Museum Volunteers: The Key to Building
Your Organizational Capacity
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A Hands-On
Workshop on Creating a Culture of Volunteer
Engagement
July 21, 2008
10:00 – 3:00
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Museum in Pueblo, CO
Imagine a world in which your
museum has all the resources it needs to serve
more visitors, deliver more programs, strengthen
its staff, better protect its collections, spread
its message more widely, and increase its financial
stability. If this vision attracts, excites
– even inspires – you, join us on
July 21 for a workshop on creating a culture
of volunteer engagement in your museum –
because you have all that you need to bring
this vision to reality. Join Beth Steinhorn
for a hands-on workshop on how to engage volunteers
in your museum in meaningful, sustainable ways.
We will:
· explore current demographic
trends and how they affect museums
· assess your museum’s
needs and opportunities for engaging volunteers
in different ways
· develop effective messages
to attract new volunteers and cultivate existing
volunteers
· discover emerging networking
strategies to “get the word out”
· review models for supporting
your volunteers in order to ensure your volunteer
engagement plan is both successful and sustainable.
You will receive tools and templates
to use with your museum teams and come away
with a vision of how to engage volunteers to
build your museum’s capacity.
Beth Steinhorn is a nonprofit
executive and a consultant in volunteer engagement.
Before consulting, she worked for over 15 years
in museums as an anthropologist, educator, volunteer
manager, and evaluator. She has worked with
the American Museum of Natural History, Denver
Museum of Natural History, Astor House Museum,
Arvada Center for Arts & Humanities, and
many others. She is currently an Associate with
JFFixler & Associates, focusing on volunteer
engagement, marketing, and research.
Cost is $15 for Colorado Wyoming
Association of Museum members, $20 for non-members
and includes a box lunch. Please RSVP to Teresa
Sherwood at 307-745-6161 ext. 15 or tbeyer@state.wy.us
by July 16th.
SRNI
2008 Agenda
August 3 - 5 at the University of Wyoming
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Theme:
Rural Nonprofit
Leadership: Connecting the Generations
Tracks:
Staff Leadership
Volunteer Leadership
Sunday, Aug.
3
6-6:30 p.m. Registration at the
Hilton Garden Inn
6:30 p.m. Welcome and orientation
6:45 p.m. Opening conversation:
Leading for Mission
? Mary Ellbogen Garland, John P. Ellbogen Foundation
8:45 p.m. Adjourn opening session
Monday, Aug.
4
7:30 a.m. Continental breakfast
– Hilton Garden Inn
8:15 a.m. Welcome
8:30 a.m. Keynote -- Engaging
the Generations
• Dan Condon, Information Matters
9:30 a.m. Networking break
10:00 a.m. Track session 1
Staff Leadership Session –
Creating Career Opportunities within Your Nonprofit
• John Luzader, Living Museums of the
West
• John Steinle, Hiwan Homestead Museum
Volunteer Leadership Session – Recruiting
Multi-Generational Volunteer Leaders
? Tracy Skopek, UW Master of Public Administration
Program
11:30 a.m. Transition time to
lunch
Noon Lunchtime roundtables
1:15 p.m. Transition time to Track
Session 2
1:30 p.m. Track Session 2
Staff Leadership Session –
Staff Retention Strategies
Chris Beeson, National Outdoor Leadership School
Volunteer Leadership Session – Retaining
Volunteers through Connection to Mission
? Kimberly Rehman, UW State 4-H Office
3 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m. Track Session 3
Staff Leadership Session –
Using Technology to Enhance Program Development
• Carla Rossi, Qwest Foundation
Volunteer Leadership Session – Board Leadership
? Phil Van Horn, Align
4:45 p.m. Transforming ideas into action
5:30 p.m. Adjourn for the day
Tuesday, Aug.
5
8:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9 a.m. Welcome Back, Morning Overview
9:15 a.m. In-Depth Workshops
Staff Leadership – Growing
the Next Generation of Nonprofit Leaders
Volunteer Leadership – Creating A Culture
of Multigenerational Volunteer Leadership
? Nurieh Glasgow, Shelly McAlpin & Deb Nelson-Allender,
Serve Wyoming
11:15 Break
11:45 a.m. Concluding Conversation
– “Organizational Mission –
Passion to Action”
• Sparky Turner, Daniels Fund
1:30 p.m. Adjourn Institute
Tuesday Afternoon
2-4 p.m. OPTIONAL practicum –
Strategic Financial Management
• Cole Ehmke, UW Cooperative Extension
Service
