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.

1. Overview of Capacity Building Services for
Watershed Stewards in Ohio
June 27, 2013
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2. Kristy Meyer
Managing Director of
Agricultural, Health & Clean Water
Programs
Ohio Environmental Council
Nancy Oswald
Program Manager
Institute for Conservation
Leadership
Melanie Welch
Associate Director
Freshwater Future
Overview of Capacity Building Services for
Watershed Stewards in Ohio
June 27, 2013

3. Carolyn Waldron
Midwest 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

4. Watershed Support
 Watershed Councils
 2012 Survey
 Added value:
 Regulatory and Policy
Updates
 Presentations
 Networking
Opportunities
 Teleconference calls
 Watershed Council
day-to-day work

5. Who we are
Photo by ***Bud***

6. What We Do
Grants
Strategy and capacity building assistance
Resources online and in print
Connecting voices to impact policy
Gas processing facility photo by Jeremy Buckingham

7. 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

8. Strengthening
Leaders, Organizations, and Networks
that Protect Our Earth

9. What we do
Intensive Leadership Development
• Leading from Within
• Executive Director Leadership Program
Custom Designed Services
• Strategic Planning
• Meeting Facilitation
• Coaching
• Evaluation
• Network & Coalition support
• Trainings and Workshops

10. 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.

11. 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)

13. 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% of
all private conserved lands held by
local land trusts (70% by 2015)

14. 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

15. Alliance Midwest Program
est. in 2000
 13-state region–163 member land trusts
 23 accredited land trusts in Midwest:
Tecumseh Land Trust and
Three Valley Conservation Trust in Ohio

16. Partnership/Collaborations

17. • 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. Working Together

22. - 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

23. • One-on-one Assistance
• Outreach strategies, and
communications tools
• Planning advocacy campaigns, regional trainings
• Organizational assessment tool
Learning and Peer Networks
CAPACITY BUILDING

24. DISCOUNTS, BENEFITS, AND SERVICES
• Networking: Rally
• Quarterly Webinars
• Promote your organization
• Resource Library

25. OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUNDING
• Federal grant alerts
• NOZA Database of charitable
giving
• Corporate support
• Quarterly Publications
• Regrants from our funders

26. 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

27. 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