Conservation Leadership and Training

Organizations need  to capture the imagination of the community and build an energetic constituency. The Joerger Group provides the vision to inspire people to embrace conservation goals. First, we take stock of the possibilities based on your community, your assets and your plans. Next we help you create programs that leverage your organization’s strengths to engage volunteers, donors, corporate sponsors, foundations and neighbors. A few ideas Dr. Joerger has used to successfully engage target audiences include:

• Connect art and nature by establishing an artist in residence program on the site of a preserve, open the grounds of designated conservation land to plein-air painters, allow low-impact music events, create gallery space, conduct competitions, recognize creative partners in conservation
  
  
  • Teach conservation in a local college or university, provide continuing education opportunities for attorneys, accountants, insurance agents
    
    
  • Combine history and nature to include your conservation site as a desirable destination for school field trips, senior field trips, a stop on a historic trail, a landmark
    
    
  • Connect youth with nature through active outdoor learning opportunities that showcase your preserve