See you next week on September 29 to virtually meet about our next book!
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney
Mark your calendars for Tuesday September 29, 2020, 6pm.
The meeting link will be sent out the week of the meeting. See you soon!
Before we see each other, take a look at the following volunteer opportunities we have chosen for September/October.
Please let us know which activity you complete so we can keep track of our volunteer hours!
Volunteer Virtually: Outdoor CEO Pledge
The Outdoor CEO Diversity Pledge connects leading outdoor brands with inclusion advocates to advance representation for people of color across the industry. They focus on enhancing representation across staff and executive teams, media and marketing, and athletes/ambassadors. By building a relationship of support, empathy and understanding, versus external skepticism and internal stress, they’re moving the outdoor industry towards authentic inclusion. Pledge signers commit to actions listed on the website AND to report their progress which will be reviewed by the steering committee.
This virtual opportunity is to think of one of your favorite brands or organizations that you enjoy when you explore the outdoors, and to email them to sign the pledge!
Volunteer Locally: Trap Garden
You may be familiar with Trap Garden from the June TWIG meeting! Trap Garden is a social enterprise that provides a sustainable source of healthy, high quality foods and offers innovative solutions to the physical, financial, and educational shortcomings in food insecure communities. They need volunteers to run fresh veggie deliveries on Fridays to 25 local residents on the following dates:
Friday September 25
Friday October 2
Friday October 16
Friday October 23
Outside Online Article - Going It Alone; What happens when an African American woman decides to solo-hike the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine during a summer of bitter political upheaval
Adventure Journal - These Orgs Could Use Your Help to Bring More Diversity to the Outdoors
Field Mag - An evolving list of BIPOC-run outdoors groups on Instagram promoting diversity and inclusion in nature
BONUS VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY
Wild Cumberland is asking for a volunteer to research book clubs and build up a database of ones that may enjoy Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island.
If you would like to do this, keep track of your findshere!
Help pick the next book!
We are seeking your input to help make this book club great!
We have a long Amazon list filled with amazing suggestions from members. Please view the list here. We are collecting answers and additional feedback via this short 2 minute survey!
Thank you so much!
All about Irises
Irises is TWIG's brand new book club for current members! The Iris is the Tennessee State Flower, and a fitting acronym for what we hope to read together!
What's so different about our book club? Each meeting we will meet and discuss what we've read AND we will pair a service activity to go along with each book to support a local non-profit or sustainability initiative in Tennessee!
Meetings are every other month with a rotating location. The book club is led by
Renee Barker and Leah Sherry, and input from members is always appreciated.
Feel free to bring a friend who is not a member of TWIG! Their first two meetings are free (same as monthly meetings) and thereafter will be $5 per meeting.
