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10/22/2019 - 10/23/2019

 
‘The Future is Now:  Tech Trends for 2020 and Beyond’
Tuesday, October 22 – 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM Pacific & 10:30 - 4:30 PM Mountain time zones
Wednesday, October 23 – 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Atlantic 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM , Eastern, & 8:30 AM -2:30 PM Central time zones
 
'The Future is Now:  Tech Trends for 2020 and Beyond' is the volunteer management conference presented by AL!VE, Better Impact, and VMPC (Volunteer Management Professionals of Canada).  Now in its fifth year, this year's topic will explore how technology impacts our volunteers, programs and agencies, now and in the near and far futures.  Our current streaming event will consist of four 20 minute presentations, followed by a moderated discussion with the other presenters (think Ted talk meets late night tv), including responding to questions from the audience.

The broadcast will be streamed live to more than 50 remote locations in the United States and Canada, with the likelihood of an audience of 1000 or more.  One of the goals of this event is to provide quality, high level professional development events in local areas where access and resources may be limited to local associations of volunteer engagement professionals, volunteer centers, or other entities with an interest in professional development for those who engage volunteers.


This year's presentation team:
Dana Litwin, CVA – Host and Moderator
 

Dana is a public speaking and management professional with background in environmental conservation; 13 years’ experience building  volunteer and community engagement programs, as well as developing relevant training and educational materials, and presentations.   She is a Board President  of Association of Leaders in Volunteer Engagement (AL!VE) representing the Pacific Region. Dana is a member of National Association of Volunteer Programs in Local Government (NAVPLG). Dana is Certified in Volunteer Administration (Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration – www.cvacert.org).

Faiza Venzant, CVA, CVRM 
From a very young age, Faiza Venzant’s parents instilled a strong sense of volunteerism in herself and her two older brothers. They, as immigrants to Canada from Uganda in the early 70s, made a successful transition into Canadian life with the help of many kind and generous volunteers. A volunteer herself from a very young age, Faiza has been a leader in the sector for 20 years. She is currently General Manager, Volunteer Development at the YMCA of Greater Toronto.  Faiza holds her CVA and CVRM certifications in the field of volunteer engagement and is passionate about issues of inclusion in volunteerism. 
 
Faiza serves on the Board of the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration (CCVA) and is also an active member and volunteer of the Toronto Association for Volunteer Administrators and Professional Association of Volunteer Leaders – Ontario (PAVR-O) where she has twice received the President’s Award (2010 and 2012) in recognition of her volunteer contributions and where she also received the Linda Buchanan Award for Volunteer Administration (2013). She is also a member of Volunteer Management Professionals of Canada (VMPC.)  In 2018, Faiza published her first children’s book entitled, My Mamma Wants to Eat Me Up!  As a mother of a two young boys, she has not actually eaten any of her children up.

Lisa Dyer, CVA
Volunteer Engagement Specialist/Independent Consultant

Liza has been working and volunteering in the nonprofit and public sectors for over 15 years and currently works in a public library in Portland, Oregon. She spends her days connecting people and information, creating better access to volunteer experiences, and nerding out over technology.  Liza has previously worked in museums and science centers where she taught people about science, led teams of citizen scientists, and talked about whales (almost) every day. When not at work, Liza can be found knitting, reading, and hanging out with her husband, son, and two ridiculous cats. (The husband and son are also ridiculous, but don't tell them that.) She is proud to be an AmeriCorps alum and Certified in Volunteer Administration (CVA).  Pronouns: she/her/hers. Twitter:@lizaface

Rob Jackson 
Rob Jackson is Director of Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd, a consultancy and training company that helps engage and inspire people to bring about change.
 
Rob has worked in the volunteering movement for more than two decades, during which time he has led and managed volunteers and volunteering in education, advice, fundraising and children's services settings at local, regional and national levels.
 
In 1997 Rob founded UKVPMs, one of the first online networks for volunteer managers, and has been active in volunteer management online ever since.
Today, Rob works with a wide range of clients in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the USA and Canada, specialising in strategic volunteer engagement.
 
Rob is co-author of The Complete Volunteer Management Handbook (DSC, 2012) and From The Top Down - UK Edition (Energize Inc., 2015).

Erin Spink, MA
Erin Spink’s interest in volunteers started at the age of six when she pronounced that while it was wrong to eat animals, hamburgers at McDonald’s came from “volunteer cows” and therefore an exception could be made.
 
Fascinated by the subject, she completed a Certificate with Distinction in Volunteer Program Management, followed by an M.A. (Leadership) where she submitted the first-ever academic research quantifying the concept of “volunteer engagement”. Spink’s academic and thought-leadership work has since been published around the world. Erin had the honour of serving on the Board for PAVRO for five years, including two as President, during which she lead the association to sit at key decision-making tables such as presenting to the Ontario Minister for Economic
 
Development. For the last several years, Erin has volunteered as the Training Designs Editor for e-Volunteerism. Recently, Erin was recognized with the 2017 recipient of the Linda Buchanan Outstanding Leader of Volunteers award for her contributions to the profession. After 20 years working in Volunteer Engagement, she has changed her mind and no longer believes in eating volunteers.

How does it work?
Same as before, your local group pays a connection fee and arranges for a location (with a screen, speakers, and space for an audience), meals and a local facilitator to guide local discussion).  You can charge your local attendees whatever price you choose.  It could be a free event, or charge a fee you determine per person and make some profit for your local network.

Your local association provides:

• suitable bandwidth, sound system and viewing screen
• Meeting space
• local facilitator
• registrations
• food & refreshments

We provide:

• customizable marketing tools (flyers & videos)
• special 'marketing your event' webinar
• training for your local facilitator 
• ideas for icebreakers and additional content
• certificates for CVA recertification tracking
• one free annual AL!VE membership for each remote host to use as a door prize
• speakers (more than 5 hours of content)
• handouts for the day of the training. 
• support for managing the livestream event 

Would you like to host a local event?
Local Associations of Volunteer Engagement Professionals, AVAs, DOVIAs, Volunteer Centers or organizations with multiple volunteer management staff are all invited to participate.  International speakers are presenting to you, locally!
The basic requirements for hosting include:

• Register on the AL!VE website and pay the conference hosting fee ($550 or $500 for AL!VE members)
• Securing a venue that can support the audio/visual and internet requirements
• Organizing refreshments an option for lunch (it can be brown bag if your venue allows it)
• Running your own registration process (the fees you charge are your own)
• Providing a host for the day who will be trained in advance to interact with the local participants.  

Consider partnering with a nearby local association if you are close enough to do so to avoid local competition.

(Note:  this registration link is for USA residents.  Outside the USA, please visit this link:)

Fees:
$550 for general public
$500 for AL!VE, local association members
$25 early bird discount if registered by June 30, 2019

20% membership discounts for those local associations who also wish to become AL!VE Members

50 members:  $80 (regularly $100)
51-100 members:  $ 140 (regularly $175)
100+ members:  $200 (regularly $250)
(To access the new member discount, contact our Association Manager, Gretchen Jordan at manager@volunteeralive.org