PARTICIPATION IS LIMITED TO 16 RESIDENTS, WHO WILL BE NOTIFIED FROM THOSE REGISTER. Selected residents will receive $75 each for their participation, plus lunch and refreshments. Please select “save your space” and answer the questions that follow.
What would make your neighborhood “green”?
The Academy of Natural Sciences ranks H amongst Philadelphia’s eight most neglected and underserved neighborhoods. We need your help to discuss these questions: What would you do to make your neighborhood green? Plant trees and gardens? Reduce violence by building community spaces in vacant lots? Pressure the City to end open dumping? Create shade and relief from the oppressive heat? As a member of the community, what would you want to see happen?
Our goal is to learn what the community wants. We are looking for people that are active and working to improve their neighborhoods. Is that you? Help us find out. Register NOW to attend the Riverward Neighborhood Greening Roundtable.
The Philly Neighborhood Greening Roundtables are sponsored by Clean Water Action and Hinge Collective, team members of the Resilient Community Stormwater Initiative (RCSI). This project is funded by the William Penn Foundation.
TENTATIVE AGENDA:
8:15 AM | Registration w/ light refreshments and coffee.
8:30 AM | Meet & Greet with other participants and roundtable hosts.
9:00 AM | Bus leaves for the Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) Tour
A bus tour visiting a variety of GSI projects provides the participants with a first-hand understanding of different GSI types.
12:00 PM | Lunch and resource networking
Lunch will be provided on location. Organizations and city agencies that provide neighborhood greening resources and climate resilience will be available for one-on-one discussions and to provide information.
1:30 PM | Community Roundtable Discussion: What is Greening in our neighborhood?
3:00 PM | Event concludes
For more information please contact Ahmad Almakky at [email protected].