About
Baltimore Green Works (BGW) is a non-profit organization governed by a volunteer Board of Directors and run by minimal staff and volunteers. BGW strives to embrace Maryland’s diverse communities by offering programming that educates on sustainable ways of living.
Every spring for the last six years, Baltimore Green Works brought you the Ecofest and Baltimore Green Week. In 2008, Baltimore Green Week changed its name to Baltimore Green Works and began to offer more free and low-cost year round programming. So far, we’ve added the Ecoball and the Sustainable Speaker Series. New York Times best-selling author Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food, the Enoch Pratt Free Library and 978 of our friends helped to kick off the series!
Mission
Baltimore Green Works’ (BGW) mission is to create a more sustainable Baltimore by encouraging residents to make everyday choices that reduce their collective impact on the planet. BGW does this by: convening forums for education, dialogue, and the exchange of ideas about everyday choices; engaging diverse communities; and collaborating with other organizations working toward a more sustainable Baltimore.
BGW does this by:
• convening forums for education, dialogue, and the exchange of ideas about everyday choices;
• engaging diverse communities; and
• collaborating with other organizations working toward a more sustainable Baltimore.
Vision
Baltimore Green Works supports the definition of sustainability adopted by the Baltimore Commission on Sustainability in the Baltimore Sustainability Plan (April 2009), “meeting the current environmental, social and economic needs of our community without compromising the ability of future generations to meet these needs.”
Strategic Plan
In the fall of 2009, after implementing one full year of programming focused on environmental awareness and best sustainable practices, BGW hired Sustainability and Strategic Planning Coordinator, Lynn Heller. Mrs. Heller assisted the organization in walking through the process of interviewing various organizations and individuals who share our mission in order to evaluate the work that was currently being done in Baltimore and what gaps needed to be filled. From here, we were able to put together a plan with period goals which should carry the organization through until 2015. Below is a link to BGW’s strategic plan with our organizational development goals for the next five years. Please, feel free to take a look and if you have any thoughts or suggestions concerning the plan, please contact us here.
Please check back for the downloadable version of BGW’s 2010-2015 Strategic Plan.
Visit our events page to see what’s happening in 2010!
