Friday, April 22, 2011

New Community House video on YouTube


Please log in to YouTube at New Community House @ 1315 MLK and give our new video a "thumbs up" to show your support for a new and better transitional shelter for Orange County's homeless men.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The Food Effect

The Food Effect is an online campaign being launched by the North Carolina Pork Council and the North Carolina Association of Feeding America Food Banks to spread awareness about childhood hunger in North Carolina. The campaign allows North Carolinians to donate their voice, time and funding to combat this growing problem.

For more information, check out what Alan Briggs, Executive Director of the NC Association of Feeding America Food Banks has to say about the campaign in this YouTube video, or watch this video from News 14 Carolina.  
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Monday, April 4, 2011

CROP Walk 2011 video

The 25th Annual Chapel Hill/Carrboro CROP Hunger Walk was held on March 27, 2011. Approximately 400 walkers braved the cold and wind to walk in support of people locally and around the world who need food assistance.

We still have some 2011 CROP Hunger Walk T-shirts.While they last, we’ll give a free T-shirt to anyone who stops by the IFC at 110 W. Main Street in Carrboro and makes a donation of $10 or more.
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Welcome to March on Poverty

The Inter-Faith Council (IFC) believes that now is the time to stop poverty in its tracks. Many in our community are struggling to hang on; and many need the inspiration of our community leaders to do something about poverty's influence and prominence. We need everyone who cares about reducing poverty's hold over increasing numbers of Carrboro and Chapel Hill households and unsheltered persons. Our new March On Poverty blog summons you to our call and the original call of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the countless among us who have followed in his footsteps. You ask, "how long will this take?" Dr. King said "Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Poverty is the primary cause of homelessness and hunger, two community challenges IFC volunteers and staff cross swords with daily. A lack of an adequate response by state, federal and local governments enable and procrastinate these conditions. We seek to create a just community, one that is committed to overcoming social problems by a greater commitment to the common good. We hope our blog will bring you more in touch with these issues. We hope you will come to know the facts about IFC future plans, new program models and new facilities commonly called Community House and FoodFirst. We hope you will join us.

Stay tuned! Stay in touch! March On!

Chris Moran, Executive Director

View the Community House Mission & Vision

View the FoodFirst Mission & Vision