(Photo by Shaelene Grace Moler)
Seacoast Trust reaches $25 million: Help us reach our $50 million milestone
As we celebrate the three-year anniversary of its launch, we are excited to announce that we have met a quarter of our goal to raise $100 million for the Seacoast Trust and now it is time to double it. Let's get to $50 million!
Launched September 16, 2021, The Seacoast Trust is financial sovereignty.
The Seacoast Trust began with a challenge from Sealaska, the Southeast Alaska Native regional corporation, to conservation funders to match a pledge of $10 million. The Nature Conservancy stepped up with $8 million.
Since this historical collaboration, additional partners and individuals have pledged their support, including Home Planet Fund ($1M), Rasmuson Foundation ($1M), Edgerton Foundation ($1M), William and Flora Hewlett Foundation ($700K), Wilburforce Foundation ($250K), Chorus Foundation ($100K), and more. Gunalchéesh (thank you) to our partners who are celebrating its third anniversary with us.
The fund centers Indigenous values and self-determination, representing an innovative and long overdue shift in conservation finance that has tremendous potential to drive systemic change benefiting both people and nature in Southeast Alaska. Spruce Root, a Native Community Development Financial Institution, is the fiscal sponsor of the Seacoast Trust and Sustainable Southeast Partnership.
The Seacoast Trust will, in perpetuity, reduce barriers to the communities of Southeast Alaska in achieving their goals for the future amid the life-sustaining health of the lands and waters that now, more than ever, call for our shared efforts.