The landowners, small businesses, and restoration organizations who steward rural America's working landscapes face a persistent financing gap. Working capital is scarce. Lending products are poorly suited to the timelines and risks of land-based work. And government conservation programs, while valuable, are reimbursement-based, effectively excluding many families who could benefit. The Rural Resilience Fund (RRF) is New Leaf’s answer to that problem.

The US can't hit its reforestation goals without nurseries — and nursery infrastructure is contracting right as demand surges. The Forest Inputs Resilience Fund is dedicated debt capital for the businesses upstream of every reforestation project in the country.

Small landowners are responsible for a third of California's fuel reduction goal, but they're the least able to afford the upfront costs of treatment. We're piloting two new carbon-crediting approaches with 25 landowners across 2,000 high-burn-probability acres in Northern California.