The most accurate and comprehensive description of The Diet Newsletter is the newsletter itself, www.gallerydiet.com A few hopes and thoughts on the Diet newsletter, The Diet newsletter is an online publication appearing once monthly which creates a local source for dialogue relevant to the national and international arts community. While focused in Miami, the Diet newsletter has woven perspectives from outside the city into the local dialogue, broadening the scope of discussion surrounding visual art work in South Florida.

Arica is the northernmost city in Chile and has a large unemployed and impoverished population. Not many music and arts programs are offered in the city, in fact not many programs for children are offered at all. Underpriveliged kids don't have any opportunity for creative expression. Those who are priviliged don't seem to want to help others with their talents.

I started the Bed-Stuy CSA, because families in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn are unable to purchase fresh vegetables in the neighborhood. This lack of access to fresh, healthy food contributes to the neighborhood’s significant health epidemics: according to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Health of Central Brooklyn report, residents of Bedford-Stuyvesant suffer a rate of heart disease 30% higher than the NYC average and are two times more likely to have diabetes than the average New Yorker. In fact, 1 in 3 Bed-Stuy residents is obese.

Wild and Water is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting poverty through the sport of swimming. We hold free swim lessons for economically disadvantaged kids, teaching them not only how to swim, but how to be safe around the water. The inspiration for Wild and Water came while I was on a camping trip with a group of economically disadvantaged children from Atlanta, GA. I was asked to accompany the kids on a swimming excursion at the lake, and was horrified at what I saw. Kids who did not know how to swim were just jumping into the water, having no idea that they would sink once they were in.

Youth Together's goal is to engage young people in community service to help abused, homeless and ill children. Youth Together is a 501c3 non-profit organization that works with elementary and middle school student councils, Students Thinking of People and Peer Assistance and Leadership programs to help homeless, abused, and critically ill children as well as homeless animals and the Dallas Zoo. We offer ten different projects in which these student organizations can participate.

As students at an engineering college with a passion for making a positive difference, our interests lie at the intersection of engineering design and social responsibility. We view engineering as the art of solving problems, and already a host of problems—from education to appropriate technology—are topics in which we can make change, even as college students. There currently exists a gap in the design services these organizations often require; it lies between what they can do themselves and what they would take to a professional, big name design firm. That’s where we come in.

The Magnolia Project is a student, staff and faculty initiative committed to raise on-campus awareness of the injustices surrounding Hurricane Katrina.The Magnolia Project is a summer service trip to the New Orleans to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina in their reconstruction efforts.