WELCOME

Thank you for joining us at ECIVC 2009, Making Connections. With nearly 140 participants in attendance, the day provide a great chance to learn and network with volunteer managers from dozens of organizations.

We hope you left ECIVC energergized and took with youideas to help strengthen your volunteer program. If you weren't able to attend a presentation or if you'd like to review the slides from your favorite session, many are now available online. Visit the Workshops page to find many of the day's presentations for download in PDF format. More presentations and photos from the conference are coming soon!

Thank you for your help making this year's conference a success. We look forward to coming together again in 2010!

- The ECIVC Steering Committee

ECIVC 2009 Steering Committee Partners

The Serve Illinois Commission • The Lumpkin Family Foundation • Parkland College • Eastern Illinois University • Mental Health Center of Champaign County • Illinois Department of Human Services • Mid–America Preparedness • Richland Community College • Eastern Illinois Food Bank • United Way of Champaign County • RSVP of Champaign, Douglas and Piatt Counties • McLean County Museum of History • U of I Extension, 4–H Youth Development • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign • Community Foundation of East Central Illinois • Gladys Pope/Pope for Peace Foundation • Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum • Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center • Champaign-Urbana Area Project

A volunteer management network event, in cooperation with the Illinois Department of Human Services and the Serve Illinois Commission.