[Advocacy-outreach] [Communications] Partnership Inquiry

Fri Mar 11 14:09:58 CST 2022

Julie,
I'm back in town and willing to hop on a Zoom call with you and those folks
if you'd like to set that up.  That's about all the band-width I have right
now as I've got to pull together a Grant Application that is due Monday to
try to secure funds to go towards ADA construction.

Thanks !

Marsha

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 11:03 AM Lorraine Kells via Advocacy-outreach <
advocacy-outreach at chicagocommunitygardens.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
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> Here again is the contact information for the two requests:
>
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> Brian Ortega, Community Affairs and  Advocacy Manager
>
> Acero Schools
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> bortega at aceroschools.org
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> 872 202 4964
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> Cheryl Ferguson-Foster
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> Antioch MB Church of Chicago
>
> 6248 S Stewart Ave, Chicago, IL 60621
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>  cfergusonfoster at yahoo.com
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> 312-375-7860
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> *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.
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> 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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