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- EIN 20-0153356
- (505) 982-0071
- 369 Montezuma Ave 495 Santa Fe NM 87501-2835 USA
- www.commonwealconservancy.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Homeless & Housing, Housing Development, Construction & Management
Mission: Commonweal conservancy is a nonprofit conservation-based, community-development organization dedicated to forging deep and sustaining relationships among people, land, and the built environment. Commonweal acquires properties of (cont'd on schedule o) unique cultural and ecological significance and engages in collaborative land planning that inspires the creation of whole communities. Commonweal also creates unique opportunities for individuals, landscapes, and communities to live in closer and healthier relationships by integrating environmental protection with community development. Additionally, commonweal promotes an inclusive process of community building that is rooted in the american west's traditional value of land stewardship, a value which honors natural resources, histories, and neighbors. At the same time commonweal fosters a practice of regenerative land conservation in which people actively engage with their environment.
Programs: Community development - continued to advance a path-setting conservation development in santa fe county that includes a mix of affordable, workforce, and community housing, public education facilities, renewable energy development, and local economic development. The galisteo basin preserve has been recognized by santa fe county leaders as a new model of environmentally-responsible community development and green building design. It has won national recognition by the urban land institute, the national building museum and the american society of landscape architects.
conservation and recreation planning - 1. In collaboration with local and national environmental organizations, along with "friends of the preserve," volunteers, designed and developed nearly five miles of publicly accessible hiking, cycling and equestrian trails within the galisteo basin preserve. Commonweal's 2013-14 trail building program increased the length of the preserve's trail network to more than 25 miles. 2. With support from the volunteer "friends of the preserve," facilitated a number of trail maintenance and repair projects on existing trails within the preserve. 3. In collaboration with professional archaeologists, geologists and amateur astronomers, organized and implemented five environmental educational events at the galisteo basin preserve in an effort to deepen the community's appreciation and understanding of the region's unique natural resource values.
conservation transactions - 1. Donated a 160-acre conservation easement to the santa fe conservation trust to ensure the permanent protection of the galisteo basin preserve's scenic, open space, cultural resource, recreational and wildlife habitat values. The preserve is a 13,000-acre property that has been the focus of commonweal's conservation work for the past 11 years. 2. Donated a 300-acre conservation easement to the santa fe conservation trust to ensure permanent open space, wildlife habitat, and cultural resource protection. The easement will protect a critical watershed area of the rio galisteo from habitat-fragmenting, viewshed-compromising, piecemeal subdivision and development. 3. Conveyed a 321-acre property to a conservation buyer for use as an environmental educational facility. Commonweal's sale is designed to facilitate the design and development of a world-class environmental art and stewardship learning program at the galisteo basin preserve.