NONPROFIT FINANCIAL REPORT 2013 AT A GLANCE ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION PERMIT NO. 54 HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION, INC. AND HVA FOUNDATION, INC. The Housatonic Valley Association’s mission is to save the FALLS VILLAGE natural character and environmental health of our communities by HVA 06031 2013 ANNUAL REPORT protecting land and water in the Valley. Cornwall Bridge, CT 06754-0028 CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2013 OF FINANCIAL POSITION JUNE 30, 2013 How we spent our TEMPORARILY PERMANENTLY ASSETS THE HOUSATONIC UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL Current Assets resources WATERSHED Cash and Cash Equivalents $ 309,073 REVENUES, GAINS AND OTHER SUPPORT Accounts Receivable 59,493 Membership Dues $ 65.809 $ - $ - $ 65.809 Prepaid Expenses 9,212 Contributions Above Dues 359,090 - - 359,090 ______Massachusetts Grants 327,580 121,550 - 449,130 Total Current Assets ______377,778 Events 161,501 - - 161,501 20% Fees 12,251 - - 12,251 HVA STAFF Rent 9,576 - - 9,576 Property and Equipment Lynn Werner OUTREACH/ Special Thanks to our Special Thanks to our Investment Income 4,370 18,972 - 23,342 Land 216,206 WATER Executive Director PROTECTION EDUCATION Green Herons Blue Herons Unrealized Gains on Investments 31,946 76,915 - 108,861 Buildings and Renovations 328,414 Furnishings and Equipment 166,848 Net Assets Released From Restrictions ______133,525 ______(133,525) ______- ______- Dennis Regan Less Accumulated Depreciation ______(404,721) 30% 25% Berkshire Program Director Total Revenues, Gains and Other Support 1,105,648______83,912 ______- ______1,189,560_____ Northern Alison Dixon Net Property and Equipment ______306,747 Connecticut Outreach Program Manager* CONNECTICUT LAND PROTECTION USF&WS 65% Tim Abbott Sharon Casdin Tucker and Karen Andersen Other Assets ADMINISTRATIVE/ Nick and Caroline Daifoitis Jack and Pam Baker EXPENSES Greenprint Director Investments 1,006,273 FUNDRAISING LAND PROTECTION Dave and Sandy Dolinsky David Behnke and Paul Doherty Program Services Elaine LaBella Deferred Land Sale Costs 6,342 Land Protection Director Valerie Friedman Marj and Bill Coleman Watch 108,568 - - 108,568 ______Total Other Assets Sam Dzieken Ronald Garfunkel and Robert Couturier and Geographic Information Systems 36,998 - - 36,998 ______1,012,615 12% 33% New York GIS Manager* Sandra Breakstone Jeffrey Morgan Environmental Education 249,589 - - 249,589 TOTAL ASSETS $1,697,140______CONNECTICUT/NEW YORK Ed and Meg Hoffman Oscar and Annette de la Renta Land Protection 267,256 - - 267,256 7% WATER PROTECTION Stephen and Belinda Kaye Len and Maryellen DeJong Water Protection 213,839 - - 213,839 LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS ______Southern Michael Jastremski Michael and Martha Nesbitt Joe and Barbara Ellis Current Liabilities Connecticut Water Protection Director Total Program Services 876,250 - - 876,250 Connecticut Barbara Page and John Liu Whitey Frew ______Accounts Payable $ 9,460 Tonia Shoumatoff Barclay Prindle and Linda Allard Gallen Accrued Salaries and Wages 9,025 8% New York Watershed Manager* Amy Schuchat Lou and Elaine Hecht STEPHEN Tenant’s Security Deposit ______568 COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND OUTREACH Supporting Services Allan and Julie Shope Peter Kellogg WOLFE TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES ______19,053 Richard Sears Dick and Pamela Stebbins Roger and Fa Liddell Membership 50,795 - - 50,795 Development Director Bill and Jean Vitalis Ezra and Reeva Mager Events 87,844 - - 87,844 Net Assets Jane Bakker Management and General 24,119 - - 24,119 Communications Coordinator* Kirsten Peckerman Unrestricted Margie Purnell Fundraising ______44,556 ______- ______- _____44,556_____ Unrestricted, Equity in Property Brenda Singer Membership/Volunteer/Auction Coordinator Ronald and Michelle Saltz Total Supporting Services 207,314 - - 207,314 and Equipment 306,747 ______Angela Rice Anne Swift Unrestricted, Designated by the Board 32,000 Website Coordinator* Diane von Furstenberg Unrestricted, Undesignated ______171,386 and Barry Diller Total Expenses 1,083,564 - - 1,083,564 Where we spent our resources FINANCIAL ______Total Unrestricted Net Assets 510,133 Patience Lindholm Stephen Wolf Finance Director* Tony and Sally Zunino Temporarily Restricted 322,429 Change in Net Assets ______22,084 ______83,912 ______- _____105,996______Permanently Restricted 845,525 Carol Powers ______Grants Consultant* TOTAL NET ASSETS ______1,678,087 www.hvatoday.org Joseph Ruggiero Net Assets at Beginning of Year ______488,049 ______238,517 ____845,525______1,572,091 IT Specialist* CT: P.O. Box 28, Cornwall Bridge, CT 06754 860-672-6678 E-mail: [email protected] TOTAL LIABILITIES Ron Skurat MA: P.O. Box 251, South Lee, MA 01260 413-394-9796 E-mail: [email protected] Volunteer Southern Valley Ombudsman Net Assets at End of Year $ 510,133 $ 322,429 $ 845,525 $1,678,087 AND NET ASSETS $1,697,140 ______HVA NY: P.O. Box 315, Wassaic, NY 12592 845-879-1381 E-mail: [email protected]. *PARTTIME TO MEMBERS AND FRIENDS Special Thanks to our FOCUS ON WATER Special Thanks to our FOCUS ON LAND Special Thanks to our THANKS TO YOU AND OUR PARTNERS Corporate Associates Project Sponsors Project Sponsors

Advanced Multifamily Donald and Elizabeth Abbott Lee Bank Kent Conservation Commission Oblong Land Conservancy Kent Land Trust Onota Lake Association Timothy Abbott Litchfi eld Land Trust, Inc. ou are the heart and soul of the Housatonic River Valley. Security Systems King’s Mark RC&D Council Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Aqua Environmental Lab Bernard Adams and Edna H. Travis Loomis Fund Endowment Kleinschmidt Associates Pomfret Computer Technologies Your enthusiasm is contagious. What an unparalleled Aquarion Water Company AKC Fund, Inc. Massachusetts Kozuchowski Environmental Consultants Princeton Hydro The Asen Foundation Environmental Trust Lake Housatonic Authority Pomperaug High School year of collaboration among neighbors and organizations Bennett Sullivan Associates Osprey by NASA Authority Watershed Coalition Aton Forest, Inc. Millbrook Garden Club ELEANOR SAULYS working to conserve our rivers and natural places! Bicron Electronic Company Lake Waramaug Task Force Pontoosuc Lake Association Aquarion Water Company MITS, Inc. Authority River Network Bouvier Insurance Board of Directors Berkshire Bank Foundation, Inc. Morris Land Trust Land Trust Alliance Rivers Alliance of Connecticut Y Roxbury Conservation Commission Brewer Stratford Marina Laurel Hill Association President Threats to long cherished community landscapes? Land trusts Berkshire Environmental Naromi Land Trust, Inc. Burns Construction Co., Inc. Litchfi eld Hills Council of Elected Offi cials Saint Michael’s Church Robert P. Houlihan are banding together in record numbers across town borders to Action Team National Fish and Littleville Power Co., Glendale Dam Seymour Land Trust Charter Business help their neighbors save important places. Berkshire Taconic Wildlife Foundation Massachusetts Audubon Society Sharon Audubon Vice Presidents CLY-DEL Manufacturing Co. Community Foundation National Park Service Mass. Division of Ecological Restoration Shelton Economic Development Corp. 300+ Massachusetts Environmental Trust Shelton Land Trust Shep Evans Con-Serv, Inc. acres permanently protected Big Y Foods, Inc. Natural Resources Alternative Support Program, Pittsfi eld Ellen M. Rosenberg Culverts impeding fish and wildlife? Fishing clubs, advocates School System Massachusetts Executive Offi ce of Energy Association Cramer & Anderson Law Offi ce in Norfolk. The Bok Family Foundation Damages Trustees Aquarion Water Company and Environmental Affairs Sierra Club F. Anthony Zunino and neighbors are joining with scientists and road crews to Crane & Co., Inc. Kevin Case New Hartford Land Trust, Inc. Berkshire Environmental Action Team Massachusetts Fisheries and Wildlife Sound School Southbury Land Trust Secretary Crystal Rock LLC Colebrook Land Conservancy, Inc. The Norcross Wildlife Berkshire Natural Resources Council Massachusetts Rivers Alliance find and replace these culprit culverts from the to You protect clean water and healthy, flowing rivers and streams. You conserve forests, meadows and special places for today ... and tomorrow. of Naugatuck Massachusetts Watershed Coalition Steele Brook Rangers Leendert T. DeJong D & P Floor Covering Dennis and Pamela Collins Foundation, Inc. Authority Tom McGowan Steep Rock Association Northwest Connecticut. Connecticut Farmland Trust Treasurer Dickies Mfg. Co. 500+ Norfolk Land Trust Candlewood Valley Trout Unlimited Millbrook Garden Club Still Flowing Production Team Commonwealth of Massachusetts Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies MITS, Inc. Still River Alliance Michael M. Nesbitt DSA Companies youngsters participating in North East Foresters Association Polluted runoff choking neighborhood streams? River groups, Restoring stream health and habitat Celebrating rivers The Community Foundation of Conserving land and greenways River. Greenprint put the transaction John and Nancy Novogrod City of Ansonia National Oceanic Atmospheric Admin. Stockbridge Bowl Association FirstLight Power Resources river education. City of Danbury National Park Service The Nature Conservancy  Hosting free guided paddle trips on the Dutchess County  Protecting/restoring the Housatonic River- together and helped secure federal, state, Oppenheimer Linda Allard land trusts, students and conservation commissions are tracking Franklin G. Pilicy, P.C. Monitoring the health of streams in Sharon, City of Derby Naugatuck River Revival Group Thomaston Greenway Committee The Community Foundation of Environmental Fund City of Pittsfi eld Naugatuck River Watershed Assoc. Thule, Inc. Christine Baranski water quality, fixing problems and sharing RiverSmart tips with Cornwall, Warren, Kent, New Milford, Housatonic River for a hundred people in front in Kent, Cornwall, Salisbury and Lee. regional and local funding. Price Chopper’s Golub Northwest Connecticut Barbara Page and John Liu City of Shelton New Milford Historical Society Town of Bethel David Behnke Washington, Amenia, Dover and Millerton, Massachusetts and Connecticut.  Developing a Connecticut policy with our  Forming regional partnerships among groups City of Torrington New Milford Recreation Association Town of Brookfi eld landowners from the Tenmile Basin to the Aspetuck Watershed. Foundation 1,200 Connecticut Community The Peter and Carmen Lucia Joseph Ellis  partners to ensure that state conservation of land trusts to save important forests, City of Waterbury Newtown High School Town of Cornwall Harney & Sons Fine Teas road culverts assessed for and launching new Stream Teams along the Sponsoring river education for 500 Foundation Buck Foundation, Inc. Barton Jones Connecticut BASS Federation Nation Newtown Planning and Zoning Commission Town of Dalton Yes, we have challenges. Rivers suffer from polluted runoff here HD Supply Waterworks Housatonic River in the Berkshires. Berkshire students and Pittsfield’s summer Cornwall Conservation Trust lands are permanently protected. farmland and cold water streams in the Pitney Bowes Connecticut Chapter, AMC New York Dept. of Environmental Cons. Town of Egremont Einar Lindholm replacement to date by Heritage Development  Defending a rare fen along the New York day campers, Still River Day for Danbury David L. Klein Jr. Foundation  Advancing a partnership effort to create Aspetuck Watershed, the Taconic Highlands, Hector and Erica Prud’homme Connecticut Department of Energy and Northeast Naturalist Services Town of Harwinton James H. Maloney in the northeast more than anywhere in the nation. Increasingly volunteers to improve fish Environmental Protection Northwest Conn. Conservation District Town of Kent Group, Inc. students, and the Aquarion Still River Dr. Mary Alice White a Housatonic River bike trail from New and the heart of the Litchfield Hills from Robbins-de Beaumont Ecton Manning frequent and ferocious storms imperil our communities and and wildlife passage. and Connecticut border (Stateline Swamp) Connecticut Department of Transportation Northwestern Conn. Council of Governments Town of Lee Heritage Deli & Cafe that provides crucial bog turtle habitat. Greenway Birdwalk and Trail Day for Environmental Fund Milford to Massachusetts. Thomaston to Litchfield to Bantam. Foundation Connecticut Farmland Trust Town of Lenox James S. McInerney, Jr. natural resources indiscriminately. Changing climate conditions Dr. Robert C. and Tina Sohn Connecticut Forest and Park Association Town of Litchfi eld Iroquois Gas families.  Working with the Valley Council for Health Judge Andrew and Barclay Prindle  Completing the Swamp River (NY) Water Foundation Mrs. Kara Roraback Connecticut Fund for the Environment Town of New Fairfi eld threaten our New England forests and cold fresh water streams. Transmission System SPECIAL THANKS TO … Town of New Milford Richard Stebbins Quality Report and working with partners to  Checking paddling access sites and The Doolittle Lake Association and Human Services to push the Naugatuck Protecting fragile natural areas Connecticut Land Conservation Council Kimberly-Clark Corporation Salisbury Land Trust Connecticut League of Conservation Voters Town of Norfolk Steven J. Whitman potential hazards on the Naugatuck River – Education Connection River Valley closer to winning federal  Continuing to pursue environmental But you balance the odds. You make success possible. You Litchfi eld Insurance Group address elevated levels of salt and nutrients. Bruce Schnitzer Connecticut Outdoors Auction guests, donors, bidders Town of North Canaan visit naugatuckriver.org. Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation designation as a National Heritage Area. protections with Cricket Valley Energy’s Sharon Land Trust Cornwall Conservation Trust and chairs: Christine Baranski, Linda Town of Oxford National Iron Bank  Reducing polluted runoff at planned Town of Ridgefi eld Honorary Member inspire a growing collaboration of partners who work together Farmington River Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation Council of Governments of the Allard, Pam and Jack Baker, Blair Naugatuck Savings Bank developments in Amenia and Dover.  Creating two river accesses and a portage  Improving the Old Mill Trail trailhead with power plant proposal in Dover Plains (now Brown, Graydon and Anna Carter, Town of Salisbury Watershed Association Steep Rock Association, Inc. Allan L. Frew with one aim – to protect our cherished Housatonic River being considered to replace Indian Point). Crane & Co., Inc. Robert Couturier, Oscar and Annette Town of Seymour Foundation  Helping landowners and residents in the around Great Barrington’s Glendale Dam. Fields Pond Foundation native buffer plantings and publishing a new Diane von Furstenberg Valley. On behalf of the rest of the HVA team, thank you! The Trust for Public Land Danbury Public School System de la Renta, Dorothy Cann Hamilton, Town of Sheffi eld O’Connor Davies, LLP  Publishing a guide to the Old Mill Trail guide to the trail from Dalton to Hinsdale.  Monitoring land use proposals across the Education Connection Town of Thomaston Aspetuck and Pomperaug Watersheds be Flanders Nature Center, Inc. Union Savings Bank Carolyn Klemm, Chris Noth, Nancy People’s United Bank along the river in Dalton and Hinsdale. Friends of the Lake, Inc.  Promoting green parking lot and develop- river valley from the Berkshires to Long FirstLight Power Resources Town of Watertown Advisory Council RiverSmart (visit APRiverPartners.org) by Upper Housatonic Valley Foresight Land Services Novogrod, Hamilton South, Anne Trout Unlimited Phoenix Realty Management Goshen Land Trust ment design in places like Ansonia, and Island Sound. National Heritage Area Swift, Diane von Furstenberg. The Trust for Public Land Robert Bailey reducing polluted runoff around their homes. Friends of the Lake Republican-American The Guardian Life Insurance strategies to reduce polluted runoff such The Valley Community Friends of the Great Swamp USDA Natural Resources Conservation Svc. David Dolinsky  Launching clean water projects to reduce At year’s end, we were ramping up our Tournament golfers and sponsors: US Environmental Protection Agency Salisbury Bank Company of America Foundation Art Gingert W. Paul Dooley nutrient pollution in the Tenmile River in culvert assessment project to expand from as the rain gardens along Main Street in At year’s end, we were assisting the Kent Land Great Barrington Green Agers Crystal Rock, Heritage Development US Fish and Wildlife Service The Stone Construction Co., Inc. Hartland Land Trust Royal Victor, III Charles Fredette New York and the Still River and Lake the Berkshires into northwest Connecticut, downtown Pittsfield. Trust to conserve Camp Francis – 250 glorious Great Barrington Trails & Greenways Group, Charter Business, FirstLight United States Geologic Survey Webster Bank Louis and Elaine Hecht Eliot and Annick Wadsworth Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce Power Resources, Northeast Upper Housatonic Valley National Christopher Kukk, Ph.d acres in Kent and Warren owned by the Girl Westage Companies Lillinonah in Connecticut. planning demonstration rain gardens to reduce Iroquois Gas Transmission System Warren Land Trust, Inc. Healthy Valley Committee/Valley Health & Utilities, O’Connor Davies, Zuberry Heritage Area David Platt Jeniam Foundation Greenprinting the Litchfi eld Hills Scouts, developing conservation projects in Human Services Council Associates, Advanced Multifamily Valley Council of Governments Zuberry Associates  Assessing 1,200 culvert crossings in the polluted runoff in Millerton and Dover, and Watertown Land Trust Valley United Way Harmon Smith Housatonic Fly Fishermen’s Assoc. Security Systems, Con Serve, Cly- Jessie B. Cox Charitable  Helping the Norfolk Land Trust permanently Winchester and Salisbury with our partners, Weantinoge Heritage, Inc. Housatonic River Commission Wamogo High School Berkshires to find those that harm river meeting with our partners and local, state Del Manufacturing Co., People’s William N. Vitalis Lead Trust protect Pine Mountain Preserve – the Girl and readying our application for accreditation The Werth Family Foundation Housatonic River Initiative Warren Land Trust health and habitat, and working with the city and federal leaders on climate change issues Marge Josephson Housatonic Riverwalk United Bank, Republican-American, Washington Environmental Council White Memorial Foundation Cramer & Anderson, Heritage Village of Pittsfield to replace two culprit culverts. including cold water stream protection and Kent Land Trust Scout property formally known as Camp as an organization that meets the highest Housatonic Valley Council of Waterbury Greenway Committee Winchester Land Trust Elected Offi cials Golf Course, and Hole-in-one and Weantinogue Heritage Land Trust  Hosting river cleanups with partners in Great floodplain conservation throughout the Lake Waramaug Task Force Itwatka – a stunning 313-acre property standards of land conservation activities with ALL PHOTOS FROM HVA FILES F. Anthony and Sally Auer Zunino Housatonic Valley Regional High School Tee and Green sponsors. WCSU EXCEPT WHERE NOTED. Robert P. Houlihan, President Lynn Werner, Executive Director Barrington, Pittsfield, Lenox and Danbury. watershed to Sound. containing the headwaters of the Mad the Land Trust Accreditation Commission. Kent Bicycle Tours Joanne Wojtusiak