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Mississippi-Vermont Community Connection

marisahurlbert — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:33:02 -0600

Students of the Mississippi-Vermont Community Comection class at Twinfield Union School in Marshfield, Vermont have been learning from a “Rights in Action” curriculum. It is a model that enables students to reflect, create and fulfill action plans while building a voice that empowers and is shaped by community. Imagine a new generation of citizen activists bridging our nation’s North and South divide, raising their voices on important public issues, and enlisting community leaders and educators as partners in the civic and political life of their communities.

Greening of Petersburg

BackPorchEnergyInitiative — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:17:57 -0500

The Back Porch Energy Initiative is a non profit founded in May of 2007 by six college graduates who wanted to take action on critical local issues in the American southeast. The American southeast has the highest per capita energy consumption values in the country, spending only one fifth the national averages on energy programming and resources. The founders of Back Porch call the southeast home, and we decided to do something about these discouraging figures. In November, we are headed on a ten month tour of the American Southeast on a bus fueled by waste vegetable oil.

Greening of Petersburg

BackPorchEnergyInitiative — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:07:59 -0500

Sustainability Workshop Series

josha — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:24:27 -0500

The Sustainability Workshop Series is an effort led by the ad-hoc community group, Global Awareness Local Action (G.A.L.A.), to provide experiential learning of basic homesteading techniques like composting, sourdough baking, canning, utilizing renewable energy, biofuel production, wool spinning, wine making, native foraging, and bioregion education. The goal of the Sustainability Workshop Series is to empower individuals to become more locally self-reliant in a fun, practical, and meaningful way.

EmpowerLA Director

Arlan Berglas — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:30:08 -0500

My passion is to help people realize that each one of us is capable of making a positive difference in this world. My specialty is working with people one on one to help each person create their perfect volunteer job. The way I see it, if you are going to be doing volunteer work you might as well be doing exactly what you want to be doing, when you want to be doing it. EmpowerLA gives people an opportunity to do this.

Before You Say I Do

untilHEsays — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:19:13 -0500

Refocusing on our first love, so we're ready for our second... Vision Statement: We as a generation of young women are FIRST called to be the Bride of Christ. But more often than not we as young women commit our hearts to an earthly man when we haven’t even prepared our hearts for the Heavenly Man! The primary purpose of this group is to create an environment of discipleship and friendship that promotes and evokes a refocusing to our first love so we can be truly prepared for our second!

Warren/Conner Development Coalition

BRICK Winner — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:43:14 -0500

In 2000, Tonya Allen won a BRICK Award for her work as Director of the Warren/Conner Development Coalition in Detroit, MI.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers

BRICK Winner — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:27:23 -0500

Lucas Benitez won a BRICK Award in 1999 for his work as Co-Director of The Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Immokalee, FL. By educating and organizing fellow migrant workers, Lucas helped secure the first wage increase for tomato pickers in 20 years, expose

Make the Road by Walking

BRICK Winner — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:25:27 -0500

1999 BRICK winner Oona Chatterjee co-founded Make the Road by Walking, an organization based in Brooklyn, NY.

South Central Youth Empowerment Thru Action

BRICK Winner — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:23:47 -0500

Marqueece Harris-Dawson served as the Director of South Central Youth Empowerment Thru Action in Los Angeles, CA. Marqueece empowered students from South Centralâ€™s eight high schools to identify community problems and take action.