OdysseyStage Theatre presents "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" on Sunday November 7 at 3pm at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro. Admission is one can food donated to IFC!

OdysseyStage Theatre presents “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”


OdysseyStage’s Senior Readers Theatre and The ArtsCenter present a special matinee performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” on Sunday, November 7 at 3:00 pm at The ArtsCenter, 300-G East Main St. in Carrboro. The admission price is one can of food, which will help stock the food pantry of The Inter-Faith Council for Social Service.

This haunting tale of a man who is born old and grows younger is widely known through the recent film starring Brad Pitt, but the original story from 1922 has its own unique poignancy and humor received accolades in September as part of Readers Theatre at Lunch series, a program for seniors to participate in drama as actors and audience members. The 45-minute presentation was adapted by John Paul Middlesworth, for Senior Readers Theatre

The program is also made possible by a grant from the BJH Foundation for Senior Services.

Further information is available by calling OdysseyStage Theatre at 929-6611 or visiting www.odysseystage.org.

RSVVP event is only 2 weeks away on November 9th! Mark your calendar!

IFC's RSVVP (Restaurants Sharing Ten Percent) campaign is only two weeks away on November 9th! This is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy a great dinner out and support IFC plus it's easy! Just mark your calendars for Tuesday, November 9th and plan to eat out at one of the many area restaurants listed on IFC's website as participating in the event. Participating restaurants will donated 10% of their sales that night to IFC which enables IFC to purchase food when food pantry and soup kitchen supplies run low.
You can find a list of participating restaurants and more information about IFC's RSVVP event at IFC's website.

IFC Annual Meeting is Tomorrow!

IFC's annual meeting is tomorrow! Are you coming? You should! Lots of good company, good food, and good things to learn regarding the work that IFC is doing.

IFC Annual Meeting

Thursday, October 21, 2010

6:00 - 8:30pm

Come learn about IFC's programs and plans for new facilities! Meet the architects and our new Project Manager! Find out how you can help! Please bring a dish to share.

United Church of Chapel Hill

1321 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

Fellowship Room

Please let us know if you are planning to attend. Send your name and your affiliation (if any) by email to rsvp@ifcmailbox.org or call Elizabeth at (919) 929-6380 ext.15. Hope to see you there!

Project Homeless Connect

IFC will be participating in this event again this year. Please pass this information along to anyone who you feel could benefit from this event. 

The 4th annual 

Project Homeless Connect 

Orange County 

 will be held on 

Thursday, November 4, 2010 

from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm 

at the Hargraves Community Center 

in Chapel Hill.  

Project Homeless Connect is a one-day, one-stop event to link people who are homeless or at risk with needed services.

This year we anticipate serving over 275 guests with over 50 service providers and 300 volunteers participating.  Since 2007 the event has served nearly 600 guests with job-readiness resources, health and dental care, mental health assistance, social services, legal services, housing, and more.  Project Homeless Connect is a key initiative of the Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness 

For more information:
<http://www.co.orange.nc.us/housing/endinghomelessness.asp> .

IFC's Annual meeting is only a week away, October 21, 2010! Are you planning to come?

IFC's annual meeting is only one week away.  Are you coming?  You should!  Lots of good company, good food, and good things to learn regarding the work that IFC is doing.

IFC Annual Meeting

Thursday, October 21, 2010

6:00 - 8:30pm

Come learn about IFC's programs and plans for new facilities! Meet the architects and our new Project Manager! Find out how you can help! Please bring a dish to share.

United Church of Chapel Hill

1321 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

Fellowship Room

Please let us know if you are planning to attend. Send your name and your affiliation (if any) by email to rsvp@ifcmailbox.org or call Elizabeth at (919) 929-6380 ext.15. Hope to see you there!

IFC's Food Pantry has served 3,000 families already this year.

As of September, the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service had served 3,000 families at it's food pantry in 2010. This shows a 24 % increase already since last year and is a new record for IFC!  That means that IFC needs all the help that we can get in securing more food items for the pantry! 

Click here for The Daily Tar Heel article detailing IFC's reaching the 3,000 mark for families served by the food pantry.

Click here for more information about how you can donate to IFC's food pantry!

IFC's Annual Meeting is only 2 weeks away, October 21, 2010! Register Now!

IFC's annual meeting is only two weeks away, RSVP now...
IFC Annual Meeting

Thursday, October 21, 2010

6:00 - 8:30pm

Come learn about IFC's programs and plans for new facilities! Meet the architects and our new Project Manager! Find out how you can help! Please bring a dish to share.

United Church of Chapel Hill
1321 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Fellowship Room

Please let us know if you are planning to attend. Send your name and your affiliation (if any) by email to rsvp@ifcmailbox.org or call Elizabeth at (919) 929-6380 ext.15.

IFC Kicks off RSVVP Campaign taking place on November 9th! Mark your calenders now!

This past Monday, The Interfaith Council for Social Service (IFC) kicked of its RSVVP (Restaurants Sharing Ten Percent) campaign by honoring restaurants with 10, 15, and 20 years of service to the program at IFC's Community House shelter. 2010 marks the 22nd year of the RSVVP campaign.  This is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy a great dinner out and support IFC plus it's easy! Just mark your calendars for Tuesday, November 9th and plan to eat out at one of the many area restaurants listed on IFC's website as participating in the event. Participating restaurants will donated 10% of their sales that night to IFC which enables IFC to purchase food when food pantry and soup kitchen supplies run low.

For more information about IFC's RSVVP kick off, check out the article in the Daily Tarheel.

You can find a list of participating restaurants and more information about IFC's RSVVP event at IFC's website.

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM IFC ABOUT THE STEWARDS FUND CHALLENGE

The Inter-Faith Council for Social Service (IFC) is in the running for a challenge grant from The Stewards Fund. The challenge grant is an all-or-nothing challenge that requires that the IFC raise money in the form of new and increased gifts. You can help out by:

1) Becoming a first-time donor to IFC.

or

2) Giving a gift if you are a lapsed donor (lapsed donors are those who have not given in the last fiscal year)

or

3) Increasing the amount of your gift to IFC if you are a regular donor (only the incremental portion of the increased gifts from existing donors will count toward the challenge amount).

In order to receive a matching funds grant from The Stewards Fund, IFC must come up with at least $50,000 in supporting funds by December 31, 2010. So, IFC needs you to donate NOW in order to raise the funds necessary to receive the grant!

To donate, please send a check to:
John Dorward
Inter-Faith Council for Social Service

110 W. Main St.

Carrboro, NC 27510

We'll also be glad to help you pay by credit card! Call (919) 929-6380, ext. 14 for John or ext. 12 for Frances.

Thank you to The Stewards Fund and to IFC supporters for making this opportunity possible!