Environmental nonprofit aims to recoup after funding cut

Losing a four-year, $900,000 grant, according to Kulshan Carbon Trust, or KCT — a Bellingham-based nonprofit focused on conserving carbon and other climate solutions — means returning to the drawing board.

The grant, awarded by the National Association of Conservation Districts to the Snohomish Conservation District in partnership with the carbon trust, was for measuring the results of a larger project to make forests more productive. KCT president Howard Sharfstein said this would have provided the job security sometimes elusive in the field of nonprofit climate action.

In the coming weeks, the Snohomish Conservation District will receive guidance from the federal government for a new proposal due in June for the same pot of money, which will have a new name and amended focus, said executive director Linda Lyshall.

“We’re going to resubmit this proposal and slightly different flavor of it and hopefully get funded through it,” she said, “so we’re trying to stay on good terms, if you will.”

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