The Roadmap Training is a learning journey for people and projects that would like to become an Ecosystem Restoration Community. From registering a legal entity, to finding land, creating a team, fundraising, creating income streams through business, communicating effectively, restoration planning and design, collecting data, and working with your local community, this training is for all aspiring and start up restoration initiatives. Where relevant, Additional Learning Materials links are provided to give you access to even more subject matter.
To start the Roadmap Training, simply make a donation based on what you can afford, then send us an email asking to be registered on the learning platform.
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Lesson 1: Creating a legal entity - Part 1
Explore the different options available to you in terms of the kind of legal entity that will work for your project.
Lesson 1: Creating a legal entity - Part 2
Understand why registering as a legal entity is necessary to be a part of the ERC movement.
Lesson 1: Creating a legal entity - Part 3
Learn what kind of entities are best for joining the ERC movement.
Lesson 1: Creating a legal entity - Part 4
This lesson focuses on what needs to be be in place in terms of your legal entity to join the ERC movement.
Lesson 2: Find a place to restore - Part 1
Understand the different ways that the various Ecosystem Restoration Communities have acquired their land in a bid to help you find your own land to restore.
Lesson 2: Find a place to restore - Part 2
This video summaries four conversations that Ashleigh, Education Coordinator at ERC, has had with four community leaders from different ERCs around the world.
Lesson 3: Creating a team - Part 1
We look at the importance of having a shared vision and how to create one together.
Lesson 3: Creating a team - Part 2
We discuss some of the ways in which a team can be structured to ensure healthy team dynamics and work ethic and output to reach your restoration goals.
Lesson 3: Creating a team - Part 3
What kind of culture should we be creating within our team that can foster harmonious relationships for the good of our ecosystems?
Lesson 4: Fundraising - Part 1 (An Introduction to fundraising: the basics)
The basics: having the right mindset and attitude, creating and using your vision and mission statements, and getting a budget, one pager and pitch together.
Lesson 4: Fundraising - Part 2 (Orientation in the fundraising landscape)
How to find your place in the fundraising landscape. Learn which of the many different fundraising avenues make the most sense for you along your developmental journey.
Lesson 4: Fundraising - Part 3 (Getting started with fundraising techniques)
An introduction to the main types of fundraising methods.
Lesson 4: Fundraising - Part 3 (Method: Crowdfunding)
How to bring a community together to raise money through a crowdfunding campaign.
Lesson 4: Fundraising - Part 3 (Method: Fundraising event)
Learn how to create a successful local event to raise funds for your work.
Lesson 4: Fundraising - Part 3 (Method: Individual fundraising)
We explore the different ways that funds can be raised from individual donors.
Lesson 4: Fundraising - Part 3 (Method: Grant writing, Part 1)
Key things to consider when writing grant proposals for your restoration project.
Lesson 4: Fundraising - Part 3 (Method: Grant writing, Part 2)
How to effectively write grant proposals for your restoration initiative.
Lesson 4: Fundraising - Part 3 (Method: Corporate partnerships)
Why partnering with corporates is another way to raise funds, from businesses looking for ways to make a positive impact in the world.
Lesson 4: Fundraising - Part 3 (Tips on donor management)
How to manage relationships with your existing restoration initiative donors.
Lesson 4: Fundraising - Part 4: The power of networking
Tips and tricks to help you create and activate a network of people to support you with raising funds.
Lesson 5: Business development - Part 1
Everything you need to start your own business to help fund your restoration initiative.
Lesson 5: Business development - Part 2
Think about what sort of business models would work well for your restoration initiative, as well as how to create a business model canvas to map out your business ideas.
Lesson 5: Business development - Part 2
Learn what a business model canvas is, and how you can use it to plan out your business idea.
Lesson 6: Communications
This lesson covers the main ways that you can communicate about your initiative, as well as how to share your progress with the public via our communications team.
Lesson 7: Restoration approaches - Part 1
We look at a series of examples of Ecosystem Restoration Communities and describe the types of restoration work they do.
Lesson 7: Restoration approaches - Part 2
This lesson is all about the different methodologies for restoring a degraded ecosystem.
Lesson 8: Restoration planning & design - Part 1, The context
Discover the key components, dynamics and functions of an ecosystem, as well as how human activities have impacted ecosystem health around the world. We also cover the key principles of ecosystem restoration.
Lesson 8: Restoration planning & design - Part 2, Biodiversity
What is biodiversity, why does it matter, and how to make decisions to increase biodiversity in your restoration project.
Lesson 8: Restoration planning & design - Part 3, Goal setting
The importance of setting clear goals and objectives for your restoration initiative early on in the development of your project.
Lesson 8: Restoration planning & design - Part 4, Project plan
Learn what needs to be considered when creating a restoration project plan.
Lesson 8: Restoration planning & design - Part 5, Implementation
Elements necessary when implementing your restoration plan, including site preparation, planting and seeding, erosion and sediment control, wildlife habitat enhancement, and monitoring and maintenance.
Lesson 8: Restoration planning & design - Part 6, Aftercare
The importance of aftercare and what you need to think about, such as monitoring and evaluating the success of your project and how you may need to adapt your restoration approaches based on what you discover.
Lesson 8: Restoration planning & design - Part 7, Another perspective - 1
Hear the perspective of another Restoration Designer, Andrew Langford, who has a different approach to creating a restoration plan for a site.
Lesson 8: Restoration planning & design - Part 7, Another perspective - 2
Restoration Designer Advisor Andrew Langford runs through how he supported the Mexican Los Ocotes project with the design and plan for their restoration work on the site.
Lesson 9: Data collection and impact monitoring - Part 1
We unpack: What is an Ecosystem, What are some of the degradation drivers, and What is the process of ecosystem restoration? We look at frameworks, standards and principles guiding ecosystem restoration, and explain the first important step for a foundation for Monitoring & Evaluation.
Lesson 9: Data collection and impact monitoring - Part 2
This lesson continues with reviewing the important foundations for Monitoring & Evaluation, including restoration goals and restoration design, then takes a deep dive into the ERC toolkit, and how you can use this in your local context.
Lesson 10: Infrastructure
Learn all about the different kinds of infrastructure that are needed for an Ecosystem Restoration Community project.
Lesson 11: Welcoming people to your community
We explore the different ways that ERCs welcome people to their communities to get involved.
Lesson 12: Beyond the fence, Part 1
We discuss how to go beyond your fence and increase your impact beyond the boundaries of your land.
Lesson 12: Beyond the fence, Part 2
We continue to look at reaching out to your community, beyond the walls of your own site, with examples from ERC Habiba, Regenesis Project and Embercombe.