Are You Fighting to Protect Natural Spaces?
Stop Incinerators? Ensure More Sustainable Planning?
Feeling Outgunned by "Experts" and Outmaneuvered by Municipal staff?
Shut Out by Local Media and Outfoxed by Politicians?
Citizens' groups can BEAT all these odds and WIN!

Learn how at the “Organize to Win” seminar led by Oakvillegreen Conservation Association president Liz Benneian, an award-winning community activist and environmental leader.

Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009
Time: 1 to 5 p.m.
Cost: $5 per person, includes handout materials and coffee, tea, water, snacks
(Lug A Mug - Please bring your own mug for liquid refreshment)
Where: Faith United Church, 1778 Nash Rd., Courtice, ON [MAP]

Oakvillegreen has been a tremendously successful citizens’ organization, partly because it had the help of some experienced organizers. (See its successes at www.oakvillegreen.org under main menu click on “Our Accomplishments”). Oakvillegreen now wants to pass that experience and learning on to other organizations so they can be more effective in their battles.

The seminar is geared to give participants useful tools their groups can employ immediately to become more successful and it will introduce you to wonderful people, working hard in their communities to make a difference.

The seminar will be especially helpful to groups that are just forming, offering critical information on how to get a new group organized. It is not just for group leaders but for all members who want to learn how to become more successful advocates.

Pre-registration is required. We hope you can join us. See details below.

Seminar Leader: Liz Benneian

Seminar leader Liz Benneian is a former newspaper editor who has been president of Oakvillegreen since 2005. Liz recently became the recipient of Earth Day Canada’s 2009 National Hometown Hero Award. She is a previous recipient of the Town of Oakville’s Spirit Award and Rotary’s Paul Harris Award for community service. Liz has helped found several environmental organizations including the Ontario Zero Waste Coalition. She has given the Organize To Win seminar to numerous community groups around the province.

Highlights
· How to organize · Forming successful strategies · Developing effective tactics
· Getting publicity · Understanding bureaucracies and politicians · Avoiding pitfalls

Space is limited so please RSVP to Kerry at ksam2@rogers.com or (905) 436-2252 (leave message) no later than Monday, September 14 to reserve your spot.
(Late registration on-site is possible but is not guaranteed)

Hosted by DurhamEnvironmentWatch.org (DEW) & Concerned Citizens of Durham
continuing to fight the Durham MSW Incinerator