Programs and results
What we aim to solve
San Diego Habitat Conservancy is one of only a few nonprofit habitat managers working with developers, municipalities, and agencies throughout the region to strike a critical balance between development and the protection of our valuable habitat.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Land Preservation & Stewardship
SDHC's primary focus is to actively manage open space preserves in perpetuity, maintaining quality native habitats and improving them over time. SDHC's Executive Director has 25 years of experience in the environmental planning industry and SDHC's Habitat Manager has over 17 years of experience conducting biological assessments throughout San Diego County. Additionally, the diverse background of SDHC's Board of Directors provides a large variety of skills and talents, including investment, urban planning, government relations, environmental compliance, consulting and planning, communications, and real estate.
Where we work
Accreditations
Land Trust Accreditation Commission 2016
Affiliations & memberships
Land Trust Alliance 2015
Land Trust Alliance 2014
Land Trust Alliance 2016
Land Trust Alliance 2017
Land Trust Alliance 2021
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Acres of land managed
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Land Preservation & Stewardship
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
In the coming year, SDHC expects to begin managing a number of new preserves in addition to the preserves already under management. Additionally, SDHC is making progress towards expanding our reach into Riverside County and beyond. As the workload increases and SDHC begins to create a stronger educational program, it is anticipated that SDHC will need to hire additional staff over the coming years.
At this time, SDHC envisions continuing and expanding a program where the Executive Director participates in “brown bag" lunches at local companies, and community groups around San Diego County in order to increase awareness of services provided by SDHC and gain volunteers in the process. SDHC also looks to build its educational program by working with teachers to provide educational opportunities that complement current curriculum and lesson plans and stimulate students' curiosity and fascination with the natural world. Possible activities include having local environmental professionals speak with students in order to expose them to the array of professions in the environmental field, leading hikes at one of our open space preserves, providing our preserve sites as outdoor classrooms, coordinating the planting of native gardens, and other opportunities that continue to be explored.
SDHC also looks forward to increasing partnerships with other nonprofits in the San Diego community in order to expand our role in bringing awareness of the importance of native habitats to the San Diego community and coordinate our efforts to eradicate invasive species from our native habitats.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
SDHC is working with key stakeholders and expanding our network to include entities not only in San Diego County, but in San Bernardino County and beyond. SDHC is approved by the California Department of Fish & Wildlife to hold and manage mitigation lands in Region 5 (San Diego County). SDHC is applying to receive this approval for Regions 4 and 6 and will ultimately seek approval for all of California. SDHC received accreditation with the Land Trust Accreditation Commission in February 2016. The accreditation process has strengthened SDHC and shows to the nation that SDHC has met the highest standards for managing and protecting land in perpetuity.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
One of only a few nonprofit habitat managers in the San Diego region working with developers, municipalities, and agencies to strike a critical balance between development and the protection of our valuable habitat.
- Manages approximately 1900 acres of open space habitat helping to provide a contiguous corridor of native habitats, vital to supporting natural resources that are considered important to our local ecosystem and that provide vital habitat for numerous endangered and threatened plants and animals.
- Provides outreach to neighboring communities in order to instill a sense of stewardship, educate them about the resources being protected, and the role protecting such resources plays in regional conservation efforts.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
SDHC continues to increase our land management portfolio by not only increasing the number of acres we manage, but increasing the types of habitats that we manage, increasing the variety of plant and animal species we manage, expanding our presence to additional cities within San Diego County and to counties other than San Diego County, such as Riverside County. Additionally, in the past year SDHC has hired a full-time Acquisitions Manager.
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Operations
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San Diego Habitat Conservancy
Board of directorsas of 9/12/2021
Eric Mondero
American Red Cross
Term: 2013 -
Kenneth Little
Brandes Investment Partners
David Claycomb
Helix Environmental Planning, Inc.
Christina Schaefer
Schaefer Ecological Solutions
Joe Duffel
JD Consulting
Trish Jones Mondero
LRG Public Affairs
Chelita Borbon
HELIX Environmental Construction Group
Eric Mondero
American Red Cross
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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