SCC is improving the way it does business. We’ve heard from conservation districts and other partners that SCC has opportunities to improve its processes and programs.
We are working on a variety of projects with the end goal of providing the best possible service to conservation districts, while increasing efficiency, transparency, and accountability.
This is about much more than adopting a new technology to replace an outdated one. This is about ensuring that SCC has the capacity to deliver on the increased number of conservation resources entrusted to it.
September 2026 Agenda:
October 2026 Agenda: TBD
November 2026 Agenda: TBD
December 2026 - Cancelled due to WACD Annual Conference
Please note that to be considered for the next roundtable meeting, your topic must be submitted at least five business days before the meeting.
Our monthly roundtable meetings are an important way for conservation districts and SCC to share information and stay connected. In an effort to make sure these meetings are better serving the communication needs of conservation districts, we’ve developed a tool to source topics for the roundtables.
Use the tool above to add your topic idea to an upcoming roundtable, which can include subjects for focused discussion. Please take time to list any questions you may have about the topic as well. Use the “thumbs up” feature to up-vote other topic ideas. Topics with the most votes will be incorporated into upcoming meetings. We will reach out to topic submitters to plan out any conversational sessions.
The Ombuds Working Group is actively working through all comments received on our Grants Manual. These have been sorted into topics, and the working group has created teams dedicated to advancing recommendations based on the topic area. Recommendations may be everything from additional training to a policy change within the Grants Manual.
This work will be complete in October, when editing the existing Grants Manual with these changes will begin. Learn more about the Workgroup members and topics.
Ten years ago, SCC administered about $35 million in grant funding from two fund sources to conservation districts and other partners. Today, we administer about $100 million from eight fund sources, and our systems and processes have not kept pace with growth. We scaled up our capacity to deliver essential grant dollars quickly to conservation districts but did not transform our processes to reflect the greater complexity of our funding and programs.
SCC is working to improve our grant program administration and is partnering with conservation districts to make sure our new processes center on district experience.
