Providing information, training, tips, materials, discussions and other ways to continue to educate, inform, develop, and empower volunteers to accomplish their mission. These are special days for volunteer organizations. We are afforded a platform for communication. Communication is the best tool for breaking down and over coming barriers that separate us. Communication helps overcome the barrier that makes us suspicious and distrusting of the motives, abilities, and actions of others.
Communication facilitates overcoming our fear of others.
Good communication provides us opportunities to be informed and understand the capabilities of others. Good communication facilitates volunteers touching lives in need. This conference is a wonderful time to become involved in communication with business, industry, and government. During the past few years the VOAD movement has discovered the validity that business and industry should be partners in disaster response. FEMA's Project Impact, has set a worthy example of including all community players at the table to discuss mitigation.