Who we are:  Rainforest Partnership is an international non-profit enterprise committed to protecting tropical rainforests.

What we do:  We partner with forest communities to help them make an income that allows them to protect their forests.  Together we do this by developing rainforest products: raw materials, finished goods, and services that can be found only in the rainforest.  By developing the market for these products, locally, elsewhere in Latin America, and in the U.S., sales of these goods and services give residents a financial stake in protecting their forests.

How we work:  Our model is collaborative, bottom-up, and results-driven.  We work with communities that want an alternative to deforestation.  By enabling communities to have an active role in project design and implementation and by using market-based approaches we collaboratively prevent deforestation and foster economic development.  By creating a global network—linking people to people, community to community—we create long-term economic and environmental sustainability.

What we believe:  The way to protect the “lungs” of the planet is to help the people who live in those “lungs” have a better standard of living, to grow their economy in harmony with their rainforest. Our mission is to partner with people who live in and around tropical rainforests to develop environmentally sustainable economies to protect and regenerate their forests. Our vision is that, together with our partners, we will become a global leader in the development of sustainable economies to preserve tropical rainforests around the world.