[ACT] Community Tree Leadership Forum- California

[Jared Liu]

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	August 1-9, 2008	 	
		
  	

CTLF



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Trees is dedicated to improving the environment where 80% of Americans  
live: our cities, towns, and villages. Together, ACT's national  
network of members have planted and cared for 7.8 million trees with  
help from 450,000 volunteers.	

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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
* Registration deadline: July 18

Southern California
August 8-9, 2008
Kellogg West Conference Center & Lodge, Pomona
* Registration deadline: July 25

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
Stragic 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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