Celebrating 35 years of radical, practical change

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Ecotrust is a collaborative nonprofit, working in partnership with community members and organizations.

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2025 Annual Report

2025 Annual Report

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We need you. Now, more than ever

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Indigenous Agroforestry Network: Working with NRCS

For more than 35 years, Ecotrust has worked with communities from California to Alaska to create a more reliably prosperous future for people and place.

Current projects

We work in partnership across our region. Explore some of our 30+ current projects below.

Slideshow: Harvesting kelp in Southeast Alaska, Bethany Sonsini Goodrich | Restoration through Storytelling gathering at Black Futures Farm, Ben Anang for FLI Social | An acorn found at Hall Mountain Community Forest, managed by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Sean Gutierrez 

Working with a statewide network to support farm to school programming in Oregon
Connecting land stewards, traditional gatherers, agroforestry and partners across the Northwest to uphold Indigenous agroforestry practices by Indigenous communities
Spencer Beece and Jane Jacobs in the 1990s

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Working along with natural principles, people can create economies that are more reliably prosperous than those we have now and also more harmonious with the rest of nature. Human beings exist wholly within nature, as part of the natural order in every respect.

—Jane Jacobs (1916 – 2006), author, activist and Ecotrust Board member shown here with Spencer B. Beebe, Ecotrust founder 

Stories & news

Hear the voices of our region’s leaders and explore stories of home. See some of our latest news below. 

Slideshow: Gabe Sheoships (Cayuse/Walla Walla) accepts one of the 2023 Indigenous Leadership Awards, Jason Hill | Red huckleberries harvested in the Tongass National Forest, located in Southeast Alaska. These are the homelands of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian Peoples who continue to care for, steward, and honor the lands and waters that sustain all Southeast Alaskans, Bethany Sonsini Goodrich | Ecotrust staff and volunteers help out at Thimbleberry Collaborative Farm, Jason Hill

Impact & Partnership

Since 1991, our approach has relied on the strength of our partnerships.

Alongside a network of 500+ of partners—including nonprofits, businesses, Tribes, agencies, philanthropic organizations, and individuals—our impact expands through collective action.

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For Earth Day, Ecotrust staff volunteered at Native American Youth and Family Center’s Community Garden, Wapas Nah Née Shaku. Photo credit: Jason Hill

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