GOCO’s Investments in Yuma County
$3,896,162 invested since inception
25,444 acres conserved
Playgrounds, restoration projects, skateparks
Yuma County
To help preserve, protect, enhance, and manage the state’s
wildlife, park, river, trail, and open space heritage
Strategic Planning Overview
2015
Protect, Connect, and Inspire
Colorado the Beautiful
Evolution and Learnings
Recommendations from the performance
audit
New leadership
Stronger CPW/GOCO relationship
Yuma County
Starting with how and why
Ensure alignment with CPW on common goals
CPW integration into 2020 GOCO Plan
North Sterling State Park
Work together more closely to make larger impacts for
parks and wildlife
Provide initial understanding of what GOCO is thinking
Process to date – January through November
Internal and external interviews
Guiding principles and themes
Board engagement
DEI level setting and workshop
Site visits
Draft Strategic Direction Statement
Active Strategic Planning Committee
GOCO elevates collaborative, impactful projects; values equity;
and evolves programs to sustain Colorado’s great outdoors
Yuma County
Draft Program Values
Equitable Access
Community Vitality
Resource Conservation
Outdoor Stewardship
Youth Connections
Yuma County
Accelerate Multi-Value Projects
Imperatives
Accelerate multi-value projects that propel collaboration
between stakeholders and partners
Lead with Equity
Incorporate GOCO’s equity principles into all programmatic
and operational processes and decisions
Optimize Program Portfolio
Optimize the program portfolio to obtain defined objectives
Yuma County
Accelerate Multi-Value Projects
Accelerate multi-value projects that propel collaboration
between stakeholders and partners
GOCO Special Initiatives
Communities and regions that have benefited
from multi-year and phased GOCO investments
Could a significant infusion of GOCO funds accelerate important
work on the ground?
Track chairs across the state park system
Wildlife crossings built into large landscape project
North Sterling State Park
Lead with Equity
Natural leaders' program
Incorporate GOCO’s equity principles into all programmatic
and operational processes and decisions
Can GOCO and CPW be more thoughtful partners?
Storytelling
Scholarships
Director’s Innovation Fund
Yuma County
Optimize Program Portfolio
Recent changes within the Investment Proposal
Optimize the program portfolio to obtain defined objectives
How can we best compliment each other’s unique missions?
ReStORE Program
GOCO used more like a Foundation arm of the
agency – as tool for longer term projects
Yuma County
Recommendations from the performance audit
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Open Space Local Government
Statewide engagement tour
Where we’re headed
Committee and Board milestones
Adoption of plan and approval of spending plan
in June 2020
Imperative experiments
Ongoing CPW engagement
Yuma County
