View the interactive chart below to see over 120 approved workshops for Better Together 2023. Use the dropdowns to filter results by conference focus, workshop day and time, or both! Additional information, such room location and speaker biographies will be listed in the Better Together 2023 App, available April 3rd.
| Workshop Title | Presenter | Conference Focus | Day/Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Looking Under the Hood -Understanding the Herth Hope Index | Dr. Jang Ho Park, Dr. Maribeth Swanson, Dr. Michael Smith | Social Services | Tuesday 10:45 |
| Lost in a Maze? Discovering the right framework for guiding your strategic plan | Major Keith Maynor | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Leveraging Local Media Planning and Buying | Caitlyn Banowsky | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 3:45 |
| How Are We Feeling? Brand Health Check-up | Jennifer Marzett | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Better Relationships, Better Results | Justin McCord | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Owning Your Fundraising Success - Taking Deliberate and Intentional Action During Down Times | Andy Junn, Fran Brace | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 1:45 |
| My Advisory Board/Council Isn't Working...What Do I Do?-Building an Effective and Engaged Advisory Board | Captain Paul Ryerson, Jason Wood | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Development 101: Building your strategy from the ground up! | Cari Detmers | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Gift Planning During a Campaign: Preparation, Execution, and Follow-Up | Dr. Scott Janney | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 1:45 |
| One Army Many Fronts Campaign | Jay Dunn | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Real Estate, Real Value, and Reality! | Jeff Hesseltine | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Advisory Organizations Standards of Excellence | Joey Zumaya, Fred Hunzeker | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Rethinking Integrated Marketing for transformation revenue growth | John Wilkinson, Julia Boyd, Kerissa Kelly-Slatten | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Communications that build relationships | Mayz Yang | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Running Your Capital Campaign: An Alternative to Hiring Outside Counsel | Michele Prosser | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Mythbusting Salvation Army Fundraising | Shawn Reed, Roberta Helmstadter | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 1:45 |
| How Are We Feeling? Brand Health Check-up | Jennifer Marzett | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Base Camps- Why and How? | Alvin Migues | Emergency Disaster Services | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Protecting Houses of Worship: Funding and Tools | Kevin Smith | Emergency Disaster Services | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Lessons from the Ukraine/Russia Crisis: A Panel with those 'Who are There' | Major Galina Korenivska, Major Elizabeth Garland, Lt Colonel Stuart Evans, Major Heather Rossouw, Damaris Frick | Emergency Disaster Services | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Know Your Rights! Disaster Law, Disaster Legal Services and Building Resiliency | Stephanie Duke | Emergency Disaster Services | Tuesday 1:45 |
| A Vision for the Aging Church and Society | Andrew Wileman, Dr. Maribeth Swanson | Social Services | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Walking the Talk-How the Salvation Army’s trafficking communication Guide promotes ethical storytelling | Arielle Curry, Michelle Hannan | Social Services | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Correctional Ministries: A Ministry of Presence, Encouragement and Support Both Inside and Outside the Walls of Prisons and Jails | Barry Brown | Social Services | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Homelessness and Housing: A Collaborative Approach | Deronda Metz | Social Services | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Hope Enhancement Strategies in Case Management | Dr. Michael Smith | Social Services | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Intentional Spiritual Care: Rooted & Grounded in History (Workshop 1 of 2) | Gloria Woodland | Social Services | Tuesday 1:45 |
| "Recover We" - Restoring Hope for the Family" | Kimberly R. Beck, Darrion Tobias | Social Services | Tuesday 1:45 |
| PEARL Essence - Building an AHT Program successfully by leveraging EDS/CRD/Social Services expertise | Major Margareta Ivarsson | Social Services | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Enhancing Production Using Metrics | BJ Dorman | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 10:45 |
| The Disunited States of America and the Challenge of Reputation management in a Polarized Society | Brian Sweany & Nick Wheeler | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 10:45 |
| Building Authentic Relationships - The Donor's Story | Carl Johann, Dane Duval, John Donovan | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 10:45 |
| Collaborative Corporate Partnerships : Working Better Together with Corporate Partners | Christina Cavalier, Lauren Brant | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 10:45 |
| Jumpstart your next Capital Campaign | Derric Bakker | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 10:45 |
| Christmas TV Specials – Not Just for Stop-Motion Elves | Alex Kuebler, Tom Cochran | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Dear Officer, 7 Things Development Wished You Understood | Dr. Kim Falcon, Captain Dan Nelson, Major Sarah Nelson | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 10:45 |
| The Meaning of Money | Dr. Scott Janney | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 10:45 |
| Skimming the cream | Gary Kovar | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 10:45 |
| Running an Effective board meeting with Boardable | Joey Zumaya | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 10:45 |
| The Art of Pitch | Katie Stillwell | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 10:45 |
| 3 Critical Steps in Preparing for a Capital Campaign | Keith Waters, Major Terry Israel | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 10:45 |
| Bucket Blitz and Mayoral Challenge: Shaking up the Red Kettle Campaign | Matt Schmidt, Konstantin Maslenikov and Anna Maslenikov | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 10:45 |
| Creating a Memorable Volunteer Experience: Tips and Strategies for Next Level Service | Julie Orlando | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 10:45 |
| How AI really works to create targeted communications and save real money. | Paul Hebblethwaite, Joseph Churpek | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 10:45 |
| Difference between North American (domestic) and International Deployments | Bob Myers, Ian Anderson, Captain Matthew Beatty, John Berglund | Emergency Disaster Services | Tuesday 10:45 |
| How do we recruit, engage and help those around us thrive with a Kingdom Mindset? | Major Nesan Kistan | Multi-Disciplinary | Tuesday 10:45 |
| Writing as a Spiritual Practice: Silence & Wonder | Richard Gibson, James Beitler | Multi-Disciplinary | Tuesday 10:45 |
| The Game of Life - All Hands On Deck | Victoria McCombs | Multi-Disciplinary | Tuesday 10:45 |
| Unit Cost - The Value Proposition | Dr. Donald Dixon | Social Services | Tuesday 10:45 |
| Equipping Our Front Line with Mental Health First Aid | Lauren Fair | Social Services | Tuesday 10:45 |
| Leading from Your Heart | Lauren Stephens | Social Services | Tuesday 10:45 |
| Data Tales: Telling Stories with Numbers | Libby Einterz | Social Services | Tuesday 10:45 |
| More Than a Refugee | Major Sandra Pawar | Social Services | Tuesday 10:45 |
| How to Implement Best Practices in our Shelters Even When it's Hard | Tim Beimers, Takisha Jones | Social Services | Tuesday 10:45 |
| Doing More Good in a Technicological Age | Ashley Jones | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 3:45 |
| Have you mentioned an endowment to your high net worth donor? | Chris R. Edens | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 3:45 |
| How to Write a Grant...P.S.-It Has Nothing to do with Writing! | Dr. Kim Falcon | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 3:45 |
| Building Active Advisory Boards / Building Strong Advisory Boards in Smaller Corps Settings | Harold Witherspoon, Captain Bryan DeMichael | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 3:45 |
| Making Major Inroads with Major Donors | Jason Wood, Scott Justvig | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 3:45 |
| Building Effective Innovative Marketing Campaigns | Karen Woods | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 3:45 |
| A New Model of Donor Care and Donor Engagement | Lindsay Vix | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 3:45 |
| Planned Gift Fundraising Strategies for Everyone | Philip Purcell | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 1:45 |
| EDS in Your Community | Bishop Wash | Emergency Disaster Services | Tuesday 3:45 |
| Federal Public Assistance: Lessons Learned from Successful PA Awards and Grants | Bob Myers, Kevin Smith | Emergency Disaster Services | Tuesday 3:45 |
| The Dignity of Difference | Bobbi Geery | Emergency Disaster Services | Tuesday 3:45 |
| Linking Relief, Recovery, and Development | Captain Richard Bradbury, Commissioner Ivor Telfer, Sarah Makanjera, Ben Gilbert | Emergency Disaster Services | Tuesday 3:45 |
| Mobilizing a Community in Disaster Response: Mass Care Task Force | Christina Cavalier | Emergency Disaster Services | Tuesday 3:45 |
| Protecting the Homefront/Growing Emotional Resiliencey in a Time of Increasing Needs | Jeremy Koren, Chris Farrand | Emergency Disaster Services | Tuesday 3:45 |
| Real Time Situational Awareness through Technology | Patrick Mcginn | Emergency Disaster Services | Tuesday 3:45 |
| Communicating with GenZ and Millenials through Social Media | Elizabeth Hanley, Caitlyn Mitchell | Multi-Disciplinary | Tuesday 3:45 |
| Better Together: The Salvation Army and its Boys & Girls Clubs | Steve waiksnoris, Colonel Eddie Hobgood | Multi-Disciplinary | Tuesday 3:45 |
| The Match Factory 1 | Commissioners Heidi Bailey, Lorraine Bamford, Jolene Hodder, Kelly Igleheart, & Colonel Eddie Vincent | Multi-Disciplinary | Tuesday 3:45 |
| Intentional Spiritual Care: Strengthened by Professional Practice (Workshop 2 of 2) | Gloria Woodland | Social Services | Tuesday 3:45 |
| Surveying the Landscape of Child Protection Practice in Churches and Youth-Serving Organizations | Joe Harvey Hall | Social Services | Tuesday 3:45 |
| Service Extension, Taking the Next Step | Ken Tregallas | Social Services | Tuesday 3:45 |
| A Brief Exploration of Addiction, Recovery and Recovery Oriented Systems of Care | Major Dawn McFarland | Social Services | Tuesday 3:45 |
| LIFNAV - Reframing Housing Displacement to Reduce Homelessness by 25% by 2025 | Major Ethan Frizzell | Social Services | Tuesday 3:45 |
| Obtaining Grant Funding for Basic Social Services (food pantry, Back to School, homeless prevention, etc) | Major Jessyca Carr, Captain Amber Ohl | Social Services | Tuesday 3:45 |
| We’ll Fight…Together. Principles of Collaborative Corrections Ministry | Mark Fahringer | Social Services | Tuesday 3:45 |
| The Secret Sauce for Successful Grant Proposals | Anne Smith | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Engaging Local Officials to Tell Our Story | Brian Sweany | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Volunteer Kettle Campaigns Might Be Easier Than You Think | Captain Joe West | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Risky Business: Addressing Media Risks to Protect the Brand | David Jolley | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 1:45 |
| Better Together with Volunteers - Building Relationships and Capacity through Volunteers and Corporate Partnerships | Dawn M. Garlic | Community Relations and Development | Tuesday 3:45 |
| Benefits of a Collaborate Approach to Corporate Partnerships | Jaime Joswick, Maria Todaro | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Develop Meaningful Digital Relationships | Janet Park, Lt Colonel John P. Murray | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Marketing Budgeting with Intention | Jeffery Owens | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Church, Faith, and the New Majority Culture (2nd) | Jon Lee | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Hidden Gems and 4x4x4: Using Data for Fiscal Year Major Gift Goal Setting | Joshua Langford | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Secret Sauce for Successful estate and Charitable Planning Seminars | Kyle Karioka | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Turning Your Advisory Board into a Fundraising Success | Matt Schmidt | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Faith and Fundraising | Paul Hebblethwaite | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Cultivating Mid-level Donors to Major Success | Sharon Kerr | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Introduction to EDS for Fundraisers | Dan Miller | Emergency Disaster Services | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Got Spiritual Care? | Sam Amick | Emergency Disaster Services | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Working with Marginalized Groups | Szabolcs Gyori, Major Phillipa Chagas, Zach Hodgson, Major Doug Newman, Bram Bailey | Emergency Disaster Services | Wednesday 1:45 |
| EDS Fundraising - A Foot in the Door | William Trueblood | Emergency Disaster Services | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Centers of Excellence: Utilizing the National Social Services Standard to Create Programs of Distinction (Pt 2) | Bryant Erickson, Christopher Hogan & Joan Kurtz | Social Services | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Discipling Through Pathway | Captain Marisa McCluer | Social Services | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Posturing for Success: Pathway of Hope Implementation Best Practices, Opportunities, and Challenges | Claire Dunmore, Major Kelly Collins, Onesa Anozie, Major Vickie Harvey, Christopher Doughty | Social Services | Wednesday 1:45 |
| The Importance of Operation Red Shield Military and Veteran Service Programs Offered in Your Corps | Jeremey Kendall | Social Services | Wednesday 1:45 |
| The Role of the Emotional & Spiritual Care Specialist – In Social Services | Kevin Chinault, Major John R. Birks | Social Services | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Understanding Trauma Informed Care within Low Barrier Sheltering | Kristen Baluyot, Austin Foote, V. Skiffer, Matt McAdams | Social Services | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Achieve More With Technology Built for your Goals | Becca Sonnenklar, Brenda Jones, Shanna Birky | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Finders Keepers . . . Losers Weepers | Ed Laity | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Church, Faith, and the New Majority Culture (1st) | Jon Lee | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Adding Value to High End Major Donors | Mike Jestes | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Acquiring Donors | Sam Hamby | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Working Together on Transformational Gifts | Scott Claeys | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Sustainable and Creative Streams of Revenue | Stephanie Will, Holly Harmon | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Understanding and Managing Stress, Anxiety, and Burnout at Home and the Workplace | Steve Milbauer PhD | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 1:45 |
| Echelon: How to engage young professionals | Susan Barton | Community Relations and Development | Wednesday 10:45 |
| A Multi Strand Cord is not quickly broken, building a stronger disaster program | Kevin Chinault, Michelle Fredette | Emergency Disaster Services | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Fundamentals of Long Term Recovery | Laurie Fried | Emergency Disaster Services | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Displacement in the Americas | Ricardo Gomez, Major Reyes Cervantes, Tameka Sharp | Emergency Disaster Services | Wednesday 10:45 |
| A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words | Lt. Colonel Ron Busroe | Multi-Disciplinary | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Writing for National Publications | Major Jamie Satterlee, Lt Colonel Lesa Davis | Multi-Disciplinary | Wednesday 10:45 |
| The Match Factory 2 | Commissioners Heidi Bailey, Lorraine Bamford, Jolene Hodder, Kelly Igleheart, & Colonel Eddie Vincent | Multi-Disciplinary | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Centers of Excellence: Utilizing the National Social Services Standard to Create Programs of Distinction (Pt 1) | Bryant Erickson, Christopher Hogan & Joan Kurtz | Social Services | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Mobilizing Housing Navigation | Captain Felicia Grant, Jonathan Harvey, Tina Lewis & Jonathan Schultz | Social Services | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Amplifying Voices: Advancing Policy in Divisive Political Arenas | Jana Lynch, Dr. Bonnie Camarda, Maggie Ryan, Julie Klein, Shafiquil Muhshna | Social Services | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Pathway of Hope International Implementation and Interest in the Approach | Linda Brinker | Social Services | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Treat Yourself: Self Care in a Post Pandemic World | Matt McAdams, V. Skiffer, Lily Caruso | Social Services | Wednesday 10:45 |
| Collaboration Makes us Better Together | Rachelle May Haley, Lori Sandgren | Social Services | Wednesday 10:45 |
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