Lucas County Cemeteries Historical Association
Mission
To improve the experience of visitors to cemeteries in Lucas County.
Notes from the nonprofit
Our website is http://www.lccemetery.org
Ruling year
2021
President
David Weber
Main address
4902 Rudgate Blvd
Toledo, OH 43623 USA
EIN
86-3237346
NTEE code
Historical Societies & Historic Preservation (A82)
IRS filing requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990-N.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The problem is that Lucas County cemeteries have miscellaneous problems for visitors. Some , but not all, issues are: 1. Missing or inaccurate burial records (or burial lists not easily obtained to allow searches) 2. Missing or inaccurate detail maps down to the lot or grave# detail (or not easily obtained to allow searches at the cemetery visit) 3. Missing cemetery archival records (or records not digitized and backed up) 4. Difficulty in finding deceased & buried veterans on Memorial Day and on Veterans Day. 5. A lack of an attraction next to Toledo's Forest Cemetery (e.g. if it had a nature preserve and nature trail next to it, it would attract more visitors and educate the area youth.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Making burial records accessible
Scanning cemetery records, obtaining sexton's lists, obtaining and making cemetery maps. Putting these documents on-line for all cemetery visitors to this region to find their ancestor's burial site.
Make Memorial Day Flag Placing Guidebooks
Finding veterans in cemeteries is difficult for volunteers to place flags on Memorial Day. But, if each charity group had a guidebook that had a detailed maop of the cemetery and the name and burial plot of the veteran, then placing the flags is not only esier, but more importantly , fewer veterans are forgotten.
Our ultimate goal is to find every non-living veteran in Lucas county, and to make it easy for anyone to find that burial gravesite.
Restore the Toledo Great Black Swamp Nature Preserve
Make a nature trail that runs through the Toledo owned wetland that starts at the NE border of Forest Cemetery . Clean all of the stream and banks of garbage. Remove the invasive plants of Bush Honeysuckle and Phragmites Reed. The preserve would help the environment and be an asset to the nearby residential neighborhood and have educational displays to educate the youth about the history of the region.
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
Maumee Valley Heritage Corridor 2021
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of groups/individuals benefiting from tools/resources/education materials provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Activists, Academics
Related Program
Making burial records accessible
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of conservation actions at site(s)
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Children and youth
Related Program
Restore the Toledo Great Black Swamp Nature Preserve
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Events at Toledo Great Black Swamp Nature Preserve. To clean garbage, remove invasive plant species, and make a nature trail.
Number of free participants on field trips
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, Adults
Related Program
Make Memorial Day Flag Placing Guidebooks
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Events to do field trips to cemeteries to make sketches of maps, and then to make detail maps.
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
To improve the experience of visitors to cemeteries in Lucas County.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
- Correction of all City or township cemetery database errors.
- Add missing burials to all City or township cemetery databases.
- Make accurate, legible, and online accessible maps of every cemetery. Create map wall posters as requested.
- Make online lists of all burials with a defined grave location within the cemetery.
- Document every military veteran's grave location; update Lucas County Recorder's database. And make veteran burial leaflets (list & maps) to assist/guide veteran groups' flag placement on Memorial Day.
- Scan/digitize paper cemetery records to an digital form as a back-up.
- Transcribe paper cemetery records to a searchable on-line digital form.
- Update Find-A-Grave records (additions, corrections, photographs, GPS, etc.)
- Provide information that assists people looking for a single grave, or the family members in a plot, in Lucas County.
- Provide links to other websites that have useful information (cemetery-related, death certificates, obituaries, etc.).
- Conduct historical research on early cemeteries of Lucas County.
- Advocate for maintenance of cemetery grounds, roadways, monuments, and gravestones.
- Advocate for (or uncover) section markers, lot markers, roadsigns, and other signage as directional aids to all graves.
- Write grants to take on new special projects of historical importance to the area.
- Special Project - Great Black Swamp Nature Preserve - Restoring the wetland site just to the northeast of Forest Cemetery and to make it a wildlife preserve and nature trail. Have educational displays.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have dedicated volunteers with skills like:
- transcribing from paper to digital
- photography (with GIS metadata)
- drafting
- data entry
- historical research
- organizing
- web design
- data mining
- surveying
- wetland restoration & invasive plant control
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
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 identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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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, The people we serve tell us they find data collection burdensome, It is difficult to get honest feedback from the people we serve
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Operations
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Lucas County Cemeteries Historical Association
Board of directorsas of 11/29/2022
David Weber
Julie Majo
Frank Butwin
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 ? Not applicable -
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
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