The Jessie B. Cox Trust closed out its year of environmental grantmaking in 2011 with a new appreciation of the challenges of increasing the scale and speed of land conservation in New England.

Most of the projects supported by the Trust feature seasoned environmental organizations working in broad and deep coalitions of nonprofit, business, and government partners.

And while all of the projects supported by the foundation have demonstrated impressive momentum in “increasing the green on the map”, the most important outcomes emerging from the work seem to be in increasing and strengthening the linkages and connectivity between organizations.

It turns out that understanding the ecology of organizations is as important as understanding the ecology of the habitat. Continue Reading »