CGBD's New Website Resources

The new CGBD website is designed to be your "virtual watercooler" for collaboration, research and information sharing.  This website, and other information technology improvements now underway, represent a major investment in helping our members to stay in touch with each other, to learn from each other, and to share resources.  Please help by telling us how to improve it!

There are three levels of access:

• The public will see only very general information about our organization and its membership, including our quarterly Biodiversity newsletter;
• All funders, whether CGBD members or not, will be able to access only the calendars, reports, and other resources that pertain to the specific programs in which they actively participate;
• Most of the site is available only to dues-paying CGBD members, or to those non-member foundations that support CGBD’s programs with grants.  Our members and supporters will find a complete contact list of fellow-members, a calendar of upcoming meetings, conference calls and webinars, together with annual reports, budget, annual audits, articles of incorporation, bylaws, meeting agendas, photographs of themselves and fellow members, the resources being assembled by the Horizons Committee, news about the upcoming Annual Meeting, speeches and videos from past annual meetings…anything and everything you might want to know about your organization.

We are building an on-line library of resources for our members: white papers, articles, videos, reports, links to trends and future-oriented scenarios.  We are working on a taxonomy for those resources under each of our six programs and the Horizons Committee, and on a search system that will make the resources easily accessible. Please help us to build that library of relevant resources!

We also have an International Connections tab that will enable members to connect to our counterparts on other continents, and to provide a forum for our members whose grantmaking has an international dimension.

We have recently added a new staff member: Charles Klein, our Web and Communications Specialist.  Charles comes to us from Humboldt State University, and would be delighted to hear from you with questions about how best to use the website, or suggestions from you how best to structure the website to assist in your work.  He will also be training all of us in the use of social media and webinar tools to fulfill CGBD’s potential as an information hub and cutting-edge professional association. Feel free to contact him at tech@cgbd.org. 

There are a lot of features to go through, and this page will become the virtual help center with video tutorials, check-lists, and helpful hints for how to use CGBD’s new website most effectively.

Check back often!