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Sustainable Agriculture Louisville is non-profit networking organization.
In this section of the website you will find a description of SAL's organizational structure, legal status, volunteer and paid staffing, membership requirements, organizing strategy, coalitions and alliances, and other organizational issues.
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Summer 2002 Community Intern Program
EPA Office of Environmental Justice and The Environmental Careers Organization
Sustainable Agriculture of Louisville (SAL, 'salt' in Spanish) has been selected to receive funds to support a student intern for the summer of 2002. The intern would work alongside members on SAL on projects such as: community gardening workshops, food festival organizing, urban agricultural production, information gathering/surveys, and initiating a soil testing program in environmentally sensitive areas of Louisville. Candidates strongly motivated in environmental and food-related/agricultural issues are sought. Language or cross-cultural skills a plus. Computer literacy desired. Willingness to cross social 'barriers' of culture and class needed. Minority candidates especially sought. Must be a student and U.S. citizen. $400 stipend
per week for 12 weeks. Starting time flexible. $500 Relocation money available if needed. Round trip expense-paid trip for Career Development to Washington D.C. included. Please send a resume and letter describing background and interest to: Stephen Bartlett, 104 Forest Court, Louisville, KY 40206, or call: 502 894-9308 or email: [email protected] ECO will make final approval of SAL's choice of candidate. (Deadline for applications April 12).
>>> [email protected] 04/01/02 07:46AM >>>
SAL Members:
I suggest that we form a committee to oversee evaluation of
>applicants for the Summer Intern Position (deadline for applications April 19), and that this committee may also serve as or appoint folk for a supervisory team for the intern. I am willing to coordinate the work of this committee and take primary role in supervision, but I think we should have an additional two or three people to volunteer for this committee job and to flesh out the work of the intern more (as I will not always be in town).
Please continue to get the word out...some of the original
prospectives have found other summer work, and it would be nice to have a pool to choose from, though we have a qualified applicant or two in the pipeline. Final confirmation of intern should take place at our April 24 meeting, if not sooner by the committee. (Summer plans are calling the youth to decide.)
If you don't call me about this, I will possibly be calling some of you to serve on this committee. Do the original grant writers want to serve on this committee?
Stephen
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SAL folk:
This message is from the folk who have awarded SAL money for a summer
intern. It brings home to me the importance of our intern playing a role
(at least) , if not-ideally-embodying, the bridging of the gap between rural
and urban, east and west here in Louisville, between anglo and latino, or
between middle class and poor or working class.
Practically it may be difficult to find such a qualified intern on such
short notice (who can embody that diversity), but it is worth a try. I will
inform CFA folk in Frankfort about our intern opportunity (for a possible
rural, urban candidate), the Kentucky Alliance against Racism and Political
Repression (for the east west, middle class poor gap), and the Latino
Coalition (for the latino-anglo connection). At the very least, our
candidate should be prepared and eager to do that bridging work and have
good 'cross-cultural' communication abilities.
Stephen
----- Original Message -----
From: Kristie King <[email protected]>
Cc: Jing Yang <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:28 AM
> Given your recent EPA Community Internship Program proposal submission to
> The Environmental Careers Organization (ECO), indicating your
understanding
> of the importance of addressing environmental issues at a grassroots
level,
> we thought you would be interested in attending the
>
> National Roundtable on Diversity in the Environment
> Thursday, May 2, 2002
> Arlington, VA.
>
> ECO recognizes that one of the key obstacles to the participation of
> communities of color in environmental decision making is the lack of
> representation of people of color in the environmental field. And because
> this issue continues to be one that many organization struggle with, we
are
> convening, as we did in 2000, over one hundred federal, state, and local
> government representatives, private industry, nonprofit and academic
> professionals focused on the challenges specific to diversity in the
> environmental field.
>
> We will be taking key challenges and issues and developing specific action
> plans and implementation steps for addressing this underrepresentation.
> Participants will have the opportunity to:
>
> * Develop individual, organizational, and collaborative action plans
> for addressing this issue.
> * Learn techniques and strategies for reducing this gap - from
> pipeline to workforce.
> * Share challenges and best practices and find out how others deal
> with theirs.
> * Network with over 150 national leaders & practitioners dealing with
> the same issues and challenges.
> * Acquire a planning workbook and resource materials to assist them
> and their organization.
> * Empower themselves and discover how one individual can make a
> difference in this complex issue.
> * Explore how the environmental community must modify methods, rethink
> strategies, and develop new ideas for reducing this existing gap.
>
> Please join us to discuss the critical issue of the need for the increased
> involvement of more people of color in the environmental field. Your
> perspective and insight would help to make this event representative of
> everyone's voice.
>
> You can learn more about this event and register on-line at:
>
> www.eco.org/roundtable
>
> or you may call 1.877.589.5329.
>
> Space is limited and registration is discounted before April 5, 2002, so
> don't wait.
>
> ECO is a 30-year-old national, nonprofit, education, training, and
> leadership development organization that has been in the forefront of
> diversifying the environmental field for over 12 years now. Because of
this
> longstanding commitment, one third of our interns each year are from
> underrepresented groups and over 1700 have been exposed to environmental
> career opportunities.
> Learn more about the organization by visiting our website at www.eco.org.
>
> We look forward to seeing you in Arlington, VA on May 2, 2002!
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