Questions for NOFA

1. What are some ways in the past you have tried to increase membership and were those strategies successful?
1. What would you have changed?

2. In what ways do you engage with your current members? How would you like them to become more involved with NOFA?

3. How would you like us to tell NOFA’s story? Blogging? Interviews?

4. If blogging is an approach you’d like us to use, would it make sense for members to be able to post their stories and ideas on the blog as well in order to increase their engagement with NOFA?

5. NOFA encompasses a wide variety of the Vermont farming community, is there a specific aspect of NOFA that you want us to focus on more than others?

6. Your Winter Conference is coming up and you mentioned you want help promoting that; what is the main purpose of this conference and what platforms do you think would most effectively spread the word while considering your audience? I.e. online, in publications, social media, etc.

7. We noticed that your organization doesn’t use Instagram as a social media platform, do you think creating one/using social media in general will help tell NOFA’s story?

8. We’ve noticed that NOFA is involved with many different programs, such as Farm to Consumer, Farm to School, Community Food Access, etc. Is there a specific program that you feel is most important for us to help you work on/raise awareness for during our partnership?