These sessions are targeted towards the adult recreational and competitive
league/team managers, Board members, founders, event planners, and others that
want to become involved in these types of roles.
About PrideSportsBoston,
www.pridesportsboston.com
The Greater Boston area's non-profit gay and lesbian networking alliance with
the goal of promoting athletics within our community. Compete with Pride!
Overall: Roundtables for Sports
Teams/League Organization Management and Training
These roundtables are specialized meetings created for the purpose of idea
exchange and learning from one another. New and existing organizations have
something to learn from one another. Share templates, what works, what
doesn't, strategies, management techniques, training, fund raisers, event
management, etc.
If you are a board member,
owner, manager, or officer of a sports league, team, umbrella, or governing
group, these
sessions are for you. If you would like to be a part of these round
tables, please subscribe to this discussion group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SportsLeadership
(even
if you can't attend in person, subscribe to this Yahoo! Group anyway to engage
in the online sharing of ideas). Being leaders
in the sports community, please help us get
the word out by including us in your next newsletter and on your website,
details here.
These open forums will be completely driven by the attendees, though our two
co-chairs (Marc Davino, Executive
Director of
PrideSportsBoston, Diana Cutaia, NGLAC
Women's Director, and Jeffry Pike,
Federation of Gay Games
Charter and Honorary Lifetime Director) will help drive
the process. This is likely the first time many of you will
be meeting each other in person, it would be a good idea to get the
conversations started before coming such that you'll each know what information
would be valuable amongst the participants. You're all in the driver's seat
-- we're providing the space and the venue -- go for it! These are working
sessions.
Umbrella Multi-Sports Group
Roundtable
These combined 1-2 hour working sessions are an open forum for the organizers of umbrella
sports groups to have an exchange of ideas and learn from one another. Expect
the sharing of advice on successful and unsuccessful strategies for building a
successful umbrella athletics group, templates, how to become a non-profit,
how to recruit and engage a board, how to provide value-added services to
member groups, etc. Some of these sport groups have evolved from groups that
were originally put together to bring athletes to the Gay Games, others were
setup specifically to leverage resources for local sports teams. Attendees in
this session should also plan on attending the Local Sports Team Roundtable.
This session is also for those wanting to create such groups in their local
area.
International Sports Governing
Roundtable
These combined 1-2 hour working sessions are an open forum for the organizers of
international/national sports governing groups, usually for a single sport, to
have an exchange of ideas and learn from one another. Expect the sharing of
advice on successful and unsuccessful strategies for building a successful
governing organization, templates, how to become a non-profit, how to recruit
and engage a board how to grow and manage more local groups, autonomy of local
groups vs. centralize management, etc. These groups define and/or recommend
standards to be implemented at the local sports team/league level, as well as
hold international/national tournaments. Attendees in this session should also
plan on attending the Local Sports Team Roundtable.
Local Sports Team/League Roundtable
These combined 1-2 hour working sessions are an open forum for the organizers of a local
team or league to have an exchange of ideas and learn from one another. Expect
the sharing of advice on successful and unsuccessful strategies for building a
local athletics group/league/team, templates, how to incorporate, how to
recruit and engage a board, how to recruit members and give them value, how to
work with umbrella/governing sports groups, etc.
SLC topics
of potential discussion in each session
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Cover case studies of participating organizations
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Formalization of the organization (incorporate or not, pros/cons,
tips for mission/goals, by-laws, Board of Directors, committees, etc.)
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Recruiting members and engaging the community -- creating
inclusion, working with mainstream/straight leagues
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How to manage operationally and fiscally
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Creating long lasting organizations
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What are the politics involved? How to work with the government
in your city
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Leveraging the strength of the membership to benefit all groups
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How to seek financial sponsorship
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Using the network
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How to plan events
Also, please help us to help you by promoting the online survey
that will show corporate sponsors (you can use this data as well) that they
should be allocating funds and chasing gay sporting events since our
demographics show we are highly coveted consumers,
http://www.gayconference.org/Survey.php?Link=your_group (where you edit "your_group"
and as long as you receive 10 or more replies, we can give you a rollup on the
anonymous survey results for your members -- so you'll have anonymous
demographics for your audience as well as the overall).
