Grant Details

The Foundation requests that the areas of interest, restrictions and application process be reviewed carefully before submitting a Letter of Intent. Please see the Foundation's website for guidelines on the International Initiative, Children's Initiative, or Sustainable Forest and Communities Initiative.

The International Initiative - 

The goal of the International Initiative is to help women, girls, and their families overcome violence, poverty and other hardships in under-developed countries. The Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation's International Initiative funds only international projects by domestic 501(c)3 organizations. Programs in the following areas that aid women and children are of special interest:

• Education: Projects that address the needs of at-risk youth.
• Environment, Conservation, and Preservation: Forestry projects and projects that preserve and protect the environment by using scarce resources wisely.
• Health: Projects addressing mental health (including, chemical dependency) and family planning.
• Economic Development: Programs that support micro-lending, providing a source of capital to create better lives.

The Children's Initiative - 

The goal of the Children's Initiative is to support programs that create and promote stability and resiliency for children who have been exposed to domestic violence. Programs must contain all four of the following components:

• Directly serve children who have been exposed to domestic violence. The Foundation will not fund programs that develop curricula or methodologies, train staff or educate the general public, or that are designed to prevent domestic violence in general.
• Enhance the mother-child relationship.
• Include a specific domestic violence parenting education component.
• Be a new project. Funding is for new projects that are within the first year of their development. See the section "Multi-Year Funding" for more details.

Your program should possess the following characteristics:

• Have the objective of preventing future abuse and breaking the cycle of violence.
• Assist children in coping with the physical, emotional, and mental trauma of abuse.
• Provide treatment and services beyond initial intervention.
• Target children of middle school age and younger.
• Use an approach based on proven and documented strategies and one that provides clear metrics to measure the program's outcomes.

Please note:

• The Foundation will provide program support for domestic violence programs only.
• Projects that focus on abused or homeless children, children with special needs, programs that attempt to prevent domestic violence, or provide programs for children who have experienced domestic violence, are not the Initiative's focus.
• Requests for capital support or general operating support are not considered.

The goal of the Sustainable Forests and Communities Initiative is to promote the creation of environmentally and economically sustainable forest communities in the regions of the United States where the Weyerhaeuser Family's business interests originated. The Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation through its Sustainable Forests and Communities Initiative is interested in supporting organizations that work in forested landscapes to enhance the environment, the economy, and community. Implementation of integrated approaches in these areas that also enhance market valuation of forest ecosystem services is favored. Thus, the Foundation is looking for projects that promote vibrant forest-based communities by focusing on the following:

• Environment: Employing sustainable forest management, conservation, and ecological restoration.
• Economy: Developing and encouraging enterprise-based sustainable economic activities.
• Community: Using innovative social and locally-based business processes to meet agreed-upon environmental and economic sustainability goals.
• Forest Ecosystem Services: Using innovative business or policy models to better establish prices and markets for ecosystem services. (Forest ecosystem services can include, but are not restricted to, carbon sequestration, forests' role in the carbon, nutrient, and water cycles, providing habitat to support biodiversity, and providing aesthetic, educational, and other cultural services.)

Projects of potential interest include the following examples:

• Creation of local market-based jobs for in-forest activities (such as sustainable forest management, forest restoration, or sustainable silviculture).
• Development of demand for certified wood and for products made with sustainably produced forest resources (e.g., wood, boughs, biomass, mushrooms).
• Promoting sustainable forest management alternatives to conversion of private forested land to other uses.
• Creating value in forests and forest communities through developing, producing, and marketing new forest products or forest ecosystem services.
• Advancing community-wide long-term planning for monetizing the full range of forest values, including explicit valuation of and creation of markets for forest ecosystem services.