| |
Newsletter items will be posted here as they are published and become available. We encourage all of our members and associates to submit any and all newsworthy items to the Secretariat for review and publishing to this site.
Archived newsletters
shall be available
by clicking the
special link below.
Newsletter:
Apr 26, 2006
2006 Call
for Entries
National
Award for
Smart Growth
Achievement
The U.S.
Environmental
Protection
Agency (EPA)
is pleased
to announce
that
applications
are now
being
accepted for
the fifth
annual
National
Award for
Smart Growth
Achievement.
This
competition
is open to
local or
state
governments
and other
public
sector
entities
that have
used the
principles
of smart
growth to
create
better
places and
improve the
environment.
This year,
applications
will be
accepted in
five
categories:
·
Built
Projects
·
Policies and
Regulations
·
Small
Communities
·
Equitable
Development
·
Overall
Excellence
in Smart
Growth
Applications
are due on
May 1,
2006.
For more
details
about the
National
Award for
Smart Growth
Achievement,
including an
application
packet,
visit:
www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/awards.htm. |
Newsletter: Mar
3, 2006
|
A CALL TO ACTION |
|
Please join the African American Forum on Race & Regionalism in a National Day of Prayer and Call to Action in support of efforts to rebuild the Gulf Coast so that everyone in the region—especially low-income communities and communities of color—can participate and prosper from redevelopment and recovery initiatives in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We urge your participation and solidarity with those whose futures depend on sustainable and equitable economic and social recovery.
Here are the details:
- On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, March 3, 4, and 5, 2006, and continuing for the next six weekends, churches, synagogues, mosques, and other religious and spiritual gatherings are asked to include a time in their programs for prayer and reflection focusing on the needs of people in the Gulf Coast region who have been displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
- The prayers and reflections should be followed by actions in support of people in the state and those who have been displaced. Congregations and groups might choose to donate to organizations helping to clean up or rebuild homes, or organize letter-writing campaigns to urge the allocation of more funding by Congress. Ideas for action can be found at www.linkedfate.org
- Prayers, reflections, and actions taken should focus on holding the federal government accountable to the people in the region and urge the government to provide the resources necessary to
- rebuild the Gulf Coast region;
- improve the lives of and secure a future for Gulf Coast residents;
- provide opportunities and support for displaced residents and the communities that received them; and
- bring federal resources to the region without redirecting funds from programs that already serve people in need.
|
|
Archive Newsletters
|
|
News Item |
|
 |
|
A child sits awaiting evacuation on a street in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in Nov 2005. Does anyone know where this cild is today? Does anyone care? |
|
|
|
News Item |
|
|
|
