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​​Capacity Building Resources

Capacity Building in General

Our YouTube Channel as a dedicated Playlist for Organizational Capacity: Organizational Capacity for Lake Organizations - YouTube - Please explore the videos to begin your capacity education. 

Membership

A large and growing number of lake organizations are using Facebook to share information with their members and invite them to participate in meetings and other activites.

Organizational

Apply for funding for planning and organizational development with the Wisconsin DNR's Lake Planning Grants.

Browse these organizational capacity resources from the River Alliance of Wisconsin: Starting Up & Running An Effective Group

Relationship

Meet other lake advocates at the Wisconsin Lakes Partnership Convention and Water Action Volunteers Symposium, held each spring in Stevens Point. Learn more about local and regional lake and water events on the Lake Event Calendar

Programmatic

Learn about the Wisconsin Healthy Lakes and Rivers initiative, a simple way to hit the ground running with small-scale lake restoration and protection projects. 

Recruit your volunteers to help educate boaters at public landings through Wisconsin's Clean Boats, Clean Waters program. 

If you haven't already, get started with volunteer based monitoring in your lake and watershed. Even if you are already part of Wisconsin's Citizen Lake Monitoring Network program, there are additional ecological aspects of the lake and surrounding environment that just about anyone can help monitor. 

Plan to apply for funding for larger scale projects through the Wisconsin DNR's Lake Protection Grants. These grants provide up to $200,000 for land or easement acquisitions, wetland and shoreline habitat restoration, or other projects identified in a DNR-approved lake management plan. 

Check out this interactive story map that includes the projects that were funded in 2018 by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' Surface Water Grant Program here.


NOTE: This page is a work in progress! Share your resources and ideas by email to Sara Windjue at swindjue@uwsp.edu

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