Sponsorship Opportunities for Community-Based Watershed Management Forum

The Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition (SAWC) & the National Forest Foundation (NFF) have come together to host a community-based watershed management forum in March, 2012 in Juneau.

The goal of the forum is to build the capacity of Southeast Alaska’s tribes, municipalities, agencies, and organizations to carry out community-based watershed projects and management strategies. Specific objectives are outlined below.

Objectives:

1. Connect – To bring together a diverse group of natural resource and community development professionals, agency staffers, tribes, municipalities, regional organizations, and other user groups who are working on watershed and land management issues in Southeast Alaska and the State.

2. Inform – To offer session trainings and panel discussions that provide participants with specific tools and resources necessary to carry out community-based watershed projects and management strategies that bolster the local economy, promote watershed resources and support community health.

3. Participate – To identify strategic partnership opportunities and ways to work collaboratively across the region that will continue to support and enhance informed community-based watershed projects and management strategies.

We are seeking partnerships for this forum to support travel scholarships for community members who would not otherwise be able to attend. Travel is estimated at approximately $750 per person for the entire workshop, which includes travel and hotel. Meals (breakfast and lunch) during the conference will be provided by the National Forest Foundation.

Why be a sponsor of the Community-Based Watershed Management Forum?

• Reach community leaders and professionals actively involved in watershed management in Alaska
• Strategically position your organization/business as a leader in supporting local economies, watersheds and cultures in Southeast Alaska
• Reaffirm your organization’s/business’s current commitment to watershed stewardship and community health in the region
• Establish Partnerships with fellow leaders in the fields of watershed management and community development by increasing the visibility of your organization/business.

Recognition

All support will be recognized on workshop documents including:

• Meeting agenda
• Meeting webpage (both NFF and SAWC websites)
• Media outreach will highlight all partners
• Logo and Organizational Bio. in Forum Program