Quivira 2014 Annual Report

2014

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education, innovation, restoration...one acre at a time

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The Quivira Coalition’s mission is to build resilience by fostering ecological, economic and social health on western landscapes through education, innovation, collaboration and progressive public and private land stewardship.

Dear Friend of Quivira, From its inception, the Quivira Coalition’s vision has been to narrow the widening divide between agriculture and environmentalism.

As an early member of the “collaborative conservation” movement, Quivira has ignited sparks that have grown into small bonfires of change. We have encouraged ranchers to adopt conservation practices, insisted that environmentalists should value ecologically mindful agriculture, urged federal agencies to be more open to innovation, prompted scientists to get involved and engaged the public on behalf of working landscapes, urban-rural partnerships and local, healthy food.

We now feel strongly that a shift is upon us. Imagining the collaborative conservation moment as a wave in the ocean, Quivira sees that, as all waves before it have done, this one is cresting, and will soon begin an inevitable ebbing. For all its strengths, collaborative conservation is becoming misaligned with current conditions, especially as we enter into a period of increased ecological instability, economic stress and social anxiety. In particular, questions about climate change and the ramifications for secure food and energy systems are likely to dominate our lives, requiring a regenerative response, one that combines the ecological, the economic and the social in new ways.

Fortunately, there is always a next wave on the horizon. Quivira calls this emerging wave, new agrarianism. We have devoted our 2014-2017 strategic plan to exploring how we might make the shift to this different kind of conservation work. New agrarianism is a vision of local, sustainable food production from farms and ranches that are utilizing an innovative and rapidly expanding toolbox to manage land health, biodiversity and human well-being simultaneously. It is a vision of agrarians working to sequester carbon in soils, improve water quality and quantity, restore native plant and animal populations, fix creeks, develop local energy sources and replenish the working landscape for people and nature alike. It is a vision of coexistence, resilience and stewardship—a place for people in nature, not outside it.

Over the next several years, Quivira will continue the innovative work currently under way while simultaneously positioning ourselves to be a leader in this next wave of conservation. As a starting point, we have reformulated our goals to include: st 1 Wave: Federalism—control and • fostering the radical center, a meeting place for the diversity of agrarians, nd conservation of publicly owned natural environmentalists, scientists and public land managers who steward working 2 Wave: Environmentalism— resources by the federal government. grassroots defense of the rights of landscapes in the western United States and in semi-arid and arid regions nature, as separate from humans. throughout the world;

• disseminating innovative ideas and techniques for progressive grasslands and riparian regeneration, with a focus on food production, economic diversification 3rd Wave: Science-Based Conservation— and collaboration across urban-rural and environmental-agricultural boundaries; large landscape protection, based on scientific

• training the next generation of food producers and land stewards; and prioritization and focused on private lands.

• inspiring and supporting hope by disseminating regenerative solutions already at work.

Journeying into unknown territory has been a hallmark of our work all along— 4th Wave: Collaborative Conservation—a merging of the first three waves that in fact our name, Quivira, is the term that Spanish mapmakers used to distinguish resulted in a radical center—agriculturalists, civil servants, environmentalists the unknown territories of the New World. Our next journey will incorporate many and scientists working together to heal past wounds, find common ground and elements from our past, including an insistence that we remain grounded in the develop management practices based on shared values. reality of working people who have their hands in the soil. At the same time, we will evolve to meet the challenges and opportunities that are unique to this new wave. We will need all of you and thousands of your friends to join us on this intrepid exploration.

5th Wave: New Agrarianism—an emerging movement in which agriculture and conservation, along with all other productive human endeavors, are conceived as one practice, with one set of values that serves all of nature and humanity.

With gratitude,

Avery C. Anderson Sponholtz, Executive Director

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‌ the Quivira Coalition [is] master of two indispensable truths: people of different and apparently opposing interests can work together in good will for their mutual good; and, granted their good will and good work, a similar reciprocity can be made, in use, between humans and their land. ~ Wendell Berry

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Connecting the Quivira Community

November 12–14, 2014 — Albuquerque, New Mexico

Back To the Future: Celebrating the International Year of Family Farming and Ranching Regenerative agriculture is fixin’ to rise to its place in the world. ~ Sid Goodloe, rancher The Quivira Coalition’s very successful (and sold out) 2014 conference emphasized land use ideas and practices that aim to restore the soil, the land, ourselves and our communities to health and happiness via naturally renewing processes. More than a dozen speakers explained to 637 conference attendees how “back to the future” means both reviving time-tested practices and adopting new technologies and ideas appropriate for regenerative goals. The United Nations designated 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming and tasked it with the goal of raising the profile of family farmers (and ranchers) and the significant role they play in alleviating hunger and poverty, providing food security and nutrition, improving livelihoods, managing natural resources and protecting the environment.

Quivira conference speakers represented the diversity of the regenerative agriculture movement around the globe.

The Quivira Coalition has tracked the demographics of our conference 2014 Quivira Conference Statistics attendees over the last 12 years. We are encouraged that our audience continues Total Number of Attendees: 637 st to include a wide diversity of perspectives 1 Time Attendees:

38% Affiliation: Ranch/Farm 29% from Quivira’s core stakeholders and Home State: Academic 18% pleased that our geographic reach seems New Mexico 53% General Public 15% to be expanding. In 2014, attendees came Colorado 21% Environmental/Conservation from as far away as New Hampshire, California 8% Organizations 14% Arkansas and Iowa (twenty-seven states Texas 5% Business 12% in all, plus Canada, Australia, Mexico, and Arizona 4% Agency 7% France). One third of our 2014 participants Northern Rockies 4% Tribal 4% were attending for the first time (226 in Other States and International 5% Foundations 1% total), and of these, 58 were students or new agrarians, able to attend because they were awarded full conference scholarships.

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Carbon Ranch Project

• Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey through Carbon Country • 2% Solutions for Hunger, Thirst and CO2 • People’s Climate March in New York

The mission of the Carbon Ranch Project is to explore and share land stewardship practices that sequester carbon dioxide in soils and plants while producing co-benefits that build ecological and economic resilience in local landscapes.

This Project began in November, 2010, with the Quivira Coalition’s 9th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, titled The Carbon Ranch: Using Food and Stewardship to Build Soil and Fight Climate Change. The success of the conference and the associated research that went into a subsequent essay by Courtney White on the potential for carbon sequestration in soils as a greenhouse gas mitigation strategy gave rise to the Carbon Ranch Project (CRP).

Accomplishments in 2014 Publication of Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey through Carbon Country. This is a book-length expansion of the carbon ranch concept, based on the map from the conference, written by Courtney with a foreword by Michael Pollan, published by Chelsea Green Press in June, 2014. It is available at www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/grass_soil_hope.

Presentations by Courtney on carbon ranching at a variety of national and international events, including the National Bioneers Conference, the Savory Institute’s annual conference (in London), Colorado College’s “State of the Rockies” conference, and a press conference in September in New York City, as part of the People’s Climate March.

—Courtney White, Founder and Creative Director

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2% Solutions for Hunger, Thirst and CO 2 Quivira Coalition

Regular posts at “The Carbon Pilgrim,” Courtney’s blog addressing the role of carbon in our lives, http://carbonpilgrim. wordpress.com.

Courtney White

Continued research and writing for 2% Solutions for Hunger, Thirst and CO2. These short profiles, written by Courtney, highlight practices that soak up CO2 in soils, sustainably intensify food production and increase water quality. The first fourteen profiles were bound together as a special edition of Quivira’s journal Resilience in September, 2013. A booklength version will be published by Chelsea Green Press in 2015.

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Hosted 4 workshops attended by 310 land stewards and restoration innovators

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Restored 60 acres of wetland and surveyed 16 miles of creek

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Presented 3 invited ecology talks

Land and Water Program

The Land and Water Program logged many miles in 2014, with projects that ranged from the high elevation headwater watersheds of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the Chihuahuan Desert grasslands in the boot heel of New Mexico. Along the way, we collaborated with a diversity of institutions and individuals who worked with us to fulfill our program mission: Education, Innovation, Restoration … One acre at a time.

We offered four educational workshops this year, produced two published reports, surveyed grassland stakeholders in Arizona and Southwestern New Mexico and completed a comprehensive report on our findings, restored 60 acres of wetland, gave three invited talks, surveyed 16 miles of creek for fish passage barriers and installed one weather station.

Our survey of grasslands stakeholders was conducted in partnership with the Arizona Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. Survey questions focused on Best Management Practices (BMPs) that respondents use or would consider using in the future and the characteristics that, in their opinion, distinguish successful collaborative working groups. The results of this survey are intended to help inform grasslands management, conservation and restoration activities throughout the Southwest.

Land and Water workshops included “Tools to Manage Drought and Disturbance,” which we presented in Silver City, New Mexico in collaboration with the New Mexico Chapter of The Nature Conservancy; “Horses and Land Health: Management of Horses on Small Acreages,” a two-day event offered near Las Vegas, New Mexico with Twin Willows Ranch and the Hermit’s Peak Watershed Alliance; “Collaborative Wetland Restoration in the Southwest,” a day of presentations, panel discussions and Q&A at the 2014 Quivira Conference, made possible through our partnership with the New Mexico Environment Department Surface Water Quality Bureau, Wetlands Program (NMED SWQB WP); and not least, our always well-attended, productive and fun “Annual Comanche Creek Volunteer Work Weekend.”

Publications in 2014 included a technical bulletin in collaboration with restoration consultant Bill Zeedyk and NMED SWQB WP, titled Characterization and Restoration of Slope Wetlands in New Mexico: A Guide for Understanding Slope Wetlands, Causes of Degradation, and Treatment Options, and a Wetland Action Plan for the Comanche Creek Watershed.

—Mollie Walton, PhD, Land and Water Program Director

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New Agrarian Program

• Over 700 people connected through the New Agrarian Newsletter • Career Connection and Farmer/Rancher Social • Claire, Justine, Drew, Shalini, Samantha and Martha—onward to new agrarian careers

2014 proved to be a full and productive year for the New Agrarian Program and our mentor partners. James Ranch Artisan Cheese was able to train two apprentices this year: one focused on dairy and pasture management and the other on cheese-making. Claire Persichetti, the dairy apprentice, will be returning to the James Ranch as the Dairy Manager in 2015, taking her knowledge and experience to the next level. The San Juan Ranch had such strong finalists in the 2014 application process that they also decided to take on two apprentices, as well as offer a seasonal foreman position to Drew Cole, their apprentice in 2013. Shalini Karra graduated from the San Juan in November and is beginning a position on the Brown Ranch in North Dakota in 2015. Samantha Bradford will graduate in March 2015 and will go from there to the Chico Basin Ranch in Colorado. In December, we were pleased to welcome Martha Skelley back to the San Juan, where she apprenticed in 2012. Martha has returned as a NAP Foreman-in-Training, a 12-month position.

Other NAP highlights from 2014 We are proud to have played a role in the creation of two new apprenticeship programs: Villicus Farms (Montana) and Saguaro Juniper Corporation (Arizona). Ask us how to learn more about these amazing opportunities!

The New Agrarian Newsletter list of subscribers has doubled since last year and continues to connect beginner farmers and ranchers with excellent work and training opportunities.

We cohosted a combination Career Connection and Farmer/Rancher Social with the National Young Farmers Coalition in November, and we plan on cohosting again next year.

We have fostered a growing network of nonprofits and other organizations across the US with similar values and goals, and with their support and encouragement we are preparing to grow our program substantially over the next two years. Stay posted!

As always, we are grateful for the knowledge and dedication of our program mentors and inspired by the contagious enthusiasm of our apprentices. Today’s apprentices are tomorrow’s farmers and ranchers, and the driving force behind this program.

—Virginie Pointeau, New Agrarian Program Director The education I received while at the James Ranch is and will continue to be amongst the most powerful and transformative things that I have experienced. From it, I have gained an invaluable skill set that can only be learned through actual, hands-on work. Without the experience of the New Agrarian Program apprenticeship, I worry that I may never have had the opportunity to learn and work for agriculturalists who are walking the walk of regenerative agriculture. The experience has given me the skills and confidence to be able to see my career in farming as something real and attainable.

—Claire Persichetti, 2014 NAP Graduate

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Hasbíditó: Growing Food Locally for the Community

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Fall Harvest Fiesta

Mobile Farmers Market

Tribal Program

In 2006, a small sum of seed money paid for one range management workshop on tribal land. Over eight years, that small seed has blossomed into a vibrant, Native-led movement to revive all aspects of land and community health. With funding from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation and The Christensen Fund, the Quivira Coalition has worked with three chapters on the Navajo Nation to strengthen traditional resilience strategies by focusing on organizational capacity, restoration, relocalization, youth engagement and useful science. Our work with the Ojo Encino, Counselor and Torreon chapters is about rediscovering a land ethic.

It requires building local capacity and testing strategies that make land-based activities economically viable and resilient in the face of increasing climatic instability.

Quivira’s Navajo colleagues have created an organization called Hasbíditó. Building on a diverse set of community interests and talents, Hasbíditó draws together people from within and outside of the community with varied knowledge and resources to help them achieve their shared goals.

Growing food has become a major focus that started with five dedicated community families. Every year, community interest and participation is increasing. Seed exchanges, on-site work days and gardening events are offered throughout the year, with the mentorship of a local farmer, and gardeners host a Harvest Fiesta in the fall. Participating growers receive dedicated instruction and infrastructure assistance. In 2014 they collectively grew enough to visit each Chapter once a week to sell produce through a mobile farmer’s market. In 2015 their goals are to:

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Expand the pool of growers Continue the market to provide healthy food to the community Provide growers with the education they need to become mentors for new participants Achieve economic success

Quivira’s partnership with Hasbíditó has transformed over the past eight years as our Navajo colleagues have assumed increasing autonomy in administering their events and determining their own course of action. Quivira is honored to have been part of this process.

—Catherine Baca, Tribal Partnership Program Director

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Publications

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Let the Water Do the Work

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Beyond Resilience

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Characterization and Restoration of Slope Wetlands in New Mexico

Let the Water Do the Work. We are pleased to announce that in 2014, Chelsea Green Press picked up the publication rights to Let The Water Do the Work by Bill Zeedyk and Van Clothier. The process began when Chelsea Green Senior Editor, Ben Watson, flew out from Vermont to attend the 2013 Quivira Conference. While browsing in the book store, he came across LTWDTW, purchased a copy, and immediately approached Quivira about the possibility of publishing a second edition. The timing was fortuitous; the first edition was sold out and we were gearing up for republication. After a series of discussions, we took Chelsea Green up on their generous offer. The new edition of this terrifically useful, newly indexed guide to restoring incised channels is available now for purchase at the Chelsea Green website, www.chelseagreen.com.

Beyond Resilience. Since 2007, Quivira’s mission statement has included the words “build resilience on Western working landscapes.” Resilience means “to bounce back to normal” or “recover quickly” from a shock or surprise. In ecology, it refers to the capacity of plant and animal populations to handle disruption caused by fire, flood, drought or insect infestation. In ranching, it means enduring droughts, falling cattle prices and other stresses over the years. Today, building resilience is more important than ever, but it may not be enough. That’s because the definition of “normal” is changing. Hotter and drier conditions, for example, are becoming the “new normal” in the Southwest and are projected to increase over time. If resilience means to bounce back, the question becomes bounce back to what? In the 2014 issue of Resilience, Quivira’s annual journal, we focused on restoration and management practices that are successfully taking working ranches beyond resilience, demonstrating powerful potential for landscape-wide adaptation over the long term.

Characterization and Restoration of Slope Wetlands in New Mexico: A Guide for Understanding Slope Wetlands, Causes of Degradation and Treatment Options. Quivira’s most recent publication—produced in collaboration with restoration specialist Bill Zeedyk and the New Mexico Environment Department Surface Water Quality Bureau, Wetlands Program—presents information on a little-known natural resource with great conservation and restoration potential. The guide describes slope wetlands subtypes in New Mexico and gives detailed instruction for stabilizing and restoring them. Quivira’s ongoing restoration project on the headwaters wetlands in the Comanche Creek Watershed provided much of the material for the guide.

—Tamara Gadzia, Publications Coordinator

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Quivira’s 2014 Partners Lesli Allison Ned Ames Anthony Anella Ernie Atencio, Quivira Board Member Emeritus David Bacon Julie Bain Toni Beatty Neil Bertrando Blue Earth Education, LLC, San Juan Ranch, New Agrarian Mentor Samantha Bradford, New Agrarian Apprentice Joan Bybee, Quivira Board Member Emeritus Cañon Bonita Ranch: Liz and Mike Reardon Center of Southwest Culture Central New Mexico LandLink Mary-Charlotte Domandi Cimarron Watershed Alliance Colorado Branch of Holistic Management International Comanche Creek Workshop Volunteers Community Bank, Santa Fe Cottonwood Gulch Foundation Cycle Farm Ecotone Enterprise Rent-A-Car® Esri Dick and Erin Evans Patrick Fry Garber and Hallmark, PC: Cullen Hallmark

Google Earth Grasslands Stakeholder Survey Participants Hasbídító: Watson and Lula Castillo Heart and Horn Ecological Services, LLC: Frank Hayes Heritage Land Conservancy Hermit’s Peak Watershed Alliance High Plains Grasslands Alliance Highland Solutions, LLC Integral Ecology Group, Ltd. James Ranch Artisan Cheese, New Agrarian Mentor Shalini Karra, New Agrarian Apprentice Brenton Kelly Land Stewardship Consulting Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge Lee Lockie Rick Martinez Walter McQuie Lois and Will Mee Katie Meiklejohn MGM Roofing, Inc.: Nick Martinez National Young Farmers Coalition The Nature Conservancy, Arizona Chapter: Robert Rogers The Nature Conservancy, Colorado Chapter: Betsy Neely The Nature Conservancy, New Mexico Chapter: Karla Sartor New Mexico Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau: Maryann McGraw, Michelle Barnes, Karen Menetrey, Abe Franklin, Neal Schaeffer and Dan Guevara

New Mexico Land Conservancy David Ogilvie Ojo Encino Ranchers Committee Palmer Westport Group Paper Tiger Elaine Patarini Claire Persichetti, New Agrarian Apprentice Rainbow Ranch: Sunny and Kelly Hill Rangeland Hands, Inc. Red Canyon Reserve Team: Steve Carson, Cullen Hallmark, Frank Hayes, Larry Cary, Brian Lemke and Jeffrey Adams Red Canyon Reserve Workshop Volunteers Resource Management Services, LLC Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Rio Puerco Alliance Justine Sanfilippo, New Agrarian Apprentice Santa Fe Watershed Association Jessica Embry Sipos, Quivira Land and Water Field Assistant Thomas Sizemore, Land and Water Volunteer Southwest Native Ecosystem Management Studio X Tigner Ranch: Carry Tigner Trout Springs Ranch: Rhonda Paynter Tooley’s Trees, New Agrarian Mentor Townsend Archaeological Consultants Trout Unlimited, National Office Trout Unlimited, Truchas Chapter Sam Tucker

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Twin Willows Ranch University of New Mexico, Highlands: Professor Craig Conley U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque: Deanna Cummings U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Stephen Davenport, Jason Davis U.S. Forest Service, Carson National Forest, Questa Ranger District: Jerry Mastel, George Long, Zigmund Napkora, Greg Miller, and Kathryn Furr U.S. Forest Service, Region Three: Judith Dyess U.S. Forest Service, Tres Piedras Ranger District: Chris Furr U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service, Colorado: Cindy Villa Valle Vidal Grazing Association: Mark Torres Vermejo Park Ranch: Gus Holm Watershed Artisans, Inc. Western Landowners Alliance Olivia White, Quivira Summer Intern Xubi Wilson Zeedyk Ecological Consulting, LLC . . . AND the entire Quivira Community!

Special thanks to volunteers at Quivira’s Land and Water workshops and work weekends, who volunteered their time and miles travelled for a total in-kind donation of $40,800 in 2014!

And to the Red Canyon Reserve Conservation Team—Steve Carson, Frank Hays, Larry Cary and Cullen Hallmark—for their ongoing contributions..

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2014 Cash Financial Report

Board of Directors

Quivira Coalition, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, undergoes an independent audit each year to verify the financial information presented in annual reports and on the 990s filed with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Copies of Quivira’s 990s are available by request. The following charts show ordinary income and expenses ending December 31, 2014. All financial documentation is shown before 990 tax reporting and our annual audit.

Registration Fees

Public Contributions

Treasurer – Beth Schnieders

2% In-Kind

Members: Craig Conley New Mexico Highlands University

6% Program

11%

Vice-Chair – Sid Goodloe Carrizo Valley Ranch Secretary – Michael A. Bain Twin Willows Ranch

Quivira 2014 Income 4% Product Sales/Rent/Other

Chair – Arturo Sandoval Center of Southwest Culture

Contractual

Kate Greenberg National Young Farmers Coalition

18%

Frank Hayes Heart and Horn Ecological Services, LLC Robert Potts Dixon Water Foundation

59%

Nancy Ranney Ranney Ranch Virginia Smith Adelante Consulting Tim Sullivan The Nature Conservancy

Program Grants and Contributions

Affiliations of the board members are listed to convey the breadth of experience that these individuals bring to the governance of the Quivira Coalition.

Staff

Quivira 2014 Expenses Fundraising/Building Management New Agrarian 6% Program

11%

Tribal Partnership Program Admin/ Overhead

9%

Avery C. Anderson Sponholtz Executive Director

Public Education and Outreach

Courtney White Founder and Creative Director

12%

Catherine Baca Conference Director, Tribal Partnership Program Director

23%

15%

Quivira Conference

Tamara E. Gadzia Publications Coordinator Deanna Einspahr Business Manager Mollie Walton, PhD Land and Water Program Director

24%

Virginie Pointeau New Agrarian Program Director Kit Brewer Development Assistant and Office Administrator Trish Jenkins GIS Coordinator

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Quivira’s 2014 Funding Community Community $10,000+ Soil $500+ Plant $2,500+ 11th Hour Project of the Schmidt Family Foundation Adam and Sonya Berg The Bybee Foundation Barbara Roastingear and Animas Foundation Central Colorado Educational Trust Henry Oliver III Family Foundation Aspen Business Center Foundation Globetrotter Foundation Better Tomorrow Fund of the Ballentine Family Fund Lone Mountain Cattle Company, LLC Rockefeller Family Fund Betsy and Reeves Brown Nancy Ranney - Ranney Ranch Giles W. & Elise G. Mead Foundation Dale Heinemann Real Estate Nathan and Elizabeth Johnson Grasslans Charitable Foundation Gus and Sara Holm Seligson Johnson Donor Advised Fund, Judith McBean Foundation John and Joan Murphy Family Foundation at the The Nature Conservancy Lydia B. Stokes Foundation Arizona Community Foundation New Belgium Brewing Company McCune Charitable Foundation John Trotter Paicines Ranch Nancy Ranney and David F. Levi Kent Reid Pete Pulis - Starcreek Co. Patrick A. Dunigan Fund of Lois and Will Mee TomKat Ranch Educational Foundation The Dallas Foundation Margo Cutler The Trinchera Blanca Foundation, LLC Robert Jesperson and Nancy G. Dickenson an affiliate of the Moore Charitable Foundation Sylvia Y. Atencio Jesperson Painter/Rudd Charitable Fund Virginia Smith Santa Fe Community Foundation Pat and Mike Boring Schnieders Family Foundation Patrick Fry SEED $1,250+ Tecovas Foundation Paul and Helen Doane 2014 Conference Attendees The Christensen Fund Pete Ferrell - Ferrell Ranch Apache Foundation The Dixon Water Foundation Positive Energy Solar David E. Bacon The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Ranch Advisory Partners, LLC Enterprise Holdings Foundation The Paul H. Johanson Fund Rangeland Hands, Inc. Heart and Horn Ecological Services, LLC Robert J. Potts and Lana Cartlidge Potts Holistic Management International, Animal $5,000+ Sally B. Searle - Maggie Creek Ranch Colorado Branch Semrod Family Private Foundation Adelante Consulting, Inc. Jessica Sipos of Hitchrock Ranch Stacey Sullivan Duncan Campbell Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation Farm Aid, Inc. Watershed Artisans, Inc. Michael and Julie Bain William and Lois Mee Healy Foundation Patrick O’Neill The CS Foundation Mountain Island Ranch The Union Land and Grazing Company The Dennis A. O’Toole Family Foundation New Cycle Foundation Fund at the Tim Sullivan Santa Fe Community Foundation Ute Creek Cattle Company Professional In-Kind Onota Foundation Spur Lake Cattle Company Garber and Hallmark, PC Thornburg Foundation Heart and Horn Ecological Services, LLC Twin Willows Ranch Microsoft Corporation On behalf of Quivira’s Board and Staff and the entire MGM Roofing, Inc. Quivira Community, we want to give a big THANK YOU to every donor, Panorama Organic Grass-Fed Meats sponsor, friend and volunteer who helped us in 2014. It’s a cliché to Paper Tiger say we couldn’t have done it without you—but it’s the truth! And we look forward to another productive, exciting and resilient year in 2015.

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Tie your legacy to Quivira’s future Charitable lead trusts allow you to leave property to heirs, reduce gift and estate tax costs, and provide income to the Quivira Coalition. You contribute assets to a trust and set an amount or a fixed percentage to be paid to the Quivira Coalition for a designated period of time, or for the life of designated individuals. At the end of this period, the trust is terminated and the property is either returned to you or distributed to named beneficiaries, thereby removing these assets from your estate.

Gifts to benefit Quivira Coalition in the future.

You may make a bequest to the Quivira Coalition by preparing a new will or adding a codicil amending an existing one. A charitable bequest is deductible in calculating your taxable estate.

There is no limit to the amount of that deduction.

The following language is appropriate for making an unrestricted bequest: “I give (the sum of ____ dollars or _____percent of the residuary of my estate) to the Quivira Coalition, Santa Fe, New Mexico, for its general corporate purposes.”

Gifts of tangible personal property that are useful to the Quivira Coalition in pursuit of its nonprofit mission, including real estate, can offer an immediate tax deduction and, if qualified as a long-term capital asset (held for a year and a day), offer avoidance of capital gains tax, removal of the asset from your estate, and if appropriate, elimination of maintenance costs of the property.

Valuation for income tax purposes may require that you obtain an independent appraisal. The deduction is limited to 30 percent of adjusted gross income. Excess beyond 30 percent can be carried forward as a deduction for up to five additional years.

Charitable remainder trusts enable you to make an irrevocable contribution to the future of the Quivira Coalition while you receive lifetime annual payments and significant tax benefits. When the trust terminates, the remainder goes to the Quivira Coalition. For an annuity trust, the amount of the annual payment is set when the trust is created, either as a fixed percentage or a set dollar amount of the then fair market value of the trust assets. For a unitrust, the amount is a fixed percentage of the fair market value of the trust assets as determined annually.

Gifts of life insurance policies. Contributing a paid-up life insurance policy you no longer need to the Quivira Coalition will give you an immediate tax deduction and reduce your estate and inheritance taxes by distributing part of your net worth during your lifetime.

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Retirement Plans. Naming the Quivira Coalition as beneficiary of your retirement plan avoids income tax on the distribution from the plan.

Gifts of future life insurance proceeds.

Naming the Quivira Coalition as beneficiary of a life insurance policy avoids income tax on the distribution from the life insurance policy.

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Gifts of real estate, reserving the right of occupancy as long as donor and spouse live.

The gift of a remainder interest in a personal residence or vacation home can entitle you to an income tax deduction of the asset’s fair market value, avoidance of capital gains tax and removal of the asset from your estate. To qualify, you must make the gift now rather than in your will.

Through a “reserved life estate contract,” you can reserve the right to occupy the property during your lifetime, while making an immediate and irrevocable transfer of title to the Quivira Coalition.

Any real estate transaction is intricate and should be reviewed with both the Quivira Coalition and your financial advisors.

To make a gift to the Quivira Coalition, please contact Avery C. Anderson Sponholtz at 505.820.2544 ext. 3# or avery@quiviracoalition.org.

Back row left to right: Kit Brewer, Courtney White, Avery C. Anderson Sponholtz Front row left to right: Catherine Baca, Tamara E. Gadzia, Mollie Walton, Deanna Einspahr and Virginie Pointeau.

Thank you for starting the journey with us by renewing your membership, volunteering at a workshop, mentoring a new agrarian, making a donation during our year-end campaign or stopping by our office in Santa Fe to say hello and tell us what you’re up to. We look forward to seeing you at the 2015 Quivira Conference, The Next Wave: Cultivating Abundance, when we officially embark into unexplored territory‌ ~ Quivira Staff 2014 AnnualReport

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