-time partners and first-time grant recipients, supports strong efforts to conserve these places for current and future generations. We are grateful to TCA’s engaged membership that helps us connect to these important organizations, and fuels our funding and advocacy work across North America,” said Kim Paymaster, grant program director, TCA.
The 16 grants span California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming, plus one national effort to support the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands rule. Five groups are first-time recipients.
TCA works with over 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 which are distributed through discretionary opportunities, the Confluence Program, Priority Campaign grants and a Winter and Summer member-directed grant cycle to the grassroots groups working to secure conservation outcomes.
Recipients include:
- CalWild (Establishing new and expanded national monuments) – $35,000
- Central Oregon LandWatch (Saving Skyline forest) – $45,000
- Colorado Open Lands (Protecting a biodiverse ecosystem for wildlife and community) – $10,000
- Conservation Colorado (Colorado’s outdoor future) – $45,000
- Idaho Conservation League (Restoring salmon and steelhead) – $120,000 over two years
- Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association (Snake River basin restoration) – $10,000
- Oregon Wild (Protecting 5.5 million acres of forests for biodiversity and climate) – $25,000
- Outdoor Alliance (Protecting 245 million acres of public land through the BLM) – $25,000
- Resources Legacy Fund (Western Energy Project Upper Missouri Watershed Protection campaign) – $40,000
- TRCP (Protecting the Oregon Owyhee canyonlands) – $50,000
- Trout Unlimited (Protecting the Pecos River watershed and New Mexico communities) – $50,000
- Trust for Public Land (Upper Wenatchee Community Lands plan) – $35,000
- WaterWatch of Oregon (Campaign to Remove Winchester, Murphy and Charley dams) – $50,000
- Wild Montana (Protecting the Lower Yellowstone river) – $50,000
- Wild Salmon Center (Stand Tall Oregon campaign) – $50,000
- Wyoming Wildlife Federation (Designating and funding the Wyoming range mule deer migration) – $35,000
