[Advocacy-outreach] "Our Many Faces" for Advocacy & Outreach

[Lorraine Kells]

Hello,

Your help is needed on our website. Visitors to our CCGA website may learn
about CCGA under the drop down menu "Who We Are," Scroll down to "Our Many
Faces" to find more information in detail about the 5 committees.

All of the messaging there needs to be brought into the 21st century, from
the narrow explanation of "Who We Are" through the  "Highlights" and the
descriptions of the committees. Currently, the Advocacy & Outreach team is
not even mentioned.

Recently Julie, chair of membership, now A&O, met with Amy & myself, and we
emailed with May, also on A&O, to draft the statement to go up on the
website for the committee under "Our Many Faces".  Here is what we came up
with.  Those on the committee, please reply  with your comments,
suggestions and approval for this statement to go on the CCGA website.

TEAM PURPOSE
The Advocacy and Outreach team’s work is centered around the belief that
community gardens are important vehicles in creating resilient and vibrant
neighborhoods. While Chicago's community gardens are our immediate focus,
we have the potential to engage with other areas through advocacy because
many issues affect our larger shared environment

CURRENT Areas of focus
·  provide a platform to share and address issues that arise in community
gardens
·  increase equitable access to safe water, healthy soil, and compost for
gardeners
·  build awareness about and address city-wide policy issues that affect
community gardens
·  work to increase equity and lessen division in community gardening
·  establish beneficial connections between people and/or organizations
·  support the important role of community gardens in creating healthier,
greener communities and in the fight against climate change

HOW TO CONTACT US
We invite and encourage everyone to participate.  With your help we can
accomplish much together. For more information on this CCGA working group
please contact our Advocacy & Outreach team at
advocacy-outreach at chicagocommunitygardens.org


Additional changes to the website will be shared at the co-ordinating
meeting Tuesday, Oct.19.  We'll leave final posting to the website to Amy &
JW, so some of the structure may change. Please concentrate on the wording
now. Watch for an agenda to be sent soon

Lorraine
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