Partners Days are a vital part of a broad-based community outreach effort and our goal to make invasive plant control a community-wide effort. For that to happen we need to "partner" with other interested groups.
One of the biggest things our group brings to the table is the fact that we have already established basic agreements with the Town on work practices, safety issues, and so on. Then we built an organizational framework around these agreements that allows us to execute the plan. By putting the framework on line it becomes available to prospective Glastonbury partners as well as organizations in other towns who may be facing similar challenges.
Core Strategies:
Our core stragegies are Save A Tree Days and, Partner Days (described below)..
Partner Days:
Partner Days are events where we partner with other organization(s) for a Save A Tree Day. There may be a public volunteer component as well as the Gold Level Team and other groups working at a single location. Partner Days are typically tailored for the specific event, group(s) involved, qualifications of expected volunteers and location.
The typical Partner Day is actually a hybrid of strategies 1 and 2 above, operating at the same site on the same day:
The typical Partner Day is actually a hybrid of strategies 1 and 2 above, operating at the same site on the same day:
- Gold Level Team: The Gold Level Team will operate based on the "Save A Tree" Day process, working independently with oversight provided by an Event Coordinator. This is described in the Save A Tree Day web site.
- Partner Organization(s): Will organize their volunteers depending on levels of expertise. Highly experienced people will be given a brief orientation and work independently as part of the Gold Level Team. Less experienced people will be organized in teams, with a designated Team Leader, more detailed orientation, and an assigned work area.
Usually Partner Days will involve designated contacts for each organization. These contacts will meet prior to the event to tailor the precise organizational model for the specific event based on site, who is being invited to volunteer, etc, keeping in mind the need to remain within the models the Town has agreed to.
