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Kingsessing Community Greening Workshops
July 19, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Please join us in developing a community-led Green Vision Plan for Kingsessing. Your neighborhood has been selected to install a green demonstration project, which this community-led plan will determine. Collaborate on creating the types of green that will best support your community.
We are sponsoring a three-part workshop series to co-create the Green Vision Plan. Recognizing your service to the community, YOU ARE INVITED to apply. Thirty applicants who agree to attend all workshops will be selected. Those selected will receive $225 for their participation. Workshops will include a light dinner, with transportation available and reimbursement for childcare costs as needed.
Registration closes at midnight July 17th or sooner based on response to this announcement. If you are interested, apply ASAP.
The Kingsessing Community Greening Workshops is a three-part series involving neighborhood, civic, and business leaders. As a participant, you will share information about your neighborhood, tour select areas that could be future green hubs, and prioritize projects and locations. This project is not an academic exercise. Resource organizations, and existing green programs around the city are being mobilized to expand their programs in Kingsessing and additional funding will be sought to make the plan that you and your neighbors produce.
The workshops include:
- Wednesday, July 19th: Kingsessing Planning Workshop: participants will map the locations of all existing greening programs, vacant lots, and favored locations where people gather or are otherwise valued by the community.
- Wednesday, August 2nd: Kingsessing Walkshop: participants will tour locations identified in the June Workshop to determine feasible greening options and potential challenges.
- Wednesday, August 16th: Kingsessing Green Plan Prioritization Workshop: participants will meet to review, approve, and prioritize a draft Green Vision Plan for Kingsessing.
The Kingsessing Community Workshops are sponsored by Clean Water Action and Hinge Collective, team members of the Resilient Community Stormwater Initiative.
The Resilient Communities Stormwater Initiative (RSCI), seeks to manage stormwater and advance other community greening goals in historically underserved neighborhoods using the approach known as green stormwater infrastructure – or GSI. When thoughtfully designed, GSI can reduce flooding and pollution caused by stormwater runoff, increase neighborhood green space, and contribute to other climate-resilient community benefits.
During the past eighteen months, the project has engaged residents in ten of Philadelphia’s least-served neighborhoods to identify what greening means to each neighborhood and the role of green infrastructure and other climate-resilient projects. The Kingsessing Green Visioning Workshops are the next step in this process.
The Resilient Community Stormwater Initiative is funded by the William Penn Foundation.
Other members of the RCSI team include the Academy of Natural Sciences, The Nature Conservancy, Greenprint Partners, PEER Environmental, and The Sustainable Water Resource Engineering Lab at Drexel University.