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.
