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Alliance for Community
Trees is dedicated to improving the environment where 80% of Americans
live: our cities, towns, and villages. Together, ACT's national network
of members have planted and cared for 14.9 million trees with help from
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| ABOUT WEBCASTS |
The
Third Thursday Webcast Series is a monthly
webcast held at the lunch hour. The goal is to create informal
trainings for local urban and community forestry
organizations.
The trainings leverage local successes by amplifying to a larger
audience the model organizations' methods, materials, and
approaches.
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Incorporating AmeriCorps and Recent Grads
Into Local Programs
February
19, 2009
1:00-
2:00pm EST
Having full-time dedicated AmeriCorps or recent
high school graduates on staff can be mutually beneficial to your
organization and those individuals. Nonprofit tree groups benefit from
low-cost, hard-working staff, while young adults (typically ages 17-24)
work on building a team-based life experience and service-learning
opportunity. Programs can be designed to build an ethic of service
among young adults from diverse backgrounds, forming a corps of
informed and trained advocates prepared to address local environmental
and community concerns. Most importantly, you provide these young
adults with the motivation and financial resources to contribute to the
community or pursue further education.
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SESSION TOPICS
Webcast attendees will learn:
* Tips for applying to become an
AmeriCorps worksite.
* Recruiting and managing AmeriCorps members or high school students.
* Structuring a meaningful program (for you and them).
* Building workprograms into the organization's permanent
infrastructure.
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SHREVEPORT GREEN
Yvonne
Lee, Assistant Director
ShrevCORPS is a two- time national award-winning program and has been
recognized by President Clinton, Governor Blanco, Louisiana Senators
Breaux and Landrieu, Innovations in Civic Participation (ICP) and the
American Association of State Service Commissions (ASC) as one of the
Most Innovative AmeriCorps Programs in the United States.
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THE GREENING OF DETROIT
Ashley Atkinson, Program Director
The Greening of
Detroit's AmeriCorps volunteers spread the message of the value of
trees while ensuring that plantings are properly cared for in the
summer months when they need the most attention. They travel around the
city caring for the 28,000 trees that The Greening of Detroit has
planted. Corps members learn about urban forestry and horticulture as
well as team work during the course of the summer.
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NEIGHBORWOODS NETWORK EXCHANGE
Extended Learning- On the Ground
There is so much more that can be learned in a week than in an hour,
and on the ground as opposed to on a webcast. So here is your chance!
Join the webcast to learn more about the NeighborWoods
Network Exchange and how you can spend a week shadowing another ACT
member.
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