Originally published on the CGS blog on August 1, 2013.
Last weekend I had the opportunity to attend the Annual Conference for GlobalSolutions.org at Hofstra University in New York. The conference focused largely on skills that can be used to become more engaged in our campaigns and to help build the GlobalSolutions.org movement. The staff at the conference certainly accomplished that, teaching many invaluable skills such as building community networks, fundraising, and using social media. Overall, I left the conference with an abundance of knowledge on how to build our movement effectively, and I hope other conference participants feel the same.
Of course, the most inspiring part of the conference was not the information itself, but the energy in the room. While the mood changed several times over the course of the day, sometimes serious, sometimes less so, the overall atmosphere was inspiring. Some of the participants hadn’t seen their old friends in years, yet still spoke as if it were yesterday. And of course, many new friendships were made. Overall, the room was filled with exciting discussion and intense energy – you could tell that everyone there had a passion to change the world.
If you didn’t get to attend the conference, don’t worry! We have a page with a summary of everything covered, including the information we handed out at the conference and helpful tutorials so you can learn these skills from home. Also, you can still let us know what you think we should work on and how you’d like to be engaged by filling out our survey. Until next year, GlobalSolutions.org’ers!
