WASHINGTON and OTTAWA — The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) is proud to announce 16 new SFI Community Grants to support meaningful initiatives in communities across the United States and Canada while progressing SFI’s mission of advancing sustainability through forest-focused collaboration. SFI Community Grants are awarded for collaborative community-based projects, activities, and events that connect communities to forests. Since the SFI Community Grant Program started in 2010, SFI has awarded 118 grants totaling more than $1 million invested to foster community-building projects. The 16 new grants of the 2023 program represent a record-breaking number of projects supported and more than $215,000 in total funding announced.