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DAY 1: Monday, March 26

TIME

ACTIVITY

LOCATION

12:00 pm

Training Registration, Lunch and Group Introductions

Restaurant

12:30 pm

Welcome to the ACCWT Clean Streams Practicum      (Dr. T. Allan Comp, ACCWT, Kathleen Roedersheimer, Americorps*VISTA)

Restaurant

 

1:15 pm

How the new SMCRA changes the game (Rick Buckley, Office of Surface Mining)

Azalea Room

2:15 pm

BREAK

2:30 pm

Building Community Involvement: Basic tools to get the community behind your projects (Martin Christ, Sarah McClurg, Friends of Deckers Creek)

Azalea Room

 

Fiscal Sustainability

Water Monitoring

 

3:45 pm

Session 1: Board Development 101: Examining a board’s role in fundraising and how to develop an effective board

Tips from Sonja

Handouts (for participants)

 

 

Session 1: Introduction to the Water Monitoring Track and Background on the Clean Water Act

Fiscal Chinquapin Room

 

 

Water Magnolia Room

4:45 pm

 

 

 

Session 2: Types of Monitoring: Chemical, Physical, and Biological

BREAK

5:30 pm

Session 3: Why We Monitor: Instream, Pre-Construction, and Post-Construction

6:15 pm

DINNER

Restaurant

7:30 pm

For ACCWT Partner Groups: ACCWT Team Information (Jenny Becksted, Savanna Lyons, ACCWT)  

 

For Non-Partner Groups: How to apply for an OSM/VISTA (Dr. T. Allan Comp, Office of Surface Mining / ACCWT, Kathleen Roedersheimer, Americorps*VISTA, Duncan Wilson, ACCWT)

Azalea Room

 

8:30 pm

SOCIAL TIME

 

 

 

 

DAY 2: Tuesday, March 27

TIME

ACTIVITY

LOCATION

 

7:00 am

BREAKFAST

Restaurant

 

 

Fiscal Sustainability

Water Monitoring

 

 

8:00 am

Session 2: Grant Writing from the Funder Perspective: The basics of how to write a successful grant proposal taught from the perspective of the funder

Tips from Sonja

Handouts

 

Session 4: Case Study of Friends of Deckers Creek monitoring programs

Fiscal Chinquapin Room

 

 

Water Magnolia Room

9:00 am

 

 

 

Session 5: Small Group Activity: Choosing Strategic Monitoring Locations

10:00 am

Session 6: How to Fund Your Own Monitoring Programs

10:30 am

BREAK

 

11:00 am

Grant Writing from the Funder Perspective, Continued

Session 7: AMD Discharge Monitoring to Plan Treatment

 

 

12:00 pm

LUNCH

Restaurant

 

1:00 pm

Session 3: Membership and Individual Giving

 

Session 8: Trip to the Creek for Hands-On Monitoring Methods

 

 

 

Fiscal Chinquapin Room

 

 

 

 

 

Water Magnolia Room

 

3:15 pm

BREAK

 

3:30 pm

 

Session 4: Practice Exercise – Major Donor Ask

Session 9: Quality Assurance/Quality Control (3:30-4:00 pm)

Session 10: Steps Between Monitoring and Construction (4:00-4:50 pm)

4:30 pm

 

Session 5: Fundraising Special Events

BREAK

Session 11: Data Analysis and Presentation and Data Basing: Statistics, Tables, Charts, Maps, and the Web.

(5:00-7:00 pm)

5:15 pm

BREAK

 

5:30 pm

Session 6: Developing a Fundraising Plan

 

7:00 pm

PIG ROAST & PICKIN’ PARTY – come with an instrument !!

 

 

 

 

 

DAY 3 – Wednesday, March 28

TIME

ACTIVITY

LOCATION

7:00 am

BREAKFAST

Restaurant

8:00 am

River Network: How to use this resource (Pat Munoz, River Network)

Azalea Room

9:00 am

Eastern Coal Regional Roundtable Presentation (Hanna Wheeler, Eastern Coal Regional Roundtable)

Azalea Room

9:30 am

For Distressed County Groups: Workshop to Develop Practicum Project Ideas and fill out Practicum Project Forms.

 

For ACCWT Partner Groups (serving non-Distressed Counties): An opportunity from Goddard College and ACCWT team info (Ralph Lutts, Goddard College, Jenny Becksted & Savanna Lyons, ACCWT)

Azalea Room

 

 

Magnolia Room

 

 

11:00 am

The Current VISTA Climate (Kathleen Roedersheimer, Lisa Bradley, Americorps*VISTA)

Azalea Room

11:30 am

Clean Streams Practicum Conclusion (Dr. T. Allan Comp)

Azalea Room

11:50 am

Team Photo

TBA

12:00 pm

LUNCH (BROWN BAG LUNCH?)

Restaurant

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Additional Session (WV groups only): Project FLOW: Grant money to energize your watershed through youth volunteers (Sherry Swint, Project FLOW)

TBA