LCVEF Environmental Leadership Institute

League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

Environmental Leadership Institute™

November 8^th – 13^th, 2009

Potomac, MD

The League of Conservation Voters Education Fund will be holding the only Environmental Leadership Institute™ (ELI®) of 2009 in Potomac, Maryland. 

This session will begin the afternoon on Sunday, November 8^th and end late afternoon on Friday, November 13^th.

Attendance is limited to 32 participants and is open to participants outside the conservation voter movement.

Environmental Leadership Institute™ (ELI®)

“Training Tomorrow’s Leaders”

The ELI® is a rigorous program for strengthening individual advocacy campaign skills.  An intensive five and one half day program, the ELI® engages participants through a combination of workshops and a challenging simulation exercise. Each evening, participants apply the lessons of the day’s workshops during their group simulation work allowing them to internalize the information for greater retention. Participants work in teams throughout the week, producing comprehensive advocacy campaign plans based on fictional scenarios. Participants acquire hands-on experience with the following professional skills: Strategic planning, message creation, meeting facilitation, technological tools, fundraising, negotiating, earned media, audience targeting, the use of polling data, message discipline, decision-making, and group dynamics. 

The specific qualities of leadership that are developed and improved include:

• Thinking and executing plans strategically

•  Ability to identify, recruit, and mobilize people and resources to win

• Developing a compelling message and communicating persuasively

• Understanding the relationship between products and process

• Identifying your individual strengths and weaknesses as a leader

ELI® Simulations

There are four fictional scenarios used to facilitate learning at the ELI®. Participants will be assigned to a simulation “Team” on the first day of the training based upon their advocacy, campaign, , and organizing experience level. The four simulations are each designed to teach fundamental advocacy campaign skills but each apply them in slightly different contexts.

• Blue Team: Legislative Lobbying Campaign

• Yellow Team: Ballot Initiative Campaign

• Red Team: Candidate Campaign

• Green Team: Independent Expenditure Campaign

 Registration is closed!

If you have any questions please contact Carrie Maas.