Board Election Results
Congratulations to the following 4 NNFP members who have been elected to the NNFP board!
Board Applicants 2010-2012 .rtf
NNFP Leadership Development Program Seeking Scholarship Donations
After last year's Leadership for the Long Haul program proved so successful and transformative, NNFP decided to conduct another program in 2010, involving two leadership retreats, ongoing coaching, and development of a peer support network.
We are looking for individuals and organizations to make donations and sponsorships to allow us to have a
scholarship fund for participants who cannot otherwise afford to go.
Learn more about the program at NNFP Leadership Program
15 Participants have been selected to participate in the program. Currently we are raising scholarship funds for the $8,350 of scholarships that are needed by the participants. To grant needed scholarships we need to raise this amount in donations by Summer. Several pledges have been made, but we encourage members do donate what they can. One board member donated a full tuition scholarship of $600, and other donations are rolling in.
To donate you can go to
www.nnfp.org and click "Donate Now".
NNFP and our Sustainable Woods Network covered in Treehugger.com during Green Build
Treehugger.com is a leading site among "green consumers", with 1.6 million visitors/month.

NNFP Visits Montana for Outreach and Communications Project
As part of a Conservation Innovation Grant received by the Swan Ecosystem Center, members of NNFP's team visited the Swan Valley to conduct interviews and shoot photos for a series of landowner profiles which will be used for outreach to landowners in the Valley. Out of this trip we also hope to develop business and organizational profiles that tell the story of folks working for sustainable forestry and rural livelihoods.
This project is part of a growing body of work that NNFP is undertaking to communicate stories of sustainable forestry rural job creation.
Digital Storytelling for Landowner Engagement post
NNFP Montana Visit
Visit NNFP, and the Sustainable Woods Network booth at Green Build!
Partnering with North Slope Sustainable Wood, NNFP will be talking with builders and architects from across the country about the potential benefits of buying local and sustainably produced wood!
The booth will outreach to builders and architects to engage them with the beta version of
www.sustainablewoods.com.
Visit us at booth 3067 (
click for map) at Green Build, November 10-12 and spread the word!
NNFP Partners with Rainforest Alliance and Blue Ridge Forest Cooperative for booth at Green Festival in DC!
Harry Groot of BRFC, Lisa Stocker of Rainforest Alliance, and Colin Donohue of NNFP staffed a booth, talking to thousands of "green consumers" about the upcoming launch of the
Sustainable Woods Network, the forest landcare activities (and wood products...) of BRFC, and FSC certification. The booth was an outgrowth of a collaboration of several partners in the Central Appalachian region focused on marketing of sustainably produced wood products.



NEWS- Woody Biomass Utilization Grants from US Forest Service
$4 Million+ is available for biomass removal projects on National Forest lands in priority National Forests
Map of these priority forests at
Click Here
More information at
http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/research/units/tmu/tmugrants.shtml
NEWS - US Forest Service S&P Redesign update
The State and Private Redesign will direct 15% of "net available" S&P funding into a competitive program.
For information on the overall redesign, go to the USFS page on the process-
http://www.fs.fed.us/spf/redesign/index.shtml
A competitive grant process anticipated for October 2009, with more information at-
http://www.fs.fed.us/spf/redesign/fy2010_compet_guid.pdf