In early 2008 the Land Use Work Group of the Chesapeake Bay Funders Network (CBFN) sought the assistance of the National Center for Smart Growth and the Environmental Finance Center in completing a scoping exercise designed to offer funders within the CBFN an informed perspective about land use in the Bay watershed. The data generated from this scoping exercise is intended to connect the interests, priorities, and concerns of a diverse range of stakeholders, create a framework for long-term funding decisions, and motivate future collaboration within the CBFN.
This report is a culmination of the scoping exercise. The work of the Project Team focused on two primary data collection tasks, the first being Funder Interviews, the second being Stakeholder Interviews, which included a number of Listening Sessions.