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“No” to unnecessary pipelines EDF won a major victory in our long-standing fight to stop unnecessary oil and gas pipelines that lock the country into a fossil fuel–dependent future.
A federal appellate court invalidated the operating certificate of the $Illinois to Missouri.
The court found that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the project even though there was no clearly demonstrated need for additional capacity in the region.
In a subsequent victory, the Supreme Court denied Spire’s request to block the lower court’s ruling.
FERC is now facing greater public scrutiny of its authorization process, and we are pushing the commission to reform its review procedures.
If aviation were a nation, it would rank as the world’s sixth-largest carbon emitter, right between Japan and Germany.
And emissions from planes are expected to rise rapidly, with fuel consumption projected to double from pre-COVID levels by 2050.
To put the industry on a more sustainable flight path, EDF has teamed up with RMI, a clean energy think tank, and corporate partners to launch the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance.
The alliance will help decarbonize aviation by accelerating investment in, and adoption of, sustainable aviation fuels.
By creating a transparent certificate system, SABA will help companies and airlines identify the sustainable aviation fuels capable of substantially reducing airline emissions.
For a year, EDF worked with Governor Jay Inslee and the Washington state legislature, along with many local partners, to pass meaningful climate change legislation.
That work paid off in May, when the state passed the nation’s most ambitious limit on climate pollution.
serving as a model for other states and federal policymakers.
Washington and California are now the only two states with binding, declining limits on emissions across all major sectors of their economies.
Your generosity delivered protections for people and the planet.
climate change and create a safer, more equitable future for all.
Your generous support makes everything we do possible.
This annual report is coming to you a little later than usual this year.
Regardless, we hope you find the information interesting and enjoyable.
For those who can access and experience it, the outdoors continues to be a renewed or newfound haven from the continuing impact of COVID-19.
As the world continues to emerge from the pandemic, the outdoors still provides an outlet to help focus on our mental and physical wellbeing while enjoying activities with our friends and families.
There is always so much that we can highlight in our annual reports, and never enough space to cover everything you help us accomplish.
Working across boundaries, the Mission Mountain Youth Crew works and learns with the Forest Service and the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes in Montana.
Corps learns stewardship skills that are eligible to receive undergraduate credits from Western Colorado University.
We are grateful for their interest in and work to benefit the National Forest System.
You will also read about our work restoring recreational use cabins on the Tongass and Chugach National Forests in Alaska.
Our work on Tahoe National Forest in California is helping to restore forest resiliency while continuing to collaboratively plan landscape-scale work across boundaries.
hanks to supporters like you, the National Forest Foundation had another year of growth that helps us work with our many partners to create more resilient ecosystems while welcoming new and more diverse audiences to the wonder and awe of the National Forest System.
Our campaign to plant on National Forests continues to progress at a good pace.
As our organization continues to grow, our Board and staff also took the time to complete an ambitious new strategic plan that will guide our growth and enable us to support our public lands more than ever before.
our you played a role in our accomplishments.
Partnership The NFF leads the collaborative Lake Tahoe West Restoration Partnership to protect communities and restore ecological and climate resilience at Lake Tahoe.
We provided facilitation support toward environmental analysis of additional, comprehensive restoration treatments across the Stewardship Agreement with the Forest Service to implement future work.
We commissioned artist Todd Gilens to install an interactive artwork called Reading Forest at Taylor Creek Visitor Center, engaging the public with ideas about forest management and climate resilience.
Tree Planting on a Great Lakes National Forest Michigan’s Hiawatha National Forest straddles against three Great Lakes, creating unique habitat and weather conditions that can quickly change.
In reforestation program planted 644,900 seedlings across numerous project sites on the Hiawatha.
Crews planted a mix of native conifer species to support multiple habitat and restoration objectives.
The trees will help restore native habitat that was once planted to a monoculture in the early twentieth century, provide streambank stability and riparian shade, and increase habitat for one of North America’s rarest songbirds, the Kirtland’s warbler.
In total, the project planted seedlings across nearly acres of this Great Lakes National Forest. Mission Mountains Youth Crew The Mission Mountains Youth Crew, a summer job program, exposes high school-age youth living on the Flathead Reservation in Western Montana to career pathways in natural resources and helps build a bridge to college.
In the worked for seven weeks, completing stewardship activities on ancestral lands of the Salish and Pend d’Oreille in the Mission Mountains, which today are managed on one side by the Flathead National Forest and on the other by the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes (CSKT).
Working cross boundary, crew members learned from Forest Service and CSKT specialists representing diverse disciplines, including aquatics, wildlife, heritage, and recreation.
Initiative In Northern Arizona we continued to build the Wood for Life partnership in from forest restoration projects with Navajo and Hopi communities who need firewood.
With the closure of a coal-fired power plant and coal mine, the inexpensive heating source for many was lost.
The partnership has delivered over restoration projects to elders and families.
Together, we’re working to sustainably meet Tribal fuelwood needs and enhance our ability to conduct restoration projects across the region.
In the year ahead, we are working to expand the program to New Mexico and Colorado.
Corps has positively impacted public lands in Colorado’s Gunnison Valley.
In maintained trails, improved wildlife habitat, planted trees, and talked with thousands of visitors about responsible recreation and a new camping management system.
The program earned a living wage and were eligible to receive undergraduate credits from Western Colorado University.
They left the program with a hands-on natural resources management skillset.
We’re excited to continue the STOR Corps in next-generation model in the future.
Restoring Cabins in Alaska The Tongass and Chugach National Forests in Alaska, our nation’s largest National Forests, offer amazing sights to see and explore: temperate rainforests, mountains, tidewater glaciers, bears, whales, salmon, and more.
Many areas of these Forests are remote and rugged.
Luckily, the Forest Service has cabins available for the public to rent allowing for safe exploration of these areas.
Over the past three years, the NFF has restored have fallen into disrepair.
In restored the Kanga Bay Cabin on the Tongass and built a brand new cabin at Goose Bay on the Chugach.
Our work on the public cabins will ensure visitors will be able to enjoy Alaska’s wild places for years to come.
Community Statement of Activities Support and Revenue Foundations ...............................................
Reimbursable Grants ................................. $Other Income .............................................. $57,734 Investment Gain (Loss) ................................
Alongside local partners, we’re working to prevent wildfires and support sustainable trails on the Forest.
Working with local partners, we’re developing a holistic restoration strategy for the North Umpqua watershed.
We’re partnering with the local community to support forest health on Bald Mountain and throughout the Sawtooth National Forest.
Treasured Landscapes • NFF-facilitated Collaboratives•Other NFF-led Projects• NFF Offices acres of wildlife habitat restored or maintained volunteer hours 5,853 volunteers 2,224 youth employed or engaged 2,883 9,600 1,427 419 1,983 3,641 $21,646,162 acres of fuel reduction planned or completed miles of trailwork miles of stream surveyed or restored acres of noxious weeds treated participants in peer learning sessions total conservation value Collectively, the NFF issued 219 grants or contracts in FY 2021.
and private funds, which were leveraged with $in partner-raised funds for a total conservation value of $21,646,162.
Kuat Innovations LLC Pink Jeep Tours Stryker’s Sustainability Solutions Tahoe Fund The Dale Kutnick & Laura Gordon Kutnick Foundation, Inc.
$Alliance Corrugated Box, Inc. Allied Maker Anonymous Arizona Snowbowl Aspen Community Foundation Brentwood Home Brookstone Homes, LLC Churchill Asset Management LLC Columbia Bank ConocoPhillips Alaska Day One Perspective e.l.f.
Spottswoode Winery Sterling Organization T-Mobile The Allyn Foundation, Inc.
Org Hobo Wine Company HTG Investment Advisors, Inc. Lexant Title Mack Trucks, Inc. Mile MTKC Oakwood Veneer OROA USA LLC Osprey Packs Inc. Richie Graham Photography Sandia Laboratory Federal Credit Union SoloStove Studio Ma Sunlight Mountain Resort The Charles Delmar Foundation The Standard Tru Fit Athletic Clubs Wall Street Greetings, LLC Winter Park Resort Xometry, Inc.
Services Koukol & Associates, Inc. Laird Norton Family Foundation Lantower Residential Levitzacks Certified Public Accountants Lipsey and Associates Loon Mountain Madaras Gallery, Inc.
Maloha LLC Monarch Mountain New Leaf Detox and Treatment Inc. Northrop Grumman Outbound Financial PAPER PROJECT PBWS Architects Rapid Axis Rare Collectibles TV, LLC Rebellion Energy Services Operating, LLC Red House Architecture Roundup Riders of the Rockies Heritage and Trails Foundation Sandler O’Neill + Partners SequoiaCX Snowshoe Mountain StarQuest Group StayOver Management Strong Tower Consulting Tarbell Family Foundation Team Lawler Customs The Desert Leaf The von Gontard Family Foundation Timberline Lodge TypeHaus, Inc. Ultra Creative, Inc. WaiverSign Walking in Nature Walmart Wild Tribute Wine Nook Woodlake Outdoor, Inc.
© Adeline Sides © Richard Stevens © Adeline Sides The National Council on Aging (NCOA) is the national voice for every person’s right to age well.
We believe that how we age should not be determined by gender, color, sexuality, income, or ZIP code.
resources, tools, best practices, and advocacy to ensure every person can age with health and financial security.
Founded in the oldest national organization focused on older adults.
Chronic Disease NCOA’s National Chronic Disease Self-Management Education (CDSME) Resource Center works to increase access to, and use of, CDSME and other evidence-based programs to help older adults and adults with disabilities live longer, healthier lives.
support state and community-based organizations across the U.S. in expanding CDSME programs and embedding them in the nation’s health and long-term services and supports systems.
Managed the largest CDSME program database in the U.S. During this time period, CDSME programs.
States partnered with 1,659 CDSME workshops at 419 unique implementation sites.
• Continued to serve as a national clearinghouse to disseminate new resources, information, and successful practices to support CDSME programming, including monthly newsletters and webinars, website resources, and presentations at national conferences.
• Led several initiatives focused on supporting community-based organizations in creating partnerships with health care entities, including intensive learning collaboratives focused on network development and opportunities for partnership with Medicare Advantage plans Falls Prevention The NCOA National Falls Prevention Resource Center supports the implementation, dissemination, and sustainability of evidence-based falls prevention programs and strategies across the nation to reduce the incidence of falls among older adults and adults with disabilities.
A \| F Y serves as a national clearinghouse of tools, best practices, and other information on falls prevention.
Provided leadership, expert guidance, and resources to support with implementing, scaling, and sustaining evidence-based falls prevention programs.
The Center managed the largest falls prevention program database in the U.S.
• Developed resources for older adults, caregivers, and professionals to increase public awareness about falls and to connect older adults with evidence-based falls prevention programs in their community.
effective strategies to prevent falls and fall-related injuries.
NCOA and the Falls Free Initiative led the Week (FPAW) and celebrated over a decade of empowering older adults with the confidence to protect themselves from fall-related injuries.
National FPAW awareness and media efforts reached an estimated 380 million people.
efforts, as well as falls risk screenings and falls prevention programs.
ECONOMIC SECURITY NCOA boosts the economic security of millions of vulnerable, low-income older adults through our online tools and a national network of community partners.
Benefits Access NCOA helps qualified older adults enroll in programs that pay for health care, prescriptions, food, utilities, and other daily expenses.
NCOA supported Medicare beneficiaries access all the benefits they may be missing.
A \| F Y (MIPPA) funding to help low-income individuals apply for Medicare subsidies.
MIPPA grantees assisted (LIS) and Medicare Savings Programs (MSP) applications.
Foundation, adults in applying for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Benefits Helpline, a toll-free number for BenefitsCheckUp users to receive additional information and screening assistance.
Mature Workers NCOA is a national sponsor of the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), funded through the U.S. Department of Labor.
Economic Security NCOA offers comprehensive, person-centered economic assistance to struggling older adults, as well as community financial education workshops and online tools.
In FYwith planning their retirement journey and ensuring they can meet their goals for healthy aging.
NCOA also educates older adults on how to choose the best Medicare plan for their situation and make the most of their health care coverage.
• Over licensed Medicare advisor from a trusted partner that meets NCOA’s Standards of Excellence.

“No” to unnecessary pipelines EDF won a major victory in our long-standing fight to stop unnecessary oil and gas pipelines that lock the country into a fossil fuel–dependent future.

A federal appellate court invalidated the operating certificate of the $Illinois to Missouri.

The court found that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the project even though there was no clearly demonstrated need for additional capacity in the region.

In a subsequent victory, the Supreme Court denied Spire’s request to block the lower court’s ruling.

FERC is now facing greater public scrutiny of its authorization process, and we are pushing the commission to reform its review procedures.

If aviation were a nation, it would rank as the world’s sixth-largest carbon emitter, right between Japan and Germany.

And emissions from planes are expected to rise rapidly, with fuel consumption projected to double from pre-COVID levels by 2050.

To put the industry on a more sustainable flight path, EDF has teamed up with RMI, a clean energy think tank, and corporate partners to launch the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance.

The alliance will help decarbonize aviation by accelerating investment in, and adoption of, sustainable aviation fuels.

By creating a transparent certificate system, SABA will help companies and airlines identify the sustainable aviation fuels capable of substantially reducing airline emissions.

For a year, EDF worked with Governor Jay Inslee and the Washington state legislature, along with many local partners, to pass meaningful climate change legislation.

That work paid off in May, when the state passed the nation’s most ambitious limit on climate pollution.

serving as a model for other states and federal policymakers.

Washington and California are now the only two states with binding, declining limits on emissions across all major sectors of their economies.

Your generosity delivered protections for people and the planet.

climate change and create a safer, more equitable future for all.

Your generous support makes everything we do possible.

This annual report is coming to you a little later than usual this year.

Regardless, we hope you find the information interesting and enjoyable.

For those who can access and experience it, the outdoors continues to be a renewed or newfound haven from the continuing impact of COVID-19.

As the world continues to emerge from the pandemic, the outdoors still provides an outlet to help focus on our mental and physical wellbeing while enjoying activities with our friends and families.

There is always so much that we can highlight in our annual reports, and never enough space to cover everything you help us accomplish.

Working across boundaries, the Mission Mountain Youth Crew works and learns with the Forest Service and the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes in Montana.

Corps learns stewardship skills that are eligible to receive undergraduate credits from Western Colorado University.

We are grateful for their interest in and work to benefit the National Forest System.

You will also read about our work restoring recreational use cabins on the Tongass and Chugach National Forests in Alaska.

Our work on Tahoe National Forest in California is helping to restore forest resiliency while continuing to collaboratively plan landscape-scale work across boundaries.

hanks to supporters like you, the National Forest Foundation had another year of growth that helps us work with our many partners to create more resilient ecosystems while welcoming new and more diverse audiences to the wonder and awe of the National Forest System.

Our campaign to plant on National Forests continues to progress at a good pace.

As our organization continues to grow, our Board and staff also took the time to complete an ambitious new strategic plan that will guide our growth and enable us to support our public lands more than ever before.

our you played a role in our accomplishments.

Partnership The NFF leads the collaborative Lake Tahoe West Restoration Partnership to protect communities and restore ecological and climate resilience at Lake Tahoe.

We provided facilitation support toward environmental analysis of additional, comprehensive restoration treatments across the Stewardship Agreement with the Forest Service to implement future work.

We commissioned artist Todd Gilens to install an interactive artwork called Reading Forest at Taylor Creek Visitor Center, engaging the public with ideas about forest management and climate resilience.

Tree Planting on a Great Lakes National Forest Michigan’s Hiawatha National Forest straddles against three Great Lakes, creating unique habitat and weather conditions that can quickly change.

In reforestation program planted 644,900 seedlings across numerous project sites on the Hiawatha.

Crews planted a mix of native conifer species to support multiple habitat and restoration objectives.

The trees will help restore native habitat that was once planted to a monoculture in the early twentieth century, provide streambank stability and riparian shade, and increase habitat for one of North America’s rarest songbirds, the Kirtland’s warbler.

In total, the project planted seedlings across nearly acres of this Great Lakes National Forest. Mission Mountains Youth Crew The Mission Mountains Youth Crew, a summer job program, exposes high school-age youth living on the Flathead Reservation in Western Montana to career pathways in natural resources and helps build a bridge to college.

In the worked for seven weeks, completing stewardship activities on ancestral lands of the Salish and Pend d’Oreille in the Mission Mountains, which today are managed on one side by the Flathead National Forest and on the other by the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes (CSKT).

Working cross boundary, crew members learned from Forest Service and CSKT specialists representing diverse disciplines, including aquatics, wildlife, heritage, and recreation.

Initiative In Northern Arizona we continued to build the Wood for Life partnership in from forest restoration projects with Navajo and Hopi communities who need firewood.

With the closure of a coal-fired power plant and coal mine, the inexpensive heating source for many was lost.

The partnership has delivered over restoration projects to elders and families.

Together, we’re working to sustainably meet Tribal fuelwood needs and enhance our ability to conduct restoration projects across the region.

In the year ahead, we are working to expand the program to New Mexico and Colorado.

Corps has positively impacted public lands in Colorado’s Gunnison Valley.

In maintained trails, improved wildlife habitat, planted trees, and talked with thousands of visitors about responsible recreation and a new camping management system.

The program earned a living wage and were eligible to receive undergraduate credits from Western Colorado University.

They left the program with a hands-on natural resources management skillset.

We’re excited to continue the STOR Corps in next-generation model in the future.

Restoring Cabins in Alaska The Tongass and Chugach National Forests in Alaska, our nation’s largest National Forests, offer amazing sights to see and explore: temperate rainforests, mountains, tidewater glaciers, bears, whales, salmon, and more.

Many areas of these Forests are remote and rugged.

Luckily, the Forest Service has cabins available for the public to rent allowing for safe exploration of these areas.

Over the past three years, the NFF has restored have fallen into disrepair.

In restored the Kanga Bay Cabin on the Tongass and built a brand new cabin at Goose Bay on the Chugach.

Our work on the public cabins will ensure visitors will be able to enjoy Alaska’s wild places for years to come.

Community Statement of Activities Support and Revenue Foundations ...............................................

Reimbursable Grants ................................. $Other Income .............................................. $57,734 Investment Gain (Loss) ................................

Alongside local partners, we’re working to prevent wildfires and support sustainable trails on the Forest.

Working with local partners, we’re developing a holistic restoration strategy for the North Umpqua watershed.

We’re partnering with the local community to support forest health on Bald Mountain and throughout the Sawtooth National Forest.

Treasured Landscapes • NFF-facilitated Collaboratives•Other NFF-led Projects• NFF Offices acres of wildlife habitat restored or maintained volunteer hours 5,853 volunteers 2,224 youth employed or engaged 2,883 9,600 1,427 419 1,983 3,641 $21,646,162 acres of fuel reduction planned or completed miles of trailwork miles of stream surveyed or restored acres of noxious weeds treated participants in peer learning sessions total conservation value Collectively, the NFF issued 219 grants or contracts in FY 2021.

and private funds, which were leveraged with $in partner-raised funds for a total conservation value of $21,646,162.

Kuat Innovations LLC Pink Jeep Tours Stryker’s Sustainability Solutions Tahoe Fund The Dale Kutnick & Laura Gordon Kutnick Foundation, Inc.

$Alliance Corrugated Box, Inc. Allied Maker Anonymous Arizona Snowbowl Aspen Community Foundation Brentwood Home Brookstone Homes, LLC Churchill Asset Management LLC Columbia Bank ConocoPhillips Alaska Day One Perspective e.l.f.

Spottswoode Winery Sterling Organization T-Mobile The Allyn Foundation, Inc.

Org Hobo Wine Company HTG Investment Advisors, Inc. Lexant Title Mack Trucks, Inc. Mile MTKC Oakwood Veneer OROA USA LLC Osprey Packs Inc. Richie Graham Photography Sandia Laboratory Federal Credit Union SoloStove Studio Ma Sunlight Mountain Resort The Charles Delmar Foundation The Standard Tru Fit Athletic Clubs Wall Street Greetings, LLC Winter Park Resort Xometry, Inc.

Services Koukol & Associates, Inc. Laird Norton Family Foundation Lantower Residential Levitzacks Certified Public Accountants Lipsey and Associates Loon Mountain Madaras Gallery, Inc.

Maloha LLC Monarch Mountain New Leaf Detox and Treatment Inc. Northrop Grumman Outbound Financial PAPER PROJECT PBWS Architects Rapid Axis Rare Collectibles TV, LLC Rebellion Energy Services Operating, LLC Red House Architecture Roundup Riders of the Rockies Heritage and Trails Foundation Sandler O’Neill + Partners SequoiaCX Snowshoe Mountain StarQuest Group StayOver Management Strong Tower Consulting Tarbell Family Foundation Team Lawler Customs The Desert Leaf The von Gontard Family Foundation Timberline Lodge TypeHaus, Inc. Ultra Creative, Inc. WaiverSign Walking in Nature Walmart Wild Tribute Wine Nook Woodlake Outdoor, Inc.

We believe that how we age should not be determined by gender, color, sexuality, income, or ZIP code.

resources, tools, best practices, and advocacy to ensure every person can age with health and financial security.

Founded in the oldest national organization focused on older adults.

Chronic Disease NCOA’s National Chronic Disease Self-Management Education (CDSME) Resource Center works to increase access to, and use of, CDSME and other evidence-based programs to help older adults and adults with disabilities live longer, healthier lives.

support state and community-based organizations across the U.S. in expanding CDSME programs and embedding them in the nation’s health and long-term services and supports systems.

Managed the largest CDSME program database in the U.S. During this time period, CDSME programs.

States partnered with 1,659 CDSME workshops at 419 unique implementation sites.

• Continued to serve as a national clearinghouse to disseminate new resources, information, and successful practices to support CDSME programming, including monthly newsletters and webinars, website resources, and presentations at national conferences.

• Led several initiatives focused on supporting community-based organizations in creating partnerships with health care entities, including intensive learning collaboratives focused on network development and opportunities for partnership with Medicare Advantage plans Falls Prevention The NCOA National Falls Prevention Resource Center supports the implementation, dissemination, and sustainability of evidence-based falls prevention programs and strategies across the nation to reduce the incidence of falls among older adults and adults with disabilities.

A | F Y serves as a national clearinghouse of tools, best practices, and other information on falls prevention.

Provided leadership, expert guidance, and resources to support with implementing, scaling, and sustaining evidence-based falls prevention programs.

The Center managed the largest falls prevention program database in the U.S.

• Developed resources for older adults, caregivers, and professionals to increase public awareness about falls and to connect older adults with evidence-based falls prevention programs in their community.

effective strategies to prevent falls and fall-related injuries.

NCOA and the Falls Free Initiative led the Week (FPAW) and celebrated over a decade of empowering older adults with the confidence to protect themselves from fall-related injuries.

National FPAW awareness and media efforts reached an estimated 380 million people.

efforts, as well as falls risk screenings and falls prevention programs.

ECONOMIC SECURITY NCOA boosts the economic security of millions of vulnerable, low-income older adults through our online tools and a national network of community partners.

Benefits Access NCOA helps qualified older adults enroll in programs that pay for health care, prescriptions, food, utilities, and other daily expenses.

NCOA supported Medicare beneficiaries access all the benefits they may be missing.

A | F Y (MIPPA) funding to help low-income individuals apply for Medicare subsidies.

MIPPA grantees assisted (LIS) and Medicare Savings Programs (MSP) applications.

Foundation, adults in applying for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Benefits Helpline, a toll-free number for BenefitsCheckUp users to receive additional information and screening assistance.

Mature Workers NCOA is a national sponsor of the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), funded through the U.S. Department of Labor.

Economic Security NCOA offers comprehensive, person-centered economic assistance to struggling older adults, as well as community financial education workshops and online tools.

In FYwith planning their retirement journey and ensuring they can meet their goals for healthy aging.

NCOA also educates older adults on how to choose the best Medicare plan for their situation and make the most of their health care coverage.

• Over licensed Medicare advisor from a trusted partner that meets NCOA’s Standards of Excellence.