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Overview of Capacity Building Services for Watershed Stewards in Ohio
June 27, 2013
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Kristy MeyerManaging Director of
Agricultural, Health & Clean Water Programs
Ohio Environmental Council
Nancy OswaldProgram Manager
Institute for Conservation Leadership
Melanie WelchAssociate Director
Freshwater Future
Overview of Capacity Building Services for Watershed Stewards in Ohio
June 27, 2013
Carolyn WaldronMidwest Director
Land Trust Alliance
Francisco Ollervides (Paco)Program Manager, Great Lakes
River Network
Overview of Capacity Building Services for Watershed Stewards in Ohio
June 27, 2013
Watershed Support
Watershed Councils
2012 Survey
Added value: Regulatory and Policy
Updates
Presentations
Networking Opportunities
Teleconference calls
Watershed Council day-to-day work
Who we are
Photo by ***Bud***
What We DoGrantsStrategy and capacity building
assistanceResources online and in printConnecting voices to impact policy
Gas processing facility photo by Jeremy Buckingham
Case Study: Lake Erie Waterkeeper
• A Freshwater Future member for many years– We were there from the start to help their work– Has received several cash grants, plus:
• Strategy coaching, • Fundraising planning and implementation assistance, • Climate adaptation training, • General advice and • Someone to lean on and listen
– Transformed from Western Lake Erie Association to Lake Erie Waterkeeper
Strengthening Leaders,
Organizations, and Networks that
Protect Our Earth
What we doIntensive Leadership Development
• Leading from Within• Executive Director Leadership Program
Custom Designed Services• Strategic Planning• Meeting Facilitation• Coaching• Evaluation• Network & Coalition support• Trainings and Workshops
Distance Learning and Learning Plus!• Leading Coalitions & Networks- Fall 2013• Evaluating your Impact- Winter 2014
Publications, Resources & Tools• The Less Visible Leader• Benchmarking Workbook for All-
Volunteer Groups• Working Together: a Toolkit for
Cooperative Efforts, Networks, and Coalitions.
1. Scholarships- Intensive leadership programs
2. Subsidized Custom designed services • Strategic Planning• Meeting Facilitation• Coaching• Evaluation• Network & Coalition support• Trainings and workshops
Strengthening Ohio Leaders and Organizations (SOLO)
Creating a Community to Conserve the Places We Love
30-Year Journey of Conservation Success
2013: 50-million acres of private land conserved by 1,200 member land trusts
207 Accredited land trusts hold 50% ofall private conserved lands held by
local land trusts (70% by 2015)
Strengthen Land Trust Community
Created and organized national land trust community (now 1200)
Pioneered Use of Consv. Easements
Developed Land Trust Standards & Practices
• Ethical and technical best practices—
org. development/land protection
Alliance Midwest Programest. in 2000
13-state region–163 member land trusts
23 accredited land trusts in Midwest: Tecumseh Land Trust andThree Valley Conservation Trust in Ohio
Partnership/Collaborations
• Serves as the urban rivers land trust in Milwaukee, WI (Sweetwater partner)
• Focused on conservation and protection of riparian corridors for the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic Rivers
River Revitalization Foundation
Southeast Michigan Collaboration
• 6 land trusts organizing an aggregation project along the Huron River watershed
• $1M+ land acquisition project will launch partnership initiative
• Huron River Watershed Council – partner
West Creek Preservation Committee
• West Creek: 9-mile creek flowing thru four cities in metro Cleveland
• Restoration of the confluence of West Creek & Lower Cuyahoga, re-connecting communities
• West Creek Greenway Trail System: 15-mile recreational trail system connecting neighborhoods, business districts, parks, historical landmarks
Statewide Collaborations
• Missouri Land Trust Coalition
• Chicago Regional Land Conservation Coalition
• Indiana Land Protection Alliance
• Gathering Waters Conservancy (Wisconsin) • Heart of the Lakes Center for Conservation Policy (Michigan)
• Coalition of Ohio Land Trusts www.ohiolandtrusts.org
Working Together
- CAPACITY BUILDING: INTENSIVE TRAINING AND CONSULTING
- DISCOUNTS, BENEFITS, AND SERVICES
- OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUNDING
River Network Partnership: A Co-op of River & Watershed Organizations
www.rivernetwork.org
• One-on-one Assistance
• Outreach strategies, and communications tools
• Planning advocacy campaigns, regional trainings
• Organizational assessment tool
Learning and Peer Networks
CAPACITY BUILDING
DISCOUNTS, BENEFITS, AND SERVICES
• Networking: Rally
• Quarterly Webinars
• Promote your organization
• Resource Library
OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUNDING
• Federal grant alerts
• NOZA Database of charitable giving
• Corporate support
• Quarterly Publications
• Regrants from our funders
Q & A - Feedback
Upcoming Events & Webinars:
Building Your Best Board, Part I
October 2. 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Building Your Best Board, Part II
October 9. 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Clean Air & Your Health, Part II (free webinar)June 28. 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Unpacking the Final State Budget Bill (free webinar)
July 1. 12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Triple Divide (Fracking) Film & Panel
July 11. 6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Gateway Film Center, Columbus
The Facts on Fracking, Part I (free webinar)
July 12. 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
The Facts on Fracking, Part II (free webinar)
July 19. 11:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Register at www.theOEC.org/Webinars
Contact us!
• Freshwater Future– Melanie Welch, Associate Director of Program
773-540-7755 [email protected]
• Institute for Conservation Leadership– Nancy Oswald, Program Manager
301-270-2904 [email protected]
• Land Trust Alliance– Carolyn Waldron, Midwest Director
812-822-0113 [email protected]
• River Network– Francisco Ollervides, Program Manager, Great Lakes
914- 400-8210 [email protected]