ReLeaf Network Members
Join us for our annual Network Retreat!
Download the ReLeaf Network Retreat Agenda Packet (.pdf)
Mon May 22 – Reception & Film Screening City of Trees: 6 – 9pm. Film screening will start at 7pm. At The Greenlining Institute, 360 14th Street, Oakland, CA 94612
Tues May 23 – ReLeaf Network Retreat: 8am – 4pm w/Coffee & Sign In at 7:30am at the Lake Merritt Sailboat House, 568 Bellevue Avenue Oakland 94610
Download Info on Travel Stipends for up-to-date Network members here (.pdf)
Thank you to our Sponsors!
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Come for a Very Interactive Retreat – No PowerPoints!
May 23 Agenda:
7:30am – Sign In and Coffee
8:00am – Retreat Starts!
- Network Sharing: Round Robin…on your exciting and challenging projects
Host: Amelia Oliver, California ReLeaf - Visionaries & Pragmatists: why nonprofits need both…and how to become a visionary
Host: Cindy Blain, California ReLeaf
Ray Tretheway, Sacramento Tree Foundation - 10:00am – Break
- Leaning into Climate Change…and supporting ourselves as community activists
Host: Amelia Oliver, California ReLeaf
Adélàjà Simon, Growing Together
Jen Scott, Mountain Stream Meditation Center (formerly w/TreePeople)
Both Jen & Adélàjà trained as facilitators with Joanna Macy on her practice of The Work That Reconnects
12:15pm – Lunch
- Connecting youth to tree care jobs…and economic revitalization
Host: Cindy Blain
Kemba Shakur, Urban ReLeaf
Andy Trotter, West Coast Arborists
- Funding: New Grant Opportunities for trees…and how do we best access these funds?
Host: Chuck Mills
Kevin Jefferson, Urban ReLeaf - Funding: AB1530…and how do we fund maintenance?
Host: Chuck Mills
- Closing Discussion – all
Farewells 4:00pm
Come hang out with compadres who love trees & people. Share stories, ideas, and bad puns…
