Agenda and Workshops

The Annual Corps Forum offers a large variety of workshops to help you strengthen your Corps.  Listed below is an agenda of the Forum and a sampling of workshops.

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2008 Corps Forum Agenda

Sunday, February 10, 2008

9:30-12:30 CEO-Only Open Space Session Imperial II

9:30-12:30 New and Emerging Corps Seminar Decatur

10:00-12:00 Corpsmember of the Year Orientation John Adams

12:00-5:30 Registration Foyer Lobby/ Ballroom II

2:00-5:00 Opening Session Ballroom II
♦ Welcome, Introductions and Roll Call of Corps - Deborah Dorsett
♦ The Corps Network Update - Sally Prouty
♦ Plenary Salutations - Diane Chalfant
♦ Washington Update - Lori Godorov, Len Price, Gene Sofer
♦ Plenary: Working Together Corps & Community Action Agencies Don Mathis, Neil McCabe, Carolyn Rose

5:00-5:30 Corps Affinity Group Networking Culpeper & Imperial II

6:00 Corps Networking Reception & Dinner Colonnade
6:00 Cash Bar opens 7:00 Dinner begins

Monday, February 11, 2008

7:15-7:45 Breakfast Buffet Ballroom II Foyer

7:50-8:00 Plenary: Gregg Weltz, The Shared Youth Vision

8:00-8:45 Plenary: Robert Siegel, Insider Update on the
Washington Scene

9:00-10:15 Concurrent Workshops I
♦ Multi-Tenant Non-Profit Centers, Sustainability through
Partnerships Latrobe
♦ The Growing Green Economy Dumbarton
♦ My AmeriCorps: Understanding the Transition
from WBRS Imperial II
♦ Developing Crew Leaders as Teachers and Counselors Culpeper
♦ Effective Proposal Writing: A Compelling Case and a
Clear Budget John Adams

10:15-10:45 Break Foyer

10:45-12:00 Concurrent Workshops II
♦ Innovative Web Strategies Latrobe
♦ Setting the Pace for Financial Security:
Investing in Business Planning Dumbarton
♦ Developing a Disaster Relief Training Program Imperial II
♦ Budgeting and Marketing for Fee-for-Service Crews Culpeper
♦ Youth Serving Youth in Employment and Training Centers John Adams

12:00-12:30
Lunch Buffet Ballroom II Foyer

12:30-1:15 Plenary: Poverty Reduction and the
Green Economy
David R. Jones and Van Jones

1:30-2:45 Concurrent Workshops III
♦ All About VISTA Volunteers! Latrobe
♦ Successful Media Strategies for Corps Dumbarton
♦ Which Way Did They Go? New Ways to
Recruit, Retain, and Follow-Up! Imperial II
♦ Identifying Federal Funding Opportunities Culpeper
♦ Grant Compliance and Financial Management
for Corps – Part I John Adams

2:45-3:15 Break Foyer

3:15-4:30 Concurrent Workshops IV
♦ ECO: Thrive and Survive in Changing Times Latrobe
♦ Making Your Crews Inclusive for All Dumbarton
♦ Conducting Productive Capitol Hill Visits Imperial II
♦ Developing a Civic Justice Corps –
Service as a Reentry Strategy Culpeper
♦ Grant Compliance and Financial Management
for Corps – Part II John Adams
♦ Risk Management for Corps:
Keeping Members Safe John Marshall

4:30-5:30 Annual Meeting of Members
and Q & A with Leadership Culpeper

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

6:45 Buses depart Hotel for Capitol Hill
At M Street Entrance to Hotel

7:30-9:00 The Corps Network Awards Ceremony in the HC - 5
U.S. Capitol with continental breakfast

9:00-3:00 Congressional Visits on own

Special Interest Sessions:
9:30-12:00 Corps Respond The Corps Network
9:30-3:30 Civic Justice Corps Culpeper
9:30-3:30 Inclusive Crew Project John Marshall
3:30-4:30 Land Management Agency Panel & Q&A Ballroom II
3:30-4:30 Bring the World to Your Corps John Marshall

6:30- 8:30 Friends of National Service Reception Union Station
5:45 Buses depart Hotel for Union Station East Hall
At M Street Entrance to Hotel

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

7:30-8:00 Breakfast Buffet Foyer outside Executive Forum

8:00-8:15 Plenary: A Time to Serve Executive Forum
Maj. Gen. Vincent Boles

8:20-9:00 Plenary: Positioning Service and
Conservation Corps for their Role in the Green Economy
Sally Prouty

9:00-10:30 Plenary: Vision for National Service:
A Conversation with CNCS Leadership

10:30 - 11:00 Close of Forum