Symposium Partners

This project is a collaborative effort of the following four organizations:

University Collaborators

		Yale Program on Forest Certification, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies www.yale.edu/forestcertification
		University of Tasmania, Australia www.utas.edu.au
		State University of New York at Buffalo www.buffalo.edu

Collaborating NGO Practitioner

The Rainforest Alliance www.rainforest-alliance.org

Major Contributors

We are grateful to the following major contributors that provided needed funding for this research project, symposium, and workshop. They include:

		The Rainforest Alliance www.rainforest-alliance.org
		Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) www.gtz.de/english
		International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) http://www.itto.or.jp/live/index.jsp
		World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) www.panda.org
		Yale Program on Forest Certification www.yale.edu/forestcertification
		Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
		Forest Trends http://www.forest-trends.org/
		South Cone Trading Company http://www.southcone.com/
		Yale University Council on Southeast Asia Studies (SEAS) www.yale.edu/seas
		The World Bank http://www.worldbank.org/
		United States Forest Service - International Programs http://www.fs.fed.us/global/

In addition to the above major contributors:

The Yale Program on Forest Certification, a core program of the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry directed by Professor Ben Cashore, would like to thank the Ford Foundation, Merck Family Fund, and the Rockefeller BrothersFund, whose generous core support has helped make this symposium and research project possible.

The Rainforest Alliance would like to acknowledge the generous support of Julius Korein, M.D. and The Korein Foundation, which helped make this symposium and research project possible.