Overview of Capacity Building Services for Watershed Stewards in Ohio June 27, 2013 Thank you for joining us. We will begin in a moment. Please check your speakers/phone connection. If you experience any problems, please let us know by typing in the chat box. Follow the OEC on Twitter: @OhioEnviro. The hashtag for this webinar is #OECwebinar
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Overview of Ohio Watershed Capacity Building Services
How can a watershed program grow with limited resources? How do you build a strong team of volunteers for your program? How do you fundraise successfully? Experts in these fields will discuss the resources available to help watershed stewards build their capacity so they can protect and restore Ohio's vital waterways.
Originally Aired: June 27, 12:45 - 2 p.m.
Presenters:
Kristy Meyer, Managing Director of Agricultural, Health & Clean Water Programs, Ohio Environmental Council Representatives from Fresh Water Future, Institution for Conservation Leadership, River Network, and Land Trust Alliance.
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Overview of Capacity Building Services for Watershed Stewards in Ohio
June 27, 2013
Thank you for joining us. We will begin in a moment.
Please check your speakers/phone connection. If you experience any problems, please let us know by typing in the chat box.
Follow the OEC on Twitter: @OhioEnviro. The hashtag for this webinar is #OECwebinar
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