CONSERVANCY COMMONS

Is your office area looking a little cluttered? Don’t know what to do with all the recyclables piling up next to your desk? Parks Conservancy staff are invited to participate in our first Clean & Organize day of 2018! This is an opportunity to set aside regular work and prioritize cleanliness and organization. Lunch will be provided at 201 Fort Mason. Please RSVP to ensure we order enough food for participants!

4 - 6 pm. Crissy Field Center. The Park Youth Collaborative Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Cohort is honored to present journalist and filmmaker Felicia Lowe’s “Chinese Couplets,” a tale spanning four generations of tenacious women and Lowe's search for answers about her mother’s emigration to America during the Chinese Exclusion era. Please join us for a viewing of this part memoir, part history, part investigative documentary followed by a discussion led the filmmaker. Open to all park staff and interns, regardless of whether you work with youth.

30-minute appointment slots from 9 am - 3 pm. 201 Fort Mason. Wondering how market changes have affected your retirement accounts and how you should proceed? Come review your retirement with either David Medina, an OneAmerica representative, or our retirement plan's financial adviser, Jennifer Butters. Please sign up by Mon., Feb. 26, as our advisers will be reviewing accounts prior to the meetings.

1 - 4 pm. Celebrate diversity and build community with our staff, volunteers, and visitors. We have teamed up with TurnOut, an organization dedicated to connecting volunteers to LGBTQIA+ causes, to help restore and improve habitat for endangered plants like the San Francisco wallflower. All self-identifying LGBTQIA+ folks and allies ages 10 & up are welcome. Join us for an exciting and challenging day of tool wielding, dirty hands, and community building to make our parks an even more awesome place to be.

1 - 4 pm. Lands End. Celebrate South Asian cultures, traditions, and festivals in nature at this family-friendly volunteer restoration program organized by South Asian park staff. We will be celebrating Holi, also known as the “festival of colors” or the “festival of love”. This festival is celebrated in the Indian subcontinent and marks the beginning of spring. We invite you to join us and enjoy the beginning of the wildflower blooms!

9 am - 12:30 pm. Conservancy and NPS staff are invited to our first Park Day of the year in Oakwood Valley! Staff will work in an historic orchard, on trails along historic horse pastures, or amongst spring wildflowers to improve Mission Blue Butterfly habitat. Carpools will be available to leave Fort Mason at 8:30 am. If you drive separately, please arrive on site at 9 am. (The nearest address to the trailhead is 420 Donahue St., Sausalito.) Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP ASAP and no later than March 6. For questions, email Hillary at hbeardsley@parksconservancy.org.

9:30 am - 2:30 pm. Lands End. Enjoy your national park with "feel-good vibes" by coming dressed in your best island-inspired attire for a day filled with uplifting volunteer work, island jamz, delicious BBQ, and thirst-quenching libations! Tickets include yoga, live music, all-you-can-eat BBQ, beverages, prizes, a lounge space with games, and more. Conservancy staff and interns can use promo code GGNPCSTAFF to get the member price for Kick Back Only tickets. This event is 21+.

2:30 - 3:30 pm. Crissy Field Center. Open to all park youth educators/advocates, internship mentors, and community outreach staff. 80,000 Bay Area youth are disconnected from employment and education, making them at risk to be poor, unemployed, homeless or incarcerated as adults. New Door Ventures provides skills training, meaningful jobs, education assistance and personal support to help disconnected youth get ready for work and life. Come meet their staff and learn how to get involved by providing opportunities for New Door participants or how to connect your youth/interns to this resource.

11:30 am - 12:30 pm. 201 Fort Mason, 3rd Fl Conference Rm. Personal debt is a common issue for many Americans. Learn how you can take steps to dig yourself out so that you can increase your net worth and stability. Hosted by OneAmerica, our retirement account vendor. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP below by Mon., Feb. 26.

The food we eat has a bigger impact on our health than almost any other factor. Yet many of us struggle to get the nutrients we need to thrive. During this session, we'll take the guesswork out of healthy eating and provide simple, sustainable strategies that can be incorporated into busy lifestyles. Whatever your health-related goals might be, this session will empower you with resources and information to help you lead the healthiest life possible. This pre-recorded webinar is featured on the Claremont website below. To access, create a login and go to the Webinar tab.

This week we welcome Sean Correa to Park Stewardship and Matthew Brittin to the Marin Headlands Visitor Center!