Goals and Strategies

Sustainable Funding

Goal: Increase the amount of sustainable public and private funding for catastrophic wildfire risk reduction and watershed resilience in Colorado.

Statewide public funding: Inform efforts to increase investment in statewide public programs for wildfire and watershed resilience.

Local public funding: Enhance efforts to catalyze local, county, and regional public funding opportunities in interested communities.

Private-public funding: Enhance efforts to create local and state private-public funding opportunities to aggregate, streamline, and attract private funders.

Forest Restoration Economy: Catalyze coordination and action for a Colorado Forest Restoration Economy with wood product market pathways and infrastructure.

For more information and supporting documents, visit the Statewide Funding Landscape Analysis.

Collective Impact

Large-scale change requires broad cross-sector coordination; no single entity can solve for wildfire risk reduction and watershed resilience alone. WWIRC advances a collective impact model: WWIRC coordinates and catalyzes, while relying on the actions of network members to implement strategies for sustainable funding.

WWIRC is guided by 5 core conditions of the collective impact model:

Common Agenda: WWIRC’s mission, goal, and strategies for sustainable funding for wildfire risk reduction and watershed resilience create a common agenda.
Shared Measurement Systems: Success is tracked against the $200m/annual statewide need for wildfire risk reduction in priority landscapes.
Mutually Reinforcing Activities: Actions of various network members advance key strategies.
Continuous Communication: Communications occur through convening, coordination, engagement on policy and funding opportunities, and sharing of successes, challenges, lessons, opportunities, and needs.
Backbone Support: Facilitation and organizational support maintain coordination and momentum.