The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities has announced an open call for Requests for Pre-proposals (RFPs) under its initiative, “Forest Investment Zones: Co-creating Innovation and Learning at the Regional Level.” The four-year initiative will serve as a signature programmatic focus of the Endowment’s investments. The RFP is open until September 19, 2008. Regional intermediaries, defined as "high capacity organizations or networks of organizations that commonly work together at the regional level to support sustainable forestry and/or community development in forest-reliant communities," who wish to submit pre-proposals for consideration should do so by visiting the Endowment’s website “Grants and Initiatives” tab at www.usendowment.org.