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Agenda and minutes for November 5, 2011

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November 5 agenda & October minutes

November 5, 2012, 10 AM

URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI

AGENDA

OPENING PRAYER AND INTRODUCTIONS
NEED OF SECRETARY FOR TODAY’S MEETING
 
FINANCES –
Dues reminder
Mutual Membership between FCA and Mental Health Alliance – Melanie Recchia, Director of Training at Child Focus and Chair of the Interfaith Mental Health Initiative for The Partnership for Mental Health, Inc.

OLD BUSINESS

Reminder new FCA email address is fcacincinnati@aol.com and website if www.FaithCommunityAlliance.org
Status of Letter Support for Madisonville Parkway
Letter of Support for HOME
Status of FCA Face Book page
Acceptance of 2011 Annual Report

 NEW BUSINESS

PRESENTATIONS:

Breakthrough Cincinnati – Blair Lanier, the Executive Director of
Magic Johnson Bridgescape Academies
Partnership for Interfaith Mental Health Inc. – Melanie Recchia, Director of Training at Child Focus and Chair of the Interfaith Mental Health
SAAF Ministries  -  Mrs. Jimmie Walker
FCA WEBSITE – Marilyn Wall of Sierra Club
Social Outreach – Byron N Hutchins 

ADVOCACY

Community
Environment – a) Metropolitan Sewer District – Marilyn Wall MSD
Anti-Violence
Cease Fire Cincinnati – Reverend Ennis Tait
Status of Hate Crimes against the Homeless – Josh Spring
Education
a) Prepare the Future –   Charles Wallner
b) Board Reports
1-CPS – Eve Bolton
c) CFT – Julia Sellers
Health
Status of Federal Health Care Law – Donald Washington
UPDATE IN HIV SERVICES FOR GREATER CINCINNATI – Charles Wallner
Labor – Doug Sizemore, Brentley Davis
Status of outsourcing Cincinnati Bell Services
Housing & Homelessness
Status of Homelessness – Josh Spring
Working with Ex-Felons and Families – Philip Nunes, Volunteers of America, Aaron Greenlea, St. Elizabeth Baptist Church
Voter Registration – Karen Bell

Ohio Unity Coalition Launches Stand Your Ground…Vote: Statewide 2012 Voter Empowerment Tour

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Press Advisory:

Contact: Jesse Jenkins, Sr. 513-400-6536

Ohio Unity Coalition Launches Stand Your Ground…Vote: Statewide 2012 Voter Empowerment Tour on Saturday, July 14, 2012 in Cincinnati.

A coalition of faith, labor, civil and voter rights groups along with community activists will launch the Stand Your Ground… Vote, 2012 Voter Empowerment Tour at 11 AM on Saturday, July 14, 2012 at the Corinthian Baptist Church at 722 Whittier Street in Cincinnati.

Cincinnati is the first stop of a multi-city tour across Ohio, where a mobile voter registration unit will go into local communities, help voters verify their registration status and register new voters. Voters who have moved or changed their names will also be able to update their registration and obtain non-partisan information about the upcoming election.

Election advocates estimate that as many as 1.3 million Ohio voters have been purged from the voter rolls since the last presidential election cycle. The Voter Empowerment Tour will allow eligible voters to check their status, make any needed updates and be assured they can fully participate in the fall 2012 election.

Local Faith and Community Leaders were excited to partner with the Unity Coalition on this effort stated Pastor KZ Smith of Corinthian Baptist Church. “Whether we represent the faith, labor or social service community we know that every person needs to be able to exercise their voice and their vote in this election. If we do our part to educate and engage voters, we are empowering them to use the vote that many of us fought so hard to obtain. Our rights have been threatened by voter suppression tactics in recent years and this is our way to Stand Our Ground.”

“We know the first step to participating in the process is being registered,” says Petee Talley, Convener of the Ohio Unity Coalition. ” We want to do our part to eliminate confusion around election rules and make it easier for eligible voters to participate.”

While in Cincinnati over the course of 10 days, the mobile unit will move to various locations around the city. For more information about the stops in Cincinnati and the Unity Coalition, contact Petee Talley, Convener toll free at 1-888-614-0844.

agenda june 4, 2012

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FAITH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF GREATER CINCINNAT

JUNE 4, 2012, 10 AM

URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI

OPENING PRAYER

INTRODUCTIONS

FINANCES – Reverend Godhigh

Acceptance of grants for Prepare the Future Ohio

OLD BUSINESS

$200 on behalf of June Fourteenth Festival

Reminder new FCA email address is FCACINCINNATI@aol.com

Status of Letter Support for Madisonville Parkway

Status of FCA website, cost of fees.

Need for an Assistant Treasurer

Status of FCA Face Book page

NEW BUSINESS

PRESENTATIONS

Four Year Term for City Council Representatives - City of Cincinnati Council Representative Laure Quinlivan and/or Althea Barnett.

Cincinnati Union Bethel and the Status of Anna Louise Inn, Stephen T. MacConnell, President and CEO

“Equipping African American Clergy to be a Resource for Congregants with Depression Symptoms: A Interdisciplinary Public Health Study” – Jean Anthony, PhD, University of Cincinnati College of Nursing and Jennifer Williams, EdD, Williams and Associates, LLC.

Request to Ohio State Legislature to Correct State Funding for Public Education - Charles Wallner, Coordinator for Prepare the Future

Childhood Food Solutions, a program that provides much needed food to children and their families in the Roll Hill and Walnut Hills areas – Tony Fairness

Talbert House Fatherhood Project (Fatherhood Luncheon on June 8 and Sawyer Point Fatherhood Celebration on June 17) – John Silverman and Mark Addy, Stephanie Johnson.

ADVOCACY

Anti-violence

Cease Fire Cincinnati – Reverend Ennis Tait

Status of Hate Crimes Against the Homeless – no report

Community

Status of Black Family Reunion – Cassandra Robinson

Juneteenth – FCA to purchase ad

Environment – a) Metropolitan Sewer District – Marilyn Wall MSD

b) Updates on Green Umbrella – Steve Johns

Promise Keepers Kickoff – Brother Jerry Culberth

Education

a)Prepare the Future – Update on Meeting between Superintendents and Legislators and the Legislative Day Bus Ride – Charles Wallner

b)Board Reports

1-CPS – Eve Bolton

2-Winton Woods – Brandon Wiers

c)CFT – Julia Sellers

Health

Status of Federal Health Care Law – Donald Washington, Karen Bell

UPDATE IN HIV SERVICES FOR GREATER CINCINNATI – Charles Wallner

Labor – Doug Sizemore, Brentley Davis, Amy Teitelman

Housing & Homelessness

Status of Homelessness – Josh Spring

Working with Ex-Felons and Families – Phillip Nunes, Aaron Greenlea, St. Elizabeth Baptist Church

ANNOUNCEMENTS


Prepare the Future

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“Prepare the Future Ohio” is a special, bipartisan, project of the Faith Community Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, Metropolitan Area Religious Coalition of Cincinnati, League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area, Citizens for Civic Renewal, Cincinnati-Hamilton County, Applied Information Resources and the Southern Ohio Episcopal Diocese. Prepare the Future has the following goals

  • Ohio’s educational policy must be measured to show that it either contributes or detracts from the right of all Ohio’s children to an education.
  • Instructional, management and governance practices must be based on evidence that they work or, at the very least, do no harm.
  • A reasonable accountability system for Ohio’s educators, students, and citizens.

A system of funding that is fairly raised and equitably distributed.

Cincinnati’s Interfaith Coalitions Advocate And Educate On Community

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Cincinnati’s Interfaith Coalitions Advocate And Educate On Community
Issues: Updates From Marcc, Amos, And Fcac.

Thursday May 10, 2012, 12:00 Noon,
Christ Church Cathedral Undercroft, 318 East Fourth Street

What are the community and public issues receiving attention from
three of Cincinnati’s interfaith coalitions? At the next Community
Issues Forum, Pat Coyle, President of MARCC (Metropolitan Area
Religious Coalition of Cincinnati), Rev. Nelson Pierce, Lead
Organizer for Project AMOS, and Charles Wallner, Vice President, of
the Faith Community Alliance of Cincinnati, will answer this question.
This luncheon forum takes place at 12:00 noon, Thursday May 10th,
Christ Church Cathedral Undercroft, 318 East Fourth Street.

Congregations and religious organizations sponsor and take part in
many local outreach and human service programs and activities. Fewer
focus on advocacy. Since the urban unrest of the late 1960s, MARCC has
represented the major judicatories in this area in addressing critical
issues that confront Greater Cincinnati. More recent in origin,
Project AMOS is a coalition comprised of diverse congregations
representing the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths. Meanwhile, the
more loosely structured FCAC includes interfaith and secular groups
and members concerned about a variety of public issues. The panelists
at the May 10th Forum will depict both their coalition’s structure as
well as its current advocacy and education activities. As usual, time
will be set aside for questions and comments from the audience.

Come join us for this Forum. Lunch can be purchased for $5.50, or you
can bring a brown bag. Parking is now available in the garage of the
new building across the street from the Cathedral on 4th Street
between Broadway and Sycamore. For video clips of past Forums, go to
www.airinc.org.

The next forum will be on May 24th. Topic and speakers to be announced.