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2012 ANNUAL REPORT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
03 By the Numbers 04 The Mission 05 Letter from the President 06 Board of Directors | Advisory Board | Staff 07 Outreach & Events 09 Partnerships 10 Supporters 14 Volunteers 17 Financials 19 Plans for the Future
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2012 BY THE NUMBERS
42,270 Dollars raised by the Conservancy in 2012 to meet an ongoing
$50,000 challenge grant from the National Park Foundation for the
Conservancy’s Signature Project with Rock Creek Park.
5,550 Volunteer hours logged in the Park by the Conservancy and its
dedicated corps of Weed Warriors and groups from local schools,
youth groups, embassies and businesses.
105 Temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit, reached during the weeks of
Student Conservation Association work in Dumbarton Oaks Park.
27 Acres of shaded woodlands, wildflower meadows, rustic bridges,
waterfalls and trails in Dumbarton Oaks Park.
25 Young, native, riparian saplings freed from their strangling
invasive weeds to live to form a new forest along the stream.
13 Park neighbors working with the Conservancy, including three
embassies, two Harvard University study centers, and the Naval
Observatory.
9 Groups across the country chosen for the National Park
Foundation’s 2012 Park Partners Project. As one of the lucky
groups, the Conservancy received grant support and a year of
coaching on capacity- and partnership-building.
4 Feet the stream rose, overflowing both of the Park’s wooden
bridges after the violent rainstorm on July 10th.
2 Acres of weeds removed from the Park, allowing hidden bulbs and
woodland plants to emerge.
1 Dumbarton Oaks Park: a bucolic oasis for city dwellers and a
portal to one of the great periods in American landscape
architecture – the Country Place Era.
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THE MISSION
The mission of the Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy is to restore, promote
and maintain Dumbarton Oaks Park in partnership with the National Park
Service.
The Conservancy is proud to work with our partner, the
National Park Service’s Rock Creek Park, in cooperation with
Superintendent Tara D. Morrison and Chief Ranger Nick
Bartolomeo.
Inscription composed by Mildred Bliss to honor Beatrix Farrand | 1933
Written in Latin and translated as follows:
May kindly stars guard the dreams born beneath
the spreading branches of Dumbarton Oaks.
Dedicated to the friendship of Beatrix Farrand
and to succeeding generations of seekers after Truth.
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
2012 was a year of extraordinary growth for the Conservancy. Chosen in February
by the National Park Foundation as one of nine groups, nationally, to participate in
the Park Partners Project, we have leveraged NPF’s $5,000 grant and mentoring
program to expand and strengthen our young organization.
In April, the Embassy of Italy opened its doors for our second annual spring event,
fêting the 71st anniversary of the opening of Dumbarton Oaks Park to the public on
April 12, 1941. Special guest Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Founding President of the
Central Park Conservancy, inspired our 200 gathered guests with her story of
Central Park’s restoration. We’ve continued our outreach efforts with monthly e-
blasts, educational and entertaining “snapshots” of the Park’s enduring narrative
and our work to preserve this green oasis in the city.
In June, the Conservancy welcomed expert hydrogeologist Zoe Kulakowski, who
presented to our neighbors and NPS colleagues her stormwater research gleaned
after three months in the Park in autumn of 2011. Zoe provided a scientific
underpinning to the major efforts of the Conservancy to address the stormwater
deterioration threatening the Park.
The Conservancy has worked closely with the staff of Rock Creek Park, under the
direction of Superintendent Tara D. Morrison and Chief Ranger Nick Bartolomeo.
Our tireless Executive Director, Ann Aldrich, together with the Park’s invasive plant
specialist, Ana Chuquin, has developed a highly successful Weed Warrior program.
Our volunteers have spent more than 5,550 hours working in the Park, controlling
the spread of non-native invasive vegetation. And oh, what a difference just a day of
volunteering can make, as illustrated by our photographs on page 17!
Launching our development effort has been a major focus this year. We can only
succeed in our restoration efforts if we have the support of our neighbors and
community. Under the supervision of part-time Director of Development Linzee
Feigenbaum, the Conservancy raised almost $110,000 in 2012 – two-and-a-half
times our fundraising in 2011. A highly successful, first annual year-end letter
reached over 1,000 potential donors, with inspiring results.
We begin 2013 with ever-increasing momentum and encouragement from the
community in support of our mission: to restore, promote and maintain Dumbarton
Oaks Park. Our long-term goals, outlined on page 19, are ambitious but possible
because of the extraordinary support of our friends. With your help, we shall
succeed in restoring and preserving this secret garden in the heart of Washington
for succeeding generations.
Rebecca Trafton, Board President
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BOARD | ADVISORY BOARD | STAFF
Board of Directors
Sunny Scully Alsup
Dina Curtis
Elizabeth Gilbert
Sophia McCrocklin
Sam Morley
Marc Nicholson
George Seltzer
Louis Slade
Stella Tarnay
Douglas Dockery Thomas
Rebecca Trafton
Cecile Warnock
Executive Committee
Rebecca Trafton President
Louis Slade 1st Vice President
George Seltzer 2nd Vice President
Sam Morley Treasurer
Marc Nicholson Corresponding Secretary
Advisory Board
Helen DuBois
David Kamp
Robin Karson
Jane MacLeish
Reuben Rainey
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Martin Rosen
D. Dodge Thompson
Staff
Ann Aldrich Executive Director
Linzee Amory Feigenbaum Director of Development
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OUTREACH & EVENTS
Gardening with Nature
Thursday, April 19 | The Center for Hellenic Studies
The Conservancy welcomed special guest Douglas Dockery Thomas for a
lecture on Twin Maples, the property of Mrs. Thomas and her husband in
Salisbury, Connecticut. On the nearly 400-acre property, they have built a
Georgian-style house surrounded by both formal gardens and 40 acres of
wildflower meadows. The program showed the landscape in all seasons and
explored the process of planting sustainable wildflower meadows that are
low-maintenance and become more beautiful with each passing year. Mrs.
Thomas serves on the Board of Directors of the Dumbarton Oaks Park
Conservancy.
A Celebration of Dumbarton Oaks Park
Thursday, April 19th | The Embassy of Italy
His Excellency Claudio Bisogniero, Ambassador of Italy to the United States,
welcomed a standing-room only crowd to the Embassy of Italy for a
celebration of Dumbarton Oaks Park. Guest speaker Elizabeth Barlow Rogers,
founding president of the Central Park Conservancy, president of the
Foundation for Landscape Studies, and Advisory Board member of DOPC,
spoke about the restoration of Central Park. Rebecca Trafton and Ann
Aldrich, President and Executive Director of DOPC, discussed the
Conservancy’s work addressing the urgent needs of Dumbarton Oaks Park.
What’s Out There Weekend
Sunday, May 20th | Dumbarton Oaks Park
Board President Rebecca Trafton led 80 guests through tours of Dumbarton
Oaks Park, in collaboration with Dumbarton Oaks, as part of The Cultural
Landscape Foundation’s What’s Out There Weekend.
Discussion of Stormwater Issues in Dumbarton Oaks Park
Tuesday, June 19th | The Center for Hellenic Studies
Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy was pleased to sponsor special guest and
expert hydrogeologist Zoe Kulakowski, who presented the results of her
Rock Creek Park- and Geological Society of America-sponsored study of
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stormwater issues in Dumbarton Oaks Park. Excessive stormwater runoff is a
problem that affects all of us. In our watershed, it is damaging private
property, eroding Dumbarton Oaks Park, and polluting the Park’s creek, Rock
Creek, the Potomac River, and the Chesapeake Bay. In 2011, Ms. Kulakowski
spent 12 weeks in Dumbarton Oaks Park collecting data, conducting
extensive analysis, and developing recommendations for solutions to the
stormwater problem.
Tour with the Garden Club of America’s Garden History and Design
Committee
Wednesday, September 12th | Dumbarton Oaks Park
Board president Rebecca Trafton lectured members of the GCA’s Garden
History and Design Committee, visiting Washington from across the country,
on the history of Dumbarton Oaks Park, Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss,
and Beatrix Farrand.
An Evening with Landscape Historian Judith Tankard
Thursday, October 25 | The Georgetown Neighborhood Library
The Conservancy was pleased to welcome another standing room-only crowd
to a lecture by Judith Tankard, author of Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens,
Public Landscapes. Ms. Tankard lectured on the life and work of Beatrix
Farrand, America’s first successful female landscape architect and the
celebrated designer of Dumbarton Oaks Park.
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PARTNERSHIPS
Partnerships are critical to the success of our mission to restore the Park,
connecting us with the broader community and leveraging the possibility of
a broader impact in the Park.
Our ever-expanding partnership network currently includes:
• AnBryce Foundation
• Biohabitats, Inc.
• The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington
• British School of Washington
• Center for Hellenic Studies
• City Wildlife
• District Department of the Environment
• Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
• Embassy of Denmark
• Embassy of Italy
• The George Washington University Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega
• The George Washington School of Professional Studies, Landscape Design
Program
• Hardy Middle School
• Jackson Art Center
• Jelleff Community Center
• National Park Foundation
• New Zealand Embassy
• Potomac Appalachian Club
• Rock Creek Conservancy
• Student Conservation Association
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SUPPORTERS | 2010 – 2012 * Current Board member ** Current Advisory Board member $10,000 and Above
Lea & Wayne Berman
Garden Spaces (Buzz Seltzer*)
Douglas* & Wilmer Thomas
$5,000 to $9,999
Jane MacLeish
Sophia McCrocklin* & Bill Isaacson
National Park Foundation
Public Welfare Foundation
Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation
$2,500 to $4,999
Helen R. DuBois**
Georgetown Garden Club
D. Dodge Thompson**
Rebecca Trafton*
$1,000 to $2,499
Sunny* & Bill Alsup
Bruce & Marjie Calvert
Louisa Duemling
Friends of Montrose & Dumbarton
Oaks Park (1992-2007)
Elizabeth Gilbert* & Shaun Donovan
Mr. & Mrs. Newman T. Halvorson Jr.
The Hanley Foundation
Michael & Evelyn Jefcoat
Janet Keller & Bernard Schneider
($1,000 to $2,499 Continued…)
Otis Laury
Anne Lewis
Joanna Milstein
Sam* & Monica Morley
Reuben** & Sue Rainey
Michael Rankin
Frederic C. Rich
Roger & Victoria Sant
Buzz* & Dianne Seltzer
Lou* & Nancy Slade
George & Elizabeth Stevens
Elizabeth Thomas
Perry Trimble
$500 to $999
David & Susan Amory
Agatha Barclay
Forée Biddle
Caitrine & Michael Callison
Emily Goldblatt
Richard & Nancy Jackson
David & Helen Kenney
Rocco & Debby Landesman
Janet Leno
John Manor
Lucy McFadden & Marc Allen
Marc Nicholson*
Lois Anne Polan
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($500 to $999 Continued…)
Margaret Slade
Mary Sper
Robert Stowers
Christie & Jeff Weiss
$250 to $499
Patricia Alper-Cohn & David Cohn
Frances & Ankie Barnes
Tom & Kat Bethell
Molly Bingham & Steven Connors
Bittersweet Café
Blum-Kovler Foundation
Café Bonaparte
Lucy Clark
Claire & Warren Cox
Elizabeth Cullen
Susan Edmunds
Elisa & Kenneth Glazer
Robert & Barbara Hall
Danette Kauffman
Adam Looney
Ann Marie & Jerry Marenburg
Robert & Laura Meisnere
Helen Moore
Elizabeth Mullin & James Sandman
Elizabeth Norton
Linda & Peter Parshall
Garret & Gigi Rasmussen
Elissa Rubin & Bob Sanchez
Suzanne & Douglas Schiffman
Joe & Carol Shull
($250 to $499 Continued…)
Judith Tankard
Warnock Studios – Tom & Cecile*
Warnock
Steve & Linda Weitz
Westmoreland Hills Garden Club
$100 to $249
Anonymous
Susanne Albright
Ann Aldrich & Jim Osen
Kate Aldrich
Walter & Shirley Amory
Adele & George Ashkar
Hannah & Michael Bahar
Catherine Ballinger
Judith Bauer
Charles Bell
Dawn & John Bellinger
Denise and John Buchanan III
Carol Carter
Sheila Cochran
Diane B. Cook
Robert Costello
Rosalyn & Ken Doggett
Eva Dömötör & William Barnes
Shaun Duncan
Diane Epstein
Barbara & Jay Feigenbaum
Susan Fels
Mary Ellen Fise
Jack & Ricki Fuechsel
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($100 to $249 Continued…)
Howard & Terri Garfinkel
Rose & Jean-Pierre Gombay
Bradford Gray
Dale & Cheryl Gray
Susan Gutchess
Rochelle Hall
Cynthia Hamilton & Chris Snowber
Kevin Hart
Naomi & Jack Heller
Ernest Higgins
Alexandra Hoge
Harry Holmgren and Monika
Holmgren-Konig
Judy Horowitz
Jeffrey & Susan Hunter
Hunting Creek Garden Club
Helen Ingalls
Lucy James
Alex Jamison & Melissa Crown
Martin Jeffries
David Jones
John F. Jones
Kanawha Garden Club
Carol Kelley
Frances Kennedy
Babe & Chuck King
Frederick & Carol Levison
Gill & Shelley Livingston
Dwight & Sue Mason
Joan Nelson Meerman & Jacob
Meerman
($100 to $249 Continued…)
Amanda Moose & Ed Lazarus
Karen & Philip Morrison
Ellen Myer
Darwina Neal
Anne & Dennis O’Connor
Marnie & Howard Owens
Michael Petricone & Lara Rawlings
David & Jessica Pozen
Devi Rao & Stephen Hayes
Anne Reese
Jasmin Gruenberg Reisner
Martin** & Joan Rosen
Shelley & Bruce Ross-Larson
Lynn & Bill Russell
Robin & Sarah Salomon
Edith Schafer
Laine Shakerdge
Susan Shurin
John Sower
Courtney & James Spearman
James Springer
Christine Steiner
Anne Symmes
Wayne & Wanda Tomlinson
Elizabeth J. Townsend
Barbara Trafton
John Trafton
Jotham Trafton
Peter & Frances Trafton
Richard Trafton
Mary Jo Veverka
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($100 to $249 Continued…)
Laurel Von Gerichten
Jenonne Walker
Gertrude Warnock
J. Robinson & Eileen West
Martin & Tina Weymann
Mikel & Joe Witte
Peter Work
James & Geraldine Zurn
Up To $99
Donald Baker & Nina McLemore
Richard Barnes
Ronda Bernstein
Julia Blakely
Richard Bland
Sidney Blumenthal
Joe & Annelise Brand
Louise & Gil Brodnitz
Eleanor & Robert Budic
Brian Bever Cox
Walter Cutler
Linzee & Eric Feigenbaum
Laura J. Feller
Natascha Ferretti
(Up to $99 Continued…)
Jean & John Lange
Julien LeBourgeois
Patricia Littlefield
Susan Livera & Annellen Moore
Jane Loeffler
Lucy Lowenthal
Renato Miracco
Alexander L. Morton
Mary Mottershead & Bob Moore
Sherry Patten
Dede Petri
Thomas A. Pursley III
Margaret & Tom Rietano
Susan Sherman
John & Kim Snedden
Hugh Stevenson
Lois Stratton
Stella Tarnay
Carvel Taylor-Valentine & Carter
Valentine
Janet Topolsky
Liza Trafton
Helga Warren
John & Valerie Wheeler
Barbara Finney
Robert & Roxanne Fleming
Brian Fletcher
Deborah Friedman
Brian Gaul & Eleonora Luciano
Corbin Harwood
Zoe Kulakowski
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VOLUNTEERS
We are grateful to our friends who have generously donated their
time, resources and expertise to help restore Dumbarton Oaks Park:
Judith Beermann
Biohabitats – Joe Berg & Phil Jones
Craig Cassey
Center for Hellenic Studies
Citizens Association of Georgetown
City Wildlife, Anne Lewis
DC Cooperative Weed Management
Unit, Laura Washington
DDOE Stormwater Division
Patricia Fairfield
Mary Ellen Fise
Jean Frisbie
Georgetown Current
Georgetown Neighborhood Library
Georgetown Patch
Goodman/Van Riper Photography
Christopher Horton
The Jefferson
Mary Kopper
LD Sound Services, Jeremy Wilson
LALH – Library of American
Landscape History
Larry Miller
Beth Mullin
Christina Sassaki
Joe Shull
Eugene Sofer
Robert Stowers
SCA, Priya Varghese & Monique
Dailey
Cindy Taylor
Elizabeth Thomas
Liza Trafton
Larry Weaner
David Wooden
Marilyn Worseldine
A special thank you to our Weed Warriors and other volunteers who
toil (rain, shine, heat or chill) to free the Park from strangling vines:
APO – GWU Chapter
APO – UMD Chapter
AU Environmental
Service Club
Nancy Bach
Hannah Bahar
Ankie Barnes
Nicholas Bedoga
Joan Bennett
Karissa Broderick-Beck
Alicia Budich
Jackson Carnes
David Carruth
Domonique Cherry &
The Boys & Girls Club
Mike Chu
Christina Del Valle
Carrie Dellesky
Michael DeRosier
Joan Dickie
Greg Dumas
Embassy of Denmark
Patricia Fairfield
Susan Fels
Mary Ellen Fise
Susan Forth
Jean Frisbie
Rose & Jean-Pierre
Gombay
Krysia Grant
Jared Green
Linda Greensfelder
Cooby Greenway
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GWU Center for Civic
Engagement & Public
Service
Thomas Harr
Mary Haskin
Carolyn Hill
Barbara Hill
Tessa Hill
Tom Holtz
Carol Horgan
Helen Ingalls
Nayna Jhaveri
Carolyn Jones
Pam Kloman
Carol Levison
Wen-Chin Lo
Anna LoPresti
Nick Lussler
Jane MacLeish
Bev Magruder
James Mathias
Carmella Mazzotta
William McLeod
Richard Miller
Sam Morley
Marc Nicholson
Evelyn Nolan
Emily Penprase
Mary Carroll Platt
Allie Prescott
James Proctor
Mike Prothero
Thomas Pursley III
Anne Reese
Claude Reilly
Buzz Seltzer
Joanna Shank
Mary Sper
Abbie Steiner
Student Conservation
Association
Joanna Sturm
D. Dodge Thompson
Elizabeth Townsend
Rebecca Trafton
Alex Turner
Ruthann Uithol
Leslie Wheelock
Rosalie Wilkinson
John Wilson
David Wooden
Work Opportunities
Unlimited
The World Bank
Guili Zhou
Quan Zhou
Student Conservation Association volunteers in the Park | July 2012
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Oh, what a glorious difference one day can make!
A day in the life of a Conservancy volunteer | December 8, 2012
Before: the tangle of Meadow 4 GWU Alpha Phi Omega volunteers
Clearing a once impenetrable hedgerow of invasive shrubs
After: looking from Meadow 4 across Meadow 5: a view crafted by Farrand and
not seen for many years
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Statement of activities* For the year ending December 31, 2012
Revenue
Charting Our Financial Growth: 2010-2012
* Unaudited
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Donations from Advisory Board Members
$ 9,200
Donations from Board Members
24,115
Corporate & Business Donations
300
Foundation Donations
10,000
Individual Donations (Less than $500)
19,599
Major Donations ($500 and Above)
40,500
Miscellaneous Group Donations
2,800
Sales
600
Staff Donations 21
Total Revenue
$ 107,135
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Statement of activities* For the year ending December 31, 2012
Expenses
*Unaudited
Administrative Expenses
Development & Fundraising
$ 225.95
Donor Recognition 907.61
Events
9,705.15
Meetings
393.00
Office Supplies
1,074.78
Printing
3,431.53
Professional Services
60.00
Publicity
1,852.40
Salaries
44,399.75
Total Administrative Expenses $ 62,050.17
Restoration Expenses
Signature Project
$ 3,000.00
Stormwater
399.60
Total Restoration Expenses $ 3,399.60
Total Expenses $ 65,449.77
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PLANS FOR THE FUTURE 2013-2016
Organizational Goals
• Reorganize staff structure for smooth functioning and growth of the
organization and effective management of interns and volunteers
• Put into place systems and software for managing finance and fundraising
• Grow the Board and strengthen committees with outside experts
• Cultivate our strong partnerships with Rock Creek Park, the National Park
Foundation, Park neighbors and the wider community
• Develop our volunteer corps through active partnership with institutions,
organizations and businesses
• Increase our fundraising capacity by implementing a development plan and
growing a strong Development Committee
Programming and Interpretation Goals
• Develop active educational programming in partnership with local public and
private schools, from elementary to graduate-level
• In partnership with Rock Creek Park’s interpretive experts, provide
interpretation of specific historic aspects of the site and its ecological
challenges and solutions
• Share our ongoing studies of the Park’s environmental issues (stormwater
and invasives) with other sites facing similar challenges
Restoration Goals
• Complete the Signature Project, including restoration of built elements and
rejuvenation of native plant communities, honoring the spirit of Farrand’s
1920s design while adapting to 21st century sustainable practices
• Develop and implement a detailed Maintenance Plan for the ongoing care of
the Signature Project site; lessons learned about maintenance here will
influence our stewardship of the entire Park
• Begin restoration of the Park’s five meadows
• Capture stormwater entering the Park from Wisconsin Avenue and the Naval
Observatory
• Continue working with immediate neighbors to facilitate their stormwater-
capture plans in partnership with DDOE
• Complete detailed and comprehensive plans for the restoration of the entire
27-acre Park, a multi-year and multi-million dollar challenge
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Snail Mail
PO Box 32080 Washington, DC 20007
Office
Jelleff Community Center 3265 S Street NW
Washington, DC 20007
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Photograph by James Osen