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Workshops Offered Upon Request
- Members Only
To request a workshop, please call the office at 706-549-4508 or email info@garivers.org with your group's name, which workshop you would like to request, and a list of potential dates.
Getting Organized: How to Form A Watershed Group
Do you and your watershed neighbors know that you want to make changes
in your community and protect its natural resources, but you aren’t
sure how to get started? Let Georgia River Network work with your group
to chart out a future. This training program will focus on how to build
a sustainable organization from the beginning, including developing a
name, mission statement, Board of Directors, case statement, and beginning
the process of applying for non-profit status. Suggested Text: “Starting
Up: A Handbook for New River and Watershed Organizations” by River
Network ($45). Duration: Specific to your organization.
Creating A Strategic Plan for Your Organization
This customized workshop will work with your Board to understand the elements of an effective strategic plan and will lead your organization through the process of creating or updating your plan. Duration: Variable.
Strategies for Successful Fundraising
This workshop will be customized to the needs of your group. Topics can include: fundraising basics and tools, direct mail, asking for money, fundraising plans, getting your Board more involved when “fundraising isn’t their thing”, and grant writing. Duration: Variable.
Leadership Development and Campaign Planning
Need more volunteers? Don’t know how to find new board members? No time to add new projects? GRN will provide a workshop on how to build leadership within your organization based on work in your current annual plan. This workshop will create links between project / campaign planning and building new leaders for your group.
Board of Directors Workshop
GRN can provide a variety of information for your
board including roles and responsibilities of
board members, securing new board members, planning
for the board and the organization, and committee
structures.
Membership Development
Who becomes a member and why? How do you start recruiting members? This workshop
will provide tips on how to increase renewals, use of direct mail and more.
Duration: 1 hour.
Meeting Facilitation: Run a More Effective Meeting
Are you tired of going to meetings and getting nothing accomplished or meeting
simply for the sake of meeting? Are you struggling with how to deal with
the group troublemaker? Let Georgia River Network provide your group with
tips on how to effectively plan, facilitate and follow through for effective
meetings. This workshop is based on principles taught by the Institute for
Conservation Leadership and the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund’s
Environmental Leadership Institute. Duration: 2 Hours.
Communicate the Watershed Message with Effective Media Skills
Watershed groups have really important messages, yet we often lack the communication
skills to get our message out to the public. Effective media skills are crucial
to the long-term success of your watershed and your organization. Thus, in
this workshop, we will focus on message development, and also provide tips
about media strategies, press releases, radio and television interview skills,
and how to develop long-term press relations. Special emphasis can be placed
on any of the above topics based on group needs. Maximum of 25 participants.
UGA NonProfit Program Offers
Board Member Seminars
www.terry.uga.edu/management/non_profit
Clean Water Act
Learn how to clean up your watershed by understanding and affecting the “designated uses” for your river, understanding and affecting the “water quality standards” for your river, monitoring and affecting the permits to discharge pollution (“NPDES Permits”) in your river, nominating your river as an “Outstanding National Resource Water” or ONRW, and understanding and affecting the list of your watershed’s impaired and threatened (“303(d) listed”) streams and the restoration plans (“TMDLs”) created to remove the impairment(s) or threat(s).
Get the Dirt Out
Get the Dirt Out is a workshop created by Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper
and Georgia Center for Law in the Public Interest in partnership with the
Riverkeeper
organizations in Georgia. The "Get the Dirt Out" program is aimed
at giving citizens the information and skills they need to keep dirt out
of their streams by making sure erosion and sedimentation laws are obeyed
and enforced in their communities. "Get the Dirt Out" teaches citizens
about federal and state erosion and sedimentation laws, how to spot violations
to those laws, and a protocol to follow when violations are discovered. If
you do not have a trainer in your watershed, contact GRN to set up a workshop.
For more information and to view trainers in your area, visit www.getthedirtout.org.
Lobbying
Government agencies and legislative bodies make decisions every day that impact our watersheds. Learn how to be an effective advocate through this lobbying workshop. We will cover topics ranging from how much lobbying your organization can participate in based on your non-profit status to how to make your visit with a decision-maker the most effective. Minimum participants: 20; Maximum Participants: 80.
Impacts of Urbanization
Based on principles taught by the Center for Watershed
Protection, this slide show outlines the hydrologic,
morphologic and biologic impacts to streams that
result from the increased impervious cover associated
with urbanization. This presentation may be of
interest for watershed group membership meetings,
use in high school science classrooms or for
your local officials. The slide show can be provided
to your group for outreach purposes in your watershed.
Duration: 1 hour.
An Introduction to Georgia's Rivers and River Issues
This presentation provides a basic overview of the river systems of Georgia, threats to water quality and how to get involved in river protection.
Eight Tools for Watershed Protection
This presentation is based on the Center for Watershed
Protection’s approach
to protecting watersheds with a combination of 8 tools including watershed
planning, land conservation, aquatic buffers, better site design, erosion and
sediment control, stormwater best management practices, non-stormwater discharges,
and watershed stewardship programs.
Better Site Design
This workshop is based on the Center for Watershed Protection’s Better Site Design Model which consists of development principles to protect our waterways. Better Site Design is a process by which local governments can review their zoning and ordinance codes to minimize impervious cover and promote conservation of natural areas. This presentation outlines 22 model principles for land development that focus on streets, parking lots, lot design, and conservation of natural areas in new developments. After training, this presentation can be provided to your group for future use in your watershed. Although not required, the group may wish to purchase the handbook that goes with this presentation for future reference at a cost of $35 from the Center For Watershed Protection.
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