Practicing What You Preach: Practicing What You Preach: World-Class Engagement StrategiesWorld-Class Engagement Strategies

Your Panelists Your Panelists (and how we got here)(and how we got here)

Planting: Planting: Volunteer SelectionVolunteer Selection

Care & Feeding: Care & Feeding: Nurturing VolunteersNurturing Volunteers

Weeding & Harvesting: Weeding & Harvesting: Managing Volunteers Over the Long HaulManaging Volunteers Over the Long Haul

Image Credits:• Farmers

– Organicvalley.coop• American Gothic

– Grant Wood, artist• Planting

– National Geographic• Watering

– About.com/gardening• The Rice Harvest

– Geoffrey Clifford, artist• Farmer’s Market

– Treehugger.com

Contact Information• Frances Reimers

– Communications & Programs Manager, Sister Cities International

– 202.347.8630 x8251– freimers@sister-cities.org– Twitter.com/SisterCityIntl

• Elizabeth Weaver Engel, CAE– Director of Marketing &

Sponsorship, NACHRI– ewengel@nachi.org– 703.797.6041– Twitter.com/ewengel

• Kevin Whorton– Principal , Whorton Marketing

& Research – 301.312.8938– kevin@associationseminar.com– Twitter.com/kpwhorton

• Bob Wolfe– Manager of Marketing &

Communications, SWANA– rwolfe@swana.org– 240.494.2256– Twitter.com/youfoundbob