Where Does The Money Go?

Your money goes toward planting thousands of trees, establishing village forest reserves, environmental eduction in village schools, all of the work we have been doing in Tanzania since 1991. Like the keystone of an arch, which would collapse if the single small piece were removed, a keystone species has an outsized effect on its ecosystem relative to its small population. Your donation, while perhaps small, has an outsize effect.

The Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG) is founded upon unrestricted funding provided by the the African Rainforest Conservancy (ARC), in the US, and the African Rainforest Trust (ART), its sister organization in the UK. The TFCG calls the ARC/ART its bedrock, as it has been able to grow its village network from one village to over 260 over the past two decades and its budget to a level that averages over $3 million per year.
The critical unrestricted funding provided by ARC allows the TFCG:

To meet small % requirements for matching funding for multi-million $ grants
A degree of security and stability between grant cycles from the EU, UK, Switzerland and others who fund large programs
Resources to bring in professional grant writers to access large grants
To retain staff who excel, even when project funding ends
To maintain a presence in sensitive areas between project cycles
To respond to opportunities and critical situations as they arise
To remain true to its mission even when these differ from current funding ‘trends’
To try new approaches more experimental than large donors are ready to finance