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Dear Friends,
I've mentioned the 100,000 Homes Campaign and my work as the Coordinator here in the Triangle to many of you. NOW is the time to consider volunteering. Read on for more information....
The national 100,000 Homes Campaign is a grassroots effort to find and place the most vulnerable, long-term homeless individuals into 100,000 households across the country by July 2013. To learn more about the campaign, please click here and be inspired by these videos: 100K Homes Introduction , 100K Homes Registry Week
As part of the national campaign, the United Way of the Greater Triangle, the Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness and the Wake County Partnership to End Homelessness are planning a weeklong effort called “Registry Week” to identify and help persons who are homeless obtain and sustain permanent housing.
The goal of Orange and Wake Counties’ Registry Week is to create a by-name registry of people living on our streets and in shelters, enabling us to prioritize those who have significant medical issues and have been homeless the longest. The Vulnerability Index is administered in the form of a survey, which captures a homeless individual’s health and the duration of his/her homelessness. This ranking allows those with the most severe health risks to be identified and prioritized for housing and other support. What we learn together during Registry Week will help us reduce chronic homelessness in Wake and Orange counties.
We are recruiting dedicated volunteers to canvass streets and shelters to survey the most vulnerable homeless individuals and families. To ensure the most accurate count possible, we will survey individuals during the early morning and evening hours for three consecutive days. The survey findings will be presented at a community debriefing at the conclusion of Registry Week on Friday, January 27th.
Volunteer opportunities include:
Administering surveys to homeless individuals on the streets, in campsites and shelters throughout Orange and Wake Counties in early morning and evening hours
Entering survey data at the United Way offices in Morrisville
For more information about training times and volunteer opportunities, check out visi thttp://www.unitedwaytriangle.org/100khomes/
Consider joining us in two weeks and help us end homelessness in our community.
Best,
chantelle
Chantelle Fisher-Borne
Coordinator, 100K Homes – Triangle Registry Week
[email protected]919 260 2189
Date:
Saturday, January 21, 2012 - 12:00pm to Friday, January 27, 2012 - 12:00pm
Info from the county below. Put your money where your mouths are, people!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Contact: Donna Baker, Clerk to the Board of Orange County Commissioners, 919-245-2130
Orange County Seeks Applicants for Boards and Commissions
ORANGE COUNTY, NC – One major way citizens can have a positive impact on the future of Orange County is to volunteer to serve on the various County advisory boards and commissions.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners is recruiting citizen volunteers for the following advisory boards.
Looking to get more involved in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro community? Interested in environmental awareness, healthy lifestyles, educational access, and international partnerships?
Sustain Foundation is a growing, grassroots, community service organization seeing passionate and committed individuals to serve on the board in an advisory role. The requirements of the position include a regular monthly meeting lasting no longer than 90 minutes and critically reading comprehensive ‘update’ documents every other week. Board terms last one year, and additional information is included below. Send an email to Sustain Foundation at [email protected] to inquire more information about Sustain Foundation and this opportunity to substantially contribute to the development of a local non-profit.
More information: The mission of Sustain Foundation, a 501c3 based in Carrboro, is to create and implement sustainable solutions to health, environmental and education challenges in the local and global community. The organization focuses on promoting partnership of mutual support in order to match the strengths and needs of different communities. Within the local community the organization has focused on Latina women's health through a walking program as well as environmental awareness through the publishment of the Community Trail Guide, which mapped natural surface trails in the area. Sustain Foundation is also active in promoting well-being through a local women's running group. In Sakina, Tanzania, Sustain Foundation is implementing community-based educational and health programs.
Location:
PO BOX 1195 Carrboro, NC 27510
Everything is confirmed and the final details are being smoothed out for moving the ReCYCLEry from our wonderful Bolin Creek home of the past several years to 103 Padgette Lane, Carrboro. Padgette Lane is the small road that comes off of Main Street in between the recently vacated Performance Bike Shop and the Carrboro Arts Center parking lot.
Early voting starts today! Here's a handy list of locations and hours via the Chapel Hill Herald:
Bring your checkbook and your desire for change to our "Turn North Carolina Blue for Barack Obama" party!
For
the first time in decades, North Carolina can be the state that puts a
Democrat in the White House. Senator Obama's message of change has
resonated with Tar Heel voters, but his campaign needs all the help it
can get as it fights against a Republican smear campaign of truly epic
proportions. A representative from the Obama-Biden campaign will be on
hand to share with us Senator Obama's vision for America and to tell us
how we can get involved with the campaign.
Suggested
contribution amounts: $25, $50, $75, $100, $200 -- and/or a firm
commitment to volunteer with the Obama-Biden campaign between now and
Election Day!
BABYSITTING WILL BE PROVIDED! So bring the kids
and learn how you can help turn North Carolina blue for Barack Obama on
November 4th!
Please RSVP directly to me no later than Monday, October 13th, so we can get some sense of numbers. Also, PLEASE NOTE: If you're bringing your children, please let us know in your RSVP the number and ages of the children. Thanks!
Date:
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
3810 Bluestone Court, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Nearly two years after BUB's inception, Blue Urban Bikes and the ReCYCLEry have received recognition at RTP Headquarter's 2008 luncheon and award ceremony celebrating the achievements of the year's transportation demand management (TDM) programs, including the Durham County Trip Reduction Ordinance and TDM Programs in RTP, Durham, Orange and Wake Counties.
There are 8 BUB Hubs now, from Eastgate to the MLK YMCA and into Carrboro. Discussions are ongoing with Wellspring, 3 campus locations, and hopefully in Meadowmont. Rumor has it that a possible partnership with gotriangle could target bus stops. Thanks to the determination, effort and foresight of just a couple people at the outset, SURGE, and the community at large, the program survives and is looking better than ever.
Chris Richmond, Executive Director of the ReCYCLEry, and I have launched ReCYCLEry.info to publicize the ReCYCLEry and its partners' community programs such as the newly launched Blue Urban Bike program and Carrboro Greenspace.We have tentatively decided to keep the contributors limited, and leave the conversation to more comprehensive forums such as OrangePolitics. Theoretically, we may limit return traffic to the site, but this will leave us more time for real world activism, and keep the site a resource for pure information, media and community links.So we pose these questions: Should we attempt to encourage more online activism by creating a new forum? or Do we still manage to fully engage our objectives by leaving debate and editorial content elsewhere?
Announcing OrangePolitics Volunteer Sprints!* We are looking for volunteers to help us build a better Election Guide. If you are interested in researching candidates and issues or building online tools to share election information, please consider helping out.
Some of the things we might work on include:
- Compiling information about each candidate possibly including: endorsements, campaign spending, candidate photos, and whatever else we think of
- Comparative charts and other analysis
- Dynamic maps (like this for example)
- Post-election analysis of donations, and results by precinct
If these sound interesting, or if you have a better idea, please sign up for the OP Volunteer list.
I'm interested in having one or two interns help out on OrangePolitics during the elections this year. This would be a great opportunity for a young person to learn about grassroots politics, local government, and the trendy new world of political blogging! We can't offer money, but may be able to arrange academic credit.
Here's the job description:
Local Government Watcher, Civic Engagement Specialist, and/or Local Politics Blogger
OrangePolitics is an online community which exists to encourage residents of Orange County, NC to get involved in local government and civic activities by offering progressive perspectives on local and regional issues.
Qualifications
Must be registered to vote, preferably in Orange County!
Must be interested in politics or advocacy.
Must be articulate and able to write clearly.
Must be comfortable with online research and eager to learn about about new issues.
Blogging experience is a plus, but not required.
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