US-IALE Sponsorship Committee

Want to Sponsor a US-IALE Conference?

Purpose

To contact and recruit possible sponsors for the annual US-IALE conferences, and develop and maintain a database of possible sponsors.

Justification

Conference costs are skyrocketing and conference registration is becoming prohibitively expensive, especially for students. A possible way to lower the registration fees is to increase revenue for the annual conference by obtaining sponsorship from a wide variety of organizations such as government agencies, companies, and educational institutions that support landscape ecology.

Committee Chair

Bob Keane
Research Ecologist
Rocky Mountain Research Station
Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory
5775 West US Hwy 10
Missoula, MT 59808-9361
Phone: 406-329-4846
Fax: 406-329-4877
Email: rkeane@fs.fed.us

Members

A two-year rotation of US-IALE members while maintaining continuity.

Duties

Committee will contact government agencies, educational institutions, private companies, non-governmental organizations, and other entities to determine if they would be interested in sponsoring the annual conference. All interested and non-interested organizations will be entered in a database that will be maintained by this committee. This database will be shared with conference organizers, local hosts, meeting planner, US-IALE President and Treasurer, and others who may be helpful to obtain support. Local hosts can also provide the committee with sponsor contact information. The committee will also write proposals to potential sponsors as needed. The sponsorship committee is responsible for soliciting funding from national and international sponsors, while the local conference organization committee and local hosts are responsible for solicit funding from local sponsors. The efforts of soliciting funding will be assisted by the US-IALE Executive Committee (especially President and Treasurer), meeting planner, other US-IALE members and friends.

Immediate tasks

1. Develop sponsorship guidelines. Prepare a document that contains the specifics involved in sponsorship including the following:
   1. Levels of sponsorship. The Sponsorship level would be tied to commensurate cost and benefit specifications. For example, there might be five sponsorship levels with the lowest set at $250 and that would sponsor a conference session, while another might be $1000 and that would sponsor a keynote presentation.
   2. Financial guidelines. Details on how the sponsor would give the funds to US-IALE.
   3. Benefits of sponsorship. Details on what the sponsorship gives to the sponsor.
2. Create a sponsor database. Develop a database with the contact information of all past, current, and future sponsors, and those interested in sponsoring.
3. Contact sponsors., Start the development of the database by contacting possible sponsors.

Members for 2008-2010

• Paul Hessburg, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Wenatchee Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Wenatchee WA
• Brian R. Sturtevant, Research Ecologist, Institute for Applied Ecosystems Studies, US Forest Service, Northern Research Station
• Jerry A. Griffith, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Geography University of Southern Mississippi
• Laura R. Musacchio, Ph.D., A.S.L.A. Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture Faculty, Conservation Biology, Water Resource Sciences, & Urban and Regional Planning programs
• Kathryn Lindsay, Ph.D. (Biology) Manager, Habitat Landscape Conservation & Biodiversity Standards Section, Habitat & Ecosystem Conservation Division, Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada

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