PNW Leadership Conference Presentations, January 29-30, 2010
All SAF members from Washington State, Oregon and Inland Empire were invited to participate in this year's Leadership Conference. The program allowed participants to discover practical leadership principles, learn our role in national/regional forest policy, strategically plan fundraising efforts, address membership decline, gain insight to conduct successful meetings, negotiate with elected and business leaders, and much more. New this year was an optional field workshop into historic Pack Forest. All presentations are in pdf format.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Introduction and History of UW's Pack Forest - Greg Ettl (presentation), Duane Emmons and Tom Touse, UW Center for Sustainable Forestry
Friday, January 29, 2010
Leadership to empower others - Eric Anderson, City Manager, Tacoma (presentation)
Directing and impacting forest policy - Erica Rhoad, SAF National Policy Director (presentation)
Strategies for higher level fund raising - Thomas Mentele, Director of Development, UW College of the Environment (presentation)
Applied fundraising - Mike Mosman, Senior VP, Port Blakely Tree Farm (presentation)
Membership services for new and retaining members - Kimberly Scott, Director of Membership Services, WA Assn of CPAs (presentation)
Working with the media - Mike Gowrylow, Communications Director, Washington Department of Revenue (presentation)
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Keys to successful field days - Andy Perleberg and Jim Freed, WSU Extension Educators (presentation)
Planning successful meetings and recognition programs Stephen Pilkerton, OSU Forest Engineering (presentation) and Don Hanley, WSU Extension Educator (retired) (presentation)
How to get what you want from business and elected leaders - Elly Walkowiak, Economic Development Manager, City of Tacoma (presentation)
SAF NW Office - using it to grow - Lori Rasor, Manager/Editor, SAF Northwest Office (presentation)