Thank you for registering for Ensuring Their Future - Conservation Planning for Breed Organizations, part of The Livestock Conservancy's Cultivating Leadership for Breed Organizations webinar series.

Breed clubs, organizations, and associations are an important part of successful conservation. A well-functioning breed organization has the ability to unite owners around a common cause to support the animals they love and ensure they are around for future generations.

The Cultivating Leadership for Breed Organizations webinar series focuses on what it takes to develop a strong foundation upon which an organization can function and handle any problems that may present themselves. Courses in this series include:

• Articles of Incorporation and By-laws
• Managing Membership
• Recruiting and Managing a Board of Directors
• Accountability & Transparency
• Internal & External Communications
• Risk Management
• Herd Book Registry/Management
• Civil Communications
• Strategic Planning
• Conservation Planning

In this course, Ensuring Their Future - Conservation Planning for Breed Organizations you will learn the importance of a creating and utilizing a breed conservation plan, key elements, who to include, and measuring success and accountability. Successful breed longevity depends on breeders and breed associations! This course will challenge you and your organization to tackle the big work of goal identification, long-range planning, plan implemntation and monitoring, and evaluation. This course will help you best utilize your stock while ensuring the long term secutiry of your breeds most valuable genetics.

We hope you enjoy this course. If you have any difficulty accessing any of the materials in this course please email [email protected] .

The Livestock Conservancy is America's leading organization working to protect more than 150 heritage breeds, including horses and donkeys, from extinction. Learn more about rare breed equine conservation at LivestockConservancy.org.

The Cultivating Leadership Initiative helps breed associations, clubs, and registries establish and achieve high standards of operation for longevity and continued success. Thriving organizations save more livestock and poultry. The Cultivating Leadership Training Series also aligns with general best practices and is especially beneficial to officers and leaders of breed associations and clubs.

Banner photo of a American Milking Devon bull courtesy of Jeannette Beranger