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"First off let me tell you something. I thought I was going to have the crappiest Christmas I ever had. I live under a bridge, I have a tent, and stuff, I have heat, a gas burner, stuff like that, okay, so I’m pretty out there. So Christmas Eve day, these church people showed up and they said, do you need anything? And I said well I could use a little something something and I figured they were going to bring me a little bag of cosmetics, you know, the token crappola. Brought me four truckloads of blankets, coats, shoes, everything." "I spent from Christmas Eve day til New Years going around town handing away everything, cause I didn’t need any of it. But, it was like, it was really great. And I went to his church, his name is [omitted], he’s a really good kid."
A few photos from last night's business panel with Don Flow. Thanks to all who attended!
Edit: We've added a transcription of Don's talk to the site. Check it out here.
This video about how Rappahannock Oyster Co. is working to restore the oyster population in the bay was shown at our conference on Saturday. Huge thanks to Nate and Fourth Line Films for this.
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Registration opens TODAY for HandsOn Greater Richmond’s HandsOn Day:
1 Day. 1000 Volunteers. People at the Center of Change.
Imagine how much better Richmond could be if we all spent just 4 hours doing something together for the community. Join one thousand other volunteers across the metro region this October at nearly 60 sites to make a difference in Richmond on one of many organized volunteer opportunities.
There is at least one project in the immediate area, a Community in Schools-hosted Harvest Festival “to welcome students, families and community members into the newly built MLK Middle School.”
Registration opens TODAY for HandsOn Greater Richmond’s HandsOn Day:“ 1 Day. 1000 Volunteers. People at the Center of Change. Imagine how much better Richmond could be if we all spent just 4 hours...
The Washington Post: Can Richmond fix poverty -- and confront its past? by Tina Griego. Photo by Timothy C. Wright.
"Richmond’s poverty rate is about 10 percent higher than the nation’s. The poverty rate among its children is 40 percent, and children now make up at least one-third of all those living in poverty."
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The Robinson Theater Community Arts center is one of eight featured organizations on the new Richmond-based social fundraising platform Live to Serve site. Live to Serve offers the opportunity to buy gift certificates to local businesses, and a percentage of each purchase made through Live to Serve goes to the selected beneficiary. Live to Serve is featuring the Robinson Theater until September 25, 2014.
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[…] the Robinson Theater Community Arts center is bringing health and wellness awareness, education, and access to the residents of North Church Hill. This is done through our weekly classes, such as Taekwondo, Zumba, Yoga, and Hip Hop, which take place Monday-Thursday afternoons and evenings. Additionally, the Robinson Theater is bringing food skills workshops, hands-on demos, tactics, and education on the benefits of choosing healthier food options for themselves and their families. Along with these workshops, the Robinson Theater is hosting pop-up markets to provide local access to fresh produce (in-season), healthier options, and vendors who receive SNAP/EBT.
While these classes and workshops are offered at no charge to the residents of North Church Hill, there is a cost to the Robinson for every class held. This cost includes both instructor fees and facility costs. Instead of passing these fees along to the participants, we are inviting you to serve the community by giving towards our goal of $1,000, which will supplement the cost of fall and winter health and wellness classes at the Robinson.
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The Robinson Theater Community Arts center is one of eight featured organizations on the new Richmond-based social fundraising platform Live to Serve site. Live to Serve offers the opportunity to buy...
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Really excited that Patience Salgado, RVA's Kindness Girl and the brains behind thelightofhumankindness will be speaking at Common Good RVA 2014!
More announcements to come as more speakers are confirmed.
We're still in the throes of planning and we have many more details to nail down and announce, but tickets are available now for Common Good RVA 2014! We really hope you'll join us for this two-part conference exploring how we can work for the common good of Richmond in our everyday lives.
Highlights:
- Keynote talks by Skye Jethani, Executive Editor of Leadership Journal and author of Futureville.
- Friday night (the big party): A public exploration of the common good at the Virginia Historical Society, with food trucks, music, video, and a historic perspective on RVA.
- Saturday (the more conference-y part): A deeper dive into faith, neighborhood, and vocation with local experts, presentations, breakout sessions, and of course, plenty of coffee.
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3HC, the Junior Board for the Better Housing Coalition, has selected the triangular plot of land on Jefferson Avenue (bounded by Jefferson Ave., E. Clay St., and N. 23rd St.) as the site for a pocket park design competition.
What is a pocket park? And why did 3HC select this site? Come learn about this and more during a community meeting this Wednesday, August 13th at 6:30 PM at Union Market (2306 Jefferson Avenue).
In the spirit of community-based design, 3HC will be seeking input at this meeting on how the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and 23rd Street can be re-imagined as a better space for area residents.
If you’re unable to attend Wednesday’s meeting, take a moment to fill out a 2 minute survey. The survey results will elicit guidelines for the pocket park design competition.
Keep up-to-date on the progress of the park at jeffersonpocketpark.com. Contact jeffersonpocketpark@gmail.com for more information or with questions.
3HC, the Junior Board for the Better Housing Coalition, has selected the triangular plot of land on Jefferson Avenue (bounded by Jefferson Ave., E. Clay St., and N. 23rd St.) as the site for a pocket...
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Dependence Isn't a Dirty Word: Dr. Danny Avula at TEDxRVA
Born in India, Danny was only 1 year old when his family immigrated to the United States. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the VCU School of Medicine and received a master’s in public health from Johns Hopkins University. A board-certified pediatrician and preventive medicine physician, Danny currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Richmond City Health Department.
In 2004, Danny and his wife, Mary Kay, made a commitment with a group of college friends to move into a low-income neighborhood and simply be good neighbors to people whose lives looked very different than their own. Ten years later, they have found themselves in the midst of North Church Hill’s amazing rebirth—a transformation that is full of hope, but which also presents daily complex challenges related to race, class and justice.
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VCU English professor David Coogan teaches a course at the Richmond City Jail. The course is part of Open Minds, a program sponsored by VCU and the Richmond City Sheriff’s Office that teaches VCU students alongside jail residents in courses on English, religious studies, gender studies, African-American studies and more.
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Artisanal baking in Richmond and across the county
The local dining options continue to get national press, this time Sub Rosa in the New York Times:
Small independent bakers in New York, California, Oregon, Virginia and North Carolina (and many points in between) are going to great lengths to approach an ideal of bread that is simultaneously cutting-edge and primordial. They’re hunting down heirloom grains, early forms of wheat like emmer and einkorn, and milling their own flour.
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For Evrim Dogu, a quest (“searching for that timeless aspect,” he said) led him to dive more deeply into an understanding of Abruzzi rye and Turkey Red wheat. “Heirloom grains smell, taste, feel better,” he said. “For the baker, and for the consumer.” Mr. Dogu, whose family hails from Turkey, mills his own wheat, spelt, rye and corn and aims to make “bread that tastes like the grain itself” at Sub Rosa, his bakery in Richmond, Va.
Photo by Jay Paul for the New York Times
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We are excited about Power of Good! What’s that you say? It’s an open house happening at our studio tomorrow night to celebrate volunteers from around town. Local artists have contributed some great pieces for the silent auction portion too.
A community request was made to nominate a volunteer & have their portrait captured. This event was organized by our fellow citizen of Marvin Lang, Sarah Milston and her company, The Spark Mill. More details are on her blog. http://thesparkmill.com/pogrva
So come on by! Here are the details: The Power of Good Open House will take place on Friday April 11, 2014 from 4pm-7pm at The Marvin Lang Building, 1623 W Broad St.
In nothing has the Church so lost her hold on reality as in Her failure to understand and respect the secular vocation. She has allowed work and religion to become separate departments, and is astonished to find that, as a result, the secular work of the world is turned to purely selfish and destructive ends, and that the greater part of the world’s intelligent workers have become irreligious, or at least, uninterested in religion… How can anyone remain interested in a religion which seems to have no concern with nine-tenths of his life?
Dorothy Sayers, via the Center for Faith & Work.
