2025 Annual Symposium

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2025 Doan Brook Watershed Partnership Annual Meeting and Symposium! Nearly 100 community members, partners, and friends gathered at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes to celebrate a year of growth, collaboration, and impact. Together, we honored our 2025 Watershed Hero, Nancy Moore, and our Doan Brook Impact Award recipient, John Barber, reflected on milestones such as 3,300 volunteer hours and 48 public programs, and shared our vision for the next five years outlined in our 2025–2029 Strategic Plan. Your presence and continued support help us protect and restore the Doan Brook and strengthen the resilient, connected community that thrives along its banks.

Watershed Hero: Nancy Moore
The Doan Brook Watershed Hero Award celebrates individuals, groups, organizations, or collaborators who have made extraordinary contributions to the mission of restoring and protecting the Doan Brook watershed.
Nancy Moore has made a lasting and guiding impact on DBWP and is an exemplary steward across the watershed. Her leadership and advocacy have not only strengthened the ecological health of the brook and community engagement in restoration. Nancy has been a true advocate, a trusted guide, and a mentor to countless organizations and people.

Doan Brook Impact Award: John Barber
The Doan Brook Impact Award honors volunteers whose commitment and exceptional service have significantly advanced our mission to restore and protect the Doan Brook watershed.
John Barber serves as co-chair of Friends of Lower Lake Park, working to remove invasive species and replant native ones. In addition, he continues to lead regular tours of Lower Lake Park, sharing its ecological and historical significance while raising awareness about ongoing environmental challenges faced by our highly altered urban streams. John’s courage and unwavering dedication to ecological stewardship exemplify the spirit of the Doan Brook Impact Award, honoring a volunteer whose legacy is both significant and enduring.

Silent Auction

To kick off our annual campaign, the Doan Brook Watershed Partnership held a silent auction that wrapped up during our Annual Meeting. Thanks to the generosity of our item donors and bidders, we raised over $1,300! These funds will directly support our mission to restore and protect the Doan Brook, benefiting thousands of residents across Cleveland, Shaker Heights, and Cleveland Heights through watershed restoration, environmental education, community science, and stormwater management. The Doan Brook is ours to protect, and we are deeply grateful to all who help safeguard the beauty, health, and resilience of our watershed.

Interested in donating an item to our 2026 Silent Auction? Contact us at Donate@dbwp.org to get involved!