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Community Tree Leadership Forum
West Coast sessions join with California
ReLeaf
In partnership
with Arbor Day Foundation, USDA Forest Service,
and California ReLeaf, the Alliance for Community Trees presents an
intensive two-day training program focused on the needs of nonprofits,
service groups, volunteer coordinators, and community organizers
engaged in urban and community forestry.
Northern
California
August 1-2, 2008
University of California, Santa Cruz
Southern California
August 8-9, 2008
Kellogg West Conference Center & Lodge, Pomona
Speakers
Tracy Tassini
Fundraising and Development
Over
the last 15 years, Tracy Yassini has had the rare
and great fortune to be able to garner experience in nearly all forms
of fundraising-city and state funding, corporations and foundations,
major gifts from individuals, endowment and capital campaigns,
individual sustainer programs, direct email, gala events and house
parties. In addition to several years spent at larger "institutional
nonprofits," her "on the ground" experiences with social justice and
social serviec organizations enables her to addres real life issues
with strategies and approaches that work. Tracy is a certifited
Conflict Resolution Mediator and a member of the Association of
Fundraising Professionals.
Leslie Friedman-Johnson
Legislative Advocacy
Leslie
Friedman-Johnson is a Partner at Conservation Stategy Group and has
worked on California natural resource issues as a government relations
strategist for more than 20 years. She has extensive experience in
strategic planning, project mangement, coalition building, state and
federal legislative and administrative lobbying, and helping create new
public funding sources. Leslie has particular expertise in urban
forestry, urban greening, sustainable cities, watershed management,
parks, climate change, and stormwater and flood management. Before
co-founding Conservation Strategy Group in 2003, Leslie worked for The
Nature Conservancy of California for 16 years in a variety of
government relations roles. She is a graduate of the University of
California Berkeley with a degree in Natural Resource Science and
Policy.
Robert
Palmer
Strategic Marketing
Robert
C. Palmer is president of Platzner & CO a
boutique consulting firm that empowers foundations, social enterprises
and nonprofit organizations to achieve a higher level of community
impact and change. Working with local, national and global
organizations, Platzner & Co. designs and implements
sustainable
marketing and business programs tailored to the individual needs of
each nonprofit, so that they can consistently attain their goals and
fulfilll their mission. Palmer has more than 20 years of strategic
communications, marketing and general business experience uncluding 15
years of high-tech work in Silicon Valley. He received his B.S. in
Journalism from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and resides in Oakland, CA.
Cost
$250 per person
$150 discounted rate for California ReLeaf Network Members
* Cost includes one night of lodging, meals, registration,
course materials,
and parking for those who register by the deadline. Thanks to
generous support from the USDA Forest Service
and California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection,
fees are
greatly reduced for all participants.
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