Practice
Building Capacity for
Collaborative Conservation
The mission of the Practice Program is to build capacity for collaborative conservation in current and future practitioners. Increased collaboration builds stronger communities and creates enduring conservation actions.
Conservation practitioners today need to be highly competent technically and also engage effectively with diverse people to solve complex conservation challenges.
Collaborative capacity refers to skills and tools that enable conservation practitioners to be better prepared for successfully addressing the complexity of emerging conservation issues. The CCC works directly with practitioners to design and implement this program.
Practice Program Impacts
70K raised to support
conservation practitioners
250 practitioners
engaged
100 conservation leaders
attended two workshops
35 practitioners volunteer
to design a regional network
30 practitioners trained
at national conservation
finance boot camp
1 new tool under
development to conserve
western rangelands &
support new ranchers
1 Peaks to People water
fund launched
1 Western Collaborative
Conservation Network
created & launched
Practice Program Timeline & Products

Summer 2016
Practice Program &
Advisory Team
(PPAT) formed:
17 conservation leaders guide the development of the practice program
Winter 2016/2017
Needs Assessment:
Interviewed 65 conservation leaders, collaborative conservation skills, tools, capacity
Summer 2017
Conservation Finance Boot Camp:
Co-hosted national training on conservation finance for conservation practitioners
Fall/Winter
2017/2018
Western Rangelands Conservation Fund:
Co-developed conservation fund concept & conducted feasibility analysis
Spring 2018
CBCC Workshop:
60 conservation leaders designed an action plan to build collaborative capacity of community-based conservation efforts across 7 western states
Summer 2018
Peaks to People: 1st
voluntary watershed
investment fund in
Colorado:
Businesses, organizers, individuals & landowners recognize the need to protect forested watersheds on Colorado Front Range
