Calling ALL committee members and interested parties!

The proposal link is up and we are accepting workshops proposals now. Spread the word in your own networks. The Outreach Committee is also going to handle outreach for us to the contacts they have already reached (and potential ones too). The link for workshop proposal submission is http://www.changingthepresent.org/campusconference2008/proposing+a+workshop

Spread the word through your networks. Please use the word document attached to post or send.

Deadlines: January 28 for workshops
Planning team and Sponsors deadline January 31

Thank you to Ari for all of your GREAT work with web link and info for the website!!!!

Our workshop areas are

Strengthening & Deepening Service: Building up Community Service Programs: This track features workshops on key components and strategies for building strong service programs, such as recruitment, retention, training, program structure, evaluation/outcomes, funding and organizational sustainability, and strategic partnerships.

When Social Change Meets the Classroom: Service-Learning & Community Based Research: This track features workshops on the myriad of ways to connect community engagement with academic work, including working with community partners, teaching pedagogy, service-learning and community-based participatory research, building research questions, reflection, engaging departments, and working with faculty.

The Next Generation: Innovative Leadership & Management: This track features workshops on developing as nonprofit leaders, nonprofit management skills, nonprofit career paths, graduate education, working yourself out of a job (a.k.a. fulfilling the mission), funding your ideas, corporate social responsibility, nonprofit/private partnerships, and leveraging the private sector for public good.

Doing Inclusive Work: Advocacy, Coalition-Building, & Organizing Strategies: This track features workshops on more activist forms of civic work, such as online organizing tools/techniques, creative community-building, working with elected representatives, building coalitions, working with student government, creative public relations and communications on campus, and working across campus.

Ramping Up for 2008: The Election and Electoral Politics: This track features workshops on political engagement, especially getting-out-the-vote campaigns, voter education, navigating voter registration on your campus, setting a national student agenda, new approaches to democracy building and dialogue.

Taking on the Issues: Issue-Based Workshops: This track features workshops on countering racism, classism, sexism and other forms of prejudice; addressing domestic poverty; international public health; economic justice; addressing climate change in concrete ways; education policy, hunger and homelessness.

Greening Your School: Helping Your Campus Be Environmentally Savvy: This track features workshops on building environmentally sustainable campuses and society, including greening and recycling, going carbon-neutral, cutting-edge practices, lobbying campus administration, crunching the numbers, alternative fuels, and more.

While not a specific track, there will also be special designation for workshops targeted at administrators of campus programs.


WELCOME NOTES FOR COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

Thank you in advance to everyone for all of your efforts and commitment – it couldn’t happen without all of us working together.

So here is some basic information:
1. The committee will consist of nine volunteers
2. Workshop/program proposals will be submitted to the Bonner Foundation site…Where the wonderful Ariane Hoy will help essentially organize and manage them…They will then be sent to Hunter and Steve.
3. Steve and Hunter will break them up into workable chunks and forward them to committee members via e-mail.
4. We as committee members will use a review and feedback checklist that Hunter and Steve will send to everyone for reviewing the workshop proposals.
5. Our goal is to have around 20 quality workshops in each of our 5 session blocks.

In the near future:
1. We will be coordinating the submission system and necessary forms with Ariane.
2. We will be sending you (via e-mail) a workshop review and feedback checklist/form to use.
3. We will be sending you (via e-mail) a list of workshop themes and areas under which workshops should be able to be categorized or grouped.
4. We will be sending you (via e-mail) and on-line forward-able advertising piece that you can send on to your respective contacts that solicits workshops and advertises the conference.