Trust for Conservation Innovation Projects Showcase
The Trust for Conservation Innovation (TCI) exists to support nonprofit enterprises that share our vision of a healthy and sustainable global environment. TCI projects are achieving transformative change by using innovative approaches to conserve natural resources, reduce pollution and restore our environment.
Learn more about our current projects below or visit our alumni projects page:
Our Current Projects
Chemical Strategies Partnership
The Chemical Strategies Partnership seeks to reduce chemical use, waste, risks, and cost through the transformation of the chemical supply chain by redefining the way chemicals are used and sold. more...
Chinese Herb Garden
Chinese Herb Garden promotes the sustainable use of Chinese herbs by educating a diverse group of stakeholders about the realities and threats that face Asian medicinal flora. more...
Conservation and Community Investment Forum (CCIF)
The Conservation and Community Investment Forum (CCIF) specializes in applying the tools, strategies, and resources of the private sector to address urgent conservation and community development issues worldwide. more...
CoolingMan
Cooling Man seeks to build bridges between the climate science and artistic communities, as well as inspire groups and individuals to take action to offset their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). more...
Envaya
Envaya creates software to empower community-based organizations (CBOs) around the world that are focused on the environment, poverty relief, health, education, local economic development, and community well-being. more...
Finance for Food
Finance for Food educates sustainable food system entrepreneurs about the full range of capital options available to support their social ventures, providing information, resources, and technical assistance to facilitate their process of identifying and securing mission-aligned financing. more...
Food Commons
Food Commons is a large-scale physical, financial, and organizational infrastructure design for a national network of localized food systems. more...
Global Cool Cities Alliance
The Global Cool Cities Alliance is dedicated to increasing the solar reflectance of our buildings and pavements as a low- or no-cost way to fight the effects of climate change and to promote cool cities and buildings. more...
Friends of the Mesa Refuge
The Mesa Refuge is a writers' retreat center that supports people writing about the environment, economics and social equity. more...
myAgro
myAgro is a new micro-savings organization that helps farmers save flexibly to purchase the tools they need to invest in their fields, increase their harvests and get out of poverty. Learn more. more...
The Locally-Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network Coordination Support
The Locally-Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network is a group of marine conservation practitioners working in the Indo Pacific who have joined together to increase the success of their efforts. more...
Nextcourse
Nextcourse is improving the health of San Francisco communities through collaborative programs that inspire people to purchase, cook, and eat healthier, locally produced foods. more...
Ocean Education Technology and Sciences Partnership (OETSP)
The OETSP Project works with national stakeholders to collaboratively build an infrastructure for a U.S. government-industry ocean economic development system. more...
Olazul
Olazul strengthens the economic security of locally-operated open-ocean aquaculture ventures by developing consistent revenue streams built on sustainable business models. more...
Permacouture Institute
Permacouture Institute is an educational non-profit that promotes regenerative design in fashion and textiles. Working through grassroots projects, events, workshops, and consulting, Permacouture Institute furthers eco-literacy and social practice encouraging slow fashion and textiles from the ground up. more...
Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program
The Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program trains leaders to apply what they've learned in academic and field settings to create sustainable local action and lasting solutions, take it to scale, and do so with limited resources. more...
Reef Fish Sustainability Initiative
The Reef Fish Sustainability Initiative purpose is to promote improvements in management, sustainability and confidence in Gulf of Mexico seafood and industries related to fresh, wild, sustainably caught fish for public consumption. more...
Roots of Change
Roots of Change is a collaborative of leaders, organizations, businesses, and government agencies unified in common pursuit of achieving a sustainable food system in California by 2030. more...
Smart Energy
Smart Energy researches sustainable ways to meeting the rising demand for energy and presents information in an unbiased way that focuses on the facts. more...
Upper Amazon Conservancy
The Upper Amazon Conservancy's mission is to improve the management effectiveness of the Alto Purús National Park by implementing Park protection activities and building the capacity for conservation in adjacent indigenous communities. more...
Weave-Me-In
Weave-Me-In provides conservation practitioners easy access to methodologies, people, organizations, and groups that are relevant to their conservation challenges. more...
World Ocean Council (WOC)
The World Ocean Council (WOC) is an unprecedented industry leadership alliance focused on ocean sustainability and stewardship. more...