[local restoration, global leadership]

EarthCorps Annual Report 2006 Dear Friends,

EarthCorps turned 13 in 2006 – an important birth- whole. In 2006, EarthCorps began a multi-year day and rite of passage. This year, we expanded effort to understand how racism affects our orga- our corps program to include six additional in- nization, participants and community work. This ternational participants. Our alumni are doing process is important because, like many environ- great things, such as managing the largest urban mental organizations, EarthCorps is predominant- reforestation effort in US history, advocating for ly white. Our participants deal with race issues 2006 Field indigenous people’s resource rights around Lake and international participants are often confront- Accomplishments Victoria, and teaching children to care for man- ed with unfamiliar dynamics. We are committed grove swamps in the Yucatán. It’s exciting to see to working effectively with communities of color. 100,000 hours of service this next generation of environmental stewards making a real impact in their communities! We feel confident we can grapple with this issue 20 miles of trail maintained because we have a track record of confronting EarthCorps’ recipe is to care for people first – to other “-isms”, such as sexism, successfully. It is 2,000 feet of salmon stream restored unveil their individual capacities and develop an heartening every year to see young women – from esprit de corps. Caring for each other as whole peo- Minnesota, Honduras or Nepal – burst through 98 acres of forest in restoration ple helps corps members appreciate the value of cultural and gender stereotypes as they learn to caring for a whole ecosystem. Rather than pitting carve out log bridges with a chainsaw, move three- 3,700 survival rings human needs against ecosystem needs, Earth- “man” rocks with an iron bar, or wield a Pulaski to Corps encourages our participants and partners to break new trail. Building confidence among tradi- approach people, communities and the environ- tionally disempowered people – whether women, ment holistically to create the most sustainable children or people of color – creates enormous solution. That’s why we aim for three outcomes si- positive benefits for our work. multaneously: strong communities, healthy habi- tats and young leaders. Global Warming and Puget Sound After many requests, EarthCorps was able to add EarthCorps’ Niche: Community-based environ- the first biodiesel truck to our vehicle fleet in 2006. mental restoration An annual environmental impact assessment EarthCorps specializes in connecting people with helps gauge the cumulative footprint of staff and nature and each other. By partnering with schools, corps members as we complete our work. Earth- companies, utilities, parks and natural resources Corps is also acting with an eye toward the effects departments and neighborhood groups, Earth- of global climate change. As part of the Alliance Corps accelerates environmental projects that for Puget Sound Shorelines and the Puget Sound community members have prioritized. We create Partnership, EarthCorps works on shoreline and opportunities to involve local residents, and espe- watershed restoration projects. Our work at Pip- cially youth, to ensure that the people who will er’s Creek contributed to a record chum salmon benefit from the project are also committed to run at Carkeek Park, a glimmer of hope that even sustaining it. the most impacted urban ecosystems can begin to recover. 2006 Highlights We look forward to continuing the momentum of Volunteer Program building global community through local envi- ronmental service. Thank you for your investment In recognition of the importance of working with in EarthCorps! local volunteers, EarthCorps created the Volunteer Program (formerly part of the Outreach Program). We committed to enhance the quality of volunteer Sara Randle ’06 Wisconsin starts a sur- events and increase the number of volunteers over Sincerely, vival ring to save a mature Douglas fir the next four years. Washington Women’s Foun- from English ivy. Mature conifers are dation is generously supporting this effort with a one of the Earth’s most efficient carbon three-year, $75,000 grant. sequestration technologies. Diversity and Biodiversity Diversity is a core value at EarthCorps because we Steve Dubiel, Executive Director know from observing natural systems that when John Harrison, Board President diverse parts work together, they create a better

Growing a Strong EarthCorps Statement of Activities for the year ended December 31, 2006 Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total REVENUE Individual and Corporate Contributions 154,698 - - 154,698 Foundation Grant 184,899 61,442 - 246,341 Government Grants 358,300 - - 358,300 Fundraising Events, net of expenses 53,176 - - 53,176 Program Services 1,101,424 - - 1,101,424 Investment and Miscellaneous Income 17,559 - - 17,559 Funds Released from Restrictions 105,000 (105,000) - - Total Revenue 1,975,056 (43,558) - 1,931,498 Revenue EXPENSES ■ Program Services 1,621,364 - - 1,621,364 Program Revenue 56% Management and General 145,925 - - 145,925 ■ Grants & Donations 38% Fundraising 80,152 - - 80,152 ■ Other 6% Total Expenses 1,847,441 - - 1,847,441 CHANGE IN NET ASSETS1 127,615 (43,558) - 84,057 Net Assets Beginning Of Year1 635,043 190,000 2,300 827,343 Net Assets End Of Year 762,658 146,442 2,300 911,400

Note 1: As restated in 2005

Statement of Financial Position at December 31, 2006

ASSETS Expenses Current Assets: ■ Program Services 88% 2 Cash 509,551 ■ Pledges Receivable 50,256 Management & General 8% Accounts Receivable 276,166 ■ Fundraising 4% Prepaid Expenses 26,919 Total Current Assets 862,892 Net Property and Equipment 49,215 Unemployment Trust Deposits 119,085 Investments - endowment funds 5,191 Total Assets 1,036,383 A Living Legacy LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS Trees. Clear-flowing, salmon bearing streams. Young people Accounts Payable 59,507 whose eyes are opened to the wonders of nature. Payroll Liabilities 35,273 Vacation Pay Payable 27,802 Consider EarthCorps in your estate planning and leave a living Deferred Revenue 2,401 legacy for Washington and the world: Total Current Liabilities 124,983 I give and bequeath __% of the value of my estate to EarthCorps, Net Assets: a charitable organization incorporated in the State of Washing- Unrestricted 762,658 ton, ID # 91-159-2071, with its principal office currently located at Temporarily Restricted 146,442 6310 NE 74th Street, Suite 201E, Seattle, WA 98115. Permanently Restricted 2,300 Contact Pipo Bui, Development Director at [email protected] Total Net Assets 911,400 for more information. TOTAL LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS 1,036,383

Note 2: Cash includes $125,000 reserve fund.

Financial Report (audited) 2006 Work Sites Medina Mouth of the Cedar River Mt. Baker Greenbelt and Park Fairweather Nature Preserve Waterworks NE 107th St. Stream Auburn North Seattle Community College Auburn Narrows Park Mercer Island Sammamish Northeast Queen Anne Greenbelt Cook Property Clarke Beach Hazel Wolf Wetland Piper’s Creek Gary Grant Soos Creek Park Ellis Pond Treemont Ravenna Park Green River Gallagher Hill Park Rossi Place Hatchery Park Island Crest Park San Juan Island National His- Roxhill Metzler Park Mercerdale Hillside torical Park Salmon Bay Porter Levee Pioneer Park American Camp Schmitz Preserve Whitney Bridge Seward Park Mill Creek Seattle Thornton Creek Park 1, 2, 6, 98th Bellevue Becker’s Pond Street Cougar Ridge Elementary School Milton Carkeek Park Venema Weir West Milton Wetland Cheasty Greenspace West Duwamish Greenbelt Bothell Chinook Beach Park North Creek Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Colman Park Skykomish Forest Croft Place Skykomish Ranger Station Burien Dingford Creek Trail Dearborn Park Seahurst Park Dutch Miller Gap Dr. Jose Rizal Park Tacoma Mid Fork Snoqualmie River Duwamish River Park Middle Waterway Commencement Camano Island Fauntleroy Park Bay Iverson Spit Mt. Rainier National Park Frink Park Mowitch Crystal Lakes Trail Golden Gardens Squally Carnation Hitt’s Hill Yowkwala Chinook Bend Newcastle Homewood Jubilee Farm Hazelwood Elementary School Interlaken Park Vashon Island Mary Olson Farm Jackson Park Golf Course Christianson Pond Snoqualmie River North Cascades National Park Jackson Park Natural Area Fisher Pond Tolt MacDonald Park Jolly Eitelberg Property Johnson Pond Normandy Park Kiwanis Ravine Pat Collier Property Cedar River Watershed Mountains to Sound Greenway Kiwanis Wildlife Corridor Shingle Mill Creek Mt. Si Kramer Creek Enumclaw Whidbey Island Rattlesnake Ledge Lake Peoples Park Newaukum Creek Lakeridge Park Freeland Park Leschi Overlook Possession Beach Waterfront Park Fall City Redmond Marymoor Park Lincoln Park Crystal Lakes Trail Salvage Nursery Woodinville Salvage Nursery Littlebrook Little Bear Creek Sammamish Releaf Llandover Woods Federal Way Longfellow Creek Park Hill Open Space Brook Lake Renton Magnuson Park Upper Bear Creek Conservation Area Hylebos Creek Mapes Creek Wooden Creek Park Lower Hylebos Marsh Black River Elliott Bay Spawning Channel Me-Kwa-Mooks Woodinville @ 145th Spring Valley Open Space Miller Creek Spring Valley Ranch Lions Run West Hylebos Wetlands Park

Issaquah Hang Glider Creek Kirkwood Klahanie Dr. Jose Rizal Park Lake Sammamish State Park Pickering The Price of Neglect and A Dramatic Turnaround Salvage Nursery With contributions from Craig Thompson, Beacon Alliance Squak Mountain of Neighbors Tiger Mountain Yellow Lake Trail Dr. Jose Rizal Park is a stone’s throw from Amazon. Photo: BAN Kent com’s world headquarters on a hill overlooking down- Clark Lake Outfall town Seattle. Named for a Filipino national hero in Mullens Slough 1974, the area had hosted homeless encampments since Kirkland the 1930s, when it was dubbed “The Jungle.” In 2003, Bunker with Puget Sound views, Juanita Bay & Swamp Creek feuding heroin gangs moved into the park. They beat built by heroin gang. up the homeless people, accosted elderly residents and Lake Forest Park Brookside Creek attracted an active prostitution business. Thanks to a Log Cabin neighborhood effort and City enforcement, the gangs McAleer Creek were evicted. In all, 70 tons of debris were hauled from Lynnwood the park. Lynnwood High School Restoration efforts are making the park attractive once Maple Valley more. Over 25 public agencies and community groups Cedar Grove Nursery Reedal Fence are involved, including EarthCorps. Since 2005, neigh- bors and volunteers have stripped 25,000 square feet of ivy off the trees and slopes, saved over 500 trees and replanted native plants along the steep hillside. A trail Local Restoration is planned to provide better police and resident access through the park, and to link the park to the Mountains to Sound Greenway that runs from Seattle to the Cas- cade Mountains. The park is once again a welcoming place for visitors, including many Filipino families. Light filters through trunks and down a slope freed from ivy. 2006 Programs Young Leader

Corps program – EarthCorps’ core program EarthCorps’ First Participant from the People’s Republic of China is an intensive year-round service learning EarthCorps’ young adult participants hail from all 50 states and over 50 coun- experience for young adults ages 18-25 from tries. In 2006, EarthCorps welcomed the first international participant from across the United States and around the China into the corps program. Kui Li is a student at Sichuan University in world. Up to 60 young adults participate in western China and director of GreenSOS. Green- the program annually. SOS networks and provides resources to green student organizations in western China. They Crew leaders and outreach interns – Select- coordinate environmental education, film -se ed corps program graduates qualify for ad- ries, discussion groups and learning opportuni- vanced second-year leadership development ties for multi-school student groups. training. Li joined EarthCorps to learn how to grow the Youth program – Corps members, crew lead- organization and garner support beyond the ers and interns lead environmental educa- founding professors. “EarthCorps is my first step tion and service learning programs for el- to explore worldwide environmental protec- ementary, middle and high school students. tion.” After six months in Seattle, she returned Up to 4,000 youth participate in EarthCorps’ to Chengdu with a portfolio of ideas for new environmental service programs during the projects and $2,000 in grants. Support from the school year and in the summer. Peace Child, a Disney Minnie Grant and the lo- cal environmental protection bureau allowed GreenSOS to hold the city ‘s Volunteer program – Volunteer events in lo- first Earth Day / Global Youth Service Day celebration. cal parks and open spaces engage thousands of community volunteers each year in restor- Fifty university students ing their local environment. Over 300 events who had participated in 6 were held in 2006, including extensive col- months of environmental laboration with the Green Seattle Partner- education led 50 elementary ship. school students and their families to remove invasive International activities – EarthCorps hosts plants in Wang Jiang Park. delegations from around the world to share The event raised awareness best practices in youth development and about how recently intro- environmental restoration work. In 2006, duced plants threaten to alumni organized work camps in Ecuador’s spread to rural areas around Cloud Forest and Siberia’s Great Baikal Trail. the city. EarthCorps also piloted an out-placement ex- ternship, hosting an Australian participant at Zhong Bei Elementary School students the California Conservation Corps. For more join GreenSOS’s Earth Day. information about EarthCorps programs and requirements, see www.earthcorps.org

Trees for Tabitha

EarthCorps is grateful to the many friends and relatives of Lisa Stiffler and Brent Rora- back, who donated to EarthCorps in Tabitha’s Catalyst for Change honor. This legacy is flourishing in a grove of conifers and native shrubs near the Environ- Ann Lennartz, who seeded the local restoration ethic, passed away on mental Learning Center at Carkeek Park. September 6, 2006. She influenced generations of EarthCorps partici- pants. Ann will be sorely missed in the restoration community. Joe and Cynthia Adcock • Kristin Anderson • Joyce Anderson and Thomas Prinster • Anonymous • Carrie Atwood • Sara Beresford • Ionut-Gabriel Bu- rete • Thomas Constans • Julie Davidow • David Dickey and Rebekah Denn Sparkle in her eye Dickey • Karen Ducey • Bill Dunbar • Jeremy Eaton • Scott Ferris • Thomas Fontana • Christine Frey • John Geurts • Cecilia Goodnow • Regina Hackett Faith and Force in her pocket • Jane Hadley • Kristen Hagan • Vanessa Ho • Gordon Holt • Inga Johnson • Helen Jung • Jennifer Langston and Craig Welch • Phuong Le • Me Van Le and She made our place green Sen Thi Nguyen • John D Marshall • Greta Martin • Robert McClure and Sally Deneen • Lara McGowan • William Miller • James Nida • Merry Nye • Roger Oglesby • Christina Okeson • Elaine Porterfield • Stephanie Reid-Simons —Amy Tippery ’99 • George Reilly • Daniel and Jo Marie Richman • Leslie Rinehimer • Sarah Rupp • Rhonda Ryan • Kurt Schlosser • Kathleen and Richard Schlosser • Jen- nifer Sizemore • Tiffany Smith-Fleischman • Frances Somers and Lawrence Johnson • Young and Kelly Song • Kristine Stiffler • Dr. Gerald and Marjorie Stiffler • Lisa Stiffler and Brent Roraback • Scott Sunde • Cassandra Tate and Glenn Drosendahl • Demetri and Donna Vasiliades • Veronica Villarreal • William Virgin • Daniel A Walker and Beth Ann Cullom • Hazel Warner • Bradley Wong and Dan Liu • Ann Wood Global Leadership [earthcorps’ mission is to build global community through local environmental service]

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