Building Heathy Communities – Upcoming Quarterly Meeting – Changes and Reminder

This is a brief reminder and update about the upcoming Building Healthy Communities Partners meeting:
 
Tuesday, July 22nd, 3:00 to 5:00pm
At the Marin Community Foundation
5 Hamilton Landing, Suite 200. Novato- Directions
Click here to RSVP  

 

These are hot times! Besides the Summer, the annual forum where will establish our policy agenda is scheduled for October 18th (Save-the-date)!  We will use this meeting to [...]

Canal community dialogues begin tonight

The first of three Building Healthy Communities dialogues in the Canal will be today, May 8 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Pickleweed Park Community Center, 50 Canal Street in San Rafael. Join Canal residents in visualizing the change they want for their community. Click here for details. Para español, haga click aquí.
Concurrent with [...]

Novato dialogues begin today!

The first of three Building Healthy Communities dialogues in Novato starts today, May 5 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Oak Room of the Marin Community Foundation. Join Novato residents in visualizing the change they want for their community. Click here for details.

Have your say here! Concurrent with the community dialogues, we are hosting [...]

Community Dialogues Scheduled

The community dialogues for Marin City, Novato and San Rafael Canal have been scheduled. Click here for more information. A copy of the dialogue discussion guide will be available. Check back soon.

National Women’s Law Center – Economic Stimulus Payments

Starting in May 2008, more than 130 million households will receive an economic stimulus payment from the Internal Revenue Service. Most people don’t need to do anything special to get a payment; they can just file their taxes as usual and the IRS will do the rest. But millions of people who are usually exempt from filing tax returns – including low-income retirees, disabled veterans, and low-wage earners – must file a return in order to receive their payment.

Community Dialogues in Marin City

The community dialogues in Marin City have been scheduled! See location and dates below. Coming up, information about dialogues in Novato and the Canal.
Marin City Community Dialogues at Marin City Resident Council Office (RMC). Refreshments will be provided. For more information, contact La Donna Bonner 415-339-2836 or Angel Shorter 415-756-1926:

First session – Tuesday, April 29th, [...]

Proposition 98 – Detrimental to Tenants

Saturday I attended the workshop in San Francisco about the statewide proposition 98 which will be in the June 2008 ballot. If proposition 98 passes it will eliminate rent control in the State of California affecting working low income renters. For more detailed information please visit and take a look at the proposition [...]

Equal Voice North Bay Town Hall – Next planning meeting March 12th

Join the Equal Voice for America’s Families Campaign 2008
and be part of a powerful movement  to 
raise the voice of America’s working families! 

We are hosting a town hall meeting
to launch the campaign in
the North Bay.

Please save-the-date and join us in engaging families
in envisioning the change we want and need to [...]

New CDF Angel Shorter

Hello everyone my name is Angel Shorter and I’m the new CDF for Marin City. In the up coming year I along with another CDF, will be facilitating community dialogues on pressing issues. I am looking forward to meeting with com.leaders as well as com. members to address some of these issues we are [...]

Blogging

As we have just learned how to do the blogging thing I am very excited about using this resource as a way of promoting the work we shall be doing as part of the Equal Voices campaign. Expect many contributions from myself about anything and everything relevant to the work I shall be doing as [...]