Learn about:  The ywca Peoria embraces the LuLu!

The ywca of Peoria Illinois www.ywcapeoria.com is the largest provider of Homeless Services in the Peoria and surrounding county area.  Their programs offer a continuum of services with taking people directly off the street and to safety and continuing through Permanent Housing and self-sufficiency.  With the economy changes and donor dollars at an all time low, the ywca Peoria lost two of its very large programs.  Faced with this devastating community loss, the Board, Committees & Staff of the ywca began a campaign to save its large Homeless Services program.  At this year's Leader Luncheon successful entrepreneur Lucinda Yates. Lucinda touched attendee's hearts with her personal story of overcoming her homelessness Lucinda brought Peoria the first LuLu Cube.

Ninety eight LuLu's were passed at the event, people were challenged to go into the communityand fill them with their "change for change".  Each cube has a bit of the ywca's story printed on the side and a picture of a young homeless girl. Our leadership felt it was important that people saw the new face of homelessness as it exists in the Peoria area today, where the average age of a homeless person is ten.

See how people have used their cubes!

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For more information contact: Kristy Schofield, Director of Operations, ywca Peoria, kristys@ywcapeoria.org

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Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine   www.mainejewish.org 

The Jewish Community Alliance (JCA) is a nonprofit organization serving Southern Maine and combines programming and fundraising for the Jewish Community. Its mission is to build Jewish community locally, in Israel and throughout the world. The JCA develops, provides, and supports diverse programs, education and services. We work with other Jewish organizations and local congregations, and functions as the hub of Jewish programming in Southern Maine.

Framing Our Community   www.framingourcommunity.org 

Framing Our Community (FOC), was founded in 1999 by community leaders that foresaw the economic and demographic changes that faced Elk City, Idaho and the surrounding area. These leaders believed success lay within the framework of proactive rather than reactive programs and that by providing demonstration projects and economic opportunities the community would survive the hard times ahead.

To accomplish our goals, FOC designed an integrated program that begins with restoring and improving the health of the forests and watersheds that surround our natural resource dependant community. We then utilize the small diameter, dead and dying trees in the manufacture of identified products for sale to niche markets. This effort required building human, social and cultural, physical and financial capital, and working collaboratively with federal agencies, governmental and tribal entities, and regional, national and local organizations.

WMPG   www.wmpg.org 

WMPG is the non-commercial, listener-supported, volunteer-run community radio station for southern Maine and beyond. From its beginning in 1973 as a clandestine dorm room project on the Gorham campus of USM, WMPG has become the robust broadcast voice for the people of southern and central Maine.

With a corps of well over 200 dedicated volunteers, and a small professional management staff, WMPG provides true public access to the airwaves. Volunteer programmers produce programs in at least 5 languages, present music from numerous genres, discuss a wide range of topics of local interest, record local news features, create original radio drama and more.

WMPG is supported by local individuals and businesses, students and also with funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. WMPG is free from corporate influence.