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Welcome to the 2025 Conservation Finance Boot Camp application! The Conservation Finance Network will host the course from June 2-6 at the Yale School of Environment in New Haven, CT in partnership with the Yale Center for Business and the Environment.
The application will take about 30 minutes to complete. Please answer all questions in this application; we will not review incomplete applications.
Before filling out this form, please review our
Boot Camp webpage
for responses to frequently asked questions and materials from previous Boot Camps. The website also includes a PDF copy of this application should you wish to review the questions before beginning the survey. We recommend saving your responses to the short answer questions in a separate document and pasting them into this form to prevent you from losing your work unexpectedly.
This application will close on Monday, January 21, 2025 at midnight PST. Please plan to submit by that date.
Thank you for your interest in the Conservation Finance Boot Camp, we look forward to reviewing your application!
Peter Howell
Executive Director
The Conservation Finance Network
1. Please enter your information
First Name
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Last Name
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Preferred Pronouns
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Organization Name
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Organization website
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Job Title
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Address
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City
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State/Region
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Country
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Email
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Work Phone
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2. How did you hear about the Boot Camp? (check all that apply)
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Colleague
CFN Website or monthly Enews
Social Media
Conference or Event
Boot Camp Alumni
Other Source (please specify)
3. What sector(s) best describe your work?
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Land Trust
Non-profit conservation or resource management organization
For-Profit Business, Corporation, or Investment Firm
Federal Agency
State Government
Municipal or Local Government
Tribal/First Nation
Other (please specify)
4. Please describe your organization or program's mission
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5. How many people work at your current organization (# of Full Time Equivalent Staff)?
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6. What stage of your conservation finance career are you in?
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Early Career
Mid-Career
Later Career
7. Do you have your supervisor's approval to apply for the Boot Camp?
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Yes
No
8. Please provide a short bio describing your current work, your role in your current organization, and your professional background (100 words).
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9. In what region(s) do you work?
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United States
North America (non-U.S.)
South America, Central America, or the Caribbean
Europe
Africa
Asia or Pacific Islands
Australia or New Zealand
10. What types of conservation lands or natural resources is your organization most focused on? (select all that apply)
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Forests
Farmland
Prairies and grasslands
Coastal areas and estuaries
Urban parks and natural areas
Recreational lands (includes trails)
Rivers and wetlands
Other focus (please specify)
11. In what region(s) of the United States do you work?
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Nationwide
Northeast (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont)
Mid-Atlantic (Delaware, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia)
South (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas)
Midwest (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota)
Mountain West (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming)
Pacific Coast (California, Oregon, Washington)
Alaska
Hawaii
Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and other U.S. territories
Other region (please specify)
Please respond to these short answer questions in 3 sentences or less, and be as concise as possible.
12. What types of conservation funding and financing have you or your organization had experience with? (e.g. income from the land, public funding, borrowing money, ecosystem service markets, impact investing, etc.)
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13. What types of conservation finance tools do you most want to learn about at the Boot Camp?
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Grants: Federal
Grants: State or Local
Philanthropic funding from Individuals or Institutions
Creative uses of philanthropic funding (i.e. loan loss reserves, recoverable grants)
Corporate funding or sponsorship
Private investment
Outcomes-based finances
Ecosystem service markets
Blended finance
Loan Capital
14. Please describe: focus on the two tools above that you are most interested in and describe why you would like to learn about them.
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15. What are your greatest frustrations or challenges with funding and financing your conservation work?
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16. How do you plan to make use of insight, information, and professional connections gained from the Boot Camp?
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17. Are you working on a specific project, programmatic challenge, or initiative that could benefit from consultation at the Boot Camp? (This is strongly recommended but not required. We have found that attendees working on a specific initiative are best suited to learn from and take action on content presented at the Boot Camp.)
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Yes (please describe below)
No
Maybe (please describe below)
18. If you answered yes or maybe, please describe your specific project; Descriptions can include an overview of the project/issue, how much money is needed, timeline, location, key challenges, etc.
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19. If selected to attend the Boot Camp, will you or your organization be able to cover the $2,950 tuition plus lodging and travel costs? (Please note that we have a
very limited
number of scholarships available which are most often provided by foundations to sponsor their grantees or to support attendees form small and underresourced organizations.)
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Yes
Maybe (may need partial scholarship support for tuition)
No (would need full scholarship support for tuition)
20. In 1-2 sentences, please describe your scholarship need. Please note that if scholarship funds are available, they will be very limited.
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