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Your phone number:
Your email:

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Basic Information about your group/organization

If you are affiliated with more than one group or organization, please fill out the survey for each group. If you are not able to answer all of the questions, please reach out to another in your group or organization and ask them to fill out the survey.

Group/organization name:
Web site (if available):
Mailing Address (with City, State, ZIP):

Address

Address 2

City, State

Zip Code

Group/organization Email:
Group/organization Phone:
Does your group/organization wish to be on the online stewardship map?

The information associated with your group on the map will be limited to group/organization name, website, mailing address, group/organization email, and group/organization phone number — plus your geographic territory, which will be addressed later in this survey.

Tell us about your group/organization's environmental stewardship activities.

Does your group/organization do any of the following:
Please choose all that apply.

Conserve the local environment?
Take care of a place in the local environment (for example, a community garden, a block of street trees, an empty lot, a riverbank, a schoolyard, a forest preserve)?
Restore or transform local habitat (e.g., daylighting a stream, brownfield to prairie restorations)?
Monitor the quality of the local environment? This can include monitoring air or water quality, dumping, or species monitoring?
Advocate for the local environment?
Educate the public about the local environment?


Please tell us about your group/organization

What is your group/organization's legal designation?

Please choose the most appropriate response.

501(c)(3) (or has applied)
501 (c)(4) (or has applied)
Community group/organization without 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) status (e.g., a block club)
Local government agency
State government agency
Federal government agency
Public administration district (such as a school, Port Authority, university campus, hospital)
Private firm, for-profit business
For this survey, please answer stewardship questions based only on the stewardship work that your business does that is volunteer or pro bono.
Other

If Other, please specify:

If you had to choose just one activity, what would you say is your group's primary focus? Please choose one.
Public health (including mental health, food, crisis intervention, health care)
Education
Transportation
Housing and shelter
Community improvement and capacity building
Environment (including gardening, forestry, ecological restoration, water and air protection)
Toxics/pollution related
Wildlife/animal related
Human services (including day care, family services)
Youth development
Economic development
Employment, job related
Legal services, civil rights
Arts, culture, creative practices
Recreation and sports (including birding and fishing)
Crime, criminal justice
International, foreign affairs, and national security
Research in science and/or technology
Faith-based activities
Power/electricity generation
Energy Efficiency
Other


Please tell us about your group/organization's stewardship activities

Considering all of the programs, activities, and services your group/organization works on, what percentage of your group/organization's effort has been for stewardship during the past year?
0-19%
20-39%
40-59%
60-79%
80-100%
What type(s) of setting has your group/organization physically done stewardship work in within the past year?

Please choose all that apply. Note: Scroll down to see complete list.

Water & Water-Related

Watershed / Sewershed
Stream / River / Canal
Waterfront / Beach / Shoreline
Wetland

Open Spaces & Natural Areas

Prairie
Forest/Woodland/Savanna
Park
Community Garden
Urban farm
Playing field / Ball field
Dog run or dog park
Public garden (e.g. botanical garden, arboretum)
Trails / Bike paths / Greenway / Rail-trail

Nature In Built Places

Residential building grounds (apartment courtyard, back yard, etc.)
Vacant land/Vacant lot
School yard or grounds; outdoor classroom
Grounds of public building other than school (e.g. city hall, library, hospital)
Courtyard / Atrium / Plaza
Street Trees/ Boulevard/ Traffic Island/ Greenstreet/ Parkway (Public right of way)
Flower box / Planter
Rain gardens, rain barrels, permeable pavement, bioswales
Green buildings
Green roofs
Brownfield property

Other

If Other, please specify:



In this next section, we ask about where you group or organization conducts its stewardship activities and/or your service area.

Please describe in detail the boundaries of where your group/organization has physically done stewardship work within the past year. You can list multiple locations.

For example: —"In Chicago, on Halsted between 130th and 131st" —"Coral Woods" —"Southwest corner of the Middle Fork Savanna" —"The Ivanhoe Dune & Swale Nature Preserve" —"all of ZIP code 46368" —"The Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago" —"McHenry County" —"The Fox River Watershed in Wisconsin" —"Statewide in Indiana and Illinois" —"the empty lot at 2345 Main Street, Hometown IL"


My group/organization has a Geographic Information System (GIS) file showing the boundaries of where my group/organization has physically done stewardship work within the past year.
We will be following up with you to obtain this file. You do not need to complete the mapping questions on the next page.


We would like to create a map that shows the boundaries of where your organization/group has physically done stewardship work in the last year. Your organization may do different stewardship work in different locations (e.g. statewide advocacy and site specific work). If so, please add them one at a time.

    Help for this page

  • Help! This page is confusing!

    This map page is designed for people who are at least somewhat comfortable with digital mapping. If that does not describe you, don't worry. We can draw your site(s) or service area(s) for you based on how you described where you work on the previous page. Please make sure that those descriptions are as detailed as possible. We will attempt to draw your sites or areas and then contact you to verify that we have done this correctly. Please make sure that we have a phone number or email address for you. On this page, under "Select the appropriate geographic scale", select "I described my boundaries on the previous page and would like to skip this page" then click "Continue" at the bottom.

  • Can I map more than one site? How?

    You can add additional sites or areas using the steps described in the previous question. After finishing one site, click "Save this location" at the bottom of the page, then start again at the top of the page.

  • I need some more help with the mapping tool.

    First, think about the place or places where your group does stewardship work. This may be a space as small as a community garden or you may do something like advocacy work citywide or statewide or nationwide — or you may work at multiple sites or scales. Start with the left side of this page where it asks you to "Select the appropriate geographic scale." If you start with the community garden site, you would check "None of these, I need to draw my boundaries on the map" then follow the directions that pop up. If you start with the statewide advocacy work, select "Statewide" under "Select the appropriate geographic scale." Once you have drawn a site or service area (large or small), please answer "What do you do at this location" in the right-hand column. Then scroll to the bottom of the page where you can name and save this location. Make sure to click "Save this location." You can add as many sites or service areas as you wish but please click "Save this location" after each one. When you're done, continue to the next page of the survey.

Select the appropriate geographical scope

(Select only 1. Remember, you can add another location if you need to.)

All States / Nationwide
Statewide
Countywide
Within one or more Counties
Depending on the counties selected, we have several boundary layers that may align with your stewardship area (e.g. Cities, Protected Open Space, Watersheds, etc.)
None of these, I need to draw my boundaries on the map

I described my boundaries on the previous page and would like to skip this page
What do you do at this location?
Conserve the local environment?
Take care of a place in the local environment (for example, a community garden, a block of street trees, an empty lot, a riverbank, a schoolyard, a forest preserve)?
Restore or transform local habitat (e.g., daylighting a stream, brownfield to prairie restorations)?
Monitor the quality of the local environment? This can include monitoring air or water quality, dumping, or species monitoring?
Advocate for the local environment?
Educate the public about the local environment?

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What do you call this location?
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Who owns the property or properties on which your group/organization has physically done stewardship work within the past year?

Please choose all that apply.

Federal government
State government
County government (e.g. Forest Preserve District)
City/Local government
Other government (e.g. Port Authority)
Individual
Corporation (including joint ventures, real estate investment groups)
Nonprofit
Don't know
Other

If Other, please specify:



    Help for this page

  • Why do you ask these questions? How will this information be used?

    Your responses will help us summarize data from organizations that work on lands with the same ownership structure. We are also interested in the types of land region-wide that attract stewardship. We will not share this information on the online map.

Please tell us a little more about the structure of your group/organization.

Approximately what year was your group/organization founded?

Note: for national or regional groups/organizations please tell us the approximate year your chapter was founded.

Approximately how many of the following does your group/organization have:

Note: for national groups/organizations please provide regional information.

Full-time Staff:

Part-time Staff:

Members:

Regular Volunteers:


Note: regular volunteers are those who routinely volunteer in your group/organization's activities. This is different from volunteers who may come out for a single work day.

What is your group/organization's estimated annual budget for the current year?

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    Help for this page

  • How will this information be used?

    Your responses will be used to analyze and present data on organizations that have similar characteristics. We will present this data in summary only and will not report your responses connected with the name of your organization.

  • Will you be updating the map over time?

    We hope to re-do the survey in 2021 to see how stewardship has changed in our region and to get participation from additional groups. All future work will depend on having available funding. In the meantime, as long as the survey is live, new groups can add themselves to the online map at any time and groups that fill out the survey can update their information.

Group/Organizational Relationships

Tell us about your group/organization's relationship to other group/organizations. For all questions in this section, we are interested in hearing about all possible collaborations. These may include federal, state, and local government; private companies; other nonprofits, schools, or community group/organizations; etc.

RESOURCE EXCHANGE

Please list up to ten group/organizations from whom you seek information, advice, or expertise related to environmental stewardship:
Please list up to ten groups/organizations to whom you provide information, advice, or expertise related to environmental stewardship:
Please list up to ten groups/organizations from whom you receive funding related to environmental stewardship:
Please list up to ten groups/organizations to whom you provide funding related to environmental stewardship:

PARTNERSHIPS

Does your group/organization belong to any coalitions, partnerships, or working groups/organizations that share information, plan strategy, or coordinate activities?

If yes, please list the coalition(s) your group/organization is active in.



Final Section

Is there anything else you would like to tell us about your group/organization or this survey?
Where did you hear about the survey?

This concludes the Chicago STEW-MAP assessment. Thank you for your participation. We will send you an announcement when our report and stewardship maps are available.

Feel free to contact STEW-MAP with any questions or comments at: stewmap@cnt.org.



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