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Willamette Partnership

LeadershipLeadership means making the possible a reality. We use tenacity, creativity, and hopes for the future to carve out a pragmatic path forward.

Willamette Partnership Annual Report 2018

WHO WE ARE

1 Table of ContentsWho We Are

2 Letter from the Board President and Executive Director

3-4 How We Lead

5 Financials

MISSION

To increase the pace, scope, and effectiveness of restoration and conservation to create benefits for both natural and human communities.

VISION

We envision a world in which people create resilient ecosystems, healthy communities, and vibrant economies by investing in nature. We are building a future in which people understand and value the benefits nature provides.

STRATEGIES

Our work focuses on three interrelated strategies:

1. Increasing investment in nature to help meet water infrastructure needs. We help local communities explore, envision, evaluate, and implement natural infrastructure solutions.

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We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon.

Learn how we lead and the results we’ve seen throughout

2018

See the $ we utilize to support the health of nature and communities.

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2. Building a business case for working lands conservation. We find and create ways for investment in nature to help support thriving farms, forests, and rural economies.

3. Helping grow more resilient communities. We help make nature part of the solution as both urban and rural communities seek to grow healthier, more equitable, and more resilient to natural disasters and other shocks and stresses.

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LETTER FROM OUR BOARD PRESIDENT AND INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Dear Friends,

Willamette Partnership first germinated and has blossomed and grown over the last fourteen years as an organization rooted in a unique brand of leadership. The leadership our organization embodies is best expressed through the words of Peter Drucker:

Successful leaders don’t start out asking, “What do I want to do?” They ask, “What needs to be done?” Then they ask, “Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?”

Leaders from conservation, industry, agriculture, forestry, and government asked those questions when they began the collaborative endeavor that would become Willamette Partnership. They saw the need for an organization that specialized in creative, collaborative, and pragmatic problem-solving to tackle some of the toughest conservation challenges facing the West. Today’s Willamette Partnership stands on their shoulders, and our answers to those questions continue to evolve and gain depth and breadth today because of the leadership of many, including staff, board, partners, and critics.

Together, we’ve created an organization in which every person can find their own voice to lead, whether in water quality trading or working lands conservation, communications or finance. We start out every year and each day asking “What needs to be done to build a world in which people understand, value, and benefit from nature?” and “How can I best use my skills, passion, and commitment to make that happen?” And we are growing the Partnership with a strong focus on developing and nurturing emerging leaders.

We’re taking time to celebrate both the leaders that made us who we are today and the ones that will build our future. We hope you’ll join us.

Mike Jordan, Sara O’Brien, Board President Interim Executive Director

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HOW WE LEAD

Carrie Sanneman Clean Water Program Manager

Leads through a deep knowledge of water policy, an almost magical ability to build and maintain momentum toward a goal, and her rock-solid belief that collaboration yields better results. Her work in 2018 built our partners’ capacity and willingness to take on natural infrastructure solutions, from developing a collaborative governance approach for the Pure Water Partners in the McKenzie Basin to finding creative solutions to water temperature issues in the Willamette.

Kristiana Teige Witherill Clean Water Project Manager

Leads through artful synthesis and compelling products, crafting stories that help people in the water infrastructure world make better decisions. Her results in 2018 included developing a comprehensive national action agenda aimed at accelerating the demand for water quality trading and helping partners in the Jade District of Portland measure and communicate the multiple benefits of urban tree planting.

Nicole Maness Resilient Habitat Program Manager

Leads through her contagious enthusiasm for working lands conservation and a knack for distilling complex conservation problems down to their most basic – and most manageable – essence. In 2018, she helped build the Oak Accord into a thriving model for rigorous, landowner-led, and landowner-centered conservation commitments and started exploring how a similar approach might support stewardship of eastern Oregon rangelands.

Tess Malijenovsky Outgoing Communications Manager

Tess led us through two years of an impressive (r)evolution, building a detailed vision for how communication can contribute more, and more directly, to our organization’s work. She is headed to Bangkok to focus on her writing and artistic goals, and we miss her model of leading through kindness and confidence.

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Sara O’BrienInterim Executive Director

Leads by building strong relationships and truly collaborative teams. She blends authority with compassion, honesty, and inclusivity to activate the greatness in others. She focused 2018 on making it easier and more rewarding for local governments to invest in conserving healthy floodplains. As interim director during Bobby’s leave of absence in 2019, Sara is focused

on building the Partnership’s networks and capacity for our next phase of growth.

Bobby CochranSenior Fellow

Leads through speed-of-light innovation and his ability to see the next five moves in any conservation chess game. 2018 was his 8th year as executive director and fearless leader of the Partnership, and he helped develop and launch a how-to guide for improving public health through green infrastructure. Bobby looks forward to returning in July 2019 from a year-long fellowship at Portland State University’s National Policy Consensus Center.

Erin LeggDirector of Finance

Leads our organization through the slings and arrows of financial management with grace, good humor, and an ability and drive to build

smart, pragmatic systems. In addition to keeping us above board and in the black in 2018, she led a board work group on equity, diversity, and inclusion and laid the foundation for an update and streamlining of our financial management systems in 2019.

Emily IrishIncoming Communications Manager

Emily joined us in Novemebr 2018 from Clean Water Services. She leads with amazing design superpowers and a commitment to use those powers for (conservation) good. Her focus in 2019 will be on building a communications strategy and core set of outreach materials in support of our mission and vision.

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Contracts

Donations

Federal Grants

Other Grants

Revenue by Source

 STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES FYE 6/30/18

 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

FYE 6/30/18

Revenue Assets

Federal Grants $578,926 Cash $229,255 Other Grants $357,800 Receivables $316,275Contributions/Donations $83,313 Fixed and Other Assets $8,637Contract and Other Revenues $217,432

Total Contributions and Revenue $1,237,471 Total Assets $554,167

Expenses LiabilitiesClean Water $478,854 Accounts Payable $169,394 Resilient Habitats $270,701 Other Liabilities $90,286Strategic Integration $379,839 Management and General $161,749

Total Expenses $1,291,141 Total Liabilities $259,680

Net AssetsUnrestricted $137,625Temporarily Restricted $156,862

Total Net Assets $294,487

Change in Net Assets $53,671 Total Liabilities and Net Assets $554,167

Clean Water

Resilient Habitats

Expenses by Program

Strategic Integration

General

FINANCIALS

29%

18%46%

7%

37% 13%

21% 29%

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Bullitt Foundation

City of Seattle

Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

Gray Family Foundation

Lora L. and Martin N. Kelley Foundation Trust

Meyer Memorial Trust

MJ Murdock Charitable Trust

Oregon Coast Council for the Arts

Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife

John & Sue Miller

Port of Portland

Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife

Wildwood | Mahonia

Wolf Water Resources

Clean Water Services

Thomas & Nicole Maness

Heritage Seedlings & Liners, Inc.

Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc.

The Greenbrier Companies, Inc.

Tualatin Soil & Water Conservation District

Greenwood Resources, Inc.

City of Portland

Columbia Bank

ECONorthwest

Larkins Vacura Kayser, LLP

NW Natural

Oregon Department of Agriculture

Sisters of the Holy Name

Moss Adams LLP

Craig Kelley

Michael Jordan

Alex & Andrea Johnson

Anchor QEA, LLC

THANK YOU

Bambuza

Bradford S. Gentry

Cardno

Environmental Science Associates

Kleinschmidt Group

McDonald Jacobs P.C.

Northwest Farm Credit Services

Peter & Pamela Hayes

Sitka Technology Group

Spirit Mountain Casino

Terrapin Cellars, LLC

The Freshwater Trust

West Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District

Willamette University

Linda MacPherson & Bill Gaffi

Ducks Unlimited, Inc.

Institute for Applied Ecology

Environmental Incentives, LLC

PacifiCorp

Select Impressions

SWCA Environmental Consultants

The Freshwater Trust

World Bank Group

Wyoming Conservation Exchange

INDIVIDUALS, BUSINESSES, AND NONPROFITS

Oregon Department of State Lands

Oregon Department of Transportation

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Oregon Community Foundation

USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station

USDA Forest Service State and Private Forestry

USDA National Resources Conservation Service

Wilburforce Foundation

FOUNDATIONS, TRIBES, LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL

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WILLAMETTE PARTNERSHIP STAFF

Sara O’Brien, Interim Executive DirectorBobby Cochran, Senior FellowEmily Irish, Communications ManagerErin Legg, Director of Finance Nicole Maness, Resilient Habitat Program ManagerCarrie Sanneman, Clean Water Program ManagerKristiana Teige Witherill, Clean Water Project Manager

WILLAMETTE PARTNERSHIP BOARD

Michael Jordan, City of Portland (President) Dan Vizzini, OHSU Center for Evidence-Based Policy (Vice President)Teresa Jacobs, Port of Portland (Secretary)Marc Hiller, Lyme Timber Company (Treasurer)Jessica Hamilton, Port of Portland (Past President)Joe Bowersox, Willamette UniversityShanna Brownstein, Northwest NaturalMark Buckley, ECONorthwestJohn Dunbar, Larkins Vacura Kayser LLPMichael Karnosh, Confederated Tribes of Grand RondeJim Lanzarotta, Moss AdamsJohn Miller, Wildwood Mahonia

PARTNERS COMMITTEE

Anita Yap, DEQ, Multicultural CollaborativeBill Gaffi, Clean Water ServicesBruce Taylor, Pacific BirdsDan Rohlf, Lewis and Clark UniversityGeoff Huntington, Oregon State University ForestryIan Galloway, Federal ReserveJohn Miller, Wildwood MahoniaKari Cohen, Natural Resource Conservation ServiceLarry Ojua, Yamhill Soil & Water Conservation DistrictLisa Gaines, Institute for Natural ResourcesMami Hara, Seattle Public UtilitiesMark Webb, Blue Mountain PartnershipMatt Deniston, Sitka Technology GroupMike Freese, Romain GroupNav Dayanand, The Nature ConservancyNils Christofferson, Wallowa ResourcesRadhika Fox, U.S. Water AllianceSam Baraso, Multnomah CountySerena Cruz, Virginia Garcia

SPECIAL THANKS

We honor and thank Jane Bacchieri, Brad Gentry, Chris Mercier, and Dave Stone for their dedicated service to Willamette Partnership as they rotate off the Board this year. Your leadership has been critical to the organization and to our mission. Thank you!

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PHOTO CREDIT Page 1 Tess Malijenovsky

Butterfly Collage Pages 3-4 Andrea JohnsonBaskowb StillBureau of Land Management Chris HambyCity of Portland Clean Water Services Decaseconds Horsmonden Kent Ian SaneKristiana Teige Witherill

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Leise Wease Mike ShawPam Broviak Port of PortlandSteve MorganTess MalijenovskyThe Wetlands ConservancyThomas HawkVan Duzer Vineyard

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