(01/15/2020)

By Blake Podhajsky, Oklahoma Dept. of Wildlife Conservation

Hello again ACI friends. As I hope you’ve already read in The Balance Wheel, we are working hard to get the Awards Contest up and running in the coming weeks. As part of the process, I need to recruit and secure judges to score and critique all the great work our members are creating and submitting.

As you can imagine, securing 90+ quality judges is a big undertaking. That is why I am reaching out to you to ask for your assistance in this task. If each of you could reach out to your professional network, contact a colleague or someone out of the blue who is qualified, this could generate enough leads to help me out. Any help you can give me is appreciated.

Please find attached a sample email you can copy and paste, or tweak to use when you send emails. Or simply refer to it when you compose your own emails.

Thanks for your support and let me know if you have any questions.