Catalyst Fund

The Network launched the Landscape Conservation Catalyst Fund Program in 2019 to accelerate the pace and practice of collaborative landscape conservation and stewardship across the United States.

The Catalyst Fund couples financial support through a competitive grant process with an in-depth Peer Learning and capacity building experience. The Fund makes strategic investments in strengthening the collaborative capacity of place-based, community-grounded Landscape Conservation Partnerships. These investments are intended to better position Partnerships to achieve long-term conservation and stewardship success, building in landscapes across the country the enduring collaborative infrastructure and social capital needed to address systems-level challenges like the biodiversity, climate change, and environmental injustice crises.

A portion of the Fund is dedicated to supporting Indigenous leadership in landscape conservation. Indigenous-led Partnerships focused wholly on sovereign tribal lands and/or focused on advancing and conserving Indigenous interests, territories, and rights across a broader defined landscape are encouraged to apply.

The Catalyst Fund operates on an annual grant cycle schedule, and the 2024 submission window has closed – we are pleased to announce 15 new grant awards to the Landscape Partnership from across the country. Please check back in early 2025 for more information on the next grant cycle.

View previous recipients of Catalyst Fund grants awards:

2019 funded Partnerships           2020 funded Partnerships

2021 funded Partnerships           2022 funded Partnerships

2023 funded Partnerships           2024 funded Partnerships

Cover photo: Catalyst Fund grantees visiting the Jemez Pueblo during a peer learning retreat in 2023. Photo credit: Trees, Water & People.