Tips for New (and not-so-new) Directors

• 1. Look to your community. Call your friends, call your foes. Do your own quick needs assessment.
• 2. Have a vision for your program - as a way of making a difference for people. Don't automatically accept the constraints offered by others. Keep and use data - diaries, scrapbooks, figures. Make MAEMIS work for you. Be looking ahead; opportunities come in strange forms.
• 3. Understand money. Get cozy with your bookkeeper. Use mentors. Use Andy McMahan at Maine DOE.
• 4. Have no shame about borrowing ideas that work. Seek out information on other programs. Check those web sites on the Members Page!
• 5. There is no such thing as too much publicity for growing your program. Aim for a press release weekly. Feature people and success.
•  Tips sent in by directors:

 

Program Publicity: Get a digital camera and provide regular pictures to your local papers along with brief captions or releases.

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