Help Set The Direction For CORFA

By Joan Patterson, President of the Board, CORFA

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The Coalition of Refuge Friends and Advocates (CORFA) is embarking on a strategic planning process. Friends, your input is essential in setting the goals and objectives for CORFA’s programs and activities. CORFA acts as a hub to help address your needs. Therefore, we invite you to assess what we are currently doing and help us set the direction for supporting the Friends community.

Over the last years, CORFA has worked to build a network of support for Friends. We do this by partnering with you, the National Wildlife Refuge Association, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Our focus is:

  1. Connecting Friends through the CORFA Facebook group, The Link e-newsletter, and a monthly photo contest

  2. Supporting the Friends community with webinars, website, and advice

  3. Advocating for the needs of Friends and the Refuge System

More information about our programs and activities is on our website.

This all-volunteer organization values your input! Please take 15 to 20 minutes to complete this questionnaire. Let us know if our current programs and activities are helpful. Further, tell us how we, as members of the Friends community, can support each other as we all continue to work toward strengthening our organizations so we can better support our refuges and hatcheries. We want everyone’s input, so please share the link to the questionnaire with members of your board: https://forms.gle/nSTif8hbD9G2AhZZ8.

Please share your thoughts by completing this questionnaire by Wednesday, August 3, 2022. Be assured that your individual responses will be kept private; however, we will share a summary of all input with the Friends community. 

Thank you!