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Dear SAFE Friends,

San Francisco's Neighborhood Empowerment Network (NEN) is hosting its first Clean & Green Summit. Please pass along to your neighbors and friends... after all, a clean & green neighborhood is a SAFE neighborhood!


Neighborhood Empowerment Network Hosts Clean & Green Summit

Everywhere you look lately, the signs are all around us. It’s time to get serious about greening our neighborhoods.

That’s why on Saturday, May 31st we are dedicating a whole summit to help you take the lead on making a difference in your community.

The 2008 NEN Clean & Green Summit will be an all day opportunity to immerse yourself in ways to reduce your energy intake, soften our streetscapes, generate new forms of energy, grow our own food, use water more wisely and so much more.

The 2008 NEN Clean & Green Summit will feature…

  • A resource fair featuring dozens of agencies & non profits committed to helping you make a difference in your community
  • Five different break out groups that you can pre-register for online
  • How to use Solar and Wind to power your home and /or business
  • Rainwater Harvesting: How you can capture rainwater to use in your garden
  • Demystifying the community challenge grant process
  • How to build community in your neighborhood around being cleaner and greener
  • How to make your home more earth friendly
A NEN Summit First – walking tours of the Mission including a stop at the “Greenest” home in San Francisco – truly an amazing structure!

The event will be held at Cesar Chavez Elementary School at 23rd St. and Folsom.

Registration is Free and a lunch will be provided by Norcal and the California Culinary Academy to registrants.

The Day’s Schedule will be as follows…
  • 9 to 10am – Registration sign-in
  • 10am to Noon – First series of breakout groups and walking tours
  • Noon to 1:30pm – Lunch, networking and resource fair time
  • 1:30pm to 3:30 – Final series of breakout groups and walking tours

Space is limited, so register today at the link below…
REGISTER.

To learn more about the NEN visit - www.empowersf.org.

If you have questions about this event or the NEN – send and email to nen@sfgov.org or call (415) 554-7114.

If you are an agency/non-profit and would like to participate in the resource fair – send an email to nensummit@sfgov.org.

If you would like to volunteer - send an email to nensummit@sfgov.org.

If you would like to learn more about being a sponsor – send an email to nen@sfgov.org.

Neighborhood Empowerment Network



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