The Keefe Building School Brainstorm Gathering

• You Are Invited to Meet Bob Smith and Sarah Mc Eneany

http://www.robertlewissmith.com

http://www.sarahportfolio.com/sarah.html

Noon Next Monday

December 18, 2006

531 E. Keefe
Riverwest, Milwaukee

The Keefe Building

A few blocks from the Outpost, Art Bar, Garden Park, Snails Crossing, the Riverwest Commons, Club Timbuktu, the Riverwest Co-op, Kern Park, the cleansing Milwaukee River, Gordon Park, and two bus lines

• Tour the Keefe Building, 531 E. Keefe in Riverwest
• And Consider Becoming a Partner and Co-Creator of the Keefe Building

Booth Side of Keefe Building

I have met Bob Smith, co-founder with his wife Sarah Mc Eneany of The Keefe Building, who wants to serve the good cause and fight the good fight by partnering with people in the community to develop 531 E. Keefe St., i.e. The Keefe Building, in a creative and thoughtful way, growing a community along the way.

City Farm Demonstration Project?

Reschooling Organic Societies with Everyday Teachers, Mentors, and Partners

Lets connect our large and small schools with teachers and mentors who work in the neighborhood in small and large businesses, public and private enterprises for life-long learning for young and old.

Below are some themes Bob would enjoy talking with people about.

Viva, the Keefe Building!

Everyday Survival Skills

How about we assign one perfectly organized 15 by 15′ area to house

• minor and basic auto mechanics
• minor and basic body work on cars
• small appliance repairs
• floor sanding and repair
• tile work
• painting
• plastering
• drywalling
• window weatherizing
• window and storm repair
• siding options
• gutter systems
• roof systems
• masonry
• drainage

City Farms and Gardens

• market baskets
• rain gardens
• composting
• gardening
• city farming

How about we assign one perfectly organized 15 by 15′ area to house

Internet Advancement Skills

• Acquiring Cheap Laptops and Maintaining Them
• Learning How to E-Mail
• Learning How to Set Up Helpful Address Book System
• Learning How to Use Google
• Learning How to Set Up Simple Web Page
• Learning How to Use Excel or Quick Books
• Hooking Up w. Internet Mentors, Supporters, Teachers, Partners

Radio Broadcasting

Cable T.V, /Broadcasting

Photography

Videography

How about we have some on-line brainstorms and gatherings around these concepts for the Keefe Building social enterprise incubators?

Social Enterprise Incubators On

• Creating Info Centers

• Wholistic Health, East and West, North and South, Medicine

• Smart, Fertile, Beautiful, Enduring, and Resilient Building and Building Community

• Rooftop Gardens, Garden Training, Organic Food Providing

• Fish Farming

• Renewable Energy

• Urban Commercial Agriculture

• Eco Villages and Intentional Communities

• Publishing, Hard Copy and Virtual

• Folk and Fine Arts, Crafts, and Artisinal Trades

• Brainstorming Meditation and Massage

• Designs for Respect, Reflection, Beauty, and Fun

We have many friends who would be happy to teach these courses or provide informed conversations in brainstorm gatherings, real or virtual, friends whose lives have been devoted to making a living in these fields, either in theory, practice, or best yet, the integration of theory and practice.

We would also help win grant writers, fund raisers, arbitrage workers, energy engineers, designers to the cause of the Keefe Building, Sustainable Development, and Community Building

Godsil