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Delta Conservancy Offers Social Media Training June 6
The Delta Conservancy is offering free Social Media training to Delta nonprofits and businesses on June 6, 8am-11am at the Rio Vista Municipal Airport Conference Room. The hands-on training will discuss how to use blogs, Facebook and Twitter and which strategies work best to expand community outreach for different types and sizes of organizations. Through a partnership with the City of Rio Vista and Aspiration Technology, the Conservancy is able to provide the training at no cost to community members. Click here to register or contact Susan Roberts, 916-375-2088, for more information.
DELTA CONSERVANCY BOARD MEETING SCHEDULED MAY 16, 2012
The Delta Conservancy Board meeting is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 16, in the Community Room at the West Sacramento Community Center, 1075 West Capitol Avenue. Please park across the street at 1020 West Capitol Avenue in the overflow parking lot. Click here for agenda.
STRATEGIC PLAN AND POLICY SUBCOMMITTEE MEETS MAY 14
The Delta Conservancy Strategic Plan and Policy Subcommittee meeting is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday, May 14, in Room 119, 3500 Industrial Blvd, West Sacramento. Subcommittee will provide comments on the revised Strategic Plan. Click here for agenda.
DRAFT STRATEGIC PLAN: NEXT STEPS
Delta Conservancy's draft Strategic Plan has completed the public review process and in its final stages. It will be revised to incorporate public input and will then be presented to the Conservancy Board for consideration at their May 16, 2012 meeting, 9am-12pm. A special Board meeting for final Board review and approval will be held on Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 9am-12pm at the West Sacramento Community Center, Community Room, 1075 West Capitol Avenue, West Sacramento, CA. All Board meetings are open to the public and will be noticed on the Delta Conservancy website. (Click here for the updated Draft Strategic Plan)
APRIL 2010 GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
Check our Current Funding Opportunities webpage for grant opportunities for projects or programs in the Delta. We are not affiliated with any of the funding opportunities listed, nor do we endorse their specific organizations. Investigate each opportunity for appropriateness for your organization. We will expand our list as we find new opportunities. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at: info@deltaconservancy.ca.gov.
DELTA CONSERVANCY e-NEWSLETTER AVAILABLE
The Delta Conservancy's April e-Newsletter asks for public input on their draft Strategic Plan. Verbal or written comments are due April 20; see the e-Newsletter for details. This issue includes a feature on Mike Eaton, Conservancy board member and Chair of the Strategic Plan and Policy Subcommittee, who will be honored May 16 by Valley Vision as the 2012 Regional Environmental Stewardship Leader; history of the collaborative work to create the Suisun Marsh Plan; and a feature on the history of the Clarksburg Ferry.
Changing Our Perspective: New Ways of Thinking About the Delta - Video Links to Conference Presentations
On October 18th, 2011, the Delta Conservancy and the Water Education Foundation co-hosted their first annual conference. Formally titled "Changing Our Perspective: New Ways of Thinking About the Delta" the daylong conference offered unique ways to approach the complex issues in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Well known strategists Jeff Conklin and Ian Mitroff discussed how the Delta is a "Wicked Problem" and how people often solve the wrong problem very precisely. Dialogue between the two explores different strategies and approaches that can be used not to "fix" the problems in the Delta, but to "manage" the conditions in the Delta to maintain both its local and statewide resources. To view their discussion and to explore the rest of the conference panels please click here
Answers To Questions Posed In Delta Community Meetings
In August 2011 the Delta Conservancy hosted a series of community meetings in the towns of Isleton, Bethel Island and Clarksburg. The purpose of these meetings was to hear from Delta residents on how best the Conservancy can serve the region. All Conservancy staff were present at the meetings, as well as several board members, including Mary Nejedly Piepho, the Chair, and Senator Lois Wolk an ex-officio member of the board.
Conservancy staff and board members were asked numerous questions related to water supply and quality, ecosystem restoration and flood issues. In total, more than 70 questions and comments were received in the meetings. For those unable to attend the meetings, all questions and answers are posted on Delta Conservancy's website.
Overall, Conservancy staff found the meetings very enlightening and successful.
The Delta Conservancy staff looks forward to hearing additional input from Delta residents during their Strategic Plan process, which is expected to roll out in late Fall of this year. Please join the Delta Conservancy's List Serve to be notified of dates and locations.