"RainTrust is demonstrating how good science and socially responsible development can work together to sustain nature, culture and community.

The solutions being assembled by the Raintrust team represent the future groundwork of conservation and sustainable economic development, and deserve to be widely disseminated. Donors, NGOs and governments have struggled for years to develop programs that use economic measures to encourage more ecologically resilient and enduring land use and resource conservation practices. RainTrust is moving to the forefront of these efforts. I have no doubt that in the near future we will see more and more initiatives replicate the RainTrust model and build from its important lessons."

— Jim Tolisano, Ph.D.
Environmental Scientist (New York City)

"RainTrust represents a sustainable development initiative for the Amazon based on what the forest, and its peoples, can offer from its huge diversity, including water, rubber, and eco-tourism. It is a way, and perhaps the only way, the forest itself can be preserved for lasting local community viability and development. In taking a 'systems' approach to the problem of clear-cutting, and incorporating a conservation easement program into the plan, RainTrust offers an operating model for ways business, government and community can work together to solve some of our most pressing environmental problems."

— Eric Oddleifson
Sustainable Forestry Investment Manager (Boston)

"The genius of RainTrust lies in its potential to create economic incentives with legal constraints to preserve Brazil's rain forests. An array of rain forest products brought to the market place can provide attractive alternatives to deforestation and a single soybean economy. A 'Conservation Agreement' drafted under the guidelines of applicable Brazilian law, seeks to encourage economic development with environmentally correct practices. RainTrust offers a win-win concept for the environment and people of Brazil."

— Jeffery Titel
Environmental Attorney (Vermont)

"This program will be a valuable new tool to accomplish rainforest conservation and sustainable development on a large scale. The RainTrust team has created an important new model that is being embraced by local populations, regional stakeholders and conscientious supporters around the globe. Born of inspired social entrepreneurial vision, reared in the Brazilian rainforest and tailored to address a mounting global crisis, this opportunity calls for action. Heed the call."

— Justin Bloom
Environmental attorney, Former Staff Attorney to Riverkeeper (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr's flagship environmental organization)

"RainTrust is doing what needs to be done, given the rate of rainforest destruction in the Amazon. They have the scale, innovative sustainable business projects, and long-term perspective that integrates the best of environmental action, mass participation, and regard for local cultures. Finally, an organization and program that can actually make a difference, and not just make the participants feel good."

— Steven Barnett, PhD
Cultural Anthropologist (New York City), Faculty Member of World Economic Forum

"I am very impressed and moved by your understanding and worthy accomplishments on the vital issues of rainforest preservation. There are more than a few coincidental items in our mutual missions so I guess great minds work alike. We are planning to come alongside RainTrust Brazil and bring China and Asia into the fold. We remain focused on the developments and are honored to be a RainTrustee."

— Robert Rockefeller
Environmentalist & RainTrustee (Asia)