Connect

Let’s Recover the Central Grasslands Together

Thousands of conservation partners and stakeholders are making a tangible difference in the Central Grasslands. Together, we are working to increase support, fundraise, and implement collaborative conservation projects for the local communities that are crucial to sustaining future grasslands.

JV Partners

Each Joint Venture is a self-directed regional partnership, governed by a Management Board and supported by a broad network of partners. This coalition represents a variety of interests, including public governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, private landowners, Indigenous Nations, corporate partners, universities, and other stakeholders.

JV8-Grassland-Roundtable-2025-Denver CO

Contact your local Joint Venture or JV8 to:

  • Get information and resources for managing your land.
  • Plug into regional and local grassland conservation partnerships.
  • Identify resource or training needs to support local communities.

Grassland Conservation Partners and Practitioners

JV8 and others are working together to elevate and connect shared strategies, metrics, storytelling, and outcomes. JV8’s niche in this broad collaborative is to generate funding, build capacity and provide technical assistance, track accomplishments, evaluate outcomes, and create training forums for community support.

Contact your local Joint Venture or JV8 to:

  • Coordinate joint funding proposals that leverage matching dollars and resources.
  • Share stories about how maintaining healthy grasslands has benefited grasslands, business or recreation enterprises, and local communities.
  • Identify resource or training needs to support local communities.
  • Learn how to track and share accomplishments and promote consistent messages about progress.
Dane Clemetson with NGPJV Board

Policymakers and Agency Representatives

The JV8 Business Plan provides guidance to enact effective policy and direct funding to priority conservation programs. JV8 works closely with the Central Grasslands Roadmap Initiative on policy efforts. The non-federal partners of Migratory Bird Joint Ventures and the Association of Joint Venture Management Boards share the outcomes of public investments and provide important recommendations to policymakers and agency decision-makers.

People at Mims

Contact your local Joint Venture or JV8 to:

  • Learn more about grassland conservation policy efforts and initiatives.
  • Support grassland stewardship efforts at the landscape or local level.
  • Help your partners and constituents share stories of grassland conservation efforts.

Foundations, Corporations, Agencies, and Other Philanthropic Donors

Significant public and private philanthropic investments are crucial to scaling up grassland conservation efforts and stemming habitat loss across the biome. Multinational funding is urgently needed to meet habitat conservation and capacity-building goals.

Contact your local Joint Venture or JV8 to:

  • Schedule a meeting to learn more about opportunities to invest in the Central Grasslands.
  • Dedicate programmatic resources to conserving the Central Grasslands.
  • Leverage funding across boundaries and partnerships to scale up grassland conservation.
  • Make a financial contribution to support healthy grasslands.
RGJV Cuatro Cienegas, MX Board mtg Feb 2023
Photo Credits
  • Checking fence: Photo: Lindsay Shorter
  • JV8 Grassland Roundtable 2025 Denver CO: Photo: Jennie Duberstein
  • Dane Clemetson with NGPJV Board: Photo: Dan Casey
  • Discussing conservation at Mims Ranch in West Texas: Photo: Aimee Roberson
  • RGJV Cuatro Cienegas, MX Board mtg Feb 2023: Photo: Rebekah Rylander