For more than fifty years, The Joseph & Vera Long Foundation has supported conservation efforts to study, protect, and restore the natural environment.  Inspired by Joe and Vera's values of limiting waste, safeguarding natural resources, and caring for others, we believe it is humanity's responsibility to preserve our planet for future generations.

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Through the work of our grantee partners, we have witnessed both the resilience of ecosystems and the adaptability of species.  Yet we have also seen the immense effort required to repair the damage caused by unchecked human advancement.  Rising global temperatures threaten devastating environmental and social consequences.  Still, we remain hopeful that solutions to climate change can do more than reduce greenhouse gases—they can protect biodiversity, strengthen food systems, reduce pollution, and advance equity.

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Our Board of Trustees has chosen to focus on innovative climate solutions that deliver multiple benefits.  We have committed half of our annual grant budget to climate-focused work, partnering with others to unlock promising solutions that often lack access to traditional funding.  This has included grants to support large scale nature-based carbon sequestration as well as global funding collaboratives.

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As we continue to develop our proactive approach, we will not be accepting unsolicited environmental grant applications for the foreseeable future.