Backyard Farms Needed for Farm Tour!
Celebrate the Season and NeighborImpact are seeking people or organizations with farms or vegetable gardens within the city limits or just outside of Bend to participate in a Backyard Farm Tour slated for September 11, 2010. This can include anything from CSA’s and beekeepers to poultry, eggs or beef. Bicycling will be encouraged on the tour so location is important. Proceeds will benefit NeighborImpact’s Food Bank. If you would be interested in participating please contact Sandy Klein at 541-548-2380 x 148 or Celebrate the Season at 541-chickens (541-244-2536) or e mail sandyk@neighborimpact for an application asap.
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Central Oregon Food Summit an opportunity collaborate and discuss building a sustainable food system
Central Oregon Food Summit, to be held September 10th, 9am-4pm at the Central Oregon Community College Student Center, Wile Hall, will provide an opportunity for diverse sectors to collaborate and discuss building a sustainable Central Oregon food system. Mark Winne, author of “Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty” is the featured keynote speaker. This conference will provide an opportunity for the public, producers, retailers, chefs, food related business and policy makers to create a community-based framework for action towards a more food secure Central Oregon. Breakout sessions include; community food projects, building local food systems infrastructure, enhancing emergency food services and community health and establishing a regional food systems council. $20 registration includes lunch. We encourage all interested to attend and get their voice in the room. It is important. Sponsors: Wy’East Resource Conservation & Development, Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council (COIC), OSU Extension Service, Neighbor Impact and the Northwest Health Foundation. Pre-register online at www.cofoodsummit.yolasite.com.
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CinderCone Holds Open Studio for Empty Bowls
CinderCone, an artist run clay studio, is opening its studio on Thursday nights from 5-7:00 pm starting on June 10th running through October 28th. This is an excellent opportunity for the community to get involved with Empty Bowls and make some bowls to contribute for NeighborImpact’s Empty Bowl event November 14th. John Kinder, potter extrodinar, will be available during the open studio times to be of assistance. Please RSVP at 541-279-0343.
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NeighborImpact’s Head Start Program is dedicated to helping ensure that children ages 3 and 4 from low-income families are ready for school. The Head Start Program is now accepting applications for the 2010-2011 school year. Head Start builds success for children through child focused, family-centered services that enhance social competence, school readiness and overall health and well-being. Children are provided a free high quality preschool education which includes individualized curriculum, nutritious meals, health and developmental screenings, and transportation. Head Start Classes are available throughout Crook and Deschutes counties. Space is limited. |
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Individual Development Accounts (IDA) Help Low Income Households Save for Homeownership, Business Development
NeighborImpact has been awarded a limited number of Oregon Individual Development Account slots to enroll low income households in a matched savings program that will help people on their way to attaining homeownership or the development or expansion of a business. Households in the tri-county area of Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson Counties who earn 80% or less of area median income adjusted for household size are qualified to apply for this unique program. (For income limits call 318-7506 x106.) Individuals must be enrolled in the program for a minimum of 6 months and a maximum of 3 years. Households must save a certain amount of their own money each month and enroll and complete NeighborImpact courses such as Homebuyer Education and our Financial Fitness course series to receive the matched funds when they complete the program.
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NeighborImpact receives $50,000 from Meyer Memorial Trust
NeighborImpact is pleased to announce the receipt of a $50,000 foundation grant from Meyer Memorial Trust to be used towards its capital campaign “Feed the Need”. The capital campaign goal of $100,000 will be used in the expansion of its emergency food warehouse, which provides food to over 14,000 individuals monthly throughout Central Oregon. The expansion effort will triple the storage area available for storage of fresh, frozen and dry food. This money is a huge gift to the people of Central Oregon who are struggling during these challenging economic times, as well as building the infrastructure for the area’s future emergency food needs.
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NeighborImpact Opens New Office in Bend
NeighborImpact has opened a new office in Bend which combines a variety of services in one location to better serve the residents of the greater Bend area. The services available at this new location include:
• Energy Assistance
• Energy Education
• Rental Assistance
• Housing Counseling
• Foreclosure Prevention Counseling
• Individual Development Account services
• Home Rehabilitation services
The new office opened in early October and has been serving the public since that time. Public Hours are 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
NeighborImpact has had scattered offices in Bend for a number of years. It is the organizations desire to enhance its visibility in the Bend community and to improve the accessibility to services for the residents of the area. This new office location offers the services in one location and affords the opportunity to provide larger learning opportunities in a NeighborImpact facility.
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Virtual Food drive a new, interactive way to support the NeighborImpact Emergency Food Bank
NeighborImpact has created a new, interactive way to support the Emergency Food Bank through its Virtual Food Drive program. Mainly a source of collecting funds, the Virtual Food Drive makes donating a little more interesting and meaningful and is easily accessed from any computer.
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NeighborImpact Prints 2009-10 Tri-County Resource Guide
NeighborImpact has completed updating its bi-annual Answer Book. The guide provides a listing of services for low income clients in such areas as education, housing, emergency services, children and family, and legal. This is the first guide printed using the NeighborImpact name and logo. It is available in both English and Spanish for individual clients and in bundles of 50 for agency use.
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NeighborImpact Releases its 2007/2008 Annual Report
The NeighborImpact 2007/2008 Annual Report is now available for download.
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Call to Action: 11th Annual Oregon Lawyers Against Hunger (OLAH) Campaign
Oregon Lawyers Against Hunger (OLAH) has a lot to be proud of. They’ve raised $977,000 since OLAH started in 1997. This means that OLAH has helped the Oregon Food Bank network bring more than 5 million pounds of food to approximately 100,000 families in need in the state of Oregon.
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‘Beehive’ Web Portal Promises Self-Help
Local nonprofit Neighbor Impact and One Economy Corporation, a multi-national nonprofit, partnered to build this free English/Spanish online resource to help workers connect to resources about money, schools, jobs, housing, health and more. The Beehive Cascades is a localized version of the national Beehive web site that was launched by One Economy in 2001. The site can be found at http://cascades.thebeehive.org.
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