Resources - Friends Workshops and Conferences

Agenda
Who's Who and What's What in the USFWS/Refuge System

Is it Time for You to Consider Paid Friends Staff?

Beyond Facebook

Igniting Change: Advancing your Mission through Advocacy
- What is Advocacy?
- Public Charities Can Lobby
- What is Lobbying?
- IRS Form 5768
- Keeping Track
- Stand for Your Mission Discussion Guide

Understanding the Friends Mentor Program and What It Can do for Your Organization

Friends Forever: Building Vital Organizations that Last
- Form 990
- Sample Internal Audit Instructions and Checklist
- Overview of Insurance

Fundraising Tales and Triumphs
- Funding Opportunities Chart
- Fundraising and Grant Writing Insights
- Fundraising Handout Blank Bubbles
- Fundraising Handout Say Thank You

Take Advantage of Us: Refuge System Communications
- USFWS Online Resources

Ten Strategies for Finding Great Board Members and Keeping them Engaged
- Blank Board Matrix
- Board Governance Committee
- Organizational Life Cycle

Materials from the 2015 Tualatin Peer 2 Peer.

Photos https://www.dropbox.com/sh/h6l69tabawu44j8/AACM8RuRp-gEHOHgokpACUAga?dl=0

Fundraising:
Building your Major Donor List, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Building-your-list-handout.pdf
Corporate Fundraising for "Friends" Organizations, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Corporate-Fundraising-for-Friends-groups.pdf
Tips for Effective Mail and Email Fundraising, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Tips-for-Effective-Mail-and-Email-Fundraising.pdf
What happens at a donor visit?, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/What-happens-at-a-major-donor-visit-handout.pdf
Why Stories?, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Stories-handout-for-Virginia.pdf
The ten most important thinks you can know about fundraising, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Kim-Klein-article-10-most-important-things.pdf

Refuge Association:
Resources available from the National Wildlife Refuge Association

Storytelling:
The importance of telling you story http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/storytelling-r2.pdf

Program Evaluation Summary, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2015-Region-1-Peer-to-Peer-WOrkshop-evaluations.xlsx

The National Wildlife Refuge Association and Resource Media hosted two communications training for Friends in New Mexico and Florida on how to communicate about America's wildest wildlife refuge - Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Arctic Refuge is one of our crown jewels, but is often surrounded by controversy, it offered Refuge Friends Groups an excellent opportunity to learn how to tackle complex refuge issues in a way that advances the mission and goals of the Refuge System while also building communications skills that can be adapted to virtually any local refuge issue your organization may encounter.

New Mexico Workshop
Agenda
Communication PowerPoint
Arctic Refuge in your Background
Audience Analysis 1 Worksheet
Audience Analysis III Worksheet
Audience Analysis IV Worksheet
Messaging Worksheet
Media Planning Worksheet
Effective Presentation Planning Handout
Interview Tipsheet Handout
Evaluation Worksheet

Florida Workshop

Agenda
Communication PowerPoint
Arctic in your Backyard
Audience Analysis I Worksheet
Audience Analysis II Worksheet
Audience Analysis III Worksheet
Audience Analysis IV Worksheet
Messaging Worksheet
Effective Presentation Planning Worksheet
Interview Tipsheet
Communication Planning Worksheet
Evaluation Worksheet

Training Materials:
Operations and Maintenance Funding
Budget Appropriation Timeline
Advocating for the Land and Water Conservation Fund
Advocacy and Lobbying Rules for Nonprofits
IRS Form 5768
Advocacy Resource: Keeping Track: A Guide to Recordkeeping for Advocacy Charities
Delivering Your Message
Hill Basics: Do's and Don'ts

Fact Sheets:
Operations and Maintenance
Land and Water Conservation Fund
Banking on Nature
Volunteers

Pacific Reports
Paradise Found Report
Restoring Island Ecosystems: Benefits to Native Plants and Animals

Presentations and Handouts
Pacific Islands Refuges and Monuments
Crafting Messages for the Pacific
Delivering Effective Messages

• Audience Analysis Exercise
• Build a Message Exercise
• Facebook Best Practices
• Twitter Best Practices
• Hawaii Delegation

Communicating with Decision Makers

• Advocacy Worksheet

Additional Resources
Refuge Association - Resources for Friends
Laulima attendees
Presenter Bios

Attached are copies of presentations, handouts, and notes from the Meeting Mission workshop at Chinctoteague National Wildlife Refuge, October 16-18th, 2015.

Governance:
Presentation, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Board-Governance-for-Friends.DEVAMD.pptm
IRS Governance Check Sheet, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/IRS-governance_check_sheet.pdf
Sample Internal Audit Instructions, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Sample-Internal-audit-instructions-and-checklist.doc
Form 990 FAQ, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Form990-Part-VI-FAQs-by-IRS.pdf
Overview of Insurance, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Insurance-Summary-edited-v21.pdf
Governance Committee, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Governance-Committee-Charter-Updated.pdf
Board Matrix, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Blank-board-matrix-2.doc
Action Plan, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Action-Planning-Worksheet-Friends-Workshops.docx

Fundraising:
Building your Major Donor List, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Building-your-list-handout.pdf
Corporate Fundraising for "Friends" Organizations, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Corporate-Fundraising-for-Friends-groups.pdf
Tips for Effective Mail and Email Fundraising, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Tips-for-Effective-Mail-and-Email-Fundraising.pdf
What happens at a donor visit?, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/What-happens-at-a-major-donor-visit-handout.pdf
Why Stories?, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Stories-handout-for-Virginia.pdf
The ten most important thinks you can know about fundraising, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Kim-Klein-article-10-most-important-things.pdf
Flip charts from presentation:
- Who gives, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Who-gives.jpg
- Household giving, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Household-giving.jpg
- Determining who to ask, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Determining-ability-to-give.jpg
- Repeat Donors, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Repeat-Donors.jpg
- Giving Principle 1, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/giving-principle-1.jpg
- Giving Principle 2, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/giving-principle-2.jpg
- Giving Principle 3, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/meeting-principle-3.jpg

Influencing Decision Makers:
Overview of Advocacy including Lobbying, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Advocacy-and-Lobbying.ppt
IRS Form 5768, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/f5768.pdf
Keeping Track of Lobbying, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/keeping_track.pdf
Stand for Your Mission: Discussion Guide, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/SFYM-Discussion-Guide.pdf
Stand for Your Mission: Board Role in Advocacy, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/SFYM-Boards-Role-in-Advocacy-15.pdf
Work Plan for Building Relationship with Decision Makers, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Work-plan.docx
Flip charts from presentation:
-Vision, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Vision.jpg
- Public policies, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Public-Policy.jpg

Photos:
Break time, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/break.jpg
Lunch, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Lunch.jpg
Pony round-up, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Pony-roundup.jpg
Takes a Friends, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Takes-a-Friend.jpg
Bob, Frank and Ann at work, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Bob-Frank-and-Ann-go-to-class.jpg
Bob won fabulous sunglasses, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Bob-wins-cool-shades-for-his-answers.jpg

Friends of Great Swamp NWR has awarded a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Peer-to-peer Coaching grant to host a two-day workshop of Refuge Friends from New Jersey/Eastern Pennsylvania/Eastern New York/Delaware.
The workshop took place on Friday afternoon, June 27 and Saturday, June 28.

Click for materials and resources generated by the workshop.