Empower people with the ethic and tools to actively care for our shared outdoors.

Objective 1: Promote a regional culture of stewardship and ensure the public can participate in RFOV’s mission through diverse in-person and digital opportunities.

Objective 2: Ensure high quality experiences for participants and partners that will encourage deepening engagement and participation in stewardship activities.

Objective 3: Elevate RFOV’s profile and name recognition as a critical member of the regional conservation community.

Objective 4: Build authentic and mutually beneficial partnerships with historically underrepresented and marginalized communities.

Support land managers and partners to promote healthy and resilient landscapes through sustainable recreation, restoration, and fire mitigation projects.

Objective 1: Nimbly respond to land managers’ priorities to meet the dynamic needs of the region’s public lands.

Objective 2: Broaden RFOV’s expertise and work to support large-scale restoration projects and help reduce the threat of wildfire.

Objective 3: Disentangle our project work from restricted funding, allowing RFOV to better address priorities on public lands equally across our whole service area.

Objective 4: Establish RFOV as a known local authority on matters of 'stewardship' and ‘community stewardship’ and “sustainable recreation”.

Inspire and empower the next generation of land stewards in our region’s youth.

Objective 1: Implement programs for youth of all ages that are informed by youth, culturally responsive, and based on the needs of each community we serve.

Objective 2: RFOV becomes a key part of local students' educational progression by formalizing partnerships with schools.

Objective 3: Promote the YSP pipeline for ongoing participation, offering opportunities to deepen students’ engagement with RFOV over the course of their youth.

Objective 4: Secure funding for our second full-time Youth Education Program Coordinator.

Foster a thriving community united in stewarding our shared outdoors through strengthening partnerships and collaboration.

Objective 1: Create an organizational culture that celebrates diversity.

Objective 2: Leverage RFOV's existing partner network and build new partnerships to broaden the stewardship ecosystem through collaboration.

Objective 3a: Understand how and if RFOV’s mission is relevant to the Latine and other underrepresented/marginalized communities.

Objective 3b: Work in partnership with these communities to create culturally relevant programming that addresses the specific needs of these various groups.

Ensure strong organizational systems and invest in excellent staff as the bedrock to success.

Objective 1: Increase philanthropy and unrestricted giving to represent 30% of RFOV’s revenue stream, creating a more secure funding base and flexibility in programming.

Objective 2: Invest in and retain excellent staff through fair compensation, professional development opportunities and exceptional workplace culture

Objective 3: Define a plan to provide more reliable and affordable housing options for seasonal staff.

Objective 4: Complete an operations assessment to ensure effective and efficient operations across all our organizational functions and programs.

Objective 5: Define what kind of board we need to be successful and work to build this board.