1. Dolores River Restoration Partnership Meeting
Funding and Communications Updates
November 12, 2015

2. DRRP 2016 Funding Needs Total Cost Total Secured Total Pending
Shortfall
Future Grants
Implementation/
Maintenance
$540,000
$234,500
~$200,000 – PTI, IPCP
$305,500
DNG
WRI
Rapid Monitoring
$22,000
$20,000
$2,000 - PTI
$2,000
Pilot Project Monitoring
$10,000
$5,000
$5,000- DEAR
Watershed-wide Monitoring
$40,000
Bird Monitoring
$48,000
Capacity
$198,673
$159,164
$43,304 - various
$39,508
CCA
Total
$858,673
$506,664
$250,304
$352,009
Secured includes HLI Funds which are not in fact guaranteed
Pending includes – PTI, TNC contributions,
Comparable to 2015

3. Fundraising Strategies
Apply for NFWF DNG grant and UPCD WRI grant
Update 2017 – 2020 BLM Healthy Lands Initiative request to better reflect updated needs
Identify and court private foundations
Develop a strategy for identifying and doing outreach to private individuals and businesses

4. Communication Plan Goals
Goal 1: Garner financial support from existing and new funders
Goal 2: Bolster a lasting constituency of stewards and advocates
Goal 3: Share lessons-learned
Goal 4: Keep DRRP partners motivated and engaged

5. Status Report: Communications Plan Action Plan – In Progress
Get MOU signed
Send Annual Report and thank you letters to all past funders
Host volunteer project with Paradox Valley Charter School
Annual Dolores Plant ID workshop
Briefing with Utah BLM State Office
Shared lessons-learned at USGS restoration workshop
Hire and work with marketing consultant to develop branding and consistent marketing tools (e.g. brochures, video, branding)
Other?
Others?

6. Status Report: Communications Plan Action Plan – Upcoming
Develop and initiate private donor campaign
Create list of potential funders.
Send DRRP newsletter to potential funders
Create online giving opportunity.
Host site visit in Gateway for donors
Develop new Assistance Agreement between BLM, TC, and SCC
Schedule a meeting with Gateway Canyon Resorts
Explore potential for additional capacity to bolster communications efforts
Enhance geodatabase & update DRRP website
Conduct Core Team retreat to evaluate the Communications Plan
Other?

7. Foreseeable Challenges
Funder fatigue (e.g. WFF)
Greater need for discretionary funding
Dwindling TC/SCC/TNC capacity to implement M&M plan and an increased need for capacity to carry out fundraising and communications plan
Dormant Outreach and Education Committee
Competition with other watersheds for private and corporate dollars

8. Regional Watershed Partnership Fund Campaign
What: TC led Fundraising Campaign for multiple Watersheds
When: Jan 2016 – Dec 2017
TC’s Role:
TC staff and board will coordinate and implement the campaign and hire a contracted Campaign Coordinator.
Partnerships’ Role:
Serve as spokesmen for the campaign and raise non-federal/state dollars to use as match with TC assistance.
Fundraising Goal:
~$150,000 per partnership x ~9 partnerships + TC admin costs + reserves
$2M total
Year 1: $700,000
Year 2: $1,300,000

9. Fundraising Campaign Breakdown

10. Objectives of the Campaign
To improve the quality of life in watersheds and their surrounding communities by:
Facilitating restoration on over 25,000 acres of riparian lands.
Ensuring watershed partnerships are viable entities able to carry out and or finish slated restoration work.
Creating jobs and training opportunities for over 100 youth and veterans.
Enhancing recreation, increasing tourism and improving local economies dependent on watershed health.
To grow the sustainability of the Tamarisk Coalition.
To increase public awareness about riparian restoration.

11. Watershed Map

12. What we need from you Thumbs up
Agreement to commit resources and time towards raising private and corporate dollars in the watershed
Assistance identifying individuals and businesses that might support the fund(5 – 10 names)
Help organizing/attending events – e.g. field trips, dinners
Help collecting success stories in the watershed (e.g. before and after photos, testimonials, visitation rates)
Help thanking donors
Providing testimonials for the campaign (speaking at events etc…)
Being an ambassador for the campaign
Completing a pre-application

13. Next steps Nov – Dec 2015: TC finishes Campaign Plan
Jan 2015: TC hires a Campaign Coordinator
Jan 2015: Partnership pre-applications due
Feb 2015: Prospect identification begins
March 2015: Launch campaign
May 2015: Host field trip on the Dolores

14. Kristen Jespersen Tamarisk Coalition kjespersen@tamariskcoalition.org
Questions?
Kristen Jespersen
Tamarisk Coalition