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Founded in 1974, Oregon Wild represents the fish and wildlife, ancient forests, and rich diversity o

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Goal One: Protecting Special Places - Permanently protect eligible public lands as Wilderness, Wild & Scenic Rivers, National Recreation Areas, National Monuments, National Parks, State Scenic Waterways, etc

Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.

Goal Two: Defending and Restoring Oregon’s Forests and Waters - Restore ecological function to public forestlands and wildlife refuges so natural processes dominate and human intervention is a last resort.

Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.

Describe an investment in leadership

Oregon Wild takes advantage of numerous leadership and skill-building trainings provided to us through Training Resources for the Environmental Community (TREC). Throughout the last 18 months and for the proceeding years, we have sent staff to multiple weeks-long "Stepping Up To Leadership" trainings where our staff have learned with peers across North America at other environmental non-profits. We have backed up these trainings will numerous internal opportunities for our staff to take leadership roles on key projects within the organization with mentoring and support from senior staff.

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Networks of Collective Impact Efforts

• Raising Awareness

• Community Building

• Policy Advocacy

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

Oregon Wild was born as the Oregon Wilderness Coalition in 1974 and we served as an umbrella group for dozens of hyper local, grassroots entities aiming to protect their special pocket of Oregon. Then, as now, we provided leadership and training to help these small groups make a difference in their communities. Today, we continue to partner with local, regional, and national organizations in formal coalitions and in direct strategic engagement to enhance our mission. These partnerships increasingly include "non-traditional" allies including BIPOC lead organizations, healthy democracy groups, and sovereign Tribes. Core to our work has always been the need to educate average folks about the threats facing our public lands and wildlife; elevate those narratives through storytelling, earned media, and marketing; and turn that grassroots pressure into meaningful policy change at the state and national level.

As unprecedented protests swept the nation last year demanding racial justice, Oregon Wild was in the fortunate position to have already done extensive organizational work to integrate an equity, diversity, and inclusivity lens into our work. Starting with an intensive multi-day board and staff training in 2017 led by the Center for Diversity and the Environment, we were able to build out long term EDI plans that made equity a more central part of our day-to-day work. During the summer of 2020, we were able to lean on existing partnerships with BIPOC led organizations and push our equity efforts to a new level. This has allowed us to be more relevant to fast-evolving conversations about the role of white supremacy in the conservation movement and to increase our effectiveness in advocating for our mission. While the changes that we put in motion almost five years ago have continued to help us increase effectiveness today, we also know that our work takes time. Passing a Wilderness bill through Congress can take 20 years and so we always try to keep in mind that external forces may make things more or less challenging in the near term but that our diligent efforts must be applied over time to achieve success. The environmental trials and tribulations of the Trump administration brought this to the forefront as we worked to beat back many destructive proposals and now find ourselves looking at numerous opportunities to protect Oregon's wildlands, wildlife, and waters that might have been unimaginable in 2016.