SYMPOSIUM SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

As you've seen in a previous email blast, the Planning and Conservation League and PCL Foundation have announced the 2009 Environmental Legislative Symposium.  The event will be held Saturday, February 7, 2009 at the Sheraton Grand in downtown Sacramento.   Our theme is Steps to a Sustainable California: Building Momentum for Real Change. We all have an opportunity to contribute to the environmental movement and help guide decisions made by our public agencies -- here is your chance to help make California a sustainable state.  Please review our preliminary conference agenda and see the wonderful topics to be discussed in 2009! 

This year it is particularly important to us to make sure our steps (to a sustainable California) are creative, achievable and the focus of our legislative efforts.  Our policy panels will concentrate on water policy, land use, public health and climate change.  We are also offering "How To..." Workshops that empower individuals and organizations to be more effective, with workshops including, but not limited to: Telling Your Story Effectively, Protecting Natural Lands, and Engaging the Next Generation in the Environmental Movement.  Our MCLE panels will focus on extremely relevant topics that have been at the forefront of our efforts and the attorneys we work with.  These sessions include: California Wildfire and CEQA, Water Privatization and a special legal panel highlighting the conservation achievement at Tejon Ranch.  This year, after several requests, we have decided to submit our program for AICP continuing education credit for planners.  We hope this broadens the scope of our participants!

PCL recognizes the many environmental issues and interests out there... we hope you are able to consider being an event sponsor or to sponsor a particular session.  Various benefits align with our sponsor categories and one bonus this year is the inclusion of Banquet tickets for sponsors above $1000.  We encourage you to look at the sponsor benefits and learn more about the opportunities.   You can also become a sponsor right now!

Please contact me if you are interested in being an event sponsor. We would appreciate your support and participation in this statewide event.  If you aren't able to become a sponsor, we hope you are able to attend and registration is available online.  We've got Early BIrd Discounts and 2-for-1 Deals available for those that register before December 31st.

Thank you,

Traci Sheehan
Executive Director

P.S.  Should you decide to sponsor the event, we need to hear from you no later than September 15th to ensure you are included in our first event publication!