WELCOME!
IFCAE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
whose mission is to
improve human and
environmental conditions through applied research, education, and community
improvement projects.
As a nonprofit public charity IFCAE needs your help to build our organization
and carry out our charitable work. For more information visit out
Donation page.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
IFCAE & Tropical Salvage's Jepara Forest Conservancy project has been listed on
Global Giving's
website!
Website revision update. We are undertaking our first website
overhaul in eight years so please excuse any problems you run into. We
expect to be finished by spring 2008.
THANK YOU TO RECENT DONORS & FUNDERS
National Science Foundation
Willamette Resources & Education Network
Jennifer and Ellen Wilcox
Melza M. and Frank Theodore Barr Foundation
Tropical Salvage
TechSoup Stock,
Adobe, &
Microsoft for software
Nike
U.S.
Dept. of Agriculture
USDA
Forest Service PNW Research Station
Oregon Woodland Cooperative
Colorado State University Extension
People and Plants International
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
See the full list of
IFCAE
Donors
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CURRENT PROJECTS
Decision Support
System Tool Analysis - This study examines the effectiveness of DSS tools in
the Columbia River Basin Salmon Recovery process.
Jepara Forest
Conservancy - IFCAE has partnered with Tropical Salvage to establish a
botanical park and education center in the Indonesian village of Jepara.
West Eugene Wetlands Ethnobotany
Resource Area
The goal of this project is to create opportunities for regional tribes to help
with identification, restoration, and use of traditionally managed/culturally
important species.
Congo Basin Aka Education
- This project is helping Aka foragers who have requested the need for
education and tools to protect their culture and environment.
Nontimber Forest
Product Development and Technical Assistance in the Middlefork Willamette
Watershed - IFCAE has partnered with members of the Middlefork Willamette
watershed to help small businesses develop their NTFP ideas and products.
Iroquois Social Enterprise Development - We are helping the Iroquois
National Lacrosse Program to advance education and community health goals based
on Iroquois heritage and environmental principles.
Nontimber Forest Product Culture & Management.
This online course is available through Oregon State
University's eCampus.
SeaAid. By working collaboratively with community
members, boaters, anthropologists and development professionals,
SeaAid seeks to promote cultural, economic, and environmental sustainability
through community-based service projects that
provide appropriate technology and other direct aid.
Pinyon-Juniper Ecosystem Sustainable
Management
A project examining the potential management of Pinyon-Juniper ecosystems as nut
groves.
An Examination of Informal
Economic systems in Natural Resource and Economic Development Policy.
International Nontimber Forest Product Policy
Manual. A collaboration
with People and Plants International to produce a book of international case
studies on NTFP policy.
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