Breakout session 3, Monday afternoon: Building Capacity

Goals:

-Identify gaps in capacity
-Establish alignment around high-level goals and execute them well at the local level
-Obtain enough volunteer leaders to accomplish stewardship goals
-Engage the private sector including corporations, which can provide both financial resources and volunteers
-Secure funding for and implement effective volunteer leadership trainings
-Consolidate knowledge to make it accessible to all parties

Actions:

-Create metrics to measure what capacity has been built
-Develop volunteer management manual
-Get a champion to promote this effort – politician or celebrity
-Expand relationships to explore grant partnerships
-Make an investment in and make personal a personal connection to the volunteers
-Provide list of all organizations and staff members at the stewardship forum and post to the blog and/or send out to attendees in order to facilitate collaboration
-Attend January meeting to pursue forum ideas

Resources:

-Existing models for crew leadership programs such as VOC, Youth Corps and Golden Gate National Recreation Area partnership model.
-A high number of successful volunteer organizations in Colorado that can work together
-Cost-effective temporary staff opportunities such as AmeriCorps VISTA
-Volunteer Clearinghouse websites such as volunteeroutdoors.net