Impact
Our Impact | Impact Areas | 2025 Impact Report
Our Impact
The outcomes we are most proud of are rarely captured by numbers.
Because long-term challenges require long-term solutions.
And long-term solutions are built on relationships, processes, and connections that are nearly impossible to measure.
While we're proud of millions of trees planted, hundreds of jobs created, and thousands benefiting from clean cookstoves, we’re even more proud of the impacts that we’ll likely never see.
Because our end goal is not just stewarding natural resources – it’s building the capacity of local communities to continue doing so for generations.
Impact Areas
Environmental Stewardship
Forest Restoration: 95,400 trees and seedlings planted
Climate Resilience: 18,062 MT CO2 reduced through installation of clean cookstoves
Watershed Management: 52 riparian restoration structures installed along the Mancos River.
Dignified Livelihoods
Employment in Natural Resources: 150 people employed or contracted through TWP’s programs.
Family Savings: $1,970,400 saved by Honduran families on purchase of firewood
Sustainable Income: 27 community enterprises and savings groups strengthened through training and equipment.
Indigenous Sovereignty
Indigenous Leadership: 174 land managers representing 23 Tribes gathered at the 2026 Stewards of the Southwest Summit.
Cultural Protection: 8 miles of wildlife safe fence installed along Tribal borders to safeguard cultural sites in NM.
Applied Indigenous Knowledges: 319 Guatemalan families established agroecological home gardens using Indigenous growing practices.
Gender Equity
Improved Family Health: 1642 clean cookstoves installed, improving health and income for thousands of women and children.
Food Security & Nutrition: 18 women supported in agroecological poultry and egg production on 4 women-led farms (El Salvador)
Women-led Enterprise: 31 women artisans with improved income through community-based forest enterprises (Mexico)
Youth Development
Native Youth Employment: 32 Native youth employed in conservation work in CO and NM.
Natural Resources Education: 3 Native youth supported through work-study positions at CSU.
Training & Technology: 12 youth trained in camera trap methods to monitor biodiversity in their community forests (Guatemala)
Local Capacity-Building
Long-term Support: 9 years: average length of partnership with local organizations
Strengthened Capacity: 16 community-based organizations with enhanced organizational capacity, strategic planning, and financial independence.
Regional Alliances & Networks: 162 community enterprises connected through exchanges.
2025 IMPACT REPORT
Improving lives by helping communities to protect, conserve, and manage the natural resources on which their long-term well-being depends.
Dignified Livelihoods
150
People Employed/Contracted
Across CO, NM, Central America & Mexico
Environmental Stewardship
94,800
Total Trees & Seedlings Planted
Restoring forests & biodiversity
Climate Resilience
12,000 MT
CO2 Emissions Reduced
Via 1,500 Justa Cookstoves installed
Indigenous Lands Program (ILP)
Cultivating Tribal Leadership, Stewardship & Sovereignty
9,000 Seedlings Planted In NM despite drought conditions; 9k more stored for spring.
200 Summit Attendees 2nd Annual NM Fire & Forestry Summit: Stewards of the Southwest. 14 Tribes represented.
55 People Employed Including 32 Native youth in CO and NM.
Youth Engagement 3 work-study positions funded with CSU Native American Cultural Center.
Landscape Restoration
52 restoration structures constructed & 600 riparian seedlings planted along Mancos River.
Tribal Lands Protection
8 miles of wild life safe fence installed along Tribal borders to safeguard cultural sites in NM.
Partnerships
Signed MOU with Montezuma Land Conservancy; hosted 5+ major work sessions in Southwest Colorado.
Native Leadership
Presented at 7 international conferences to funders and peers.
Mesoamerica Program (MAP)
Climate Action and Resilience
85,800 Trees Planted. Community-based reforestation for long-term climate resilience.
1,500 Justa Cookstoves Installed. Improving air quality for 7,500+ people and saving 30,000 trees from harvest.
75+ Local Jobs created with partners in Central
America and Mexico.
13,000 acres of forest protected under Indigenous co-management
Food Security
319 Guatemalan families (1,276 individuals) received agroecological training.
Economic Resilience
Strengthened 27 community enterprises and savings groups throughout Mesoamerica.
Gender Equity
Expanded 4 women-led farms (El Salvador) and 2 women’s artisan cooperatives (Mexico)
Local Capacity Building
Enhanced organizational capacity, strategic planning, and financial independence of 6 community-based organizations.
Program Outcomes (2020-2030)
Indigenous Lands
Increase employment for Native youth & professionals.
Promote Tribal leadership in natural resource management.
Treat thousands of acres/year with restoration.
Improve water security for 1,000,000+ people in New Mexico.
Emerge as thought leaders in Native-led management.
Mesoamerica
Reach 2,000+ families/year with environmental programs.
Increase sustainable development sector employment.
Treat thousands of acres/year with restoration.
Strengthen regional networks between Latin American orgs.
Build civil society & ongoing impact through local orgs.
