| Metro Organizer December 18, 2009 |
Event I HIRE Minnesota Birthday Party Tonight! 6 - 9 pm HIRE Minnesota's 1st birthday has arrived! One year ago, 200 grassroots activists and community members gathered at the Minneapolis Urban League on a cold, snowy evening to hear about a new green jobs and hiring equity campaign: HIRE Minnesota. Since this first town hall meeting, thousands have joined our initiative to secure job opportunities for communities of color and low income communities in the infrastructure and renewable energy fields. Event I Organizer Roundtable: Leveraging Community Benefits from Transitway Development Noon - 1:30 pm Come to the Allliance's next Organizer Roundtable! You'll hear leaders talk about their efforts to convene community residents along the Central Corridor to identify solutions and a process to secure community benefits from transitway development. Metro Organizer Networking Session: Holiday Gathering and Happy Hour 4 - 5:30 pm Metro area organizers: Join the Alliance to celebrate a short work week and the holiday season! Share your organizing stories from 2009 and meet other organizers. This networking session is an informal and fun gathering and an opportunity to expand your network of organizer colleagues. Please RSVP! Event I Governor Candidates Forum on Transportation, Land Use and the Environment 5:30 pm Registration, music and voting on candidate questions It's almost 2010, and in less than a year Minnesota will elect a new governor! This January, the Alliance for Metropolitan Stability and partner organizations will host the first-ever candidate forum on transportation, land use and the environment. We want to make sure that whoever is elected as Minnesota's new governor knows how important these issues are for the health and well being of our state. Eight candidates are confirmed so far (four from each of the major parties) and there are more to come. With your help, we can demonstrate to these candidates that Minnesota voters care about transportation, land use and environmental issues. Please join us! Register online now so we know to expect you. Event I 2010 EPA Conference on Environmental Justice, Clean Air and Green Jobs January 25 - 27 This conference, hosted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, provides an opportunity for participants to learn about new initiatives on environmenal justice, clean air and green jobs. Everyone who is interested in learning about opportunities to move toward environmental justice in their communities is encouraged to attend. Resource I Organizer Roundtable Resource: Tools from the Rail~volution Conference A cohort of 36 people from nonprofits and government agencies attended the Rail~Volution Conference in Boston at the end of October. Rail~Volution is a conference for practitioners from all perspectives who believe strongly in the role of land use and transit as equal partners in the quest for greater livability and greater communities. The conference provided a unique opportunity for innovative minds to develop solutions to issues that affect livability in cities, towns and regions of all sizes and shapes. The Alliance held an Organizer Roundtable in November to allow Twin Cities organizers who weren't able to attend the conference to learn from those who did. Even if you didn't attend the roundtable, this Organizer Roundtable Resource (PDF) will point you toward helpful links and documents to inform your work. Resource I Free Course in Theatre of the Oppressed 6:30 - 8:30 pm Are you looking for new tools to do public work on an issue that you care about? Are you looking for ways to laugh, learn and build a public life? Do you want to be part of a broader Twin Cities community of artists and community organizers? Resource I Love your community? Your neighborhood? Your block? Let's hear it! What do you love about your community? What are you thankful for? Is it that coffee shop on the corner where all the neighbors gather? Is it the new bike path or sidewalk that lets you walk your son or daughter to school each morning? Is it the beautiful scenic open spaces nearby? Is it the walkable downtown that lights up for the holidays, or the lush park around the corner? Your community isn't a given - it's a gift. Tell Smart Growth America what you love about the place you call home and they'll publish the best answers on their blog for people across the country to read. Resource I Finding Work, Finding Hope: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your Community Stimulus Dollars While the federal recovery package has propped up plummeting local, state and national economies, low-income people and communities of color are asking: Where is our investment? Where is the help for those hit hardest by the recession? Have our communities missed the boat? The simple answer is that the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act has only just begun to bear fruit – and there are still many ways left for communities to benefit. Find out how in PolicyLink's latest report, Finding Work, Finding Hope. Article I Bronx Community Groups Seek a CBA to Link Living Wages to Subsidized Development This week, the New York City Council will vote on whether to proceed with one of the most exciting development projects in the city - the Kingsbridge Armory, the giant castle in the northwest Bronx that has been vacant for years. The city has approved more than $60 million in public subsidies for the developer, the Related Companies, and the community is eager to welcome a bustling shopping center to a neighborhood starved for commerce and good jobs. The city, however, is hesitating to attach a living-wage requirement to the project, stating that the project can't be successful financially and pay living wages. Find out how the community is responding in the Huffington Post. Job Opportunity I 38th and Chicago Great Streets Coordinator - Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers Job Opportunity I Contract Lobbyist - Minnesota Environmental Partnership The Minnesota Environmental Partnership (MEP) seeks a qualified candidate to work as part of a two-person team to advance MEP’s collaborative legislative priorities at the state Capitol. This contract lobbyist will be assigned to work on MEP's Protecting Our Water from Toxic Mining Pollution and Defending Minnesota’s Environmental Policy Foundation campaigns. Job Opportunity I Global Warming Solutions Coordinator - Fresh Energy The Global Warming Solutions coordinator will work with Fresh Energy’s innovative and aggressive Global Warming Solutions program. The program aims to advance global warming policy solutions by promoting smart state and national legislation to reduce global warming pollution, catalyze innovative approaches to business and local government, and make the case to businesses, government, and citizens that global warming must be confronted now.
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