Here is a neat opperunity. Are you from a Rural Area? Are you going to
return and farm? If so, please check out this announcement.
Hope I see a lot of you tomorrow at the farm with Will Allen!
Beth
From: *Brown, Rhonda - Washington, DC* <Rhonda.Brown@wdc.usda.gov
<mailto:Rhonda.Brown@wdc.usda.gov>>
Date: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:52 PM
Subject: FW: Rural Youth Assembly -- seeking nominations
Please share broadly with others that may be interested.
Rhonda Brown-Operations and Management
USDA Rural Development
Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Coordinator/Agency
Outreach Coordinator/Small Farms Coordinator
Ph.(202) 692-0298
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The National Rural Assembly will be producing a Youth Assembly
April 22-25, 2010.
We're looking for help spreading the word to folks who might
nominate young people (ages 18-25) to attend.
The National Rural Assembly will select 50 young people from
around the country for the Youth Assembly and will cover
participants' costs.
The email below has links to the application packet and more
information. If you could pass this along to people and
organizations you think might be interested, we would appreciate it.
Nominations are due Feb. 26, 2010. Thanks for your help.
Sincerely,
Tim Marema
Center for Rural Strategies
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*From:* Whitney Kimball Coe [mailto:whitney@ruralstrategies.org
<mailto:whitney@ruralstrategies.org>] *
Sent:* Monday, February 01, 2010 12:23 PM*
To:* ruralassembly_list@mailmanager.net
<mailto:ruralassembly_list@mailmanager.net>*
Subject:* National Rural Youth Assembly: Call for Nominations
*Call for Nominations!*
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*February 1, 2010*
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*_NATIONAL RURAL YOUTH ASSEMBLY in Santa Fe, New Mexico_*
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*The National Rural Assembly will host a National Rural _Youth_
Assembly on April 22-25, 2010, at the *Institute for American
Indian Arts <http://www.iaia.edu/>* in Santa Fe, New Mexico.*
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*The Assembly seeks 50 young adults from rural communities across
the country who will gather to discuss the issues they see as
critical to their lives and communities. *
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The National Rural Assembly Steering Committee asks rural leaders
and mentors to nominate young people who are interested in rural
issues and invested in making an impact in their local communities.
The National Rural Youth Assembly
<http://capwiz.com/ruralassembly/utr/0/?u=http://www.ruralstrategies.org/national-rural-youth-assembly>
will engage young people on the key policy areas of the Rural
Assembly including the quality of education, stewardship of our
natural resources, investment in our communities, and the health
of rural people. Youth will represent the diversity of rural
America in geographies, races, cultures, genders, incomes and
sexual orientations.
*Criteria:*
Nominated participants must 18-25 years old and represent a rural
community. For further criteria, please review the Youth Assembly
application packet
<http://capwiz.com/ruralassembly/utr/0/?u=http://ruralstrategies.org/sites/all/files/Youth_Assembly_Packet.doc>.
*Deadline for Applications:*
All application packets are due */Friday, February 26^th by 5 p.m.
EDT./*
to download the Youth Assembly Application Packet
-- Aimee Witteman
Executive Director
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
p: 202-547-5754
f: 202-547-1837
www.sustainableagriculture.net
<http://www.sustainableagriculture.net>
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AND YOU?
There's a child in me
that delights
in butterfly wings,
stained glass windows,
blue-green bottles
and sun - through things.
j.r. rhodes
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