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You have the funding and the mission. We make it real on the ground.

We build the market intelligence that foundations, agencies, and investors need to deploy capital into nature-based climate solutions with confidence.

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Turning a budget into a functioning program requires operational expertise, field relationships, and coordination across stakeholders that most funders don't have in-house.

We're the partner that fills that gap.

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We work alongside funders to build the operational machinery that turns intent into outcomes.

New Leaf brings the technical assistance and field expertise that funded programs need to actually deliver, and we stay through the full arc: scoping, design, stakeholder coordination, buildout, and long-term management.

Programs and institutions we've built with partners:

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Building the Playbook for Restoration Finance

The biggest barrier to ecological restoration isn't political will or shovel-ready land — it's that practitioners can't find the right capital among dozens of fragmented instruments. The Restoration Capital Toolbox is being built to close that gap.

Mapping the Conservation Finance Landscape in Missouri: The Gap Between Ambition and Capital

Conservation in Missouri depends on capital that doesn't yet exist at scale — and most of the institutions that benefit from healthy land sit outside the funding equation. With the Missouri Department of Conservation, we're mapping where the dollars flow, where they don't, and what would change that.

Supporting Main Street: Strengthening the small businesses that hold our communities together

Small businesses are the connective tissue of rural communities, but the people running them often can't access the capital, coaching, or sustainability planning they need. With Edward Jones, the Main Street Initiative delivers all three to the operators holding their towns together.

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