FW: Vote for the Backyard Gardener's Network!
Anisa Baldwin Metzger
If you didn’t get this, I’m sending it on for your help. Our friend Jenga needs votes to get $5000 for community gardening!
-Anisa
From: Backyard Gardener's
Network [mailto:backyard...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 4:04 PM
To: backyard...@gmail.com
Subject: Vote for the Backyard Gardener's Network!
Greetings!
On behalf of the Backyard Gardener's Network, the Holy Cross Neighborhood
Association Garden Committee and the entire Lower Ninth Ward community, I ask
for your help to win the Cox Conserves Heroes contest. Please go to http://www.coxconservesheroes.com/new-orleans-la/votingform.aspx
and vote for me, Jenga Mwendo! Cox Conserves Heroes is a contest that awards an
"environmental hero" $5000 to his/her charity of choice. If I win,
the money will go towards renovating a blighted cottage next door to our
community garden for use as a storage/education garden center. I am the
only contestant representing a project in the Lower Ninth Ward, the community
devastated most by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Vote Now! Spread the
word! Vote as many times as you want!! Thanks!
About Cox Conserves Heroes:
To help honor New Orleans' unsung environmental heroes and inspire neighborhood
conservation, Cox Communications has launched “Cox Conserves Heroes.” Finalists
have been selected by a panel of local judges and public online voting is open
until April 23. Please visit the Voting Form tab on the left to learn more
about the finalists and vote for a winner. The winner will be crowned the New
Orleans 2010 Cox Conserves Hero and a $5,000 cash donation will be given to the
environmental non-profit of his or her choice.
About the Backyard Gardener's Network:
The Backyard Gardener's Network is a Lower Ninth Ward based not-for-profit
organization founded by Jenga Mwendo, whose mission is community building,
neighborhood revitalization and cultural preservation through urban agriculture
in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward. Since 2007, Jenga Mwendo has organized
neighbors to revitalize a pre-Katrina community garden (the Ernst Garden),
planted over 150 free trees for residents, secured fruit trees for three community
sites and led the charge to convert an empty lot into a vibrant greenspace (the
Guerrilla Garden), among other beneficial projects. The Backyard
Gardener's Network works in partnership with New Orleans Food and Farm Network
and Parkway Partners.
Contact the Backyard Gardeners Network at backyard...@gmail.com
or visit www.backyardgardenersnetwork.org
Thanks!!
jenga