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Celebrating the Environment: Your Reading Recommendations From Summer 2019
Before you delve into the newest pumpkin spice treat, enjoy the end of summer with ICL’s top picks for environmental reading. In celebration of our environmental community, this year’s summer

Facilitate Meetings That Matter: Boost Your Skills With ICL
Would you like to learn how to design meetings and training experiences that powerfully engage your audiences? From government agencies, to community groups and landowners, working with a wide

Investing in You: The Value of Reflection and Continued Learning
Like most nonprofit leaders, we sometimes find that we are so busy “doing the work” that we do not set nearly enough time aside to improve our own practice. We’re

2019 Leadership Resolutions from the ICL Team
ICL staff and Board members share their leadership resolutions for 2019! Dianne Russell Since leading the Women in Conservation Summit for National Wildlife Federation two years ago, I have

In it Together: Reflections on Building Inclusive Spaces
As facilitators, our job is to help environmental and conservation leaders have tough conversations, build consensus, and together explore ways to end inequalities and foster stronger teams. Those candid conversations

Want an Effective Partnership? Ask These 4 Key Questions First!
If the word “partnership” makes you shudder, you are in good company. It can be hard enough to work with your teammates, much less try to work with anyone else