Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy

Overview
Headquarters: 
Asheville, NC, USA
Website: 
appalachian.org
Size: 
11-50 employees
Founded: 
1974
Annual Budget : 
$1-5M
Areas of Focus: 
Environment
Populations Served: 
All Populations
About Us
Mission: 

The mission of the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy is to
conserve the unique plant and animal habitat, clean water, farmland,
scenic beauty, and places for all people to enjoy outdoor recreation in
the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, enduring for future
generations. We achieve this through long-term conservation relationships
with private landowners and public agencies and owning and managing
land. We are committed to creating and supporting equitable, healthy and
thriving communities for everyone in our region.

Programs: 

1.Protect priority lands that further our conservation mission.

2. Steward land and conservation easements that SAHC holds, and lead the way in landscape-scale stewardship of the globally significant fragile ecosystems of the Highlands of Roan.

3. Connect people with land for outdoor recreation, health, fitness, wellbeing, farming, livelihood and learning, striving to create equitable access to land for all people.

4. Grow our organizational and financial capacity while supporting an equitable and inclusive culture in order to achieve our ambitious program goals and assure SAHC’s future sustainability to meet long-term responsibilities

Why Work For Us?: 

Personal & Professional Integrity. We embrace the highest ethical standards and promote a working environment that values respect, fairness, integrity, and transparency. Impact We are dedicated to making a positive impact for nature and our communities. Our success hinges on achieving the highest possible level of quality in every aspect of our work. Our reputation for excellence has enabled us to gain the respect of landowners, donors, organizational and government partners and the public, and to assume a leadership role in conservation in our region. We hold ourselves to the highest performance standards and employ the most advanced practices in conducting our work. Innovation. To accomplish all we have set out to do requires vision, resourcefulness, a responsible entrepreneurial spirit and adaptability to change. We solve problems creatively, aiming to achieve practical and meaningful conservation goals. We encourage original thought and its practical application. Relationships and Partnerships. We work collaboratively among our staff, with our membership, donors and other supporters, and with many external partners including landowners, local communities, state and federal agencies. The quality of our relationships and partnerships is a critical determinant of our effectiveness. The scope and urgency of our mission requires that we reach out to all sectors of society – public and private – to forge strong, productive partnerships based on mutual benefit and trust. We succeed only through these combined efforts. Equity, Inclusiveness & Diversity. We recognize historic inequities in the conservation field, access to land and ownership of land. These factors cause imbalance in communities, and we commit to purposeful action to correct them. Conservation is best advanced by the leadership and contributions of people of widely diverse backgrounds, experiences and identities. Conservation Ethic. SAHC seeks to instill a conservation ethic by connecting people with land. We seek to foster a conservation ethic by providing opportunities for people of diverse backgrounds to experience the restorative and intrinsic values of conserved land so that they will better understand and appreciate its many benefits and, in turn, become advocates for its preservation.

industry: 
Nonprofit