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, an Additional Learning Materials link is provided to give you access to even more subject matter. Dive in to learn more!
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.
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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.
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Lesson 1: Creating a legal entity - Part 3
Lesson 1: Creating a legal entity - Part 4
This lesson focuses on what needs to be in place in terms of your legal entity to join the ERC movement.
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Lesson 2: Finding 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.
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Lesson 2: Finding 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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Lesson 4: Fundraising - Part 2 (Orientation in the fundraising landscape)
Learn which of the many different types of fundraising avenues make the most sense for you along your developmental journey.
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Lesson 4: Fundraising - Part 3 (Getting started with fundraising techniques)
Lesson 4: Fundraising - Part 3 (Method: Crowdfunding)
How to bring a community together to raise money through a crowdfunding campaign.
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Lesson 4: Fundraising - Part 3 (Method: Fundraising event)
Learn how to create a successful local event to raise funds for your work.
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Lesson 4: Fundraising - Part 3 (Method: Individual fundraising)
We explore the different ways that funds can be raised from individual donors.
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Lesson 4: Fundraising - Part 3 (Method: Grant writing, Part 1)
Key things to consider when writing grant proposals for your restoration project.
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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)
Learn how to raise funds for your restoration initiative through corporate partnerships.
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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.
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Lesson 5: Business models - Part 1
Everything you need to start your own business to help fund your restoration initiative.
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Lesson 5: Business models - Part 2
We're working on even more guidelines for you to start your own business to help fund your restoration initiative.
Lesson 5: Business models - Part 3
We're working on even more guidelines for you to start your own business to help fund your restoration initiative.
Lesson 6: Effective communications
We unpack the main tools you can use to communicate about your initiative, as well as how to share your progress with our global audience.
Lesson 7: Restoration approaches - Part 1​
This lesson is all about the different methodologies for restoring a degraded ecosystem.
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Lesson 7: Restoration approaches - Part 2
We look at a series of examples of Ecosystem Restoration Communities and describe the types of restoration work they do.
Lesson 8: Restoration planning & design
We're busy creating this lesson, so check this page again soon to catch this video.
Lesson 9: Collecting data & measuring impact
This new lesson is a work-in-progress! Check this page again soon to catch the video.
Lesson 10: Infrastructure
Learn all about the different kinds of infrastructure that are needed for an Ecosystem Restoration Community project.
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Lesson 11: Welcoming people to your community
We explore the different ways that ERCs welcome people to their communities to get involved.
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Additional Learning Materials
Lesson 12: Beyond the fence - Part 1
We discusses how to go beyond your fence and increase your impact beyond the boundaries of your land.
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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.