Organizations Filed Purposes:
LandPaths' mission is to foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. LandPaths creates ways for people to experience the beauty, understand the value, and assist in healing the land in their local communities.
Community Stewardship: Growing Community with NatureLandpaths Community Stewardship initiative speaks to the roots of LandPaths' nameLAND PArtners THrough Stewarship. Together with the City of Santa Rosa, LandPaths operates an innovative farm-based park, Bayer Neighborhood Park and Gardens. LandPaths owns and manages an additional 2,000 acres of Sonoma County land, including the 48-acre "Grove of Old Trees," one of the only privately held, publicly accessible parks in California, and Rancho Mark West, a historic ranch located along Mark West Creek, an important salmonid-bearing tributary to the Russian River; Riddell Preserve, 400 acres of rolling hills and oak and madrone woodlands, and Ocean Song and Bohemia Ecological Preserves outside Occidental, a combined 950 acres including rare and endangered plants associated with serpentine soils. These sites serve as anchor properties for our outdoor education programs and provide opportunities to bring the community together, balancing conservation efforts, public access, education and land stewardship.
Rooting Youth in Nature: Youth ProgramsLandpaths Rooting Youth in Nature initiative provides Sonoma County youth, with school, after-school and summer programs, including In Our Own Back Yard, Inspired Forward, Owl Camp, and Backpacking Basics. All of these are interactive, field-based programs with multiple full-day field trips and high mentor/student ratios, and seek to engage underserved youth. In Our Own Back Yard school participation criteria include eligibility for the federal free and reduced priced meals program. Inspired Forward partners with gang prevention organizations to support local teens. And at least 1/3 of summer campers attend on scholarship. In total, these programs serve approximately 1,080 youth annually, logging over 23,000 student hours outdoors.
New Audiences: Branching Out Conservation to EveryoneLandPaths Branching Out initiative expands the base of people engaged in conservation by creating accessible programs that make it easy for all to participate. At its core, this initiative expands who is engaged with conservation and what conservation looks like. For instance, our free daytrips, or Outings, offer broadly themed outdoor events and activities, from growing food at our farm-based park to star gazing parties at a remote historic ranch. LandPaths' Spanish language Vamos Afuera program ensures these outings are available to a broader audience. Our place-based community gardens further engage and urban and primarily low-income community with culturally and linguistically relevant programming located close to home, engaging people in enjoying and tending to the gardens.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
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| Craig Anderson | Executive Direc | 40 | $133,588 |
| Richard Power | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
| Susan Shaw | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Michael Ellis | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Craig Hazel | Vice President | 2 | $0 |
| Tim Choate | Treasurer | 2 | $0 |
| Beth Wyatt | Chair | 2 | $0 |
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