Strategic Plan

The Central Algoma Land Trust is excited to share its 2025–2029 Strategic Plan. The plan outlines the organization’s key priorities and goals for the next five years as it continues to grow and protect the natural spaces that make the region so special. It reflects a strong commitment to land conservation, community engagement, and long-term sustainability. The Central Algoma Land Trust invites everyone to explore the plan and support its mission moving forward.

Goal 1: Maintain Strong Environmental Stewardship

Objectives: 

  • Monitor all of CALT’s protected properties according to their management plans and track detailed data such as species using the properties, natural or unnatural disturbances, and community use of the properties.

  • Assess CALT’s current capacity to steward and monitor all existing protected properties and develop a process to increase capacity as more protected properties are established. 

  • Report all of CALT’s protected properties to the Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database.

  • Undertake or join community partners in initiatives that conduct scientific research and increase understanding of the current environmental conditions of the area. 

  • Explore a private land stewardship program to help private owners conserve properties that are not protected by CALT 

Goal 2: Increase Land Protection

Objectives:

  • Use CALT’s Land Protection Strategy to identify priority properties for protection and develop strategies to engage with landowners of those properties.

Goal 3: Increase Community Engagement, Communication, and Education 

Objectives: 

Engagement

  • Attract 100 new members over the next five years. 

  • Continue to diversify membership both geographically and demographically.  

  • Strengthen CALT’s volunteer program by identifying volunteer positions that are needed and recruit additional volunteers to fill those positions. 

  • Secure the conservation of one new property that has the capacity for public hiking trails.

Communication

  • Provide communications to ensure community members are informed about CALT’s conservation work and engagement opportunities. 

  • Research and implement strategies to ensure community members have access to as many of CALT’s protected properties as possible.

  • Promote the Government of Canada’s goal of protecting 30% of Canada by 2030.

Education

  • Provide organized activities and community science programs on a year-round basis and increase community participation in them. 

  • Provide focused education opportunities about the environment and climate change. 

  • Explore a partnership with local schools to strengthen their environmental and climate change education programs.

Goal 4: Achieve and Maintain Financial Stability 

Objectives: 

  • Increase organizational capacity to implement CALT’s mission by growing the annual budget to $420,000 through increasing revenue from donations, private foundations, grants, and corporate sponsorships.

  • Establish an endowment fund for operational needs.

  • Develop and launch a new public funding campaign to support property acquisition and/or stewardship.

  • Successfully complete a capital campaign to support organizational growth.

  • Double the number of Legacy Circle members. 

Goal 5: Maintain a Strong and Supportive Board of Directors and Staff

Objectives: 

  • Establish succession plans and replacement procedures for key roles, such as President, Treasurer, and Executive Director.

  • Develop and implement governance and operational policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the Canadian Land Trust Standards and Practice, Employment Standards Act, and other human resource related requirements.