Overview of Ohio Watershed Capacity Building Services

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

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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

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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 melanie@freshwaterfuture.org

• Institute for Conservation Leadership– Nancy Oswald, Program Manager

301-270-2904 nancy@icl.org

• Land Trust Alliance– Carolyn Waldron, Midwest Director

812-822-0113 cwaldron@lta.org

• River Network– Francisco Ollervides, Program Manager, Great Lakes

914- 400-8210 follervides@rivernetwork.org