Looking Beyond Your Garden Gates: Making Coalitions With Parks Advocates
- Subject: [cg] Looking Beyond Your Garden Gates: Making Coalitions With Parks Advocates
- From: A*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:16:44 EST
Friends,
I've talked to you in the past about work that the Manhattan Parks &
Greenspace Coalition has done to organize citizen volunteers in our borough's
Parks, Recreation Centers, Greenspaces and of course community gardens. The
citizen energy that volunteers put into fixing up a recreation center, making
an underfunded NYC park in a community of color crime free and more welcoming
to the whole community, cleaning up a monument on public land, or creating a
community garden as a special public green space, is the same kind of energy.
However, the folks who concentrate on their local projects often feel that
theirs is the only candle in the darkness. It's really a beautiful ballroom
lit by candelabras - it just means that all the volunteers have to be invited
to the dance.
The networking of citizen volunteers is an extremely important. Organized
citizen activity is vital sign for our body politic and an important
indicator to elected officials and civic administrators of where resources
need to be allocated.
When the separate fingers of Recreation Center afterschool program advocates,
softball league organizers, Soccer Moms and Immigrant Soccer Leagues,
Playground advocates, Swimming and Athletic Programs, Park and Monument
Beautification advocates... and Community Gardeners, dial telephone numbers
in political phone banks, ring doorbells and most importantly, push voting
machine levers for political candidates who really support our united
concerns -- we all win.
This is part of the work that it takes to make this happen....
Subj Important Networking Date for Bronx Gardeners
Date: 2/11/03 10:15:05 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: Adam36055
To: cybergardens@treebranch.com
CC: lenore@treebranch.com
Friends,
As a founding community gardener member of the Manhattan Parks and
Greenspace Coalition, I know how important it is to network and create
coalitions with recreation and parks advocates in your Borough. Not only do
you meet new comrades in open space greeening and parks, but the general
level of knowledge exchange is very high. This is a superb way of getting
access via parks and recreation center activists to elected officials in
other neighborhoods while they learn how amazingly resourceful and effective
community garden activists are. Also, you become part of a borough wide
coalition of Parks AND GARDENS that is hard for elected officials to blow
off.
This message originally went out over Cyberparks yesterday afternoon and I
thought community gardeners who are not on that list should have a copy
Subj: CYBERPARK: Ninth Annual Bronx Parks Speak Up
Date: 2/10/03 3:57:21 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: lenore@treebranch.com (Lenore Schlossberg)
Reply-to: cyberpark@treebranch.com
To: cyberpark@treebranch.com (CYBERPARK Mailing List)
(please post to your own lists, webpages, calendars, and publications where
appropriate)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ninth Annual Bronx Parks Speak Up
Saturday, February 22, 2003
1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
(at 12:30 p.m. Registration & Refreshments)
Lehman College Faculty Dining Room
Bx10 or Bx26 bus, D or 4 train to Bedford Park Blvd.
CONNECT TO KEY RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATIONS!
Community Leaders, City Agencies, Green Space Stakeholders, Non-Profit
Organizations, Elected Officials
CHAT GROUPS on Neighborhood Parks, Community Gardens, Natural Areas,
Waterfronts, and Recreation to discuss key issues that impact these areas.
PRESENTATIONS: Cuts to the City Budget, Networking with Schools and
Organizations, Olympic Plans for the Bronx, The East Coast Greenway,
Waterfronts on the Edge, and Keeping the "Park" in Parkways.
EXHIBITS: Informative displays from non-profit organizations that are
working to improve parks and green spaces in the Bronx.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, to PRE-REGISTER or to RESERVE an EXHIBIT SPACE for
this FREE EVENT:
bxspeakup@aol.com or 718-367-3200 x27
NOTE: Flyers are available via fax or e-mail attachment in Spanish and
English. If you would like to hear the event in Spanish, please call to
reserve headphones for translation.
Sponsored by:
The Bronx Coalition for Parks and Green Spaces
Lehman College and Con Edison
Special Thanks to:
The Bronx Council for Environmental Quality, Bronx Green-Up/NYBG, Bronx
River Alliance, Fordham-Bedford Housing Corporation, Friends of Crotona Park,
Friends of Pelham Bay Park, Friends of Spuyten Duyvil, Friends of Van
Cortlandt Park, New Yorkers for Parks, Partnerships for Parks, Riverdale
Nature Preservancy
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The Bronx Coalition for Parks and Green Spaces is a grass-roots group of
over 65 community-based civic, greening, housing, youth, and recreational
organizations who have endorsed a common Bronx Platform for Parks. We are
working together to ensure that all Bronx parks and green spaces have
sufficient resources and personnel so they are safe, well-maintained, and
attractive assets that in turn add value to our local neighborhoods. To
learn more about the Coalition, or sign on as a member organization or
individual supporter, please call Pat Logan at 718-367-3200, x25 or e-mail
Jodie Colon at bxspeakup@aol.com. >>
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- Subject: Important Networking Date for Bronx Gardeners
- From: A*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:15:05 EST
- Full-name: Adam36055
Friends,
As a founding community gardener member of the Manhattan Parks and Greenspace
Coalition, I know how important it is to network and create coalitions with
recreation and parks advocates in your Borough. Not only do you meet new
comrades in open space greeening and parks, but the general level of
knowledge exchange is very high. This is a superb way of getting access via
parks and recreation center activists to elected officials in other
neighborhoods while they learn how amazingly resourceful and effective
community garden activists are. Also, you become part of a borough wide
coalition of Parks AND GARDENS that is hard for elected officials to blow
off.
This message originally went out over Cyberparks yesterday afternoon and I
thought community gardeners who are not on that list should have a copy
Subj: CYBERPARK: Ninth Annual Bronx Parks Speak Up
Date: 2/10/03 3:57:21 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: lenore@treebranch.com (Lenore Schlossberg)
Reply-to: cyberpark@treebranch.com
To: cyberpark@treebranch.com (CYBERPARK Mailing List)
(please post to your own lists, webpages, calendars, and publications where
appropriate)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ninth Annual Bronx Parks Speak Up
Saturday, February 22, 2003
1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
(at 12:30 p.m. Registration & Refreshments)
Lehman College Faculty Dining Room
Bx10 or Bx26 bus, D or 4 train to Bedford Park Blvd.
CONNECT TO KEY RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATIONS!
Community Leaders, City Agencies, Green Space Stakeholders, Non-Profit
Organizations, Elected Officials
CHAT GROUPS on Neighborhood Parks, Community Gardens, Natural Areas,
Waterfronts, and Recreation to discuss key issues that impact these areas.
PRESENTATIONS: Cuts to the City Budget, Networking with Schools and
Organizations, Olympic Plans for the Bronx, The East Coast Greenway,
Waterfronts on the Edge, and Keeping the "Park" in Parkways.
EXHIBITS: Informative displays from non-profit organizations that are working
to improve parks and green spaces in the Bronx.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, to PRE-REGISTER or to RESERVE an EXHIBIT SPACE for this
FREE EVENT:
bxspeakup@aol.com or 718-367-3200 x27
NOTE: Flyers are available via fax or e-mail attachment in Spanish and
English. If you would like to hear the event in Spanish, please call to
reserve headphones for translation.
Sponsored by:
The Bronx Coalition for Parks and Green Spaces
Lehman College and Con Edison
Special Thanks to:
The Bronx Council for Environmental Quality, Bronx Green-Up/NYBG, Bronx River
Alliance, Fordham-Bedford Housing Corporation, Friends of Crotona Park,
Friends of Pelham Bay Park, Friends of Spuyten Duyvil, Friends of Van
Cortlandt Park, New Yorkers for Parks, Partnerships for Parks, Riverdale
Nature Preservancy
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------
The Bronx Coalition for Parks and Green Spaces is a grass-roots group of over
65 community-based civic, greening, housing, youth, and recreational
organizations who have endorsed a common Bronx Platform for Parks. We are
working together to ensure that all Bronx parks and green spaces have
sufficient resources and personnel so they are safe, well-maintained, and
attractive assets that in turn add value to our local neighborhoods. To
learn more about the Coalition, or sign on as a member organization or
individual supporter, please call Pat Logan at 718-367-3200, x25 or e-mail
Jodie Colon at bxspeakup@aol.com.
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