June 20 – 22, 2008
New Haven, Connecticut
Global Warming is the great environmental challenge of our times,
and the greatest moral challenge we face as a nation and as a world.
Together we can solve this huge problem, but we need effective solutions.
Do you wonder how YOU could be more effective? Do you want to learn
how to do more?
Do you wish you had the basic skills to:
-get your representative to be a champion for the environment?
-get your letter in the paper, or feel comfortable talking to reporters?
-gather more people to your meetings and to our movement?
Do you want to know exactly how to do these things, and more?
Join us for a weekend of training to learn the skills you need and
help you enhance the ones you already have. Together, we can cut
our emissions 2% a year, and we can drive the solutions!
Meeting Facility Location:
Yale University Campus, New Haven CT.
Accommodations: On campus dorms include 2-person/suites
Meals served in dining hall
Weekend Agenda (draft)
Friday night – Arrivals
6pm Dinner
7pm Round tables on best practices, campaigns that work, share ideas,
etc.
8:30 short movie – kilowatt hours or some energy-related movie?
Saturday –
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Introduce those who were not in the night before
9:30 Overview of critical components of the grand vision
The big picture nationally –
What is happening with other groups and with the club
What we need to do to get to 80% by 50
10:00 Regional Vision for New England –
What we can do in New England to get to 80 by 50 that is Compelling,
Commensurate to scale, and Doable
10:30-12 noon
Two workshops side by side: Meetings and Fundraising
Meetings
How to hold effective meetings
Building an agenda
Making new people welcome
Fundraising – building basic skills
12:00 Lunch (big name Speaker?)
1:00 Components of a compelling campaign
1:30-3:30
Two workshops: Volunteers and Coalition building
Volunteer recruitment and Retention
Building the leadership ladder
Making people feel welcome
Coalition building:
Who you choose
How you approach them
What are the strategic pressure points/people
How to make coalitions that are effective with decision makers
3:30-5:30
Two workshops: Media and Online organizing
Media - building media skills, practicing
LTEs, Op-Eds
Pitch calls, writing releases
Public speaking for radio and TV
Blogs and other new media outlets
Online organizing – Building basic skills
Social networking
Googledocs and wikidocs
Using Convio
SMS and texting
6:00 Dinner
7:30 Round tables on best practices, share ideas, etc.
(if we do the round tables at dinner we can go see the free performance
by the
East Village Opera Company on the Green)
Sunday morning
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 what is C3, what is C4?
9:30 Administrative Process Lobbying –
relationship building
who you put pressure on
how it works
10:30 C4 lobbying – on a bill, etc.
relationship building
who you put pressure on
how it works
11:30 Political program for 08, how chapters can get involved
Noon: End, lunch on your own
Registration
SIGN UP FOR-
__ Full Weekend $100.00
Includes: Friday - Sunday workshops, meals and lodging
__Day of Conference $60.00
Includes: Saturday workshops, lunch and dinner.
**Contact your local Chapter about financial assistance.
**Limited scholarships available.
__Vegetarian meals
__Ride Share: Will you need or can you offer a ride.
I plan to use Public Transportation.
__Rail
__Bus
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Address
City / State / Zip
Phone Number
Email Address
Please return your registration and payment by June 1st.
You will receive a confirmation packet in the mail.
To submit registration electronically, email to:
Mary.Anne.Jaffe@sierraclub.org
MAKE YOUR CHECK PAYABLE TO:
Sierra Club - Maine Chapter
MAIL TO:
Sierra Club
85 Washington Street
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
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