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OUR MISSIONTHE POWER OFCOORDINATED INVESTMENT forCOLLECTIVE IMPACT

JULY 7, 2014 DRAFT REPORT FUNDING STRATEGY FOR THE STRATEGIC INITIATIVES FROM THE2012-2013 PUGET SOUND ACTION AGENDA

VOLUME 1: SUMMARY OF FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONSEXCERPT PAGE 10

One of the most encouraging concepts in funding is the idea of coordinated investment that is currently being pursued in the Floodplains by Design program. …the concept is to look for solutions that solve multiple environmental problems in a more efficient way than would be possible through a focus on one resource or issue at a time. Efficiencies in environmental funding are a necessity. Getting there will require a deliberate effort to diversify the activities that can be funded with the existing suite of funding sources and seek new funding that is prioritized based on multiple environmental benefits.

Pressure for Change

Impending Need Tribal Treaty Rights at Risk Threat

Opportunity

Potential for legal action and followed by federal response and action.

Federal and state agencies seeking local partners and solutions.

Available Funding Puget Sound Recovery Funding

Opportunity ~$450 million annual spend on Puget Sound recovery. - Coordinated investment.

A New Approach Community-based solutions

Opportunity The power of community-based solutions-- an effective partner and leverage to traditional, top-down regulatory models.

NOTE: The federal agencies acknowledge and understand that incentive programs are most effective if there is a strong regulatory backdrop.

Target: Change in Culture

Funders select individual grantees that offer most promising solutions

Grantees work separately and compete to produce greatest impact

Scale depends on a single organization

Corporate, governments and non-profits are disconnected

Social problems arise from interactions of many organizations in larger system

Progress depends on working toward same goal and measuring same things

Scale depends on increasing cross-sector alignment and learning

Corporate and governments sectors are essential partners

What it Takes

Pay attention to relationships

Travel at the same speed as your neighbor

Always turn towards the center

Achieve a perpetual state of planning and doing

Listen, listen, listen for how to respond to unexpected results

Adopt and attitude of “burning patience”

Project Definition

Coordinated investment is an innovative, new approach to accelerating Puget Sound recovery―specifically by attaining salmon, water quality, and shellfish goals while strengthening working farms and forests. It is predicated on better aligning the financial resources and authorities of state and federal agencies behind large scale projects that deliver multiple benefits to nature and our communities, broaden the base of support for recovery, and generate more return on our public investments.

Reach or Delta Scale;Watershed Impact

& Federal Opportunity

Regenerative Flood

Mitigation

Regulatory Streamlining

Public Subsidies for

Farm ConservationFarm Viability

Mixed Agricultural

and Ecological Land Use Designs

Regenerative Flood

Mitigation

Regulatory Streamlining

Public Subsidies for

Farm ConservationFarm Viability

Mixed Agricultural

and Ecological Land Use Designs

Coordinated Investment = Develop the Right Projects

Symbiotic Sustainability = Common Landscape Vision

Regenerative Flood

Mitigation

Regulatory Streamlining

Public Subsidies for

Farm ConservationFarm Viability

Mixed Agricultural

and Ecological Land Use Designs

Clean Water

Act EndangeredSpecies Act

Water Resources

Development Act

Farm Bill

Coordinated Investment = Develop the Right Projects

Strategic Model

Strategy Overview

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FOCUSDetermine priority places needed to achieve Recovery Goals on working farm lands• Develop a Puget Sound-wide assessment (How Much

and Where) to determine priority places for protection and stewardship needed that will achieve goals for salmon and shellfish and agriculture viability.

• Invest in on the ground research to determine system response to priority practices that will inform and shape the performance-based approach.

• Invest in long-term monitoring to measure outcomes and inform adaptive management.

Strategy Overview

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BUILD Develop a pipeline of performance- based, multiple benefit, community-led projects• Mobilize- work with key community leaders to develop a

portfolio of projects needed to achieve agriculture, shellfish and salmon goals

• Build capacity – invest in local leadership (spark plugs), space and time to convene, ensure there is technical expertise necessary to implement projects, and maintain community support, ownership and involvement.

Project Elements • Restoration • Protection • Infrastructure upgrades• Regulatory predictability• Flood risk reduction• Best management practices• Higher value marketplace• Education / Outreach

Strategy Overview

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SCALE Drive large scale change through coordinated investment and cross-sector collaboration and innovation.• Influence and direct federal, state and local funding toward

coordinated investment for projects that will provide the biggest benefits to Puget Sound recovery.

• Support cross-sector collaboration across – private, public, industries

• Create business incentives - Connect producers engaging in priority stewardship practices with new and higher value marketplaces.

Example Project Criteria (Floodplains by Design)

Label Description

SalmonShellfish

Water Quality

Project opportunities in the area align with the Puget Sound Action Plan’s three Strategic Initiatives

Flood Management Opportunities to reduce flood hazards to people & infrastructure

Agriculture Opportunities for improved practices & farmland protection

Impact / Scale Actions will contribute significantly to recovery goals

Local Leadership Project proponents have the relationships & capacity to succeed

Tribal Concurrence Local tribes will support and/or participate in the project

CI Floodplains Includes an integrative floodplain project already underway

PS Alliance Has support from a consortium of public & private sector leaders

Fed Opportunity Federal agencies are engaged, or there are good opportunities

Project Sources Fish Trap – Double Ditch Creek

Lower Nooksack River

Skagit River Delta

Samish Bay Watershed

Lower Green River

Middle Nisqually River

Known high potential for Integrated floodplains projects

Lower Snoqualmie River

Pilchuck River & French Creek

Draft example Project Portfolio

Tide-gate Fish Initiative

Links Tide-gate Renovation to

Skagit Salmon Recovery Targets

Farms, Fish and Flood Initiative

Farms, Fish and Flood Initiative

CurrentSalmon

RecoveryActivitiesProject Developers

Lead EntitiesRFEGsTribes

PCSRF

State Capital

TargetActions

Other Federal and State Cooperative

Agreement / Grant Makers

NRDA

Coordinated Investment

Port Susan ExampleStanwood

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Restoration Banking

Blue Heron Site

Port Susan Example

Natural Resources Alliance