CORFA is hosting the next Friends SHARE zoom call on July 22nd at 4:00 pm EST. This month we are focusing on our wonderful volunteers! We will be sharing ideas and programs that different Friends groups use to recognize and honor their Friends volunteers.
We’d love to have you come prepared to share what you are doing, have done, or plan to do. What works? What lessons have you learned? What changes have you made? Given the current situation are your Friends volunteers stepping up to do more? How can we thank them for their time, talent and treasure and let them know we value them?
We have three people willing to start the ball rolling by telling their stories:
- Samantha Zeiner, Director of Operations, Friends of Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge
- Maria Montag, Board President, Friends of California Condors Wild and Free
- Representative TBD, Friends of Ding Darling
Following these presentations and Q&A time, we’ll have time for a quick rountable for any other announcements or questions.
Please join us on July 22nd at 4:00 pm EST and an RSVP to coalitionrefugefriends@gmail.com by July 19th would be appreciated! Registration is required in advance to receive the zoom link
Our August SHARE Call will be on August 26th at 4:00 pm EST and we will be having a fun book discussion focused on books that take place on a refuge, involve the refuge system or FWS characters. They can be fiction or non-fiction.
The Zoom call is only for a member of a Friends group or their staff. Feel free to share this invite with your board members and other Friends groups. To ensure everyone can fully express themselves, ask tough questions, have their comments heard and respected, and be assured that conflict will be respectful the call will not be recorded, and we ask all participants to review and agree to our Safe Space Guidelines.
Heads Up for August!
Kinda like 4th grade…we hope you will come prepared with a 3–5-minute book report on book you’ve read and share with us the title and author of course plus a summary and what you liked about the book.
We’re attaching the list of suggestions we have so far but please let us know if you have more and we’ll be glad to add them.
We are looking forward to getting together.
CORFA’s Friends SHARE Team
Mike Baldwin, Ceal Craig, Cheryl Hart, Joan Patterson, Polly Sheppard, Willem Stoeller, Joan Van Gorp, Kathy Woodward, Tom Worthington, Maria Montag
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