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Unleash the Power of Story to Build Strong Coalitions
Storytelling is an essential skill for creating impactful campaigns that motivate people to unite and win. In this webinar, Rae Breaux, Senior Partnerships Manager at Center for Story-based Strategy, will discuss narrative…
How do we lead and strategize in a time of shift and upheaval? A Panel Conversation
Join this powerful panel discussion with conservation leaders as they share emerging strategies to advance their goals and amplify impact amidst increasingly volatile political landscapes in the U.S. and Canada. Facilitated by TREC co-executive director, April Nishimura, this timely conversation will explore ways to mitigate risk, sustain momentum through uncertainty, and envision new possibilities for the future of conservation.
AI for An Equitable World: How Your Organization Can Approach AI Responsibly
In this thought-provoking webinar, Amy Sample Ward and Tristan Penn of NTEN will talk through the considerations, implications, and questions to think through as you consider both the opportunities and the costs of using AI. They will also discuss the type of organizational policies you might want in place to guide AI use.
Ethical Spaces: A Framework for Indigenous Relations
In this primer on Ethical spaces, learn the fundamentals of how to create meaningful, reciprocal engagement between indigenous and non-indigenous groups, as well as identifying the barriers that often get in the way when trying to utilize traditional ecological knowledge.
Volunteer Management
A strong volunteer pool can increase engagement into your cause, add visibility to your organization, and serve as an extension of your workforce. This webinar will review volunteer management and also explore how you keep volunteers moving up your Ladder of Engagement, turn them into valuable ambassadors and long-term donors.
The Partnership Prioritization Matrix: So many partners, so little time
Many organizations are struggling with where to invest the precious time they have for building and maintaining relationships. By balancing shared vision and values with complimentary skills and approach, the Partnership Prioritization Matrix is an inclusive match-making tool which can help your organization clarify where to prioritize your relationships.
Adapting to Win: Predicting and Overcoming Obstacles Throughout Your Campaign
All too often when we plan, we skip the critical step of preparing for the inevitable bumps in the road. In this webinar we will introduce common internal conflicts, coalition dynamics, and opposition attacks. By taking the time to think through these inevitabilities we can prepare, prevent, and even use some of them to our advantage.
Building Capacity Within Campaigns: Tools for Building Leaders and Teams
This webinar contains an introduction on how to use your campaigns to teambuild, develop leaders, and increase other capacities so that whether you win or lose this campaign, you're stronger heading into the next.
Getting Things Right from the Start: Picking Good Partners and Strategic Campaigns
This webinar will introduce inclusive strategies for prioritizing partnerships which build collective power and create more powerful campaigns. We will discuss tools for choosing which relationships to invest in, how to respectfully engage new partners, keys to establishing a healthy collaboration, and tips for picking the right campaign for you, your partners, and your community.
Playing the Long Game: Rethinking Relationships to Build Long-Term Power
This webinar provides an introduction to community power mapping, an alternative to traditional power mapping that allows us to better understand the power dynamics in our community and who has influence. We explore how to understand our strategic position, work as a collective to avoid conflicting environmental goals, and win more campaigns.
Healthy Networks: Engaging in the Community, Collaborating, and Supporting the Work of Others
Communities are engaged when they play a meaningful role in the decision-making and implementation of programs and services. Join us for a lively panel discussion where our guests share case studies highlighting innovative community engagement strategies and recommendations for leaders looking to move from intention to impact.
Rural Perspectives in the United States
Rural residents matter–a lot–to the fate of U.S. environmental policy. Not only do farmers, ranchers, and forest owners manage or impact vast portions of lands and watersheds in the U.S., but rural voters also have an outsized impact on policy. Do rural communities have different views on the environment than their urban and suburban counterparts, and, if so, what accounts for the urban/rural divide?
De-escalating Conflict
Conservation organizations have faced increasing external conflict and attacks that antagonize their work in a variety of settings. This webinar provides skills and tips to address and de-escalate different types of conflict and attacks.
Improving your Partnerships with US Indigenous Communities
This webinar will address "better" practices on how to talk with Indigenous communities about conservation and land protection as allies and partners. "Better" practices include addressing the failures of the past, challenges of the present, and future considerations of land management, traditional knowledge, and meaningful relationships.
Rural Economics
This session will explore how conservation groups can think differently about the intersection of conservation with rural economic development. Presenters Meryl Harrell, Megan McConville, and Bob Christensen will share three perspectives and examples on the topic.
Working with Agencies
This session will give valuable insights into working with US agencies from multiple angles, drawing on the experience of former departmental employees Meryl Harrell and Don Barry.
Engagement Organizing
In this session, we’ll discuss what it means to do “engagement organizing.” This isn’t exactly new, but has been “re-discovered.” It requires more time and effort on the campaigner’s part…
Moving from Transactional Organizing to Building Long Term Relationships
What does it mean to engage people today? In order to be successful, we need to be able to communicate effectively with a broad range of stakeholders, including rural communities. And beyond talking with them, we need to build sustaining relationships.
Staying True to Your Values While Reaching Across the Divide
Join the Avarna Group as we lay out some guiding questions that will allow you to move forward with relationships with people and individuals whose values don't align with your own, without compromising your values.
Effective Community and Stakeholder Engagement
How can you more effectively engage traditionally under-engaged communities and stakeholders in conservation management decision-making processes? Join The Avarna Group as they lay out some strategies from the Community and Stakeholder Engagement Strategies toolkit (copublished by The Wilderness Society).