[Advocacy-outreach] [Communications] Partnership Inquiry

Fri Mar 11 11:00:58 CST 2022

Julie,

I've included a few more people on this thread to clarify what we are
attempting.

First,  I have already contacted Brian Ortega of Acero Schools and Cheryl
Foster of Antioch MB Church of Chicago located at 450 W. Englewood Ave.
(63rd and Stewart).  These are the persons requesting help with starting a
community garden.  My initial contact (as Education and Communications
team) was to welcome their inquiry and let them know someone from Advocacy
& Outreach would be in touch. (I hope this is going to be the case as A&O's
purpose is just this)  I also sent them contact information for GreenCorps
and GreenCorps + Terma Firma, which is more aligned with community
gardens.

Admittedly the search for Julie's "Steps to Starting a Community Garden" is
not easy to find, so Julie or all of you on A&O, please just communicate
warmly, and copy and send the link at the end of this paragraph.  In
general practice, a manual is made available on-line, but there is usually
a support contact for questions. Please, someone from A&O be that person.
Julie, you created the manual so you are the best support person for
contact. Amy is eager to fix the issues with access on our website, but
after the conference. She is on this email thread.  Here is the link

http://chicagocommunitygardens.org/starting-a-community-garden/

You can also send it to them as a pdf which is attached to this email

We don't have funds set aside for photocopying without approval from Angela
as I understand it, nor do I think we should print this out when it can be
read on-line and downloaded and printed by those making the request, if
they choose.  We have limited copy availability at NeighborSpace but should
be reluctant to take too much advantage of this and the photocopier is
pretty much always in use by GreenCorps.

Here again is the contact information for the two requests:

Brian Ortega, Community Affairs and  Advocacy Manager

Acero Schools

bortega at aceroschools.org

872 202 4964

Cheryl Ferguson-Foster

Antioch MB Church of Chicago

6248 S Stewart Ave, Chicago, IL 60621

 cfergusonfoster at yahoo.com

312-375-7860

*Special Note:*

This church was one on the list of potential awardees for the State of
Illinois COVID funds to start a garden in 2020. Greg Miller of the same
church participated in a WebEx virtual meeting with us; however they were
not one of the final churches to receive funds., so they are reaching out
again.

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 9:59 AM Julie Samuels <jsamuels1966 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi, Lorraine, Marsha and May,
> I have one suggestion and that would be to provide copies of our Basic
> Steps to Starting a Garden Manuals after talking to people who are
> interested in doing that.  I found it very hard to find it and open it on
> our website.  So we could just bring a manual sample or two and provide
> folks with how to open, find and see the manual to unload and copy it??
> Also I'm going to see if I could just provide little printed  copies of the
> "link" that they can use to find it on the site.   These are the steps
> listed on the site:
> 1. Resources
> 2. DIY Guide
> 3. Starting A Community Garden
>  I think we would start by hearing what the people there would like to do
> and know and chat a while to see what they would need and what we can
> suggest they do showing them the manual.
> Where do we  meet in the Caldwell Woods and what time?   I can contact Mr.
> Ortega unless someone else would like to do that.
>
> Julie
>
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 11:27 AM Lorraine Kells <lxkells at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Julie and Marsha and May,
>>
>> This forwarded request came to the  Communications team, but it falls
>> within the stated purpose of Advocacy & Outreach, so if you will please get
>> started with these folks, the rest of us will fall in line.
>>
>> Gina, Mamie and May helped a church community garden "expand" ie get
>> started, when CCGA joined in to assist with a State of Illinois covid grant
>> to faith based institutions. We know how to do this, but it takes A&O to
>> get theses folks started, please.
>>
>> Lorraine
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Brian Ortega via Communications <
>> communications at chicagocommunitygardens.org>
>> Date: Sun, Mar 6, 2022, 10:14 PM
>> Subject: [Communications] Partnership Inquiry
>> To: <communications at chicagocommunitygardens.org>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> My name is Brian Ortega and I oversee community relations for Acero
>> Schools. I wanted to see if I could connect with someone at CCGA. There is
>> interest within our network to start a community garden and I would like
>> some guidance on how to move forward with this idea.
>>
>> I can be reached here or at (872) 202-4964.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> *Brian A. Ortega*
>> Community Affairs & Advocacy Manager
>> (872) 202-4964
>> bortega at aceroschools.org
>>
>> "Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch
>> excellence."
>> -Vince Lombardi
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>>
>
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