Launched in 2001, The Forest Foundation aims to improve relationships among people and the planet. Through its GOAL initiative, the nonprofit is working to revitalize a brownfield site in Durham while creating green jobs by collecting waste vegetable oil from local restaurants, converting it into fuel for a green transportation business and members of a local bio-fuel cooperative, and using compostable matter from the collection to mitigate the site’s soil and nourish vegetable gardens. The Forest Foundation also runs a green job training program, Green Tracks, which has trained 100 community members since its start in 2012.