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Forterra to work with Hilltop community to shape development of Rite Aid property
September 19, 2019 TACOMA, WA – Today the nonprofit organization Forterra announced that it has launched a community engagement program to shape future development of the Hilltop Rite Aid property in Tacoma. Forterra purchased the property earlier this month, following conversations with community stakeholders and Tacoma’s elected leaders about how ...
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Forterra announces bold effort for a town hit hard by floods
HAMILTON, Wash. 30 APRIL 2019 — Today, the conservation group Forterra announced that is has committed $1 million to help residents move out of the flood plain and to restore the river in Hamilton, a small Skagit Valley community that for years has faced recurrent and devastating floods. In coordination ...
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Hundreds of Volunteers Step up as Community Stewards on 2019 MLK Day of Service
In 1983, the third Monday in January became a federal holiday in honor and memory of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Eleven years later, Congress designated the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday as the United States' first and only National Day of Service. Integral to the Civil Rights Movement, ...
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Gene Duvernoy takes a new role after three distinguished decades as Forterra’s president
SEATTLE, 26-APRIL-2018 — Gene Duvernoy founded Forterra (formerly the Cascade Land Conservancy) in 1989 in the attic of his home, building on the work of dedicated volunteers like Gerry Johnson. In the nearly thirty years since, Gene's bold leadership and entrepreneurial spirit have grown the organization into one of the ...
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Tech investors, housing developers, others help Forterra close $10.25M first round of innovative Strong Communities Fund
SEATTLE — Forterra, a nonprofit whose mission is securing places that are keystones of a sustainable future in the Pacific Northwest, today announced the first-round close of its new social impact investment vehicle, the Strong Communities Fund, with $10.25M raised. With Amazon and other high-flying companies fueling a red-hot economy ...
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A Gift to the Region: Over 1,500 More Acres of Port Gamble Forest Secured On Kitsap Peninsula
PORT GAMBLE, December 22, 2017 – On Friday afternoon, Forterra closed a transaction to secure more than 1,500 acres of the Port Gamble Forest from Pope Resources, completing the final puzzle piece of a decade-long project that has now conserved 4,000 acres for recreation, restoration, cultural heritage and habitat. Kitsap ...
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