Apply Now for Seed to Carbon Forest Accelerator Program

Applicants are now encouraged to apply for the Seed to Carbon Forest Accelerator Program to provide early-stage forestry teams with project financing, as well as two years of training and technical support to scale their operations.

Donor Name: Terraformation

Country: Global

Type of Grant: Accelerator

Deadline: 07/31/2023

Size of the Grant: $20,000

Details:

As the world’s first biodiversity-focused, carbon-funded forest accelerator, they aim to help forest teams achieve responsible restoration at scale.

Expert Support for Local Forestry Teams

The global teams of science and forestry experts are integrated into local communities, supporting foresters through their most critical challenges.
- Funding
  - Fund planting costs to get projects off the ground
  - Coordinate forward carbon sales to deliver regular revenue to forestry teams and local communities
  - Develop sustainable business models to eliminate the need for fundraising and grant writing
- Training
  - Ongoing opportunities to learn best practices from science, forestry, carbon, finance, legal, community impact, and marketing experts
- Seeds
  - Seed banking solutions to promote high native species diversity
  - See some of the seed bank models
- Tracking
  - Monitoring and tracking from seed to field for high project transparency
  - Guided support with Terraware software
- Expert Support
  - Global team of foresters, scientists, technologists, experienced carbon market strategists, and creative communicators ready to help your project succeed
- High-Quality Projects with Flexibility
  - Focus on native, biodiverse restoration that creates community benefits
  - Opportunity to incorporate agroforestry and sustainable timber harvest
- Carbon Market Verification
  - Execute feasibility studies and Project Design Document (PDD)
  - Facilitate project verification with top-tier third-party verifiers
  - Connect projects to carbon credit buyers

Benefits for Forestry Teams

Software solutions and training for monitoring progress and identifying bottlenecks
A free feasibility study to assess your project’s carbon potential ($20,000 USD value)
Networking with other forestry teams
Pilot capital and additional funding opportunities
Infrastructure and technology, like seed banks and nurseries
Project design document (PDD)
Design for long-term impact (30+ years) and community engagement
Development of complementary sustainable business models for multiple revenue streams (carbon credits, agroforestry, silvopasture, NTFP)

Criteria

The Accelerator is open to forest restoration teams around the globe. You might be a great fit if you have:
- Shared values
  - Share the values of biodiversity and native ecosystem restoration
- Land access
  - Have long-term access and rights to reforest at least 300 hectares of land
- Tropical or subtropical location
  - The forestry accelerator is designed to support organizations focused on tropical or subtropical reforestation projects and communities only
- An experienced team
  - Already have a team with forest restoration experience
- Interest in carbon markets
  - Are interested in learning more about carbon market financing
- Long-term planning
  - Are focused on restoring forests that last for generations and benefit the environment and communities around those forests
- Sustainable business models
  - Have experience with complementary sustainable business models like agroforestry and non-timber forest products