Celebrate World Food Day with an energy-filled event featuring special entertainment, displays by hunger organizations, opportunities to get engaged in the battle against hunger, and much more! Skip your lunch and donate your lunch money to those in need.
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Photographs by local youth inspire new conversations, and a coalition of homeless adults creates a community newsletter—these are just two stories that champion the ingenuity of community engagement. Connect with these artisans of civic life, witness how they create meaning through collaboration, and get inspired to take action in your own neighborhood.
Experience a critical discussion of the challenges and achievements of urban renewal and social change in major American cities. A bipartisan panel of leaders, each with a demonstrated commitment to effective leadership and public service, will individually address current issues, strategies and solutions within their respective communities.
It may be for social work professionals, but the topics of workshops and discussions are of urgent concern to all of us.
Child trafficking is recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of a child (any person under the age of 18) for the purpose of exploitation either within or outside a country. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimates that 1.2 million are children trafficked annually … some of them in Central Indiana. We have to do something.
All the housing news seems to be about middle class families’ homes losing value … but this shouldn’t make us forget that housing crises also involve homeless families perceived as having no value at all.
Each night 3,000 people experience homelessness in Indianapolis. Horizon House opens its doors every morning, seven days a week, inviting each of those individuals to a fresh start and a new day. Punter Hunter Smith and his Colts teammates want to help you be part of making that possible.
President Bush has greatly increased the role of private faith-based organizations delivering social services such as education, welfare and health care. Barack Obama proposes even more funding for religious organizations that help the poor, operate prisons and fight gangs. How effective are these faith-based programs? Do they threaten the separation of church and state? Answering these questions will be recent White House Faith-based initiatives director Jay Hein. (more…)
Attend an important conference organized by the Latino coalition against Domestic and Sexual Violence. (more…)
NUVO gives Provocate 2007 Cultural Vision Award
Provocate featured in Indianapolis Monthly
"Award combines film, activism: Festival to recognize social justice of Sept. 11, Congo in discussions,"
Indiana Lawyer April 16, 2008 ... on Provocate's Eric Parker Social Justice Award at the Indianapolis International Film Festival
