LWCF

1. LWCF

2. The common vision • From wilderness to urban it gradually changes from an emphasis on land to an emphasis on people but its always about ecological and environmental sustainability

3. Collecting the stories/evidenceThe primary and secondary benefits • Interagency and organizational collaboration • Leveraging investment • Economic (tourism, employment, business development, maintenance, repurposing and revitalizing facilities and land) • Political • Social: (Collective, familial, individuals) • Cultural • Environmental/Scientific • Civic • Spiritual

4. To collect the compelling stories that celebrate the impact LWCF has had on our: • What did LWCF do? What do we know now that we didn’t know then? • How do we create languages that clearly illustrate to our varying stakeholder groups how LWCF has undeniable impacted there lives? • Are there new opportunities? What opportunities exist now that did not exist 50 years ago? • Address known and unknown threats and pockets of resistance • Clearly identify the benefits of reauthorization • What are the consequences of not reauthorizing? • How will we respond to the belief that LWCF has done what it was suppose to do and is no longer needed?

5. ROLES OF GOVERNMENT • Protect the lives, property, and rights of citizens • Protect, & insure the wise use of, the environment -- balancing environment as economics, art, habitat, science, spirit, etc. • Minimize suffering--provide a safety net • Enrich the lives of citizens through education, arts, and recreation--provide experiences that encourage lifelong creativity, fitness and learning • Promote citizenship, create and sustain community spirit, pride, & civility • Ensure the economic vitality of the jurisdiction Mickey Fearn -- "SYNAPSE"

6. The focus of parks and recreation agencies and professionals is to inspire us to: • Civility • Physical, spiritual, and emotional health: • Environmental Stewardship: Connecting them with their natural world understanding of their neighborhoods as eco-systems and habitat • Ensure their lifestyles and choices are compatible with or environment • Expand their worlds--Contributing to their discovering, refining and sharing their gifts and expanding their recreation, educational, avocational and career options, • Civic stewardship Civic engagement Big citizenship and service • Understand the significance and connection to natural and cultural heritage to their lives • Breaking the restrictive cycles of poverty, racism, and low expectations that currently result in reductionism keep many of our citizens citizens performing at less than their potential • Develop the abilities required to live powerfully in demographically, culturally and ethnically diverse communities. To participate fully and powerfully in ethnically, culturally, and demographically complex communities, and experience the difference in their communities as assets full of possibilities for enrichment and growth. Mickey Fearn -- "SYNAPSE"

7. The narrative • To mobilize the broadest possible constituency in support of reauthorization • Increase the variety and number of stakeholders • Create broader awareness of the impact of LWCF for the last 50 years • Identify on what we all agree? • To eliminate territoriality • To unify the support base

8. LWCF • Common Core Values • Committed people and principles • An enormous asset • Bi-partisan • High polling numbers among all demographics • Local and national impacts • Willingness to tax themselves • Civic engagement, voluntarism and Stewardship • Employment • Patriotic • Transcendent • Health • Transformative • Educational • Youth Development • Spiritual • Moral • Economic • Environmental

9. Groups we have to engage • Universities and other educational institutions • Community non-profits with political power and who know how to organize • Adversaries: in and out of the “tent” • Cynics • The indifferent • The unaware: The millions of citizen to whom we are invisible • Passive supporters • Active engaged supporters