2010 Annual Report

Resources RestoredLives Changed

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Dear friends,

It’s bold to say that we restore resources and change lives. But we see evidence of it every day – in innovative programs, led by talented staff, and in corps members’ reflections on how their experiences impacted their lives. Some of their stories are in this report.

In 2010, more than 400 youth and young adults enrolled in Conservation Corps programs. Young adult AmeriCorps members served throughout the state to restore native habitats, improve access to outdoor recreational opportu-nities and install energy conservation systems in homes. Young adults also led youth in our two programs for high school students: the afterschool Youth Outdoors program and residential Summer Youth Corps. Our programs were described as “creative and entrepreneurial” in a peer review of our organization by Corps Network, the national network of service and conservation corps.

All participants receive a stipend and AmeriCorps members receive an education award for college and qualified student loan expenses after completing their service term. These service-learning experiences prepare them for natural-resource, green-industry and community-leadership careers.

We are excited about our new program, the Conservation Apprenticeship Academy, which is placing 30 college students in Soil and Water Conservation District appren-ticeships statewide. The program provides hands-on experience with conservation professionals, which could potentially lead to permanent jobs.

But it’s more than practical skills and experience that change the lives of corps members. We hear and see so many stories of young people whose service shifted them in a positive direction, gave them confidence and brought meaningful new relationships into their lives. Alumni continue to tell us how their Corps experience played a valuable role in their success as adults.

Demand for our programs continues to grow. In 2010, we had more than 1,000 applicants for about 400 positions. Even as we add positions, we have to turn away too many qualified applicants and we wish funding would allow us to provide more opportunities for young people.

Thank you to all who have supported us and helped make us successful this past year – our contributors, project hosts, volunteers, partners and corps members. Together we have made a strong program that serves our communities.

LETTERFROM LENLen Price, Executive Director

Restoring resourcesThroughout our programs, young people are involved in hands-on, service-learning activities that protect and enhance natural resources, including:

Native habitat restoration: Corps members work on public lands, removing invasive species, conducting prescribed burns and planting native species.

Outdoor access improvement: Corps members build and maintain motorized and non-motorized trails, boardwalks, campsites, park facilities and other structures that give the public better access to outdoor recreation.

Energy conservation: Corps members install energy-saving measures in Twin Cities homes and, starting in 2011, will help install solar heat systems in low-income homes throughout Minnesota.

Changing livesThe Conservation Corps builds life skills for more than 400 young people with personal development, technical and work-skills training and education.

Youth educational curriculum: focuses on science, technology and job-search skills. More than 20 percent of program time is devoted to education and skills training, and 85 percent of youth participants report in post-program surveys that their work skills have improved.

Skills training for young adults: includes hands-on training in habitat restoration, energy conservation, leadership, communication and other areas. Field crew members receive professional certifications in wildfire suppression, chain-saw safety and first aid.

Career preparation: Results show that withinsix months of completing their term, 25% of young adult corps members will secure a permanent job, 39% will enroll in continuing education and 36% will enroll in another AmeriCorps service term.

The Conservation Corps provides hands-on environmental stewardship and service-learning opportunities to youth and young adults while accomplishing conservation, natural-resource management and emergency response work.

Our goals are to help young people become more connected to the environment, engaged in natural-resource and energy conservation, involved in the community and prepared for future employment. We integrate young people from various ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds into our programs and live up to our motto: Resources Restored. Lives Changed.

Mission & Initiatives

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Field Crews: Nonresidential field crews, based throughout Minnesota and in Iowa, serve from February to December improving trails, conducting prescribed burns, suppressing wildfires, removing invasives and planting native species, surveying, controlling shoreline erosion, managing resources and responding to natural disasters. Members receive extensive training in tool and equipment use, wildland fire fighting, First Aid/CPR, defensive driving, leadership and communication.

In 2010, 154 corps members served in year-round field crews managed by district offices in Minnesota and Iowa.

Summer Youth Corps: The 8-week residential program unplugs teenagers from modern intrusions to live, learn and work outdoors. Youth begin at a St. Croix State Park base camp, then spike camp throughout the region, working in crews of six youth and two young adult leaders as they restore natural resources. In 2010, about 15 percent of the 85 youth participants were deaf or hard-of-hearing, and equal numbers of male/female and rural/urban youth were enrolled.

Youth Outdoors: Diverse urban teens from disadvantaged neighborhoods engage in out-of-school educational and service-learning activities during 12-week fall and spring semesters and a four-week summer session. Youth earn a stipend while improving their neighborhoods, restoring environmental resources, leading volunteers and increasing their science, technology and environmental knowledge. In 2010, 60 youth were enrolled in Youth Outdoors, which will expand to 84 youth in 2011.

Programs

Summer Youth Corps members provided environmental education to 30 youth at the Hartley Nature Center in Duluth and led them in a volunteer service project to improve a portion of the Superior Hiking Trail.The project was made possible by a grantfrom the Lloyd K. Johnson Foundation.

Home Energy Squad corps members install CFL lighting along with programmable thermostats, low-flow shower heads, door weather stripping and other energy-saving devices in Twin Cities homes.P

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Field crews plant trees in a Three Rivers Park District recreation area.

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Seasonal Trail Crews: Over the summer, corps members improve hiking, portage, skiing, snowmobiling, ATV and interpretive trails in the Superior and Chippewa National Forests. Working in all weather conditions, crew members spike camp for eight-day stretches. In 2010, 65 members served on seasonal trail crews.

Conservation Corps Specialists: Advanced-level corps members are placed in Minnesota Department of Natural Resources service positions, including outreach, water recreation and GIS. Others serve as interpreters and resource specialists at the Forest History Center in Grand Rapids, Minn. In 2010, seven members served in specialist positions.

Conservation Apprenticeship Academy: In 2010, Conservation Corps Minnesota received Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources funding to launch this program in 2011. From May through August, 30 Conservation Corps apprentices will serve in Minnesota Soil and Water Conservation Districts throughout Minnesota. Corps members are mentored by natural resource professionals and learn hands-on skills in managing soil and water resources and assisting landowners with conservation-related activities.

Home Energy Squads: 10 two-member squads serve year-round, installing conservation measures in Twin Cities homes. The measures save homeowners an average of $192 annually on utility bills. Members also provide homeowners with energy-saving strategies and appliance rebate information.

Building homes

Conservation Corps Youth Outdoors participants built a nesting tower to support chimney swift populations in Saint Paul, with funding from Audubon Minnesota. In urban areas, the small native, mosquito-eating birds nest in masonry chimneys. As old chimneys are removed or capped, chimney swift habitat is depleted.

Feeding the hungry

Using skills they’ve gained through the semester, Youth Outdoors members select, design and recruit volunteers to implement end-of-semester events. In Saint Paul’s Como neighborhood, they conducted door-to-door food drives for Open Arms.

Working, learning ...

Improving trails

Conservation Corps field crew members built and improved more than 1,400 miles of trails in 2010. Working in five-member crews, they also restored natural habitats by removing invasive species, conducting prescribed burns, planting native trees and plants, suppressing wildfires, controlling shoreline erosion and surveying and mapping natural areas.

Clearing the way

Seasonal trail crews cleared and maintained more than 140 miles of the Superior National Forest’s extensive trail system, contributing almost 25,000 hours of service work.

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Trail before

Trail after

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Saving the ladies

Conservation Corps members helped transplant lady slippers from a section of highway in Baudette, Minn. that is slated for major construction. The crew moved more than 200 orchids from the seven-mile stretch of road, which is part of the of the Agassiz Lowlands Environmental Learning Area at Lake of the Woods School.

Inspiring campers

In 2010, Conservation Corps young adult members traveled throughout Minnesota to host I Can Camp! overnight workshops at 33 Minnesota state parks and recreation areas. For families with little or no camping experience, the program taught participants how to set up and break down campsites, build a campfire and cook outdoors. The program was developed in partnership with the Minnesota DNR and REI.

Igniting growth

Corps members are carefully trained in prescribed burning, a technique used to maintain and restore native habitats. Controlled burning cleans out undesirable growth, stimulates the germination of native species, recycles nutrients and reduces the risk of large wildfires. In 2010, crews managed prescribed burns on 21,616 acres of land in Minnesota and Iowa.

... and living outdoors

Connecting to our past

Conservation Corps member Allie Moore chats with Bob Brown, a Civilian Conservation Corps alumnus, at the For-est History Center in Grand Rapids, Minn. Allie and three other corps members served as interpreters at the center, playing 1930s CCC-era characters.

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Speaking of the Corps

“When I first saw the slogan ‘Resources restored, lives changed,’ I laughed … (seemed) almost arrogant to assume that the experience would change my life. Looking back, however, I think the slogan is rather fitting. I feel pretty comfortable saying that the lives of everyone in our crew were changed at least a little bit.”

Jay Jech2010 Field Crew member

“I have become more outgoing and more willing to participate … I gained more environmental knowledge. I’m a better team player now and ambetter at taking the lead.”

Kong Vang2010 Youth Outdoors participant

“Being in the Corps makes me want to get away and travel,” to experience “more beautiful places in the world.”

Tia Scales2010 Summer Youth Corps participant

“These experiences provided me with self confidence, a greater work ethic and a better attitude towards life. I emerged from the woods a much more patient and humble person.”

Christian Bilyk2010 Seasonal Trails Crew member

“You get a skilled workforce, with a vested interest in the outdoors, eager to learn about the environment and make some money.”

Nathan JohnsonProject Host, Saint Paul Parks and Recreation

“It’s so rewarding when we leave a homeowner, and they are raving about how happy they are that they decided to have us over. We’re making a positive impact on the environment and on that specific customer’s energy bill.”

Anne Dauphinais2010 Home Energy Squad member

“The Corps helps give people a sense of what they want to do after college. Some want a career in wildlife management and others, like me, aren’t sure what they want and come out of the program with more focus.”

Nicole Skurich2010 Field Crew member

“(The crew’s) work ethic was exceptional and they completed desired work activities as fast as I could line them up. I would readily recommend them … and hope to have them back again.”

Clarke DirksProject Host, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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VolunteersIn 2010, Conservation Corps youth and young adults led almost 1,700 volunteers in restoration projects. Volunteers helped clean up neighborhood and state parks, improve trails, remove invasive species, plant trees and clean up debris along riverbanks.

1,689 volunteers, led by Conservation Corps members, contributed 4,848 hours of work.

Real results

Kurt Neuburger, a contract employee with Andersen Windows in Bayport, sits alongside piles of vegetation that Conservation Corps Minnesota youth and volunteers cleared from the rocky St. Croix riverbank at Afton State Park. “I had a blast helping out,” Kurt said. “Spending a few hours with a fun group of kids in nature can hardly be called work.” The project was made possible by the Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation.

Almost 150 volunteers cleaned up two miles of Mississippi riverbank, led by Conservation Corps members in partnership with the DNR and the Padelford Packet Boat Company. A riverboat brought volunteers to the cleanup site south of Saint Paul where they filled a 30-yard dumpster with tires, bottles, scrap metal and other trash left by flooding. Volunteer Mike Tittle (far left) said of working with Conservation Corps members: “They were engaging, informative, hardworking and fun to be with. They gave me a sense of hope for the future.”

Conservation Corps Youth Outdoors crews led 128 volunteers in planting more than 1,000 native trees in Como Park, and explained the importance of plant depth, root trimming and placing mulch around trees. This Arbor Month event was hosted by Saint Paul Parks and Recreation with funding from the Saint Paul Garden Club.

The Conservation Corps changes young people’s lives and prepares them for successful careers.

2010 youth program participants reported …92% can better work on teams89% have a stronger work ethic96% can better use hand tools91% better understand how citizens impact community87% have more self confidence90% improved their communication skills93% are more confident in their leadership abilities86% feel better prepared for their next job89% will continue to volunteer and serve their community

Results of 115 youth participants who responded to a post-service survey after the 2010 Summer Youth Corps and Youth Outdoors programs.

2010 young adult program participants reported …88% could better work on teams98% have gained or improved technical skills90% have developed a stronger work ethic88% have developed a stronger sense of personal responsibility88% have developed better communication skills86% are more aware of environmental issues in their community90% are registered to vote99% are proud of the work their crew accomplished

Results of 204 young adult participants who responded to a post-service survey after 2010 Field Crew and Home Energy Squad programs.

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Iowa 2010 report

Iowa project partners FederalNational Park ServiceU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

StateIowa DNR

Local governmentCity of CarlisleHardin County Conservation BoardPottawattamie County

Conservation BoardStory County Conservation BoardTama County Conservation BoardWoodbury County

Conservation Board

NonprofitIowa Natural Heritage FoundationHabitat for HumanityHarvest PreserveIndian Creek Nature CenterJohnson County Heritage TrustLoess Hills Preservation SocietyWhiterock Conservancy

Saving the turtles:Iowa crews helped the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service build a fenced enclosure for threatened Ornate Box Turtles near the Mississippi River in northwest Illinois. About 9 or 10 turtles will be kept in a 20-acre area and studied for the next five years. Most of the turtles have been relocated from areas where they lost their natural habitat to development.

Iowa financial statementStatement of Activities and Changes in Net AssetsYear Ended December 31, 2010

Conservation Corps Iowa crews conduct prescribed burns, remove invasive species and build trails for county conservation boards, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, DNR and nonprofits such as the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation. In 2010, corps members used those skills on a number of important projects.

• Built the first paddle-in campsites on Red Rock Lake, in partnership with Iowa DNR-Watertrails.

• Conducted prescribed burns on almost 750 acres throughout Iowa to restore native prairies.

• Built handicap-accessible deer hunting blinds for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

• Worked in partnership with the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation to maintain the Hoover Bike Trail, brushing back trees and clearing debris.

Conservation Corps Iowa 2010 accomplishment highlightsBoardwalks, bridges & other trail features — 120 feetCampsite establishment & maintenance — 15 sitesConstruction & carpentry — 95 hoursDebris removal — 350 poundsDock & pier construction — 20 feetGIS/GPS data & mapping — 65 hoursHazard & invasive tree removal — 11 treesHistoric building & landmark restoration — 4 structuresInvasive species management — 334 acresMotorized & non-motorized trail improvement — 150 feetNon-motorized trail construction — 1,960 feetNatural resource management (general) — 2,822 hoursPlanting — 631 trees and plantsPrairie restoration — 140 hoursPrescribed burning — 747 acresPublic access maintenance — 475 hoursSurveys & data collection — 85 hoursTimber-stand improvement — 5 acresVegetation removal — 39 acresWildlife structure construction — 14 structures

2010 leadership development• 12 young adults enrolled in AmeriCorps field crews• Corpsmembers received 2,922 hours of technical-skills

and personal-development training• 24 volunteers contributed 108 hours of workSupport & Revenue

Support AmeriCorps Grant $126,000 Contributions $150 Revenue Partner Support $258,440 Total Support and Revenue $384,590 Expenses Iowa Program Services Young Adult Programs $348,537 Management & General $36,053 Total Expenses $384,590

AMERICORPSGRANT

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Minnesota 2010 report

Minnesota financial statementStatement of Activities and Changes in Net Assets, Year Ended December 31, 2010

Support & Revenue Temporarily Unrestricted Restricted Total Support AmeriCorps Funding $510,353 $510,353 American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) $667,803 $667,803 Charitable Gifts $31,009 $209,372 $240,381 State Grant $25,769 $1,040,299 $1,066,068

Revenue Partner Support $3,652,268 $3,652,268 Interest & Miscellaneous $10,914 $10,914 Total Support & Revenue $4,898,116 $1,249,671 $6,147,787

Net Assets Released from Restrictions State Natural Resource Fund $392,600 State General Operating Funds $480,227 Board of Water & Soil Resources $337,578 Charitable Grants $243,950 Total Released $1,454,355 ($1,454,355)

Expenses Minnesota Program Services Youth Programs $901,727 $901,727 Young Adult Programs $4,434,526 $4,434,526 Management & General $374,441 $374,441 Fundraising $53,029 $53,029 Total Expenses $5,763,723 $5,763,723

Change in Net Assets $588,748 ($204,684) $384,064* Net Assets, beginning of year $702,930 $1,443,625 $2,146,555 Net Assets, end of year $1,291,678 $1,238,941 $2,530,619 *Cash reserve budgeted for year-end to cover training and equipment costs in the first quarter 2011, before partner

support (fee-for-service) revenue is available.

Boardwalks, bridges & other trail features— 84,489 feetCampsite establishment & maintenance — 485 sitesConstruction & carpentry — 5,233 hoursDebris removal — 122,909 poundsDock & pier construction — 395 feetErosion control & slope stabilization — 210,229 sq. feetFence installation & animal exclosures — 99,754 feetFire suppression — 5,389 acresForest inventory — 28 plotsGIS/GPS data & mapping — 3,822 hoursHazard & invasive tree removal — 39,574 treesHistoric building & landmark restoration — 9 structuresHome energy-saving upgrades— 3,301 homesInvasive species management — 10,228 acresMan-made feature & trail user surveys — 152 surveysMotorized & non-motorized trail construction — 58 milesMotorized & non-motorized trail improvement —1,395 milesNatural resource management (general) — 28,977 hoursOak wilt management — 69 treesPlanting — 135,446 trees and plantsPrescribed burning — 20,869 acresRain garden installation & maintenance — 116,803 sq. feetRecreation area maintenance — 169 acresRiver obstruction removal — 300 milesSandbagging & flood response — 369 hours

Seed collection — 1,835 hoursSeeding — 96 acresTimber-stand improvement — 676 acresTree & plant surveys — 136 surveysVegetation removal — 4,638 acresWater-quality sampling — 75 samplesWildlife structure construction — 786 structuresWildlife surveys — 1,324 surveys

2010 leadership development85 youth enrolled in the Summer Youth Corps60 youth enrolled in afterschool Youth Outdoors65 young adults served in seasonal field crews130 young adults served in year-round field crews21 young adults served in Home Energy Squads41 young adults served as youth leaders

Corps members engaged their communities with …Environmental education — 12,099 peopleCommunity outreach — 2,066 hours

Corps members received …10,020 hours of personal development training24,462 hours of technical-skills training5,528 hours of youth education and training

Conservation Corps Minnesota 2010 accomplishment highlights

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FederalNational Park ServiceU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceU.S. Forest Service

StateBoard of Water and Soil ResourcesMinnesota DNR

Local governmentAitkin County Land DepartmentAnoka County Parks and RecreationBeltrami County Natural Resource ManagementCapitol Region Watershed DistrictCarlton County SWCDCass County Land DepartmentChisago SWCDCity of BemidjiCity of DuluthCity of HermantownCity of MinneapolisCity of Prior LakeCity of RochesterCity of Saint PaulCity of VirginiaClearwater River Watershed DistrictCook County SWCDCottonwood County SWCDCrow Wing SWCDDouglas SWCDEast Ottertail SWCDGrand Portage ReservationHubbard SWCDItasca CountyLake County SWCDLake of the Woods SWCDMille Lacs SWCDMinnehaha Creek Watershed DistrictPelican River Watershed DistrictRamsey County Public WorksRamsey Washington Metro Watershed DistrictRice CountyShingle Creek Watershed DistrictSt. Louis County SWCDThree Rivers Park DistrictVadnais Lake Area Watershed Management OrganizationWabasha SWCDWadena Otter Tail Long Term Recovery CommitteeWashington Conservation DistrictWashington County ParksWright County SWCD

NonprofitAudubon Center of the NorthwoodsBemidji Community Food ShelfCannon River Watershed PartnershipCedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, U of MComo Lake Neighborhood NetworkConcordia Language VillagesCook County Historical SocietyEureka RecyclingFriends of the Mississippi RiverHartley Nature CenterJay C. Hormel Nature CenterMetro BloomsMinnesota Deer Hunter’s AssociationMinnesota Discovery CenterMinnesota Historical SocietyMinnesota Prairie Chicken SocietyNeighborhood Energy ConnectionNorth Country Trail AssociationNorth House Folk SchoolNorthland ArboretumPheasants ForeverPhiladelphia Community FarmPrairie Island Indian CommunityPrairie Woods Environmental Learning CenterSecond Harvest Food BankSno-Sharks Snowmobile ClubSugarloaf: The North Shore Stewardship AssociationSuperior Hiking Trail AssociationThe Nature ConservancyWestwood Village Home AssociationWildlife Science CenterWill Steger FoundationWolf Ridge Environmental Learning CenterYMCA Camp WidjiwaganYouth Farm and Market Project

Conservation Corps Stakeholders

Conservation CorpsBoard of Directors

John Velin, ChairExecutive Director, Legislative-Citizen Commission

on Minnesota Resources, retired

Robby Callahan Schreiber, First Vice ChairYouth Programs Director, Science Museum

of Minnesota Summer Youth Corps alumnus

John Lilly, Second Vice ChairManager, Minnesota DNR Parks and Recreation

Division, retired

Barbara Sommer, SecretaryOral historian, investigator, presenter and author

for museums and historical research projects nationwide

JerJian Koh, TreasurerAudit Supervisor, CPA, CIA and MBA,

Boyum & Barenscheer PLLP

Paul BergstromCivil Engineering Student, University of MinnesotaConservation Corps Minnesota alumnus

Neil CunninghamOutreach Coordinator, Minnesota Department

of Agriculture

John DeganAttorney, Blue Cross Blue Shield

Monty DehnHennepin County Deputy Sheriff, retiredCivilian Conservation Corps alumnus

Rolf HagbergOwner, Rolf Hagberg PhotographyConservation Corps alumnus, founding board

member and former development director

David HileHennepin County Law Enforcement

Professional, retired

Tom JahnkeSenior Manager of Forestry and Horticulture,

Three Rivers Park District, retired

Anna KuceraSenior Marketing Manager, National Multiple

Sclerosis Society, Minnesota Chapter

Mike NevalaPrincipal Environmental Scientist,

Metropolitan CouncilSummer Youth Corps alumna parent

Mark SkeieFounder of Mapping Your Retirement, Inc.

Janet TimmermanHistoric Site Guide, Minnesota State

Historical Society

Minnesota project partners

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Up to $75Anonymous (3)James AdkinsonKatrina M. AndersonJustin Bakken & Molly MoilanenLarry & Kathy BeckerPaul BergstromEmma BixlerRobert Callahan SchreiberGary & Jane ClementsAlbert CollyardTheresa & Philip CustodioJeff & Cindy DalenJohn DeganMichelle DiersenKeith DoaneLeslie DonathDale & Susan FinstadBurton & Audrey FisherMavis FisherKiley FriedrichAshley GerdtsRalph & Mary HalbertHarley HansonBarbara HarringtonGary HeaserSarah HolmBrian J. HubbardMathew JansenAimee JeffersonAlyson JohnsonNancy & Gregory JohnsonMartin KellerEli & Amy Kerber SagorJerJian KohJane KrentzBarbara LarsonKristin LarsonKelsey MillerKristien NevalaJohn & Elaine ObingerEdgar OhitoElaine OlsonJames PirklEdward & Michelle PlourdeJake ReberHarvey RichartGary & Dana RocchioSara SalusChristina ScholbergAmanda SenechalChris SeversonMark & Janet SkeieDaniel SmithPatty StupcaTimothy TrostBen WaltonAnna & John WestonAnn WhitneyJeremy WilliamsTara WilliamsMary Lou WilmDale Zaiser

$75 to $149Anonymous (3)Gordon AlexanderEdwin BerniardChristine HammesStephen P. HansonEleanor HeaneyRobert & Ramona HessAnthony IndelicatoRichard LoeCarey SmithThomas & Angeline StoneWilma WestShari Wilson

Conservation Corps Stakeholders

CCC alumni Monty Dehn (left) and Al Collyard attended the first-ever Conservation Corps alumni reunion on September 11, 2010, for corps members who served in Minnesota’s CCC, YCC, YACC, MCC and today’s Conservation Corps. Six alumni joined the Stewards Circle at the event.

Stewards Circle($150+)

Anonymous (1)Craig & Patty Acomb Eric Antonson Jim Antonson Terry Banovetz-Gerst Brad Blackett Saraya Boghani Peter Bonk Charissa Brudnak & John VossEugene C. Bullis Margaret Davis Monty DehnNelly Devault Dan Funk Gretchen GoedeCindy Green Rolf Hagberg & Carrie PlamannDave & Mary HilePhyllis & Donald Kahn Erika Koffel Ellen Larsen Carol McElroy Heather McElroyMichael & Beth NevalaRichard NewmarkBarbara & Neil NormandinLeonard & Stephanie PriceMichael ShoafstallBarbara SommerDenise & Gary StelznerWillard O. StibalRichard ThomasJanet TimmermanJohn VelinSusan VentoErik Wrede & Maria Reyes-Wrede

Foundation and organizational donorsFred C. and Katherine B. Andersen FoundationBest Buy Children’s FoundationCosmopolitan Woman’s Club F. R. Bigelow FoundationEnterprise FoundationFinnegans Community FundBetty A. Lewis University Environmental Charitable TrustLions Club Maplewood-Oakdale Lloyd K. Johnson FoundationThe McKnight FoundationMcNeely FoundationPentair FoundationSaint Paul Audubon SocietySaint Paul Garden ClubThe Saint Paul FoundationCarl and Verna Schmidt FoundationSmartWool Advocacy Fund Walmart FoundationThe Frederick & Margaret L. Weyerhaeuser FoundationWilson Conservation TrustXcel Energy Foundation

Corporate donationsBeltrami Electric CooperativeBremer BankThe Brenton ArboretumCarlson Wagonlit TravelREIT-Mobile

Matching giftsAmeripriseTravelers Foundation

Donors

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651.209.9900info@conservationcorps.orgwww.conservationcorps.org

The Conservation Corps provides hands-on environmental stewardship

and service-learning opportunities to youth and young adults while accomplishing

conservation, natural resource management and emergency response work.