2008 Annual Fundraising Campaign - The Race Is On!
2008 Annual Campaign
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Make sure to visit our other websites:
B-Sustainable - Our relational database of regional indicators and actions (a work in progress)
Synergy - Our community, economy, and ecology blog
SCAN - Our new Sustainable Cities Activity Network blog
10/31/08 - Join others across the Central Puget Sound and pledge to 'Celebrate Local' this holiday season! Supported by proclamations making Friday, Nov. 28th "Buy Local Day" or "Celebrate Local Day" from Governor Christine Gregoire, King County Executive Ron Sims and the mayors of Seattle, Renton, Tukwila, Covington, and others.
Celebrate Local Did you know...
Shopping locally contributes to our local economy...locally directed spending by consumers more than doubles the number of dollars circulating among businesses in our community. While the average amount of garbage sent to the landfill by King County households has dropped in recent years, we produce 25% more waste during the holiday season. King County residents are reporting higher levels of stress. Strong communities, healthy living choices, and neighborhood social cohesion can help us all be healthier and happier.This year: Re-think your holidays and celebrate what matters: our local economy, our local environment and community.
>> Visit the 2008 Celebrate Local Homepage
>> Take the 2008 Celebrate Local Pledge
10/23/08 - Autumn Annual Campaign is off and running
AutumnThough it wasn't scheduled to officially start until November 1st, our 2008 Autumn Annual Campaign is off and running with contributions already trickling in. We're not sure if it's that members of our 'general fan club' (that's what we call our friends and supporters since we don't have members) are well trained to send contributions this time every year, if it's that our 'general fan club' sends us money when they make pledges to other campaigns going on right now, if it's that Seattlites and Puget Sounders are anxious about the upcoming election, or if its that everyone is sunstruck with our amazing fall weather recently but we really do appreciate the support and thank our many ongoing and generous supporters.
What's even more amazing is that many people are increasing their contributions this year to take part in our new All Systems Go! long-term fundraising campaign that we just started.
Thank you to those who have already contributed and thank you in advance to those of you who will contribute soon!
10/13/08 - B-Sustainable makes its public debut
After three years of work and lots of cummunity collaberations, the B-Sustainable website is fully up and running. If you haven't checked it out yet, B-Sustainable is our user-friendly relational database of regional indicators. Without question, the B-Sustainable website is poised to become one of our new flagship programs and has already been referred to as “the information network for all things sustainable in the central Puget Sound” by one of our program partners.
10/1/08 - Sustainable Seattle launches All Systems Go! fundraising campaign
All Systems Go! is a multi-year fundraising campaign to fund operations and programs through the year 2020. Learn more here.
9/27/08 - Synergy, the Sustainable Seattle Blog!
Join the conversation! Follow the link...
9/12/08 - Choose to Change workshops are back
During the 2008-2009 school year, Sustainable Seattle will again conduct our Choose to Change workshops for Middle- and High-School students.
8/27/08 - Experience Food Project
EFP has just launched a multiyear initiative with the San Juan Island School District that focuses on food as a core pillar of sustainability. Learn More about the Experience Food Project
8/4/08 - Have you signed up for your Community Change Card?
The Puget Sound Community Change Card holders and businesses give back to their community and make a powerful social statement through donations to local nonprofits and schools of their choice. Puget Sound Community Change participants receive cash rewards for shopping with local participating merchants, and share them with local nonprofits and schools. Please select Sustainable Seattle as your beneficiary.
7/14/08 - For your reading list...
Why Local Linkages Matter: Findings from the Local Food Economy Study. Spending involves a choice about the kind of future we want to have. This report explains why we should care about our spending choices when it comes to sustainability. The report describes the dollar flows and economic linkages of food-related businesses in the Central Puget Sound region of. The research indicates that more and stronger local linkages provide for a healthier, more diverse and resilient community economy. Read it now by clicking on the link above.
6/22/08 - The B-Sustainable Information Network
For the last three years, Sustainable Seattle has worked with over 80 organizations and hundreds of stakeholders to develop the next generation of actionable sustainability indicators as an information commons. This Information Network will revolutionize how information is shared. It is a web based living commons focused on the web of sustainability information and demonstrating the interdependence between the natural, built, social and personal environments. This effort started as the Regional Sustainability Information Commons. Its launch is scheduled for fall 2008.
6/2/08 - Action Partners Wanted
Organizations involved in providing solutions to problems along the broad range of sustainability issues are invited to become B-Sustainable Action Partners. As an Action Partner, you will be able to share your strategies and ideas across sectors and outside the choir.
Please contact us for more information.
5/9/08 - Sustainable Seattle's Fiscal Sponsorship Projects
Sustainable Seattle is proud to be fiscal sponsor to the following initiatives whose sustainability-based missions and goals complement the work of Sustainable Seattle:
Experience Food Project. The Experience Food Project provides cutting edge strategies for sustainable food systems, food education, agriculture and community building. By bringing families and communities back to the table we are creating the foundation for a lifetime of health and vitality.
Climate Dialogues. The Climate Dialogues is a coalition of local and national groups led by the 2People.org citizen's network. Contact Phil Mitchell (phil [at] 2people.org) for information about getting your business or organization involved. The Dialogues have been formally endorsed by the Seattle City Council.
Sustainable Cascadia. Sustainable Cascadia gathers citizens and civic, private sector and NGO leadership (a leader is anyone willing to help!) across the bioregion to invoke a broadly shared civic passion for sustainability and the ongoing cultivation of best practices to dramatically catalyze progress toward sustainability in one generation. This initiative fosters innovation in defining the way forward and develops effective collaborative structures to support learning and implementation of an ongoing action agenda. Sustainable Cascadia stewards an alliance of organizations to co-create an ongoing action agenda. It catalyzes engagement, supplementing the events with collaborative technology infrastructure, collaborative work sessions and leadership development at the community level.
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