This year World Forestry Center’s was honored to receive three national grants focused on transforming our programming, our campus, and our organization. Stay tuned to learn more about the exciting opportunities these grants will provide.
Wood Innovations Grant from the USDA Forest Service
The Wood Innovations Grant Program, launched in 2015 by the United States Department of Agriculture, aims to expand the use of wood products, strengthen emerging wood markets, and support active management to improve forest health and resilience, especially considering the ongoing nationwide wildfire crisis. World Forestry Center’s Wood Innovations Grant will support the design of the new Mass Timber Experience Center. This demonstration building will act as a model for scalable Mass Timber building technologies and catalyze support, recognition, development, and utilization of this technology in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
Institute of Museum and Library Services
The Wood Innovations Grant Program, launched in 2015 by the United States Department of Agriculture, aims to expand the use of wood products, strengthen emerging wood markets, and support active management to improve forest health and resilience, especially considering the ongoing nationwide wildfire crisis. World Forestry Center’s Wood Innovations Grant will support the design of the new Mass Timber Experience Center. This demonstration building will act as a model for scalable Mass Timber building technologies and catalyze support, recognition, development, and utilization of this technology in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 “to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…” World Forestry Center joined a collaborative partnership led by the Indigenous Education Institute and Oregon State University’s STEM Research Center in a grant project aimed at amplifying Indigenous voices and worldviews in outdoor learning experiences. As a sub-awardee, World Forestry Center will partner with Tribal communities to inform the development of new professional and public programming, including the new Fellowship program.