This conference is dedicated to our volunteers, in particular to those listed below.
8:30 – 9 a.m. Registration
9 a.m. Welcome by Sara Wright, director of communications
9:05 a.m. T.R. Reid, emcee, Introduction
9:15: Keynote address: Jackson Potter
9:33: Foundation Executive Director, Ivan J. Miller, Ph.D.:
Next moves: The Foundation forges forward
Breakout Session #1 9:50 – 10:40 a.m. (Choose one)
1) Engaging Communities: Start where you are
Location: Main Meeting Hall (Stay where you are.)
2) Universal health care means business
Location: Drafting lab
3) Converge: Stronger-together movements for social justice
Location: Blue room
4) How to create a Facebook Live event
Location: Green room
Breakout Session#2: 10:50-11:40 (Choose one)
1) Engaging Communities: Start where you are
Location: Main Meeting Hall
2) Supercharge the movement: Raise fun(ds)!
Drafting lab
3) Converge: Stronger-together movements for social justice
Location: Blue room
4) Legislative action for health justice
Location:Green room
Lunch: 11:45 – 12:45
12:15: How to have a healthy influence on your legislator (Rep. Jonathan Singer)
12:30: Update from Healthcare-NOW! conference
12:42: Ivan J. Miller, Ph.D.: The 2018 People’s Health Care Champion award
12:45 – 1 p.m. Ron Vejrostek: “Listen Up: Growing the movement by hearing others”
1 – 1:15 p.m. Roundtable discussion #1: Thought provoking question
10-minute: Group spokesperson shares three best ideas; 2-minute shuffle
1:30 – 1:50: Nancy Reed: “Speak Up: Grow the movement by sharing our values”
1:50 – 2:05 p.m. Q: Roundtable discussion #2 Express your values and plan ways to share them with others
10-minute: Group spokesperson shares three best ideas; 2-minute shuffle
2:20 – 2:35 p.m.: “Rise up: Grow the movement by getting the word out”
Madeleine Jacobs, MD, gives the skinny on growing the movement in Fremont County
Fort Collins Health Care WTF (What are the Facts)
Madi & Team: Community TV
Disseminating videos across the state on Youtube, other social media
2:35 – 2:50: Roundtable Discussion #3: What would it take to get you more involved?
10-minute: Group spokesperson shares three best ideas; 2-minute shuffle
3:05 – 3:20 U.S. Rep. Jared Polis addresses conference attendees
3:20: Ron Vejrostek
3:27 p.m. Sara Wright: Carry it forward and thank you!
Volunteers Par Excellence: We recognize and honor these individuals
All are visionaries who are determined that health care must be available to every single one of us. All made personal sacrifices. We are deeply grateful.
David Beckwith: Dave was an early Board and Management Team member who wore multiple hats—office manager, major funder, IT specialist—and he maintained a scrubbed and functional database. He’s most known for developing the software that enabled ColoradoCare to track volunteers, petitions, signatures, and all the required reporting data during the Initiative campaign, from the beginning to the wee hours of the night before turn-in.
Eliza Carney: Relentless in her drive for single-payer health care, Eliza spent years keeping Ft. Collins and the state organized, active, and networked. She twice arranged state tours for Sen. Irene Aguilar, MD; created constituent legislative liaisons; wrote and organized Democratic platform campaigns at the caucuses; created dozens of flyers; and built a statewide grassroots movement by ensuring that every volunteer was put to work and knew they were valuable.
Lyn Gullette: Lyn has been the heart, soul, and mission control of the hope and advocacy for universal health care in our state for many years. She has been the driving force behind the several legislative efforts and then the strategizing for and implementing of the ColoradoCare citizen’s initiative process and its electoral campaign. Most recently, she created the candidate liaison project and the candidate survey to identify health care legislative champions for the 2018 election cycle. She is a champion.
LuAnn Lind: LuAnn quietly kept the Gilpin office polished and decorated; made phone calls; collected signatures; and organized events. Amazingly, she has handwritten more than 7,100 thank you cards to our donors!
Owen Perkins: Owen worked tirelessly collecting signatures, identifying great collection sites, and inspiring volunteer canvassers during the initiative campaign. A principled and wise strategist as well as a gifted writer, Owen led the communications teams during the A69 campaign and he created a powerfully engaging website.
Charles Smith: As an original Board member of Co-operate Colorado (our beginnings), he drafted the application for C4 status and funded the earliest efforts, among other actions. He is most known for developing the Saving Cities Millions project. He secured the data and calculations that revealed the actual amount of savings that each city, county, and school district would realize if ColoradoCare were implemented.
