National Conference 2008

Registration Deadline extended to JUNE 10 - sign up now! Please add a $30 late charge to the registration fee.
You can fax your registration form to 802-865-2626, or register and pay by phone at 800-765-0107.

We’re in This Together
Consumer Advocacy From the Grassroots to the Nation

Seattle University
June 26 - 28, 2008
901 12th Ave.
Seattle, Washington

Featuring

If you’ve never been to Funeral Consumers Alliance’s national conference before, don’t miss this one. We’ve got the largest program of speakers in our history, and we’re honored to be working with our oldest and largest supporting member, Peoples Memorial Association, to bring you this program. PMA made history last year by opening the largest nonprofit, member-owned funeral service cooperative in the country. Don’t miss this chance to come together in the city where it all started, and meet the people who are bringing funeral consumer advocacy into the 21st century!

The registration deadline is June 10, 2008. Download your registration form today! 2008 Biennial Registration Form

Thursday , June 26

Event/ Room

• 12:00 PM FCA Board Meeting (open to public) STCN-130 Meeting goes until 5 pm.
• 02:00 PM Registration- Bellarmine Lobby
• 03:00 PM Registration- Bellarmine Lobby
• 04:00 PM Registration - Bellarmine Lobby
• 06:00 PM Barbeque - Student Center Patio (Room 160 if raining)

Friday, June 27

• 7 - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast Cherry St. Market - Student Center
• 8 a.m Registration (UNTIL 1 PM) -Pigott Atrium
• 08:45 AM Welcome from PMA - Pigott Auditorium
• 9 a.m. State of the FCA, President Joyce Homan - Pigott Auditorium
• 9:15 a.m. FCA: Who and Why We Are, Exec. Dir. Josh Slocum - Pigott Auditorium
• 9:35 a.m. Audience Q&A - Pigott Auditorium
• 10:10 a.m. Break Coffee in atrium
• 10: 30 a.m. Breakouts and Workshops
  
  1. Advocacy 101 - PIGT-103
  2. Effective Networking - PIGT-101
  3. Funeral Director Panel Discussion - PIGT-107
  4. Old Traditions, New Ways: Home Funerals - PIGT-109
  5. Start Spreading the News (Newsletter Development) - PIGT-106
  6. Rethink, Revamp, Be Relevant -PIGT-102

12:00 noon Lunch Cherry St. Market - Student Center
1:00 - 2:30 Anatomical Donation Panel-Pigott Auditorium
2:30 - 2:50 Break
2:50 - 3:30 PMA's Funeral Cooperative - PIgott Auditorium
3:30- 4:30 Open Mic for Affiliates - Pigott Auditorium
4:30 on Dinner/sighseeing on our own

Saturday, June 28

• 7 - 8:30 a.m. Optional Roundtable Breakfast Discussion - Campion Ballroom
• 7 - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast - Cherry St. Market Student Center
• 7 - 10 a.m. Registration - Pigott Atrium
• 8:45 AM Announcements - Pigott Auditorium
• 9:00 - 10:10 Natural Burial, Mark Harris - PIgott Auditorium
• 10:10 - 10:30 Mark Harris Book Signing - Break
• 10:30 AM Breakouts and Workshops
  
  1. Marketing Your Mission - PIGT-103
  2. Natural Burial w/Cynthia Beal - PIGT-101
  3. Advocacy 102 - PIGT-106
  4. Rethink, Revamp, Be Relevant (repeat) - PIGT-102
  5. A Grave Plot: Resurrecting the Memorial Society of Rhode Island - PIGT 107
     
  6. Advocacy 101 (repeat) - PIGT-100

• 12:00 noon Lunch Cherry St. Market - Student Center
• 1:00 - 2:30 Kathryn Tucker, Compassion and Choices - Pigott Auditorium
• 2:00-3:30 Breakouts and Workshops
  
  1. Marketing Your Mission (repeat) PIGT-103
  2. Diversity in Death PIGT-102
  3. Using Computers: They're Not Scary PIGT-207 Computer Lab
  4. Old Traditions, New Ways: Home Funerals (repeat) PIGT-109
  5. Advocacy 102 (repeat) PIGT-101

• 3:30 p.m. Break
• 4:00- 5:00 Open Mic for Affiliates - Pigott Auditorium
• 6:30 - 7:00 Cocktails/Appetizers - Campion Ballroom
• 7 - 10 p.m. Awards Banquet with Valerie Bayham - Campion Ballroom