Rainforest Connection: Next Steps Pause

With a grant from Invoking the Pause, Rainforest Connection founder, Topher White and co-founder, Dave Grenell, will be given the space and imaginative will use their Pause to convene a small team in Yosemite to review the past year, discuss lessons learned, and plan a development strategy for the next few years. Their pilot programs and feasibility tests on using satellite technology and recycled cell phones to monitor illegal deforestation are generating an enormous amount of information and raw data, but they have not had the time to properly digest it all due to the pace of development. The Pause would convene two key collaborators for the first week, before inviting advisors, board members, key staff and partners to join them for a series of open conversations envisioning the future of their work.