It doesn't make you weak because you need help. That's the work of the ego!
Seek help when you need it, and when you don't, share it with others.
Everyone is suffering in this economy. Help someone help themself.
Spread the word!
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Funds Available to States to Improve Participation in Summer Food Service Programs
In an effort to address childhood hunger and its impact on child development, health and learning, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), are notifying states that Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) can be used to assist families through the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).
Through this unprecedented collaboration, ACF and FNS are joining forces to help communities provide children with adequate, nutritious meals during the summer. The notice sent to States includes an explanation of how resources under the TANF Emergency Fund provided by the Recovery Act can be used to cover portions of costs associated with running a summer food service site that are not otherwise reimbursed. States can seek 80 percent reimbursement through the Fund for a range of expenditures including the cost of compensation for staff support to provide supervision and programming at summer feeding sites, transportation services to transport food and/or children to feeding sites, recreational activities to attract more youth to program locations and meal preparation costs that are not otherwise reimbursed under the SFSP.
“During these difficult economic times, it is more important than ever to work together across federal, state, and local offices to support children in need. We look forward to these Recovery Act dollars supporting children this summer since the lack of nutrition for children during summer recess can lead to long term concerns such as illness and other health issues throughout the school year,” said HHS Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, Carmen R. Nazario. “HHS and USDA are working diligently to help ensure that TANF funds are available to states to expand participation in the SFSP and ensure that children return to school healthy and ready to learn.”
“One of our priorities for reauthorization of Child Nutrition Programs is strengthening the SFSP so that children aren’t left out just because school is out. Increasing access to more nutrient-rich foods for our Nation’s disadvantaged children is no simple task,” said USDA Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services Kevin Concannon. “It requires government agencies, the private sector, non-profits and local communities to collaborate to ensure children get the proper nutrition that will help end childhood hunger.”
The Summer Food Service Program was created to ensure that children in lower-income areas can continue to receive nutritious meals during long school vacations when they do not have access to school lunch or breakfast. SFSP encourages communities to provide complete, wholesome meals for children that are served in safe, supervised locations where children can enjoy activities and playing with other children.
For more information and guidance on the TANF Emergency Contingency Fund please visit http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/.
For more information about the SFSP please visit
www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/summer
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Lost Jewish tribe 'found in Zimbabwe'
The rediscovery of an ancient relic has helped
bring the world's attention to the Lemba people
- a Zimbabwean group who claim Jewish ancestry,
writes the BBC's Steve Vickers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/africa/8550614.stm
bring the world's attention to the Lemba people
- a Zimbabwean group who claim Jewish ancestry,
writes the BBC's Steve Vickers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/africa/8550614.stm
Sunday, March 7, 2010
YJC Spring Job Fair
Need a job? Don’t miss the YJC’s Spring Job Fair on Thursday, March 11th,
from 1-4 PM at the Evanston Public Library, located at 1703 Orrington Avenue
in Evanston (at the intersection of Orrington and Church, across the street from
the Hotel Orrington)
The event will feature a dozen local employers with retail and hospitality positions.
The job fair is open to all job-seekers 16 and up. The event will end promptly at 4 PM.
All interested job-seekers should arrive by 3:30 PM. Resume and appropriate
interview attire strongly recommended.
EMPLOYERS INCLUDE: Lowe’s, Payless, Rimland NFP, Manpower, Marshall’s, Mather Lifeways,
Food 4 Less, Home Instead Senior Care, Levy Security, Aerotek, & UPS!
For more information on the event, please contact Jordan Burghardt
at 847-864-5627 x22 or by email at jburghardt@youthjobcenter.org
Now is the time to find that summer or camp job. Don’t wait till May! It will be too late!
Jordan Burghardt
Employment Outreach Coordinator
Youth Job Center of Evanston
1114 Church Street
Evanston, IL 60201
Office 847-864-5627 ext. 22 | Fax 847-864-3098
jburghardt@youthjobcenter.org
from 1-4 PM at the Evanston Public Library, located at 1703 Orrington Avenue
in Evanston (at the intersection of Orrington and Church, across the street from
the Hotel Orrington)
The event will feature a dozen local employers with retail and hospitality positions.
The job fair is open to all job-seekers 16 and up. The event will end promptly at 4 PM.
All interested job-seekers should arrive by 3:30 PM. Resume and appropriate
interview attire strongly recommended.
EMPLOYERS INCLUDE: Lowe’s, Payless, Rimland NFP, Manpower, Marshall’s, Mather Lifeways,
Food 4 Less, Home Instead Senior Care, Levy Security, Aerotek, & UPS!
For more information on the event, please contact Jordan Burghardt
at 847-864-5627 x22 or by email at jburghardt@youthjobcenter.org
Now is the time to find that summer or camp job. Don’t wait till May! It will be too late!
Jordan Burghardt
Employment Outreach Coordinator
Youth Job Center of Evanston
1114 Church Street
Evanston, IL 60201
Office 847-864-5627 ext. 22 | Fax 847-864-3098
jburghardt@youthjobcenter.org
the color of money...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123103495.html
when you empower others, you automatically empower others...
congrats to Laura Washington Announced as Woods Fund President
Activist Journalist Laura Washington Selected as New Woods Fund of Chicago President
The Woods Fund of Chicago board announced today that it has selected longtime board member
and journalist Laura S. Washington as its new president.
Washington brings to the Woods Fund more than two decades of diverse experience in print and
broadcast journalism, urban affairs and social justice issues; 12 years of nonprofit management
experience; and numerous awards and honors for her exemplary journalism and civic activism.
“After an extensive search that included over 200 candidates from all over the country, we selected
Laura Washington, one of our nation’s leading experts in social justice issues, and someone with
deep experience in Chicago’s civic, nonprofit, academic and political communities,” said
Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, Chairman of the Woods Fund Board of Directors.
Washington joins the Woods Fund as it implements a new core principle of racial equity. The Woods Fund
chose to recently incorporate a racial equity perspective into its grant making. The Fund plans to focus
on ways in which race and ethnicity shape power, access to opportunity, treatment and related outcomes
in metropolitan Chicago. The foundation hopes this practice will inform solutions that will eliminate inequalities.
“I am honored to lead this illustrious foundation as we embark upon this pioneering effort focusing on
racial equity,” Washington said. “The Woods Fund plays an instrumental role in empowering and
increasing opportunities for the less advantaged communities in Chicago. We are well positioned to
combat structural racism, a fundamental barrier to enabling work and eradicating poverty in these
communities.” Washington is widely recognized as one of Chicago’s most influential and respected
journalists. She currently writes a column for the Chicago Sun-Times and regularly appears on
National Public Radio, Chicago Public Radio and WTTW as an analyst and commentator on race,
politics and current affairs. She is also widely quoted and featured in national media, including Time
and Newsweek magazines, The New York Times, NBC Nightly News, the PBS News Hour and the BBC.
Washington launched her career in 1980 as a reporter at The Chicago Reporter. In the mid-1980s, she
served as Deputy Press Secretary to Mayor Harold Washington during his first and second terms.
Washington also worked as an investigative producer at CBS-2/Chicago and correspondent for
WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight.” She returned to The Chicago Reporter in 1990 and served for 12 years
as its editor, then publisher.
Washington’s academic career is equally extensive. She served as the Ida B. Wells-Barnett University
Professor at DePaul University and Fellow at DePaul’s Humanities Center from 2003 to 2009. She also
did stints as an instructor and lecturer at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University from
1987 to 2003. Washington earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s in journalism from Medill.
Washington begins her tenure on March 1, after eight years as a Woods Fund board member and
three years as its chair. She takes over for former President Deborah Harrington, who is retiring
from Woods after 10 years of distinguished service.
####
The Woods Fund of Chicago is a grant making foundation whose goal is to increase opportunities
for less advantaged people and communities in the Chicago metropolitan area. Woods supports
nonprofits in their important roles of engaging people in civic life, addressing the causes of poverty
and other challenges facing the region, promoting more effective public policies, reducing racism
and other barriers to equal opportunity, and building community and common ground.
Activist Journalist Laura Washington Selected as New Woods Fund of Chicago President
The Woods Fund of Chicago board announced today that it has selected longtime board member
and journalist Laura S. Washington as its new president.
Washington brings to the Woods Fund more than two decades of diverse experience in print and
broadcast journalism, urban affairs and social justice issues; 12 years of nonprofit management
experience; and numerous awards and honors for her exemplary journalism and civic activism.
“After an extensive search that included over 200 candidates from all over the country, we selected
Laura Washington, one of our nation’s leading experts in social justice issues, and someone with
deep experience in Chicago’s civic, nonprofit, academic and political communities,” said
Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, Chairman of the Woods Fund Board of Directors.
Washington joins the Woods Fund as it implements a new core principle of racial equity. The Woods Fund
chose to recently incorporate a racial equity perspective into its grant making. The Fund plans to focus
on ways in which race and ethnicity shape power, access to opportunity, treatment and related outcomes
in metropolitan Chicago. The foundation hopes this practice will inform solutions that will eliminate inequalities.
“I am honored to lead this illustrious foundation as we embark upon this pioneering effort focusing on
racial equity,” Washington said. “The Woods Fund plays an instrumental role in empowering and
increasing opportunities for the less advantaged communities in Chicago. We are well positioned to
combat structural racism, a fundamental barrier to enabling work and eradicating poverty in these
communities.” Washington is widely recognized as one of Chicago’s most influential and respected
journalists. She currently writes a column for the Chicago Sun-Times and regularly appears on
National Public Radio, Chicago Public Radio and WTTW as an analyst and commentator on race,
politics and current affairs. She is also widely quoted and featured in national media, including Time
and Newsweek magazines, The New York Times, NBC Nightly News, the PBS News Hour and the BBC.
Washington launched her career in 1980 as a reporter at The Chicago Reporter. In the mid-1980s, she
served as Deputy Press Secretary to Mayor Harold Washington during his first and second terms.
Washington also worked as an investigative producer at CBS-2/Chicago and correspondent for
WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight.” She returned to The Chicago Reporter in 1990 and served for 12 years
as its editor, then publisher.
Washington’s academic career is equally extensive. She served as the Ida B. Wells-Barnett University
Professor at DePaul University and Fellow at DePaul’s Humanities Center from 2003 to 2009. She also
did stints as an instructor and lecturer at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University from
1987 to 2003. Washington earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s in journalism from Medill.
Washington begins her tenure on March 1, after eight years as a Woods Fund board member and
three years as its chair. She takes over for former President Deborah Harrington, who is retiring
from Woods after 10 years of distinguished service.
####
The Woods Fund of Chicago is a grant making foundation whose goal is to increase opportunities
for less advantaged people and communities in the Chicago metropolitan area. Woods supports
nonprofits in their important roles of engaging people in civic life, addressing the causes of poverty
and other challenges facing the region, promoting more effective public policies, reducing racism
and other barriers to equal opportunity, and building community and common ground.
empowered by women you don't even know...
Housewives League paved way for jobs, businesses
LARRY DAVIS
The Detroit News
Detroit's blacks in the 1930s pushed to make Detroit that better place they had hoped to find when they fled the South in the 1920s. Escaping overt racism and poverty, they arrived in Detroit and other Northern cities only to find themselves fighting for jobs, housing, education and first-class citizenship.
On June 10, 1930, 50 black women, led by Fannie B. Peck, wife of the Rev. William H. Peck, organized the Housewives League of Detroit and began a movement to promote economic growth in the black community.
The Housewives League -- a nonprofit sister group to the Booker T. Washington Businessmen's Association organized by her husband, the pastor of Bethel A.M.E. -- required members to support black businesses, buy black products and patronize black professionals, thus keeping black money in the black community. The effort received support from the NAACP and the Urban League.
Members, who had grown to 10,000 by 1934, picketed and boycotted, demanding that merchants employ blacks and sell black products. They also lectured and created exhibits emphasizing their position, issued Certificates of Merit to businesses that met the group's sanitary standards, gave tours and organized spending drives.
Their publications included the Semi-Annual Trade Guide that listed approved businesses, a calendar and a bimonthly Housewives League Bulletin. These publications were sometimes carried door to door during trade campaigns aimed at keeping black dollars in the community.
In addition, the group formed junior units for girls 5-15 in 1935, along with high school and college units for young men and women in 1946. They taught etiquette, scrapbooking, unity and achievement.
Betty Shabazz, who later married Malcolm X, was a member of a junior unit in Detroit.
The Housewives League became so popular that chapters sprang up in other cities, including St. Louis, Mo.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Frankfort, Ky.; Austin, Texas; and Baltimore, Md. In 1933 the leagues organized themselves into the Housewives League of America and Fannie Peck was elected president. Conventions were held in many states.
In the group's early decades their only source of money came from members' pockets, fundraisers, ads sold in their publications, and the sales of black newspapers, including the Pittsburgh Courier and Chicago Defender, said Lydia Hibbert, 81, a past Housewives president.
"We funded ourselves with patrons, not donations," Hibbert said.
During the Depression, the League's work was so successful that "in Chicago, Baltimore, Washington, Detroit, Harlem and Cleveland, (the League) relied on boycotts" to gain "an estimated 75,000 new jobs for blacks," wrote historian Jacqueline Jones in "Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present" (Basic Books, 1985).
Its impact was "second only to government jobs as a new source of openings," she added.
The League continued to work through the 1960s before fading out, ironically, just as the Black Power movement grew, Hibbert said.
"Integration diluted the buying power of black dollars," she said.
Dale Rich, MSU professor Darlene Clark Hine and the Detroit Public Library's Burton Collection contributed.
Additional Facts
Timeline
1930: Mrs. Fannie B. Peck founds Housewives League of Detroit on June 10.
1933: National Housewives League of America organizes in Durham, N.C.
1947: National Charter issued.
1949: Issues revised program outline, Trade Campaign Techniques and Purse-size Business Directory in Detroit.
1956: First national meeting in South Central Region in St. Louis, Mo.
1958: 25th anniversary celebration of National Housewives League in Durham, N.C.
1960: Joint sessions with National Business League and National Bankers Association in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1967: Arena J. Buggs elected president of the National Housewives' League of America Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1969: Gertrude Tolbert elected president in Washington, D.C.
Source: 34th annual meeting, National Housewives of America Inc. program (July 11-14, 1971)
Now that's power!
Pass it on!
LARRY DAVIS
The Detroit News
Detroit's blacks in the 1930s pushed to make Detroit that better place they had hoped to find when they fled the South in the 1920s. Escaping overt racism and poverty, they arrived in Detroit and other Northern cities only to find themselves fighting for jobs, housing, education and first-class citizenship.
On June 10, 1930, 50 black women, led by Fannie B. Peck, wife of the Rev. William H. Peck, organized the Housewives League of Detroit and began a movement to promote economic growth in the black community.
The Housewives League -- a nonprofit sister group to the Booker T. Washington Businessmen's Association organized by her husband, the pastor of Bethel A.M.E. -- required members to support black businesses, buy black products and patronize black professionals, thus keeping black money in the black community. The effort received support from the NAACP and the Urban League.
Members, who had grown to 10,000 by 1934, picketed and boycotted, demanding that merchants employ blacks and sell black products. They also lectured and created exhibits emphasizing their position, issued Certificates of Merit to businesses that met the group's sanitary standards, gave tours and organized spending drives.
Their publications included the Semi-Annual Trade Guide that listed approved businesses, a calendar and a bimonthly Housewives League Bulletin. These publications were sometimes carried door to door during trade campaigns aimed at keeping black dollars in the community.
In addition, the group formed junior units for girls 5-15 in 1935, along with high school and college units for young men and women in 1946. They taught etiquette, scrapbooking, unity and achievement.
Betty Shabazz, who later married Malcolm X, was a member of a junior unit in Detroit.
The Housewives League became so popular that chapters sprang up in other cities, including St. Louis, Mo.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Frankfort, Ky.; Austin, Texas; and Baltimore, Md. In 1933 the leagues organized themselves into the Housewives League of America and Fannie Peck was elected president. Conventions were held in many states.
In the group's early decades their only source of money came from members' pockets, fundraisers, ads sold in their publications, and the sales of black newspapers, including the Pittsburgh Courier and Chicago Defender, said Lydia Hibbert, 81, a past Housewives president.
"We funded ourselves with patrons, not donations," Hibbert said.
During the Depression, the League's work was so successful that "in Chicago, Baltimore, Washington, Detroit, Harlem and Cleveland, (the League) relied on boycotts" to gain "an estimated 75,000 new jobs for blacks," wrote historian Jacqueline Jones in "Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present" (Basic Books, 1985).
Its impact was "second only to government jobs as a new source of openings," she added.
The League continued to work through the 1960s before fading out, ironically, just as the Black Power movement grew, Hibbert said.
"Integration diluted the buying power of black dollars," she said.
Dale Rich, MSU professor Darlene Clark Hine and the Detroit Public Library's Burton Collection contributed.
Additional Facts
Timeline
1930: Mrs. Fannie B. Peck founds Housewives League of Detroit on June 10.
1933: National Housewives League of America organizes in Durham, N.C.
1947: National Charter issued.
1949: Issues revised program outline, Trade Campaign Techniques and Purse-size Business Directory in Detroit.
1956: First national meeting in South Central Region in St. Louis, Mo.
1958: 25th anniversary celebration of National Housewives League in Durham, N.C.
1960: Joint sessions with National Business League and National Bankers Association in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1967: Arena J. Buggs elected president of the National Housewives' League of America Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1969: Gertrude Tolbert elected president in Washington, D.C.
Source: 34th annual meeting, National Housewives of America Inc. program (July 11-14, 1971)
Now that's power!
Pass it on!
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