Community Announcements ▪ October 2009 – by Canal Alliance and Canal School Readiness Project

Community Announcements ▪ October 2009
A collaboration between Canal Alliance and the Canal School Readiness Project

Job opportunities / Financial education
Job fair in the Canal: Wednesday, October 14 at Pickleweed Community Center (50 Canal Street), 6:00-8:00 p.m. Visit different companies and learn where and how to apply for jobs. You can be selected for an [...]

Community Organizing Trainings in the U.S.

A fellow community health organizer from Humboldt Partnership for Active Living ( http://humpal.org/) contacted us to get information about community organizing trainings that would be useful for her and other staff members at HUMPAL. We shared with her the following options. If you know of any other organizations providing general community leadership and organizing trainings, [...]

CANALFRONT EN ESPAÑOL – ¡Todos son Bienvenidos!

CANALFRONT Segundo y Ultimo TALLER COMUNITARIO el Miércoles 11 de Marzo de 2009 de 6pm a 9pm en el Centro Comunitario de Pickleweed Park, 50 Calle Canal en San Rafael.

HELP CREATE AFFORDABLE HOMES IN MARIN

The goal of the Marin Community housing Action Intitiative (MCHAI),  a partnership of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH), Greenbelt Alliance (GA) and the Marin Community Foundation, is to bring together the most innovative approaches from the affordable housing, transit, and environmental communities to dramatically boost affordable housing production throughout Marin County. 
  http://www.tenantsorganizing.org/files/MarinTrainingFlyer.pdf
TIME: Workshops [...]

Nail Salon Healthy Environment Forum

The California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative will be hosting the Nail Salon Healthy Environment Forum on a Sunday in June (exact date, time and location TBD).
The forum will included discussions on Public Health and Safety Guidelines, working and collaborating with OSHA and Health Inspectors, owner’s rights, and general education forums. The California Healthy Nail Salon [...]

Immigration – Emergency Preparedness

Free Training for Service Providers
The Emergency Preparedness Toolkit training was developed in recognition that providers may be first responders to community members in crisis. With this toolkit, you will be able to more effectively and efficiently guide the individuals and families you work with through their emergency situations. It is our hope that the contents [...]

Regional Equity ‘08 National Summit

A movement for social change!
From March 4-7th, some of Grassroots Leadership Network staff had the opportunity to attend the Regional Equity Summit hosted by PolicyLink in New Orleans.
The summit was an exciting opportunity to connect with and learn from grassroots organizations, academics and professionals working for social change across the nation. Over 1700 participants shared [...]

Unnatural Causes

Here’s the information Donna West, from Marin County Health & Human Services Department talked about during the Building Healthy Communities partner meeting 1/16. From Donna:

There is a DVD that will be available and a “Public Impact Campaign” with 4 components:

media campaign
targeted outreach
website
educational dissemination

It seems that the GLN Building Healthy Communities effort [...]

Blogging

Hi my name is Angel Shorter, and I’m the CDF for Marin City. I will be facilitating a series of dialogues in the up coming year. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you might have.
Thanks and have a blessed day.

La Donna Bonner new CDF!!!

Hello my name is La Donna, among others things, I am one of three new Community Dialogue Facilitators for the Grassroots Leadership Network. I will, over the next year, be facilitating community dialogues around health issues in my community. I have been involved in some very meaningful training up to this point and [...]