GROWSHOPS
GROWSHOPS ARE BACK!(Growing, Restoring, Organizing Workshops)
In partnership with the Parks & People Foundation and Baltimore City Recreation and Parks, Baltimore Green Works hosts the GROWSHOPS, a series of capacity building lectures and workshops geared towards small non-profit and community based organizations.
In the past the focus has been on subjects such as how to build a board, event planning, the importance of marketing and more.
2010 FALL SCHEDULE:
August 9th @ the Brewers Art, 1106 North Charles Street, Baltimore 21201
Joel Markwitt, Founding Director of Folk Media
How To Use Social Media In Your Organization To Empower Your Community Without Wasting Time, Feeling Overwhelmed Or Getting Confused
A headache-free evening showing you the specific action steps to start using social media.
Social media is being talked about everywhere these days. Facebook just hit 500 million users, Twitter is all over billboards and more YouTube videos are watched every day than all the big TV networks combined. Things are changing fast. These are very confusing times. So how do you make sense of social media? And who has time to Twitter and Update a Facebook status?
Joel Mark Witt loves social media – but agrees that it’s been way overcomplicated. This Baltimore Green Works session will break down social media into simple, straightforward and interactive action steps. Joel will cover why social media is powerful for communicating with your community, what it takes to use it effectively and how to start seeing results quickly.
By the end of the evening, you’ll have specific action steps for getting started with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogs in your organization and personal life….
September 13th @ TBA
TBA
October 11th @ TBA
Katrina Krouse, U.S. Forest Service & Anne Draddy, TreeBaltimore
Agroforestry – Planting vegetables with fruit and nut trees in Baltimore City, an integrated approach to increasing our urban food sources.
November 8th @ Woody’s Rum Bar & Grill, 1700 Thames Street, Baltimore 21231 (Upstairs)
Joshua Becker, Community Outreach Coordinator at Community Mediation
Building Community with Better Communication: Have you ever been involved in a dispute? Are there people in your organization or neighborhood that you find difficult to talk to? If so, community mediation might be the answer for you! Joshua Becker talks to us about what mediation is and what it can do for us, what types of disputes are suitable, and the weighing question on our minds, “How much does it cost?”
Please check back for the schedule updates.
Sign in: 5:30-6 p.m.
Workshop: 6-7 p.m.
Networking: 7-8 p.m.
For more information or to RSVP, contact Abby Cocke at 410.448.5663 x122 or abby.cocke@parksandpeople.org.
Hosted in partnership by Baltimore Green Works, Parks & People Foundation and Baltimore City Recreation and Parks.
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IN THE PAST…
March 8th @ Civic Works, 2701 St. Lo Dr., Baltimore, MD 21213
Kristen Humphrey, GreeNDC Program Coordinator introduces us to the Neighborhood Design Center (NDC) and how the community can use NDC as a resource for community design work.
May 10th @ The Urbanite, 2002 Clipper Park Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211
Geoff Stack of Stack Coordination walked us through various exercises in the importance of communication showing how an authentic story can help us to see through the eyes of others, it can help us understand how our efforts as individuals contribute to the whole of a community’s vision and it can speak to what the future might hold.
After so many requests for return, Lane Victorsen who teaches at University of Maryland School of Social Work, spoke with the group about best practices in community organizing.
