Re: CAPS #3

["Jim Morris" <1005@rewrite.aisboard.org>]

Bob,
 
I appreciate your CAPS reports but need more time to  read and review them 
as we are in the midst of our club and Missouri Botanical  Garden digs, with 
extensive plant cleaning and labeling.  We won't be  finished until after 
the MOBOT sale August 9-10.
 
In a message dated 7/28/2014 2:17:12 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
101p@rewrite.aisboard.org writes:

Partnering. 

First, I am not sure I should be sending these  now considering I have had 
no response that anyone has read them. Maybe I  should be sending them later 
when we are done planting. 

Another topic  that was discussed at CAPS was Partnering. This is an in 
word right now in  corporate America and Non-profits. Essentially it refers to 
the fact that  sometimes two or more groups can help each other by working 
together.  

This is nothing new. In 1993 I put on an Iris symposium (note a real  
symposium with 12 speakers) not a popularity poll in partnership with the  
Missouri Botanical Gardens, the American Rock Garden Society, SIGNA, and the  
local St. Louis Affiliate. The Budget was over 60,000 probably equivalent to  
$90,000 in todays money. It was a phenomenal success for everyone involved.  
This shows how things can be done with enough partners. 
Yes, the Species Symposium was tremendous and I was  blessed to be able to 
attend it.  Locally the Greater St. Louis Iris  Society partnered with two 
other affiliates to conduct iris shows this spring so  it can be done.



It was suggested at the meeting that conventions which are  costly and have 
been flagging in attendance, might be a potential area for  partnering. 
Several years ago we had a convention in Wisconsin. Coincidentally  the Peony 
Society had their convention at exactly the same time with some  overlapping 
venues. If we had only known we could have partnered ensuring  better 
numbers for the convention hotel, etc. 
Yes, that was a shame that the two societies did not  even know about each 
other's convention until we ran into each other at a couple  of venues.  
Their peony show was the first I had ever seen as we walked  through it to get 
to the guest iris plantings at the botanical  garden.

The Rose  society suggested it might be possible to partner with us since 
in some parts  of the country the seasons are overlapping. 

Whether it be with other  societies, botanical gardens, or some other 
entity we should keep our eyes  open for partnering possibilities. 

I certainly agree.
 
Jim Morris
President
American Iris Society



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Bob Pries 
Zone 7a 
Roxboro, NC  
(336)597-8805 

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