A FREE WORKSHOP: “WHAT ARE BROWNFIELDS OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR COMMUNITY!”

The VanBuren County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority will be presenting A FREE WORKSHOP: “WHAT ARE BROWNFIELDS OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR COMMUNITY!”

They will be hosting a special presentation to educate the community at large to share with them about BROWNFIELDS, the affect it has on communities, and the resources that are available to help clean contaminated land, farmland, commercial structures, homes and business that may be deemed BROWNFIELD Sites. While educating consumers of what they can do to assure that their potential investments are secured by working with the local BROWNFIELD Divisions of their areas.

The team of BROWNFIELD Experts will be participating in a FREE community forum that will be conducted in Spanish and English to serve the greater communities of Van Buren County. Anyone interested in attending or wanting more information (Attachments) please contact the Brownfield Division.


DATE: APRIL 30, 2011

TIME: 12:00-2:30 PM
WHERE: VAN BUREN ISD TECHNOLOGY CENTER
250 South Street
Lawrence, Michigan

The Van Buren County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority is requesting your support buy assisting them in filling their workshop with over 200 individuals.


FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:


Edward VanderVries - MAAO III, PPE
Van Buren County
Director of Land Services, Planning & Economic Development
219 E. Paw Paw Street
Paw Paw, MI 49079
VandervriesE@vbco.org
WK - (269) 657-8234 x17
FAX - (269) 657-0579
MBL - (269) 720-1928

stand against racism - friday april 29

stand against racism

The YWCA of Kalamazoo cordially invites you to join us in taking a stand against racism.

Friday, April 29, 2011

5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

353 E. Michigan Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49007


The stand against racism is an awareness event in which community members gather to stand together to recognize the need to eliminate racism. Participating
community members will stand together covering a four block radius surrounding the YWCA, and will recite the pledge against racism. We ask you to make your voice heard by joining the stand against racism. The stand against racism will take place at the front of the YWCA with a reception to follow.

By participating in this event, you will help raise awareness that racism still exists in our communities and that it can no longer be tolerated.
Our strength will be in numbers. Please Join Us. Take a Stand.


For more information: Contact Chéree Thomas at 269-345-5595 ext. 314 or
racialjustice@ywcakalamazoo.org

Or visit: www.StandAgainstRacism.org

353 E. Michigan Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49007
269-345-5595

www.ywcakalamazoo.org


pledge against racism

As an individual committed to social justice, I stand with YWCA against racism and discrimination of any kind.

I will commit to a lifetime of promoting peace, justice,
freedom, and dignity for all people in my community and in the world.

One Community Campaign

One Community refers to the American ideal that we are one people, and that our prosperity and quality of life depend on all residents contributing fully to the economic, social and cultural life of our communities and our state. Unfortunately, the rising poverty rate and associated negative trends in many quality of life indicators show that we have been moving further away from this ideal in recent years. One Community is intended to function simultaneously as a poverty indicators monitoring system, an evaluation system to inform local and state anti-poverty policies and practices, and as a communications campaign intended to ensure that the voices of poor people and the need to eliminate poverty remain in the forefront of public consciousness.


The first component of the One Community model is an information system that includes monitoring trends in poverty and poverty-related quality of life indicators

Voices for Action Region 6 Meeting

(eg., food security, access to adequate health care, education, housing), as well as supply and demand for social, educational, medical and employment services. A second component involves evaluation research by social scientists from Western Michigan University who will assess how adequately community resources and services are working (individually and collectively) to reduce poverty. The third component of One Community is a communications (public information) campaign that juxtaposes information about poverty in our respective communities and statewide with the highest ideals that we Americans embrace and espouse.

We expect that One Community will lead to the creation of a network of citizens energized to work collaboratively to eliminate poverty. In each community and throughout the region, the network will include: service providers from both the non-profit and public sectors; faith-based and other community organizations; university-based researchers; and the people, themselves, including those who are poor.

The economic, social and cultural vitality of our communities depend on all people having the basic resources needed to contribute and participate fully in community life. Our communities and our region cannot prosper when so many of our citizens are encumbered by poverty. By highlighting how far we are from providing so many of our children and families with the most basic building blocks for a prosperous future, One Community seeks to enable residents from all backgrounds to envision a brighter future for our communities and our region, and what it will take to get there.