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2017 Annual Report East Coast Greenway Alliance GROWING IMPACT, REACH IN OUR 25th YEAR 2017 ANNUAL REPORT EAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE Special report insert: East Coast River Relay Reaching new heights, EAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE because that’s what’s needed STAFF Executive Director | Dennis Markatos-Soriano We turned record generosity from people like you into the biggest programs in Deputy Director | Niles Barnes our organization’s history and increased Regional Coordinators: staffing to the scale that our 3,000- New England | Open mile project needs. We engaged over Tri-State | Bruce Donald 200 organizational partners and 6,300 participants in the River Relay not just Mid-Atlantic | Daniel Paschall for the sake of growth. We ushered in a Virginia/North Carolina | Kathryn Zeringue new phase of organizational strength and South Carolina/Georgia | Brent Buice networked partnerships designed to face today’s challenges Florida | Paul Haydt to our environment, health, and communities. Development Manager | Debbie West We plan to continue our momentum in 2018, staying ahead Communications Manager | Lisa Watts of our Strategic Plan goals and developing this 15-state Office Manager | Dominique Pericles infrastructure project into the most popular park in America. We aim to rise to the challenges ahead, buoyed by hope as we deploy smart strategy to get the Greenway done. Together, BOARD OF TRUSTEES we can transform the way people get to work, school, and Chair | Robert Spiegelman, NH play and deepen their relationship with nature throughout the Vice Chair | Anne Maleady, CO Eastern Seaboard and beyond! Secretary | Tom Kaiden, VA Dennis Markatos-Soriano, Executive Director Treasurer | Robert Russo, NJ Andy Clarke, VA Jean Crowther, OR Brandon Douglass, MD To build it, we need to think Sarah Hreha, CT Jason Lane, WA big — and we need your voice Atiba Mbiwan, GA We have the vision, the will, and the Catherine McCaw, NY expertise to make our 3,000-mile East Don Miller, PA David Read, MA Coast Greenway a reality. What we don’t Larry Silver, PA have is the $2,000,000,000 needed to Iona Thomas, NC build the Greenway’s final two-thirds Dick Woodbury, ME over the next 20 years. Building greenways is a big investment: ADVISORY BOARD It costs an average of $1 million per mile. Individual philanthropy enables Chuck Flink, NC, Chair Keith Laughlin, DC us to plan and to organize and to advocate. The type of Deborah Apps, Canada Jeff Olson, NY money needed to complete the Greenway will come from our Silvia Ascarelli, NJ Bill O’Neill, CT collective efforts and government allocations. We need more Herman Blake, SC Michael Oppenheimer, NY local, state, and federal dollars to finish the work. Please Nathan Burrell, VA Shaunak Patel, NC make your voices heard and advocate for greenways in your Wayne Clark, MD John Pucher, NC neighborhood, town, and state. And let us know how we can Ramzi Dabbagh, CO Hannah Quimby, ME Nedra Deadwyler, GA Diane Robertson, NC help. Working together, we can do this. Azish Filabi, NY Shaheen Syal, NC Robert Spiegelman, Chair, Board of Trustees Sarah Hancock, MA Pablo Torres, VA Kevin Hicks, NC Karen Votava, RI Patty Huff, FL Judy Walton, OR Diane Jenks, OH Eric Weis, RI greenway.org •919.797.0619 Stanley Katz, NJ Kenneth Withrow, NC 5826 Fayetteville Road, Suite 210, Durham, NC 27713 Patricia King, MA 2017 Annual Report 1 Keith Laughlin, DC Jeff Olson, NY Bill O’Neill, CT Michael Oppenheimer, NY Shaunak Patel, NC John Pucher, NC Hannah Quimby, ME Diane Robertson, NC Shaheen Syal, NC Pablo Torres, VA Karen Votava, RI Judy Walton, OR Eric Weis, RI Kenneth Withrow, NC 2017 Annual Report 1 New East Coast Greenway sections designated in 2017 1. Coastal Connector, Topsham, Maine, 0.65 miles 1 2. Central Rail Trail, Wayland, MA, 0.5 miles 3. Blackstone River Greenway, MA/RI line, 3.7 miles 3 2 4 4. Blackstone River Greenway, Providence, RI, 0.7 miles 8 7 9 6 5 10 11 12 14 13 15 5. Air Line State Park, Chaplin/Hampton, CT, 6.4 miles 6. Hop River Trail extension, Coventry, CT, 0.5 miles 7. Great River Park, East Hartford, CT, 1.5 miles 8. Bushnell Park connector, Hartford, CT, 0.21 miles 9. Farmington Canal Heritage Trail, Farmington, CT 2.39 mi 10. Farmington Canal Heritage Trail, Southington, CT, 0.56 mi 11. Rahway River Park Trail, Rahway, NJ, 1.64 miles 16 12. K&T Trail, Philadelphia, PA, 1 mile 13. Bartram’s Mile, Philadelphia, PA, 0.5 miles 14. Rt. 291 sidepath, Tinicum Township, PA, 0.63 miles 17 15. Cross County Trail, Fairfax County, VA, 1.9 miles 18 16. Spanish Moss Trail, Beaufort, SC, 3.5 miles 19 20 17. Timucuan Trail, Duval County, FL, 1.1 miles 21 18. Neptune Beach Trail, Neptune Beach, FL, 0.8 miles 22 19. Sweetheart Trail, Daytona Beach, FL, 1 mile 20. Edgewater SJR2C Trail, Edgewater, FL, 1.2 miles 21. ECRTT, Brevard to Titusville, FL, 8 miles 22. Savannas Trail, Ft. Pierce, FL, 1.25 miles 2 East Coast Greenway Alliance 2017 Annual Report 3 2017: A year of ambitious programs, big impact Opening panel on philanthropy and greenways (from left): Shaheen Syal of Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Atiba Mbiwan of Zeist Foundation, Kathy Higgins of Blue Cross Blue Shield NC Foundation, and Andy Johnson of William Penn Foundation. Below: Networking after keynote address from Chuck Flink. Southeast Summit energizes greenway leaders Our three-day Southeast Greenways & presentations. The Summit featured the Trails Summit in Durham, NC, inspired unveiling of an Alta Planning+Design 300 advocates and partners to do more study, sponsored by GSK, finding that in their communities. The gathering the East Coast Greenway generates $90 featured mobile workshops and active million in benefits annually for North options along with a packed slate of Carolina’s Triangle region. Staff added to better cover South Adding two new greenway coordinator positions in Florida and South Carolina/Georgia in 2017 builds the Alliance’s capacity to engage with communities Map tool, greenway.org updated throughout the Southeast. Meet our team online: We updated our website greenway.org/about/our-team and online mapping tool in 2017, focusing on A 3,000-mile 25th birthday party meeting the needs of the Thanks to coordination by Mary Beth Powell, East increasing numbers of Coast River Relay program manager, we put on our people who want to ex- organization’s largest programming to date. Read perience the East Coast more in our River Relay report (center insert). Greenway. Both sites are mobile- and tablet-friendly. 2 East Coast Greenway Alliance 2017 Annual Report 3 Major foundation partners Financial report Anderson-Rogers Foundation The generosity of our supporters Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation continued to grow in 2017 as Hartford Foundation, Richard D. Wagner revenue grew 9 percent — thank you! Despite a reduction in overall & Madeline/Lina F. Wagner Fund net assets, our unrestricted cash Helen & William Mazer Foundation and equivalents rose to a new The Hurford Foundation record high and we maintained New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, “You Have Our Trust Fund” financial health with more than six Pennsylvania Environmental Council months of resources available. Quimby Family Foundation 2017 REVENUE Triangle Community Foundation Veverka Family Foundation Events Miscellany Membership Foundations William Penn Foundation 3% In-kind 9% Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation 9% 26% Administration 11% 86% 86%10% Programs 14% 28% 15% Major corporate partners Corporate support Major donors 2017 EXPENSES Administration Fundraising 4% 10% 86% Programs Corporate supporters A. Morton Thomas & Assoc. Linden Dental Associates AECOM Magyar Bank Backwoods Bridges Merrill Lynch Boeing Company Morgan Lewis Bockius, LLC Bull City Running Company News Corp matching gift 2017 FINANCIAL SUMMARY Comcast Foundation Pare Engineering Eco-Counter Parks Hospitality Group Total revenue..................$1,138,178 Ecological Engineering Perma Trak Total expenses................$1,214,314 Eversource Energy Foundation Pfizer Foundation matching gifts Net assets, 12/31/17.........$782,618 Giant Bicycle, Inc. Raleigh Brewing Company Iteris Signature Bank Our full audited financial report and Form 990 Kimley-Horn & Assoc. Inc. Stantec was completed by Langdon & Company, LLP, Kind Bars Stewart Engineering and is available at greenway.org or on request. LandDesign, Inc. Sun Bicycles - J&B Importers, Inc. Lanyi & Tevald, Inc. Triarsi, Betancourt, Wukovits & Dugan 4 East Coast Greenway Alliance 2017 Annual Report 5 Unitil Bryan & Leslie Lorber Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Individual donors Anne Maleady Charles Marshall Wells Fargo Foundation $25,000 and above Catherine McCaw Whole Foods Market Elizabeth Brody Donald Miller WSP / Parsons Brinckerhoff Sarah Hancock Mary Mitchell James & Deborah Sharpe Keith Mogerley Public sector partners Helen O’Malley $10,000 - $24,999 William & Carol O’Neill Bethel Paris Alliance for Watershed Education Margaret Blume / Center For Aquatic Sciences Carl Podwoski & Virginia Lovejoy Donald Passantino David & Susan Read APPLES - UNC Chapel Hill Robert Spiegelman & Truda Bloom Alex Rigopulos City Of Raleigh Parks, Recreation Robert Russo & Cultural Resources $5,000 - $9,999 Schindel Fund Eran & Yukiko Egozy Boaz Shattan, Jr. Climate Ride Myron & Cathy Skott Delaware Valley Bicycle Club Victoria & Robert Freeman Stephen Greif Nancy Stedman Downtown Durham Inc. Mary Tate Duke University $2,500 - $4,999 Scott & Linda Taylor Lee Tobin Narragansett Bay Wheelmen Robert Dickinson Karen & Bob Votava North Carolina Department Louis Fink & Pam Grich Lucy Waletzky of Transportation Sam Gruenbaum $500 - $999 North Carolina
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