Social Alliance Network

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Social Alliance Network

• Building purposeful community for
• spiritual, ecological, economic and social
  vitality.

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Sierra Native Alliance Network

• Comprehensive Community Development Community
  Organizing

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• Envisioning healthy, quality native communities
• engaging critical relationships
• developing insightful strategies, goals,
  objectives, work plans tactics
• acquiring and deploying vital skills
• organizing the power to achieve success

Sierra Native Alliance Network
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Potential Projects
Vision for Sierra Native Initiatives?
Social
Spiritual
Economic
Ecological
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Immediate Projects

• FERC Yuba Bear Relicensing
• Position Consensus
• Written Reports to FERC
• Archiving of Reports
• Public Relationship Building
• Publicity Press Speaking
• Legal filings
• Agency Affiliation Development
• other research
• Seed funding for above!

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Consensus Building Goals
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Next steps

• Vision Statement
• Build native alliance coalition
• Build alliance Coalition NGOs, Agencies,
  Community
• Build consensus
• Just do it!

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Next steps

• Funding
• Reach out to community leaders
• Requirements for Native initiative infrastructure
• Budget

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Contact information

• Bridge Builder Bill Jacobson
• bill_at_socialalliancenetwork.org 530.268.7367
• 30 years in bringing process expertise and
  technology to non-profits, governmental agencies
  citizen activists
• Masters Degree in Public Administration
• Active local community leadership including
  Calling Back the Salmon, Yuba Bear FERC
  Relicensing, San Anselmo Community Exchange
• Long-time affiliation with indigenous Spiritual
  Leaders

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• In the realm of the possible

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Social Alliance Network

• Building purposeful community for
• spiritual, ecological, economic and social
  vitality.