Dear Friend,
Do you ever experience looking up at the clock and realizing that you’ve been at work for 10 hours? And not believing your eyes because the work you’re doing, and the people you are working with are so fun, engaging and productive that you’ve been consumed by it all day? I experience that routinely at NESEA.
We are wrapping up an INCREDIBLE year at the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association — thanks to you, our most engaged community members.
Among the many things to celebrate, we have:
- provided more than 50 practitioners the skills they need to begin their own zero net energy building projects by enrolling them in Marc Rosenbaum’s 10-week course BuildingEnergy Masters Series course.
- provided more than 10,000 practitioners and educated consumers with the information and connections they need to undertake their next (or maybe their first) high performance building project, by educating them in NESEA’s Green Buildings Open House program, and directing them to NESEA professionals in our Sustainable Green Pages.
- worked with GreenHomeNYC, our New York City Chapter, to educate 150 building owners, operators, facilities managers, and other professionals on how best to approach energy efficiency projects in NYC-based multifamily buildings.
- started building a robust infrastructure for collaboration, including a new website and online platform that you, our members can drive – to develop your own communities of practice to support your work and grow your business year round
And there’s so much more in the works for 2013. We’ll be inviting you to continue our work in several new working groups to shape NESEA’s future – reinventing legacy programs and launching new ones that help us advance the adoption of sustainable energy solutions in the built environment.
If you are as excited as we are about the momentum we’re building, please support us with a tax deductible contribution to NESEA. Your investment of $50, $100, or even $250 will help us ensure that NESEA remains “the shelter of our community.”
Donate Now by clicking here, or simply return the pledge card contained in our recent fundraising letter in the enclosed pre-addressed envelope.
Thank you. I look forward to working with you in 2013!
Warm regards,
Jennifer J. Marrapese, JD, MA
Executive Director
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
p.s. – We are grateful to a group of your peers, Kate Goldstein among them, who have agreed to match, dollar for dollar, all contributions to our end-of-year appeal up to $13,000. Please give as generously as you can!