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Start Date-End Date: 11/08/2010-11/09/2010
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Summary: Two day forum for staff and leaders of public land agencies and organizations that promote volunteer stewardship to strategize taking volunteer stewardship to the next level.
Description: BACKGROUND
In the past 25 years, increasing numbers of Colorado citizens have become active participants in protecting our natural resources and public lands. They have contributed in many ways through hands-on volunteerism, advocacy and policy work, and with financial support. Simultaneously, public land agencies have grappled with a myriad of management issues that put demands on their limited human and financial resources.
The November forum is being coordinated with leadership from Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado and the Colorado Mountain Club (CMC) along with representatives from outdoor stewardship nonprofit organizations such as Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, Continental Divide Trail Alliance, Backcountry Horsemen, IMBA, Rocky Mountain Field Institute, Colorado Mountain Bike Association, Wildlands Restoration Volunteers and public land agencies, including Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Service and Colorado State Parks.
The Outdoor Stewardship Forum's primary goals, with the theme of Civic Engagement as a Natural Resources Stewardship Strategy: Mobilizing a Million People who Love Colorado, are to:
- Elevate the importance of citizen engagement in Colorado's outdoor stewardship;
- Establish coordinated ways to meet resource needs;
- Build effective collaborative programmatic and funding partnerships
- Conceive a sustainable coalition of natural resource stewardship agencies
- Secure commitments from participating entities to stay involved in building this movement.
The unifying theme is civic engagement or volunteerism. The forum is designed around four topic-oriented roundtables with speakers from both the natural resources fields and other disciplines. Roundtables and subsequent action sessions will be facilitated to build short, medium and long term goals for movement building.
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: a natural resources stewardship strategy (Monday morning)
Jackie Norris Jackie Norris Consulting, Retired executive director of Metro Volunteers;
Barbara Lane Western Region Director, AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps;
Doug Blankinship US Department of the Interior, volunteer.gov portal manager;
Parry Burnham Executive Director, Denver B-cycle;
Amy Smith Kaiser Permanente/LiveWell Media and PR Manager;
Jim Bedwell (invited) Director of Recreation, USFS;
Breakout Sessions (3): Citizen Mobilization, Managing Citizen Engagement on the Ground, Public Policy Needs
COLLABORATION AND CAPACITY BUILDING within and between stewardship organizations and public land agencies
(Monday afternoon)
Tim Wohlgenant Executive Director, Trust for Public Land;
Harry Bruell CEO and President, Southwest Conservation Corps;
Mike Roque Director, Denver Office of Strategic Partnerships;
Brian Ross Executive Director, Colorado Conservation Trust;
Elise Jones Executive Director, Colorado Environmental Coalition;
Breakout Sessions (3): Collaboration among non-profits, Public-Non Profit Partnerships, Building Capacity
FUNDING AND RESOURCES: Working Together to Grow Our Resources (Tuesday morning)
Thomas Gougen President, Gates Family Foundation;
Lise Aangeenbrug Executive Director, Great Outdoors Colorado Trust;
Peter Streit Market-based Grants Program Manager, REI;
Beth Ganz Vice-President of Public Affairs and Sustainability, Vail Resorts;
Mary Mitsos Vice President, Conservation Programs, National Forest Foundation;
Matt Hamilton Sustainability manager, Aspen Skiing Corporation/Executive Director of the Environmental Foundation;
Breakout Sessions (3)
Understanding the Need, Giving Funders What Info They Need, Influencing Funding Priorities
TAKING CITIZEN STEWARDSHIP TO THE NEXT LEVEL: Creating a powerful movement (Tuesday afternoon)
Connie Myers Executive Director, Carhart National Wilderness Training Center;
Robert Searns Chair, American Trails Board, Founding Associate, GreenWay Team, Inc.;
Beth Conover Consultant, author; formerly with GreenPrint Denver;
Lyle Laverty (invited) Former Director, Colorado State Parks, Former Under Secretary of Interior;
Mike King (invited) Director, Colorado Department of Natural Resources;
Whole group session: Bring together key strategies from previous roundtable and breakout sessions to form a more comprehensive and integrated strategy for building a stronger stewardship movement.
There is a $20 registration cost which can be paid online with a credit card when you register. The fee covers the cost of morning refreshments and lunch each day.
Latitude/Longitude: 39.758246, -105.223124
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