Report from a workshop is to share experiences, technical knowledge, and successful approaches to urban conservation – a true networking opportunity with other officials from cities and towns, NGOs, and researchers committed to urban conservation. This will increase the capacity for organizations, the public and decision makers to engage in responsible, creative, collective-impact-focused solutions and build upon already existing urban conservation efforts. At the workshop the afternoon session on April 30th was dedicated to brainstorming how a group of professionals within urban conservation can work towards creating a network where we can make more of an impact based on the five elements of Collective Impact. All of these ideas were then synthesized and discussed in a smaller group of participants at the Workshop on May 1st, and there was an agreed upon need to create a collective impact focused on reconnecting/integrating people and nature in Midwestern cities, their surrounding working landscapes, and natural areas. At the end of the workshop we were left with a vision, goals, functions we do as a community and lastly next steps. These next steps included the narrowing down of themes (formally referred to as focal areas) within urban conservation, creation of online platform for idea sharing, and outreach to more professionals. More information about background information on the Workshop and the next steps in the creation of EPIC can be found online.