Announcements
- We apologize for any confusion caused by our year-end mailing, which incorrectly identified the "Member Since" date as the date of last gift. Please accept our apologies and this situation will be corrected for future mailings.
- If you wish to donate for immediate relief for the Haiti Earthquake, please direct your donations to the Red Cross or http://clintonbushhaitifund.org/.
- Be sure to visit the World Seed Program's new message board!
- On September 23, 2009, the New Forests Project held a presentation discussing our partners through the World Seed Progrm in Cameroon and Kenya. Refer to the presentation, summary and invitation for more information.
- Check out pictures from the trip to Africa!
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The New Forests Project has changed its postal address for donations to a post office box due to requests from our auditors and our bank for more security. Our new address is:
The International Center
New Forests Project
P.O. Box 70272
Washington, DC 20024-0272
Please continue to send all other correspondence to our original address.
History
The New Forests Project is a people-to-people, direct-action program established in 1982 in an effort to reduce the effects of deforestation in developing countries. Since its inception the New Forests Project has supported more than 4,400 communities in over 120 countries. Its goals are to provide farmers, community organizations, and environmental groups with the training and materials necessary to begin successful reforestation projects, protect their watersheds and other natural resources. More recent initiatives of the New Forests Project include implementing water & sanitation projects in Latin America.
Clean Water Initiative
Water is another essential resource, crucial to the lives of all living beings. The New Forests Project works to provide rural communities in Central America with clean drinking water, a basic necessity that many communities lack. More…
The World Seed Program
The World Seed Program of the New Forests Project was established in 1982 in order to bring training materials, educational assistance and high quality tree seeds to farmers, environmental groups, women's cooperatives, municipal governments and anyone interested More...
