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Winning Campaigns Training | Mutual Aid Calls | Leadership Retreat
The Alliance offers yearly training opportunities including our signature Winning Campaigns Training, which uses our custom, intense curriculum focused on the seven key skills of effective campaigners, in the context of organization-building. Alliance Trainings are intended for any potential campaign leader in your organization who would benefit from gaining the tools to craft and manage powerful advocacy campaigns.
Click on these upcoming Winning Campaigns trainings for more details or to register:
Find more information on our signature Winning Campaigns Training.
For information and photos from past training, visit our trainings page.
The leaders of Alliance member organizations include many experts on various aspects of organizational development and bicycle and pedestrian advocacy. Alliance's Mutual Aid program connects leaders with each other either for personal sharing of expertise and insight or through the convening of conference calls to learn from experts in our own community. Alliance's Mutual Aid services are available free to leaders of Alliance member organizations. Whether you're a veteran advocate or just getting started we know that you'll have something to share and something to learn on any of our Mutual Aid conference calls. Click on the upcoming calls below for more details or to register:
Whether art or science, some appeals work and some don’t! Individual donors and members are the most sustainable and most important funding source for Alliance organizations. On average one-third of the revenue of Alliance organizations comes from member and donor contributions. The most important key to success with donors: to ask!
Appeals are a way to regiment your development efforts and to ensure you are asking your supporters to donate at least once a year, if not more. But what are the most successful ways to tackle these important appeals? If you’re seeking advice on how to organize and manage annual or special appeals, what the best message is, and advice on follow through, this call is for you! Come hear from Alliance leaders who have had great success with appeals. Bring your questions, challenges, and experiences to share. Learn more
Your relationship with your member(s) of congress should not be limited to the once-a-year visit in dC at the national bike summit. In this call, we will discuss and share ways that you can build upon your expertise to develop a stronger relationship with congressional representation. We will hear from our panelists on successful strategies including in-district meetings, including your congressional member at the right events, and other ways to help engage your congressional member to be a champion for the bike/ped movement. Bring your questions, challenges, and experiences to share. Learn more
Membership is a critical component to your overall fundraising strategy. How do you grow and retain your membership? How do you engage your membership in a meaningful way? What are other organizations doing to grow their membership? On this call we’ll discuss advanced membership development and retention strategies and will hear from Alliance leaders who are experts and recruiting and retaining members. Bring your questions, challenges, and experiences to share.
This call is targeted to those organization leaders whose organization has a currently stable membership program. Specific topics will be determined one week before the call, based on registered participants feedback. Learn more
Membership is critical to growing your organization’s income, volunteer base, and political power. Any successful membership program starts with a plan. What are your goals for membership and how will you achieve them? This call will discuss how you create a membership plan that will grow your base of supporters, increase their contributions, and increase your overall impact. Come hear from experts in membership planning. Bring your questions, challenges, and experiences to share. Participants will be asked to submit a rough draft of their organization's membership plan four days before the call to facilitate and guide the discussion Learn more
Visit our Mutual Aid page for a comprehensive list of past Mutual Aid call topics.
Alliance member organizations can access notes and recordings from past Mutual Aid calls in our Bike and Ped Resource Library
The Alliance for Biking & Walking was founded at our first retreat for bicycle advocacy leaders in 1996. Today, we continue the tradition of bringing together bicycle and pedestrian advocacy leaders from across the country for 3 days of networking, learning, and fun. At our biannual leadership retreats, expect hard work at professional and organizational advancement in interactive workshops and plenary sessions and be rewarded with lots of optional recreation, campfires, a grand finale party, and a big group bike ride to the ProWalk/ProBike conference on the final day. For all you do year-round as an advocate, you deserve the Alliance leadership retreat!
Invest in biking and walking advocacy where it matters most... on the ground!
The Art of Appeals --Call on August 26
Working with Your Congressional Delegates --Call on September 09
Advanced Member Recruitment and Retention Strategies --Call on September 23
08/18/2010 - Alliance Code for APBP Webinars
07/27/2010 - Board Skill Matrix Sample (Adventure Cycling Association)
07/27/2010 - Board Skill and Representation Matrix (Alliance)
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