Enhancing Communities Sustained by Nature
Willamette Partnership is a conservation non-profit with a deep commitment to helping build stronger, healthier, and more equitable communities that are sustained by nature.
“At Willamette Partnership, our work is all about collaboration, and in Washington County we’ve found the kind of diverse and deep partnerships that make good collaboration work.
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Today, its vision for a sustainable future is realized through three main initiatives: increasing access to and engagement with nature among communities experiencing inequities, creating infrastructure solutions and access to clean water, and empowering sustainable cultivation of working lands.
As its name suggests, partnership is one of the organization’s core values, making it ideally suited to empower Tree for All’s efforts. For example, in collaboration with Clean Water Services, the Oregon Department of State Lands, and Scholls Valley Native Nursery, Willamette Partnership played a key role in the rehabilitation of Half Mile Lane, whose transformation included the development of a number of innovative systems for land managers to monitor the local ecosystem.
Willamette Partnership is also spearheading efforts to increase access to green space through the development of outdoor schoolyards and enrichment programs, helping to preserve threatened ecological features such as Oregon’s McKenzie River and the Oregon White Oak, and continuing to advocate for equitable access to water across Oregon’s communities.
Willamette Partnership believes that people need nature and that the well-being of communities and natural systems is inextricably linked. Communities shouldn’t have to choose between a healthy economy and a healthy environment.
