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Youth Engagement
Sunday, February 25, 2018
9:00 am - 11:30 am
Pre-Convention Workshop: Engaging Future Stewards: Youth Participation in the Design of Natural and Cultural Environments
9:00 am - 11:30 am
Pre-Convention Workshop: Telling Our Collective Stories Through the 990 and Guidestar
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Open Space Discussion
Monday, February 26, 2018
8:00 am
Keynote Speaker: Omar Brownson, River LA
10:00 am - 11:15 am
Public Lands Nonprofit Boot Camp: Intro to Public Lands Nonprofit Partners
10:00 am - 11:15 am
Buyer and Exhibitor Forum
10:00 am - 11:15 am
Mobile Apps: A Techy Approach to Visitor Engagement and Communication
10:00 am - 11:15 am
Meaningful Metrics: How to Capture and Reveal the Right Data
10:00 am - 11:15 am
Civic Voice Lessons: Sharing Your Story with Decision Makers
12:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Strategizing for Success: Crafting a Rock-Solid Fundraising Plan
12:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Maximizing the Operational Planning and Budgeting Process
12:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: Advocacy for Board Members
12:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Public Lands Nonprofit Boot Camp: Governance and Finance
12:45 pm - 1:45 pm
15 Retail Ideas Worth Stealing!
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
What It Takes to Connect with Today’s Omni Consumers
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Fundraising Round Robin
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Breaking Eggs to Make an Omelet: Transition and Growth at a Refuge Friends Group
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Public Lands Budgets
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Publications and Products Round Robin
4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
National Park Service Partnership Forum
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
9:15 am - 6:00 pm
Public Lands Alliance Trade Show
10:15 am - 11:30 am
Forest Service Partnership Forum
10:15 am - 11:30 am
Breaking Through the Innovation Barrier: Experiments in Co-Creation
10:15 am - 11:30 am
People: Leveraging Your Greatest Asset for Sustainable Growth
10:15 am - 11:30 am
Getting Kids in Parks: Designing Self-Guided Trail Adventures
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Bureau of Land Management Partnership Forum
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
A Tale of Two Collaboratives: Open Space Stewardship Across Boundaries
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Veteran Service Programs and Public Lands: A New Paradigm
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Building Savvy and Resilience in Your Partnership Network
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Canceled
Clarifying Ethical Standards and Practices: NPS Working with Partners
Canceled
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Passing the Test: Taking Care of the Donors Who Take Care of You!
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
US Army Corps of Engineers Partnership Forum
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Strategic Business Planning: A Framework for Collaboration
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Tales from a Mountain: 12 Lessons for Making Partnerships Thrive
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Developing Cooperating Association Annual Operating Plans
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Public Lands Alliance Trade Show
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Financial Leadership Roundtable
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Designing Citizen Science: Partnerships That Maximize Public Lands Benefits
9:30 am - 10:30 am
You Want to Do WHAT?: Art Installations on Public Lands
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Hiring an Executive Director
10:45 am - 11:45 am
Roundtable with CEOs and Finance Staff
10:45 am - 11:45 am
Enduring Partnerships: Restoration and Stewardship in the California Desert
10:45 am - 11:45 am
Partnering to Protect Wild Places: How to Leverage Support from Public Agencies and Private Donors
10:45 pm - 11:45 am
Fostering Stewardship in Youth: Conservation Through Service
12:00 pm - 12:50 pm
Growing Your Membership: What's REALLY Working?
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Urban Community Outreach in California’s State Parks
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Small AND Mighty Roundtable
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Unlocking Collaboration With Your Business Partners
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Canceled
Dealing with Details
Canceled
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
How to Ruin a Board
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Just Keep on Moving the Most Inventory … and Keeping the Most Profit
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
The Desert Institute: Building an Educated and Engaged Community
4:30 pm
Closing General Session: Beth Pratt-Bergstrom, National Wildlife Federation
Public Lands Alliance Convention and Trade Show
February 25 - March 1, 2018 in Palm Springs, CA
Registration Information
Public Lands Alliance
2401 Blueridge Avenue, Suite 303
Silver Spring, MD 20902
Phone: 301-946-9475
Fax: 301-946-9478
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