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National Wildlife Refuge Friends

Refuge Friends organizations are effective co-stewards of important natural resources within the National Wildlife Refuge System. They develop and implement projects that benefit both wildlife and people. The very existence of the National Wildlife Refuge System is credited to citizens eager to protect America’s natural resources, and refuge Friends organizations continue this legacy.

Chi-Cal Rivers Fund

The Chi-Cal Rivers Fund is a public-private partnership working to restore the health, vitality and accessibility of the waterways in the Chicago and Calumet region by supporting nature-based solutions, habitat enhancement, and public-use improvements and stewardship.

Southeast Michigan Resilience Fund

The Southeast Michigan Resilience Fund is a public-private partnership that improves natural habitats and resources for the benefit of communities, fish and wildlife in Southeast Michigan by reducing the impact of stormwater, improving water quality, and increasing the accessibility and usability of public green space and natural areas. These actions help communities prepare for changing environmental stressors, including loss of habitat, invasive species, nonpoint source pollution and other factors.

Cumberland Plateau Stewardship Fund

The Cumberland Plateau Stewardship Fund is dedicated to restoring native forests to conditions that will improve associated wildlife species and the health of freshwater systems, while advancing strategies to support working forests within the Cumberland Plateau.

Texas Gulf Coast Water Flows Initiative

The Texas Gulf Coast Water Flows program works to increase freshwater flows into Texas bays and estuaries through strategic development of voluntary water transactions in three Gulf coast watersheds.

Chesapeake WILD

The Chesapeake Watershed Investments for Landscape Defense (WILD) Grants Program delivered in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service supports efforts to improve the condition and connectivity of habitats for at risk and federally listed species.

Chesapeake Small Watershed Grants

The Small Watershed Grants (SWG) Program, delivered in partnership with EPA and the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership promotes voluntary, community-based efforts to protect and restore the diverse and vital habitats of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers and streams.

Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund is dedicated to protecting the bay by working to advance local on-the-ground watershed restoration, helping local communities clean up and restore their polluted rivers and streams, and restoring and protecting key Chesapeake Bay species.