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Our Impact: Making Green Happen

Since 2023 Green Impact has helped its clients raise $39 million dollars toward land acquisition, sustainable agriculture, working forest, and urban greening projects. In 2025, we wrote five successful Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation (SALC) grants, raising $13 million to support working lands.

Program Expertise

Green Impact is familiar with a range of regional, state, and federal grant programs, including: State Coastal Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Board, Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation (SALC), Caltrans (Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation Program), CAL FIRE, River Parkways, and Rivers and Mountains Conservancy (RMC).

Our Clients

Our current and past clients include the Trust for Public Land, Sonoma Land Trust, Save the Redwoods League, American Forests, Sonoma Ag + Open Space, Bay Area Ridge Trail Council, American Forests, Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), Hayward Area Recreation District (HARD), Santa Clara Valley Water, EcoAmerica, and Haas School of Business.

Trust for Public Land

Support the Trust for Public Land as a contract grant writer with a focus on large, complex grants for land acquisition, restoration, and urban greening projects in California and across the U.S. Work closely with the project managers to translate the project concept into a concrete work plan with clear deliverables and a narrative that brings the project to life. To-date, Green Impact has helped TPL to raise over $25 million from a range of state and federal programs, including EPA Community Change grants, Wildlife Conservation Board, SALC, Caltrans–Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation (EEM) Program , CAL FIRE, River Parkways, RMC, and State Coastal Conservancy.

Sonoma Land Trust

Support the Sonoma Land Trust raise millions of dollars to support critical land acquisition projects, including McCormick Ranch and multiple Bayland properties. Have written successful funding proposals to the Wildlife Conservation Board, California Natural Resources Agency, The Moore Foundation, and the State Coastal Conservancy. 

Save the Redwoods League

Support Save the Redwoods League craft grants that successfully raise funds to support land acquisition via both fee title and conservation easements. To date, Green Impact has raised over $10 million to support protection of old-growth redwoods, including CAL FIRE Forest Legacy, WCB, and EEM Program grants.

Friends of the Petaluma River

Supported Friends of the Petaluma River write a successful planning grant to the California Coastal Conservancy to fund the initial planning for its Petaluma Greenway project.

American Forests

Supported American Forests craft proposals to support its initiative to protect white bark pine.

Haas School of Business, Center for Responsible Business

Managed the Center’s first successful crowdfunding campaign, raising over $250,000 for the Haas SRI Fund. Crafted an outreach strategy that engaged current students, faculty, and alumni; used video, blog posts, social media (Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook), and email to drive traffic to crowdfunding website. Reached out to strategic media contacts to get coverage in The Guardian and GreenBiz.com. See Crowdfunding: Six Tips for Making Your First Campaign a Success.

EcoAmerica

Supported EcoAmerica write the initial grant proposal to launch MomentUS, which successfully raised $2.5 million from the MacArthur Foundation. Focused on the portion of the grant on how a cross-sector network would be created to build a critical mass of public demand and institutional support for climate solutions.

California Environmental Dialogue

Played a critical role in the design and implementation of a successful stakeholder dialogue that brings corporate leaders, from businesses such as Bank of America, Disney, Chevron, Hewlett Packard and PG&E, together with governmental and NGO leaders to develop new initiatives related to transportation, air quality, and habitat protection in California. Translated the concept into a concrete work plan and crafted grants that raised $350,000 from the Hewlett, Packard, and Compton Foundations to support operating expenses.