Are you ready to take your conservation solution to the next level?

The Salazar Center’s Peregrine Accelerator champions and invests in ideas that contribute to national and global targets for biodiversity and climate, advance community wellbeing, and address environmental inequities and injustice.

The Accelerator not only funds promising conservation solutions but moves project teams beyond the barriers they face to successful implementation through tailored training, mentorship, and peer-learning opportunities. This model, in addition to helping project teams put their ideas into action faster and more effectively, also ensures effective conservation solutions—as well as emergent best practices, lessons learned, and opportunities for scaling and replicating effective work—are amplified through the Salazar Center’s larger network.

What is an Accelerator for Conservation Impact?

The Peregrine Accelerator provides seed funding to a cohort of up to 10 project teams per year, which then receive tailored mentorship, training, and support over six months. Accepted participants should expect to dedicate 3-4 hours per week over the six-month program, which includes workshops; one-on-one sessions with mentors; and other curricular and networking elements within the cohort. The program also kicks off and concludes with in-person gatherings in the nest landscape (the costs of which are covered by the Accelerator), with virtual programming delivered for the rest of the six-month program. At the end of the program, each team will have developed specific deliverables related to their project development, implementation, evaluation, fundraising, and communications goals.

Each project team selected to participate in the Accelerator cohort…

• Receives $20,000 in seed funding to support team members’ participation and project start-up costs over the six-month program
• Participates in a tailored curriculum designed to address the shared needs, challenges, and goals of the whole cohort; trainings may cover topics such as fundraising, adaptive management, community engagement, and conservation finance
• Is matched with experts mentors to address to address their unique, project-specific needs, challenges, and goals; mentorship may include technical assistance, curated networking, and strategic guidance and thought partnership
• Completes specific, tailored deliverables designed to advance project development, implementation, evaluation, fundraising, and communications goals
• Joins a peer community of other project teams in which participants can share knowledge, explore opportunities for partnership, and build a lasting community of practice that extends beyond the length of the program
• Benefits from exposure to the Salazar Center’s network of funders and may receive curated introductions to prospective funders
• Gains access to opportunities to showcase learnings and share your expertise with a broader network of practitioners across North America through articles and multimedia resources co-created with the Salazar Center