Tag: support
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Working For Good In St. Joseph
A strength of our community is the many people who care for and about others. Our many nonprofits and volunteers who work together to serve and strengthen our community bring hope and resilience. Meet three of those people as Rolling Hills Library celebrates International Women’s Day on Saturday March 8, 2025 at 10:30 am, 1904…
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Whose Voices Aren’t Getting Heard?
According to the City Health Dashboard, St. Joseph had an estimated 54% of its eligible population vote in the 2020 General Election, compared to an average of 64.9% across the Dashboard’s cities. Certain neighborhoods, especially near downtown and south, had voting percentages lower than 35%. What accounts for this low turn-out? One factor might be…
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Time To Buy Your Tickets!
Juneteenth is not only a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery, it is a celebration of community. It is a time where we can reflect on how hope and freedom shape our lives, our struggles and progress as a nation, and our interdependence and resilience. In St. Joseph you will be able to celebrate…
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Investing In Our Youth
Participants in past dialogues have identified the rising cost of many activities for youth as a significant issue. As the author Matthew Desmond observed in his recent book Poverty, By America, “The best way to ensure that opportunity is unequal and unfair is to charge for it.” Here in St. Joe, who is being excluded…
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Join Us Nov 16! Focus: Supporting Our Youth
Join us on November 16 at InterServ, 5400 King Hill Ave, to discuss how our community can best empower, engage, equip, support and protect youth and young adults in our community. If you are a young leader, we want to hear about your challenges, hopes, and needs. If you work with youth, we want to…
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Supporting Our Youth
Our community cares about its youth! And we are concerned that too many are leaving. How do we create a community where children thrive? Where young adults will want to stay and raise their families? Those at our September 21 event had several ideas about how we might support our youth, advocate for youth, and…
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Strengthening Our Community
Lots of thoughts were shared and ideas generated during our conversation on September 21. Members of the community identified many challenges, hopes, and needs as they explored three questions – what is St. Joe to you?, what would you change if you could? and what groups are working to strengthen our communities? As we reviewed…
All Voices St. Joe 