I know the vast majority of you have been busy planning, promoting, and recruiting for your day of service events. Some of you may have even had yours already! The Northeast Ohio USGBC chapter held their event on September 18th. Over 50 people attended a composting seminar, where they not only learned how to compost, but also about LEED in Ohio and Green Apple Day of Service.Thanks to Kathy Rocco for sharing pictures of her event with us! Please send us pictures of your service events!
 |
| Kathy Rocco, teaching attendees about composting. |
In other green schools related news, Senator Harkin calls on the GAO for new survey on the condition of America's schools. We are pleased to announce that U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has formally requested the U.S. Government Accountability Office to conduct a new survey to help identify the current conditions and needs around our school facilities – at study that hasn’t been conducted in 18 years.
Looking Ahead to 2014
I know, I know! It's not even October and I'm bringing up 2014, but there are less than 100 days in 2013 and we want to make sure all of you are prepared to hit the ground running with advocacy in 2014. We will be walking you through a couple of things to think about when it comes to 2014 advocacy planning on our next advocacy call on October 8, 2013 at 3PM EST. Here is the Webex information:
Meeting Number: 750
497 187
Meeting Password: Adv0cates
Phone only: 1-866-650-429-3300 code: 750 497 187#
Please email me any topics you would like to see addressed on the Monthly Advocates Call. Also, to give you a taste of the resources we want to provide for chapters to increase their advocacy capacity and skills, next year, take a look at this article from "Nonprofit Quarterly" about the role nonprofits play in educating the public about issues.
Federal Update
There are no new updates to the Shaheen-Portman bill. Congress is now on countdown to shutdown mode.
No comments:
Post a Comment