The Conservation Exchange, run by Conservation Resources, is a constantly updated and searchable website that provides information on conservation projects throughout New Jersey that are in need of funding.  Similar to a blog, The Conservation Exchange aggregates conservation projects and categorizes them into categories and tags. Conservation projects include a broad range of initiatives throughout New Jersey including land preservation, ecological restoration, climate change projects, and other capital projects such as community gardens, construction of nature centers and trail creation.

Although there are new funding sources that can be used for conservation projects, the funding tends to be specific to a particular location or geography or a particular ecosystem service. Matching a specific project to these new sources of potential funding  is often challenging, but CRI has already successfully provided or facilitated over $53 million of funding during the last six years.

The Conservation Exchange is a way to provide this critical matchmaking service to non-profits and local governments and generate new funding for their conservation projects from non-traditional sources.    Developing new sources of funding for conservation is a time consuming and highly technical task that takes a deep knowledge of existing environmental laws, regulatory programs, and philanthropy.  Local governments and non-profits conducting conservation projects generally do not have the time to develop new sources of conservation funding.  Conservation Resources is dedicated to developing new sources of funding and matching these sources to appropriate projects on behalf of the entire conservation community.