Connecting Green Alliance Event

Location: Keen Footwear, 926 NW 13th Avenue

             Hors d’oevres, wine, beer and other beverages will be provided.

 Cynthia Sulaski, Connecting Green Alliance Coordinator, and the “Core Group” working on Connecting Green Alliance initiatives

Connecting Green Identity Project - Greg Newland, Travel Portland, and Andy Fraser, Sockeye Creative

·         What’s been done - research and focus groups

·         What’s been learned - highlights from the findings

·         The “creative brief”

·         Next steps/timeline

Success Stories from the Region                                                       

·         Voter approval of THPRD’s November 2008 $100M bond measure for natural areas, trails and park improvements – Josh Alpert, Trust for Public Land, and Doug Menke, THPRD

·         Regional trails successes – David Bragdon, Metro, and Chris Enlow, Keen Footwear

·         Long-term funding for Outdoor School approved by the Metro Council in May 2008 – Rex Burkholder, Metro, and Dan Prince, Outdoor School

·         60-second success stories

Wrap up: What’s Next – Geoff Roach, Trust for Public Land, and Carlotta Collette, Metro             

              Visit Connecting Green members (a.k.a. “petals”) at their tables, learn more and get   involved.