learn, grow, restore

An online learning community built with restoration champions — for restoration champions. Let’s learn to restore land, together.

Discover more

About

Restore Local Online Learning delivers high-quality, demand-driven, accessible training to restoration champions. We are co-creating a vibrant learning community where restoration leaders can connect with peers connect with peers and strengthen their ability to secure financing and implement impactful, locally led locally led restoration projects. Your input will shape what comes next.

Signup for early access

Providing champions with the training and tools needed to grow and thrive, through online courses, live sessions, and peer-to-peer learning.

TOPIC

Investment Readiness

Local enterprises and community-based organizations need to clearly demonstrate their value, impact, and financial management skills to attract funding. Restore Local provides cohorts of champions with hands-on training to articulate their vision, understand what it takes to raise grants, debt, and equity investments, and prepare high-quality financial documentation.

Built with five years of experience training restoration enterprises, Restoration Business Basics organizes these insights into a crash course on running a successful enterprise that restores land. Restore Local will deepen this offer with practical training on how champions can access funding for the measurable results of restoration, like trees, carbon, and biodiversity.

TOPIC

Communications

Champions are passionate storytellers. Every community, every tree has a unique restoration journey. But it’s hard to summarize those narratives into bite-sized pieces that inspire community members, financiers, and government partners to act. Restore Local provides champions with easy-to-use online resources and training to create compelling content and share it with the world. Through a free online toolkit hosted on Canva,

Restore Local helps champions build their own social media posts, banners, and web content to show their alignment with this growing movement. As the brand spreads, the curriculum will expand to cover storytelling techniques, visual content creation, and stakeholder engagement strategies that amplify the visibility of champions’ work and strengthen the restoration movement through powerful, authentic communication.

Create your own content

TOPIC

Restoration Techniques

Traditional knowledge and the latest science are the cornerstones of high-quality, locally led restoration. Restore Local is working with experts in ecology, social equity, and community mobilization to spread culturally appropriate restoration techniques to the most people in the shortest time. Learning forums, checklists, and video lectures will introduce champions to

the techniques their peers use to revitalize local ecosystems, enable food and nutrition security, select tree species, design inclusive projects that ensure fair access to resources, and apply sustainable land management practices. The power of peer-to-peer learning is the key to success: When champions teach and learn from each other, the movement spreads.

TOPIC

Monitoring

Restoration champions do their work because of its impact on people, nature, and the climate, but they struggle to communicate the impact of their work. That’s why Restore Local has trained 200 champions how to submit high-quality reports and draw geospatial boundaries around their restoration sites. Featured on the TerraMatch Dashboard,

this data is helping champions and funders see how their work is achieving the social and ecological impact that communities need. Through online how-to videos and step-by-step instructions tested on the ground, Restore Local will provide champions with the essential tools to track their work – and tell the world.

ARTICLES & INSIGHTS

Do you want to keep updated on the latest research and insights from Restore Local? These resources are a great starting point.

How to Monitor, Report on and Verify a Land Restoration Project

6 Ways to Ensure Ecosystem Restoration Prioritizes People

The Benefits and Power of Assisted Natural Regeneration

Finance for Women Is Key to Restoring Africa’s Degraded Lands

Lessons from Funding 100 Restoration Champions

Insights From Payments for Ecosystem Services

NEWSLETTER

Stay in Touch

Click the link below to sign up for our monthly updates. It’s the place to access new learning opportunities and learn from your fellow champions.