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April 30, 2020

SFIC COVID-19 Response  Online Briefing for Faith Leaders
 
COVID-19's Impact on the Environment, Policies and Programs
and Ways Communities of Faith Can Stay Engaged 
During and After the Pandemic
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Earlier today, the San Francisco Interfaith Council   (SFIC), in collaboration with the SF Department of Emergency Management's (DEM) Community Branch,   hosted the third in a weekly series of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) response briefings for faith leaders. Today's briefing featured Executive Director of the San Francisco Department of the Environment Deborah Raphael , who addressed the COVID-19's impact upon the environment, environmental  policies and programs, and ways communities of faith can stay engaged in environmental activism during and after the pandemic.

The briefing may be viewed in its entirety by clicking the link below:
 

Also participating were Zoom Briefing Moderator/SFIC Executive Director Michael Pappas, SFIC Board Chair Kaushik Roy, SFIC Board Member and Senior Minister at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California 
The Rt. Rev. Dr. Marc Handley Andrus, GreenFaith Director of Distributed Organizing Kyle Lemle 
and California Interfaith Power & Light Executive Director Susan Stephenson. Special appreciation 
is extended to the DEM technology team, comprised of Community Branch Coordinator John McKnight and Engagement Leads Darren Low, Russell Allen, Kelly Gaherty and Karen Nemsick.

For additional resources, please visit:
(Learn more about CIPL and connect with
Susan Stephenson at: [email protected])

GreenFaith
(Learn more about GreenFaith and connect with
Kyle Lemle at: [email protected])

GreenFaith Facebook Page

GreenFaith Faith Climate Petition

Safeguard State Environmental Protections

Please join us next Thursday, May 7, 2020, at 8:30 am, for the next in the SFIC's series of online briefings for faith leaders, featuring the theme "Conducting Zoom Meetings With Confidence."
(Zoom registration to be provided in the program announcement)


San Francisco COVID-19 Data Tracker

Data as of Wednesday, April 29, 2020




Additional Information and Case Charts at:



Latest Coronavirus Facts  Here





What SF Communities of Faith
Are Doing and Saying About the Coronavirus
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We invite you to review these best practices with care and, as appropriate, use them as examples to share with your faithful.


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As these links live on the SFIC website, we encourage you to continue forwarding any and all like communications you post on your respective websites and social media platforms to:

SFIC Program/Administrative Associate
Cynthia Zamboukos

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