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2010 Alliance Leadership Retreat

Uniting Bike & Ped Advocacy Leaders from Across North America!
Building Your Organization: Growing the Movement

September 10-13, 2010
The Delta Queen,
Chattanooga, TN

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Early registrations cost $395 for Alliance members, $475 for Non-Members, and must be received by June 30, 2010
Regular registrations cost $450 for Alliance Members, $530 for Non-Members
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Overview

The 2010 Alliance Leadership Retreat is an outstanding event that will recharge and inspire advocacy leaders through a weekend of networking, strategic discussions, and training sessions. Topics that will be addressed through this retreat include:

Increasing fundraising capacity through opportunities and partnerships;
Building organizational capacity, hiring that next staff person, and strengthening the board relationship;
Working with local and state governments, engaging new communities, and capitalizing on the national agenda; and,
Engaging volunteers, diversifying your members, and growing your membership.

The 2010 retreat will also give you a chance to connect with executive directors, staff, and leaders of grassroots biking and walking organizations across North America, and allow you to draw upon best practices to build the capacity and strength of your organization.

Location: The retreat will take place at the Delta Queen Hotel, a landmark hotel located in the heart of downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee. The last fully operational, overnight passenger steamboat in the country, the Delta Queen has entertained presidents, foreign dignitaries, and a multitude of celebrities. This year, she will host over 80 Alliance leaders. See photos of the area.

Chattanooga, Tennessee, host to the Alliance Leadership Retreat, has much to boast about, including a walkable downtown, electric transit opportunities, a heavily used river trail, mountain biking within minutes of town, and the restored Walnut Street bicycle and pedestrian bridge, now one of the most beautiful and largest of its kind in the U.S. Travel/Bike Rental Information

What to Expect: Registration includes meals, three nights of lodging, over sixteen different workshops, strategic discussions, bike polo and Frisbee fields, a boat trip, and an opportunity to connect with advocacy leaders in your field. This retreat brings advocates together to connect, build relationships, and share knowledge that will propel your efforts to transform your community into a great place to bike and walk.

Retreat Agenda | Expected Workshops

Come as a team from your organization to learn from our expert coaches and each other.

Register by June 30 and Save $55 off the regular price.

Participants are encouraged to arrive Friday evening for a night out on the town; workshops and discussion will begin first thing Saturday morning.

Alliance members may be interested in these related events:

Reviving a Leadership Retreat tradition, there will be a self-supported bike tour to the retreat. If you are interested in a 3 or 4 day loaded bike tour from Atlanta to the retreat in Chattanooga, please be sure to indicate this during registration.
Pro Walk / Pro Bike® 2010: BRINGING LIVABLE COMMUNITIES AND REGIONS TO SCALE (SEPTEMBER 13-17, 2010 IN CHATTANOOGA, TN)
Chattanooga and the southeast region will serve up many examples of what can be done in small and mid-size cities and rural regions to make livable communities come to life. NCBW is looking to showcase good bike/ped projects that were built with stimulus money; trans-discipline approaches to building livable communities; programs and approaches that can demonstrate promising environmental and policy solutions, and ensure meaningful results to the people who are affected; and, projects that make it possible for people of all ages and abilities to walk and bike everywhere all the time. Early registration ends May 31.
Safe Routes to School Partnership Annual Meeting: September 13: 1-5 PM - Be sure to register for this event when registering for 2010 Pro Walk / Pro Bike®
Equal Footing Summit: September 16: 3-7 PM.
Brought to you by partners APBP and America Walks. The aim of the summit is to coalesce interest groups, businesses, and individuals to support a national vision for walking and an action plan for building a more walkable America. Click here for more information.

2008 Alliance Leadership Retreat

Nearly seventy bicycle and pedestrian advocacy leaders from across North America gathered at the 2008 Alliance Leadership Retreat

Alliance leaders came together at the end of August for the 2008 Leadership Retreat, with participants spanning the North American continent—from Florida to Victoria, from New York to the Aloha State.

Scott Bricker, formally of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, summed it up well, “An excellent experience from start to finish. The energy I got from being around other cycling and walking advocates alone was worth every penny. Add the beautiful setting and the fantastic workshops on top of that, and it made for a weekend I won’t forget any time soon”