<div dir="ltr">Hi Cristina,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for writing to us.  I'm sure that a number of community gardens could use your help. </div><div>I'm a member of the Advocacy and Outreach committee and also with the Skinner Park Advisory Council and we have two community gardens.  We also have a work day planned for September 24 and your group is welcome to come and participate in our work day if you like. </div><div><br></div><div>We can also help you to connect to other community gardens who may need volunteer help and are available on Sept 24. . </div><div><br></div><div>May</div><div><br></div><div>May Toy</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div>The content of this email is confidential and intended for the recipient specified in message only. Do not share any part of this message with any third party, without a written consent of the sender. If you received this message by mistake, please reply to this message and follow with its deletion, so that we can ensure such a mistake does not occur again.</div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 10:28 AM Cristina Miranda via Advocacy-outreach <<a href="mailto:advocacy-outreach@chicagocommunitygardens.org">advocacy-outreach@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">

        

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-9204099031277235845docs-internal-guid-5b2cb368-7fff-7edc-e489-6ff1c61a80dd"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello, </span></span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-9204099031277235845docs-internal-guid-5b2cb368-7fff-7edc-e489-6ff1c61a80dd"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">My name is </span></span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Cristina</span></span></span><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and I work with the nonprofit team at Visit.org — a B-Corp that connects nonprofit and social ventures to corporate teams for employee engagement. </span></span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-9204099031277235845docs-internal-guid-5b2cb368-7fff-7edc-e489-6ff1c61a80dd"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I am reaching out to you today because I think you may be a good fit for a unique project we are working on around Food Insecurity. Our team at Visit.org has partnered with Bumble </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(the dating app) to create volunteer events for Bumble users in 10 cities across the country. We are looking for nonprofits to collaborate with in building</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> highly engaging, fun, unique and impactful experiences to increase food access, improve food systems, and the like. </span></span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-9204099031277235845docs-internal-guid-5b2cb368-7fff-7edc-e489-6ff1c61a80dd"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The selected date for these is Saturday, September 24th. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This is a part of their IRL "in real life" event series, which includes a bunch of different fun community events (you can check out the full list of events </span><a href="https://bumble.events/bumbleirlthemenew" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">). These are larger events, with hopes of engaging up to 100 people, and Bumble has a budget for this project. </span></span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-9204099031277235845docs-internal-guid-5b2cb368-7fff-7edc-e489-6ff1c61a80dd"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Does this sound like something your organization might be interested in? If so, I would love to connect you with a member of our Nonprofit Team as soon as possible to discuss further. Let me know when you’re available, or use this </span><a href="https://calendly.com/visit-org/visit-org-intro" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">calendly link</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to schedule some time.   </span></span></p>

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