let your fingers do the walking! creating directories and specialized resource guides

Let Your Fingers Do the Walking!

Creating Directories and Specialized Resource Guides

Presenters

Facilitator: Meighan Middleton CIRS, CRS – United Way of

Greater HoustonPanelists:Christa Bourk CIRS, CRS – Baton Rouge Crisis

Intervention Center, Inc.Emily Ruckel CIRS, CRS – United Way of Greater

ToledoCathy Vaisvil CRS – United Way of Greater St.

Louis

Today’s Take – Aways

• How to start a directory

• Directory content and style

• Resource organization

• Final Product!

How to Start a Directory

• Where to begin

• How to produce

• Durable vs Disposable

Directory Content and Style

• Page limits

• Cross the I’s and dot the T’s or reverse

• Does mine look like yours

Resource Organization

• Reinventing the wheel or just adding a few tracks

• Two heads may be better than one

• Almost done, maybe…

Final Product!

Directory Building Activity

Contact Information

• Meighan Middleton: mmiddleton@unitedwayhouston.org (713) 685-2473

• Christa Bourk: cbourk@brcic.org (225) 218-2616

• Emily Ruckel: emily.ruckel@unitedwaytoledo.org (419) 254-4775

• Cathy Vaisvil: cathy.vaisvil@stl.unitedway.org (314) 242-1885