Letchworth Gateway Villages Webinars
2022 Webinars:
Letchworth Gateway Villages Stakeholder Meeting | Nov. 10 2022
Watch the Stakeholders Meeting recording for an update on key 2022 projects and initiatives and a look ahead at 2023.
Trail Town Kickoff Meeting | Feb. 18 2022
Watch the kickoff meeting recording for an overview of the Genesee Valley Trail Town initiative’s key activities for 2022.
2021 Trail Town Summit Webinars:
summit welcome + opening session | OcT. 29 2021
Nicole Manapol, Director of Letchworth Gateway Villages, kicks off the 2021 Trail Town summit and welcomes attendees.
Summit keynote by amy Camp | oct. 29 2021
Amy Camp shares her experiences from her time working on the GAP and presents her 7 best practices for building and enhancing trailside towns. Amy is a trails and tourism consultant, the founder of Cycle Forward, the author of Deciding on Trails: The 7 Practices of Healthy Trail Towns, and played a key role in implementing the first and best known Trail Town program in the Great Allegheny Passage (GAP). Download the presentation here.
Summit Panel: Trails Across NY - the time is now | oct. 29 2021
Dylan Carey, Project Director for Parks & Trails NY, and Bill Sprengnether, Senior Design Associate at Alta Planning, explain why the time is now to invest in parks and trails. The presentation begins with an informational video on the Genesee Valley Greenway State Park Action Plan followed by insights from Dylan and Bill. Download the presentation here.
Year in Review: Turning insights into action | oct. 29 2021
Michele Archie, Harbinger Consulting, and Nicole Manapol, LGV Director, explore what we learned together from the Trail Town assessments, community bike-arounds, and the visitor survey, along with common themes across all ten Trail Town Action Plans, and how to use these insights to tackle priority next steps for your community.
Building our brand and maximizing our reach | oct. 29 2021
Emily Ashworth, LGV Project Manager, Nina Piccini, LGV Social Media Manager and Digital Coach and Erica Schneider, PTNY Arthur Savage Fellow discuss the skills you need to create and promote your community assets by developing a marketing and promotion strategy to increase and improve your online visibility. This presentation will provide you with insider access to various tools you can use to bolster your online presence through social media, a presence on Explore Genesee Valley, and other third-party sites in an effort to maximize your reach and showcase areawide attractions, amenities, services, and community character. Download the presentation here.
Facts tell, STories sell: Advocating for a completed greenway | oct. 29 2021
Fran Gotcsik, FOGVG Treasurer and Veteran Trail Advocate, Rebecca Murray, Parks & Trails NY, and Marjorie Byrnes, NY State Assemblywoman for the 133rd District, present strategies you can use to influence decisions made by state officials. Through effective storytelling, driven by personal experience and research, you can help shape public policy. This presentation will help you identify a target audience and capture their attention, craft and communicate a clear message, and take advantage of tools that can help demonstrate broad public support. Download the presentation here.
Funding for the future in Genesee Valley trail TOwns | oct. 29 2021
Nicole Manapol, LGV Director, Carl Schoenthal, FOGVG Trail Town Committee President, and Dylan Carey, Parks & Trails NY present information on Genesee Valley Trail Town Grants and how to secure competitive matching grants to support initiatives in your community. This presentation will walk you through the application process and provide examples of eligible projects that help create safer streets for cyclists and pedestrians in trail town communities, enhance connectivity between participating communities and the greenway, increase visitation on the Genesee Valley Greenway, and assist local leaders and businesses with place-making efforts. Download the presentation here.
Summit Closing + Next Steps | Oct. 29 2021
Nicole Manapol, LGV Director, leads the closing session with a lively conversation among attendees about next steps and future plans for the Trail Town initiative.
2020 Trail Town Kick-Off Session Webinar:
Trail town Kick-off Morning Session | Feb. 19 2021
Learn about some of the most innovative and successful Trail Town models established to date and how they’ve been used to revitalize and transform rural communities across the U.S. and New York State.
Presented by: David A. Kahley, Co-founder, President and CEO of The Progress Fund, Seth Wheat, Director of Tourism Development, Kentucky Department of Tourism, Dylan Carey, Project Director for Parks & Trail New York (PTNY), + Russell Hirschler, Executive Director of the Upper Valley Trails Alliance (UVTA).