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2003 Conference: Image Matters

Our conference was held at the recently renovated, historic Wentworth Hotel in New Hampshire. The setting was beautiful, the food superb, and the company invigorating. Thomas A. Power, Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Southern Maine and his associate, Bill Steele, facilitated “Image Matters,” a day-long training program designed to help us hone our public speaking and presentation skills as well as better understand how and why “image” counts.

Attendees participated in the hands-on, interactive workshop. Small working groups created presentations for five diverse, fictional organizations: Green Oil; Even Steven; Passamadumkeag Homes; Helping Hands; and the Senior Activity Center. Tom and Bill evaluated each of the presentations to help us assess our skills and teach us effective strategies to project ourselves and our programs successfully to a variety of constituents, including potential funders, boards of directors, community advocacy groups, and state agences.

The following is a brief outline of the material covered to help us hone our presentation skills:

I - Introduction & Conclusion
II - Originality of approach
III - Organization
IV - Transitions
V – Examples
VI - Proof of Research
VII - Language
VIII -What does the audience, expect from a presenter?
IX -Podium Presence
X - Rehearse
XI - Do’s and Don’ts

It was an enlightening experience, and - as always - a great opportunity for us to catch up with our grantees’ exciting initiatives and for our grantees to network with one another.

Dudley Davis of Yes! to Youth (Maine) and Beth Reutlinger of PlusTime (New Hampshire)	Pat Palmiotto, Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business; Keith Small, Washington, Hancock Community Agency; Beth Reutlinger, PlusTime NH; Abe Kreworuka, Blue Enterprises; Whitney Schwartz, New Heights; and Ted Regan, Rippleffect
Tom Davis, Sebasticook Farms; Mary Burnett, Fannie Clac; Dave Marsden, Rippleffect; Peter Darling, Bancroft, Inc; and Maureen Beauregard, FIT	Dudley Davis, Yes! to Youth; Steve Blackmer, Northern Forest Center, Paul Rubin, Faithworks; and Mary Ann Kristensen, HGM
Kay Cichon, Community Child Care Center; Kathy Freund, ITN; Alan Furth, CCCLC; Jeanne Karr, Quality Care Partners; Emily Burgo, FIT; Robert Chambers, Fannie CLAC; and Cathy Duffy, Girls Inc, NH	Natalie Woodroofe and Katy Curnyn of WREN and Abe Kreworka of Blue Enterprises