“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Real Impact for the Real World” is a volunteer management conference presented by AL!VE, Better Impact, and VMPC.

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.

This year’s presenter lineup includes: Breauna Dorelus, Sue Carter Kahl, Sean Kreyling, and Tanya Rumble. The session will be hosted and moderated by Faiza Venzant, CVA. Read more about the workshops and presenters at: https://www.betterimpact.tv/vmhc

Dates:

Tuesday, October 19, 2021 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM Pacific/ 10:30 - 4:30 PM Mountain

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Atlantic/ 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM Eastern/ 8:30 AM -2:30 PM Central

This unique event will broadcast live on two separate days, October 19 and 20, 2021. You may register for the day and time zone that works best for your local group. 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 centres, or other entities with an interest in professional development for those who engage volunteers.

How does it work? 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 you may charge a fee per person (determined by you) 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 re-certification tracking
• 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, Volunteer Centres 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 Better Impact website here: https://www.betterimpact.tv/vmhc-registration-2021 and pay the conference hosting fee
• Secure a venue that can support the audio/visual and internet requirements
• Organize refreshments and an option for lunch (it can be brown bag if your venue allows it)
• Run your own registration process (the fees you charge are your own)
• Provide a host for the day who will be trained in advance to interact with the local participants.

Fees:

Early Bird rate before July 31st = $500 for VMPC members and $550 for non-members

After July 31st = $550 for VMPC members and $600 for non-members

Register now at https://www.betterimpact.tv/vmhc-registration-2021/

(Space is limited!)

To sign up for an information session to learn more, go to: https://mms.volunteeralive.org/members/evr/reg_event.php?orgcode=ALIV&evid=27239281

Questions? If you have questions, please contact Tara, Conference Committee Chair, at conference@vmpc.ca