Funeral Consumers Alliance

2004 FCA Biennial Conference in Kansas City, Missouri. Sessions included:

• Organizing for Recruitment, by Lamar Hankins
• Funeral Price Surveys, by Mercedes Bern-Klug
• General Price Lists Demystified, by Joshua Slocum
• Putting the \"Fun\" Back in Fundraising (for affiliates), by Marie Lorz

June 1 - 3, St. Edwards University, Austin, Texas

FCA\'s Biennial Conference was hosted this year by the Austin Memorial and Burial Information Society. AMBIS volunteers were top-notch, and we couldn\'t have done it without them. Dozens of our participants said this was the best FCA conference ever put on! Topics included:

• Being Green —Burial Without the Box
• Home Funerals —Bringing the Funeral Back to the Family
• FCA Affiliate Lobbying — Pushing Back for Funeral Consumers
• Taking on Wall Street ‘Deathcare’
• Mortuary Price Lists — What’s Legal and What’s Not

Where possible, speaker presentations and handouts are available for download.