Program Goal
The goal of the Sustainable Forests and Communities Initiative is to support the development of environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable communities in forested regions of the United States.
Program History
For the past 30 years the Sustainable Forests and Communities Initiative (SFCI) of the Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation (WFF) has funded proposals responding to the needs in forested communities for forest conservation, economic development, and healing deep rifts opened by timber industry changes and Federal reductions in timber harvests. SFCI supports programs within forested communities that promote, in an integrated fashion, forest conservation, the creation of jobs or businesses based on sustainable forestry, and public consensus-building.
Important Information
Each year, the Sustainable Forests and Communities Initiative awards approximately five new grants.
In 2025, we received 35 letter of inquiries (LOIs).
To help you prepare to submit an LOI, the letter of inquiry questions can be found here.
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Please carefully review our Guidelines and consider whether your organization is a strong fit with WFF’s requirements and restrictions. Organizations and projects that are not well-aligned with our guidelines are immediately disqualified from consideration.