As we gain many new faces on our team, we wanted to take a moment to recognize our furry, feathered, and serpentine friends who put
As part of the SPARK program, Priscila Santos Urteaga received a professional development stipend, which she used to attend a Colorado Forest Health Council meeting and visit a local collaborative in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. She learned all about the great work the Middle Colorado Watershed Council is doing – learn more about it here!
Hello! I’m Priscila Santos Urteaga, an international student from Monterrey, Mexico. Three years ago, I moved to the U.S. for college and am now in my final semester at Colorado State University, majoring in Human Dimensions of Natural Resources! I began my internship with the Center for Collaborative Conservation this past June, and my main role has been assisting Katie McGrath-Novak, the Colorado Forest Collaboratives Network Coordinator, in planning the 2024 Colorado Forest Collaboratives Summit.
Check out the post to hear more about my experience!
CCC Fellows Cohort 14 traveled to Fort Collins for the Fellows training retreat: learning, field trips, presentations, panel, & more!
The WCCN Quarterly Newsletter: “Collaborative Voices of Confluence” is OUT! Read all about it and look at pretty pictures from WCCN partners
The session at Confluence reminded us that this work – engaging young people in conservation, cultivating their passion, and creating opportunities for growth – are the building blocks for a career of impact. They are also key components of mentorship, and feedback from this session will inform the creation of a mentorship toolkit, which will be available later this year.
We at the Western Collaborative Conservation Network (WCCN) and the Center for Collaborative Conservation (CCC) have put together a collaborative, live document: “Collaborative Conservation Tools and Resources”.
Lorraine Marquez Eiler, who is a Hia C-ed O’odham Elder, and the co-founder and board vice-president of the International Sonoran Desert Alliance (ISDA – https://www.isdanet.org/), was our keynote speaker for Confluence 2024. And I couldn’t have been more honored and excited when she accepted our invitation to come speak with the Confluence audience as our keynote. Lorraine is a collaborative visionary with decades of experience, not only working with partners from a variety of professional backgrounds, but among partners from three different nations – the Tohono O’odham Nation, Mexico, and the United States.
by Aireona Bonnie-Raschke My objectives for Confluence have been to (1) create a in-person platform for knowledge sharing and learning, and (2) create space for
Why is networking so important, especially for communicators? How can we make our communications more effective and reach wider audiences through relationship building and collaboration?
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