The TERRA program was established by the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to administer funds resulting from legal and regulatory actions involving Virginia’s natural resources. It achieves this largely through grants. TERRA is subject to VOF’s high standards of transparency and accountability. All of our work is reported annually to the Virginia General Assembly and overseen by a seven-member board of trustees appointed by Virginia’s Governor.
TERRA can receive funds from a variety of legal and regulatory actions, such as:
As a public foundation, VOF is a natural fit for administering these types of funds. We have longstanding partnerships with state and federal conservation agencies, local governments, planning offices, and private nonprofits. Many of VOF’s policies and practices have been adopted by other conservation programs in Virginia and beyond.
Our decades of experience managing one of the largest and most diverse conservation portfolios in the nation demonstrates our results-oriented, highly efficient approach to getting good conservation done
Active funds are those that contain sufficient funds to award grants. Please check the fund’s page for whether there is a current request for proposals.
This fund was established in June 2018 using $15 million from a mitigation agreement between the Commonwealth of Virginia and Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC, which was signed in December 2017. Its purpose is to mitigate forest fragmentation caused by pipeline’s 303-mile right-of-way through Virginia. Grants are awarded for projects that preserve, connect, and enhance forest resources. Click here for more information about this fund.
Inactive funds are those that contain insufficient funds to award grants. Please check the fund’s page to learn more in case of future grant opportunities.
This fund was established in December 2019 using mitigation funds through an agreement between the Virginia Outdoors Foundation and the Virginia Department of Transportation. The Fund’s purpose is to mitigate for the loss of riparian trees on a VOF easement in Amelia County resulting from a bridge replacement project. Grants are awarded to projects that enhance water quality in the Appomattox River watershed. Click here for more information about this fund.
The Read Mountain Preserve has more than doubled in size thanks to a fruitful public/private partnership between a local advocacy group, local agencies, landowners and grants from VOF’s Preservation Trust and Forest Core funds.
Grants from Forest CORE Fund support eight projects that protect the outdoors and increase access to open space in Roanoke, Montgomery, Giles, Franklin, and Danville.
At the Albright Scout Reservation in Chesterfield county, small things add up to big results in real time, thanks to a group of youth volunteers and their adult advisors who have decided that hiking and camping aren’t the only outdoor experiences the 568-acre property has to offer.
A searchable, categorized database of information about VOF easements, programs, policies, and more.
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A staff directory, an interactive map to locate staff by zip code, and a form to contact board members.
