SUGARLOAF THE NORTH SHORE STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION
Helping you restore the North Shore
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Nature Center management and educational programming
The organization operates and maintains the North Shore's only private, non profit, nature center. Sugarloaf Cove Nature Center, located near Schroeder, MN, offers the public free access to Lake Superior and a variety of educational programming and workshops about natural history and coastal conservation throughout the year. The site also serves as a demonstration site for
forest restoration projects. Approximately 25,000 visitors visit the site each year.
Assisting private landowners with forest restoration
Sugarloaf's Lost Forest program works with Lake Superior North Shore landowners to restore native conifer forest along the shore. We offer discounted tree fencing supplies yearly and we work with the North Shore Forest Collaborative to offer many educational programs about invasive plant control, planting and more.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
2012-2013
Sugarloaf has been very active both at Sugarloaf Cove and along the North Shore of Lake Superior.
At Sugarloaf Cove: New storage shed. This shed will be used to store Sugarloaf items plus we plan to open it as a Community Shed with tree planting and invasive plant control supplies that landowners can borrow at no charge.
The work on our parking lot revamp continues. The lot has been surveyed and we are beginning our search for funding to make the needed changes.
Our naturalist programs continue to grow and are attracting more visitors and new members. During 2013, we held Master Naturalist training at Sugarloaf Cove and graduated 12 new Master Naturalists. Over the summer we offered a two day advanced geology course and a two day advanced bird banding course for Master Naturalists and other interested people. We also offered weekly hikes to local natural areas, bird banding and geology classes during the week and special guest speakers on Saturdays.
Thanks to the Master Naturalist class, we have a new set of volunteers and two volunteer coordinators.
We also completed a tree thinning project at Sugarloaf Cove. This thinning was needed to preserve the health of our pine plantations and to be good stewards of our site.
On the stewardship front, we offered 5 invasive plant control and tree planting workshops for landowners; 2 special invasive plant control workshops for professionals and produced three Youtube videos about tree planting, North Shore forest ecology and tree identification. Additionally, we released a publication about forest restoration - Restoring Lake Superior's Coastal Forest.
Sugarloaf continues as an active member and funder of the North Shore Forest Collaborative and the Cook County Invasive Team. Both of these efforts are partnerships with local, state and federal agencies, private landowners, and non profits interested in forest stewardship.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection, Staff find it hard to prioritize feedback collection and review due to lack of time
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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SUGARLOAF THE NORTH SHORE STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION
Board of directorsas of 06/07/2023
Ari Fuad
No Affiliation
Term: 2018 - 2024
John Bathke
Russ Baker
Dana Dickson
Bruce Martinson
Phil Sogge
Susan Fuad
Peter Juhl
Mark Magney
Jerry Meigs
Tam Seidl
Tracy Trembley
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? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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