Community Partner Resources
David Kopperud
Welcome to your personal WhyTry Community Partner resources page! This page contains training and support resources to help you get started and to grow the opportunities in your area.
How to connect a contact with Program Directors:
Your Role Matters
The most valuable thing our Community Partners can do is help us build relationships. By making warm introductions and recommending WhyTry to your local networks, you can be a powerful advocate for bringing social-emotional tools to schools and communities that need them. Whether you know an educator, administrator, counselor, or district leader, your endorsement goes a long way. Here are a few simple but powerful ways you can help make those connections:
Program Director Contact info and Calendar Links:
Mike
mike@whytry.org
Cell:(385)208-0860
Ways to make the connection
1. Make an Email Introduction
Send a quick email introducing someone in your network to one of our Program Directors. Tell them why you believe WhyTry is worth exploring, and we’ll take it from there—learning about their needs and scheduling a personalized demo. Here is an example template that you could use for these: View Template
👉 Be sure to copy the program director in the email and also submit their contact info using the form below.
2. Make a Personal Call and Refer Them
Sometimes a personal conversation makes all the difference. Reach out to a friend or colleague who works in education, share your experience with WhyTry, and encourage them to connect with us. After the conversation, introduce them to a Program Director and we’ll follow up to schedule a demo or meeting.
👉 Be sure to email the program director and also submit their contact info using the form below.
3. Host an Awareness Event
Partner with us to host a virtual or in-person event in your area. We can arrange for Christian or another WhyTry team member to speak on a relevant topic and show how our tools can support that area of need. These events are great for generating interest and creating new connections within your community.
👉 If you are interested in hosting an event your area reach out to Hans or Bruce and we will help set that up.
Presenting to a group of people and want to share WhyTry?
If you are presenting to a group of educators and would like share more about WhyTry and capture the information of anyone who would like more information sent to them, you can utilize any of the following resources:
Presentation slide with QR code link to your personal form
If you would like to add this slide to your presentation to provide a way for people to share their contact information with you, the QR code in this slide will send them to your warm introduction leads form. After your presentation reach out to the program director and they can collect all of the information for the people that have filled out the form and will send that to you so that you can follow-up with them. There are two options on how you might follow-up with them. 1. Call them and have a discovery conversation to indicate their needs and then submit them as a qualified lead and schedule a demo on the program director’s calendar. 2. Simply follow up with a warm introduction email and introduce the program director to them and hand off the lead for the program director to follow-up and schedule the demo themselves. Note: You will not need to submit their information in the warm introduction leads form because they will have already done that with the QR code and we already have them in our contact database.
Printable page with your QR code link to your personal form
If you would like to share information with others as part of a display at a conference, vendor fare, or an in-person meeting with others where you are sharing or endorsing WhyTry as a resource, you can print out this document to quickly point people to your warm lead form and capture their information. Always remember to let your program director know when you do this and they can collect those leads and send them to you in a spread sheet for follow-up. (follow the same options as described above with the presentation slide.
Lead form for capturing contact info in a hard copy
If you would like to have a simple form that you can print out so that you can collect the contact information from people who may struggle with using the QR code and lead capture form, Download this template and make copies to have at your event. You can then follow-up with these contacts and submit them as either a warm introduction lead, or a qualified lead.