ADVOCACY TRAINING FOR URBAN AG CODES

Would you like to learn how to be an effective advocate in Kansas City for urban agriculture and good food grown in neighborhoods?


We’ve been working with the KCMO Urban Planning Department to develop proposed codes revisions to support urban agriculture and a good quality of life in KCMO neighborhoods. We want to invite you to get involved in the advocacy process.


Beth Low, the new Director of the Food Policy Coalition of Greater KC, is organizing an Advocacy Training to help us get ready for the support-building process needed to pass the proposed codes revisions. Beth has great experience as a community organizer, electoral campaign director, and elected official, and will be sharing the training with Carrie Shapton of the Partnership for Children. She is also hoping to enlist the support of a few generous elected officials so they can share the experience of being lobbied and work with us on effective strategies.


The training is scheduled for FEBRUARY 28, 12:30-4:30.


Penn Valley MCC
Campus Center, Rooms 502-503.

3201 Southwest Trfy

Kansas City, MO 64111-2764
http://mcckc.edu/main.asp?P=PVCampusMap



WE HAVE A LIMITED NUMBER OF AVAILABLE SPACES, and priority will go first to KCMO residents who can say “Yes, I’d love to help out with this codes campaign!” and then to other excited, committed folks who will put their new skills into action in their own communities.



PLEASE RSVP THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND.



This is going to be really wonderful. Getting involved in the political process in this way is a new thing for many of us urban agriculturalists and local food advocates. By the end of the day, we’ll have a new set of tools just as handy as our rototillers and harvesting knives. I hope you can attend!