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“A Good Program in Theory”: Opportunities for Administrative Improvements to USDA’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program
New paper: USDA is already buying environmental outcomes…kinda
New Paper: Optimizing Payment Schedules in Pay for Success Contracts
A Balancing Act: Optimizing Payment Schedules in Environmental Pay for Success Contracts
Action Alert: Virginia’s Pay for Success Pilot Program
Evaluating watershed partnerships
New report evaluates the last three years of efforts developing Midwest watershed partnerships
Midwest Watershed Partnerships: Successes, Challenges, and Immediate Opportunities
Sand County Foundation and the Environmental Policy Innovation Center evaluate the successes, challenges, and immediate opportunities for watershed partnerships in the Midwest.
Progress of Iowa Watershed Partnerships
A report on the progress of nine Iowa cities that have signed memoranda of understanding with the state Department of Natural Resources to establish watershed partnerships.
Establishing a Watershed Partnership
This report describes how to proliferate connections between point and nonpoint sources of nutrients to meet permit requirements and improve water quality.
ICYMI: A Recap of our 2023 Procurement Policy Work
Challenges to Scaling RCPP: A review of the Regional Conservation Partnership Program's 2023 notice of funding opportunity
New Report: Challenges to Scaling RCPP
New report examines the challenges to administratively scaling the Regional Conservation Partnership Program
Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not just in Iowa anymore!
A conversation about watershed partnerships in Kansas
The Golden Rules of Pay for Success Procurement
New Paper: Procurement doesn’t need to be a choke point
New Paper: Chesapeake Currency
To spend $20 billion, USDA needs to make some little tweaks to some big programs
Third and final in a series, this blog explores how USDA can tweak existing programs to speed up delivery of conservation money in the Inflation Reduction Act.
To spend $20 billion, USDA needs to embrace conservation tech
Second in a series, this blog explores how USDA can use emerging technologies to speed up delivery of conservation money in the Inflation Reduction Act.
To spend $20 billion, USDA needs to swing for the fences on environmental outcomes
First in a series, this blog explores how USDA can use outcomes purchasing to speed up delivery of conservation money in the Inflation Reduction Act.