From 2014 to 2016 Converge catalyzed the formation of the Santa Cruz Mountains Stewardship Network, a region-wide, cross-sector collaboration of 22 organizations including federal, state, and county agencies, land trusts, nonprofits, research institutes, a Native American tribal band, and timber companies in the Santa Cruz Mountain region south of San Francisco.

The network has achieved significant outcomes since its launch, including an unlikely $11.7 million conservation deal brokered between the region's largest timber company and land trust, and a unique collaborative effort that is reuniting the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band with its land and returning the Quiroste Valley to its pre-colonial landscape. Read this article for additional examples of outcomes resulting from the network, and refer to this case study for more details on how the network was formed.