Equity and Inclusion Campaign: Policy Series

It is with great pleasure that the Equity and Inclusion Campaign invites you to RSVP for the upcoming Policy Series Events!

 

Equity and Inclusion Campaign is hosting a Policy Series throughout the Gulf Coast. The Policy Series is an opportunity to enhance our collective policy work, assess existing unmet needs, discuss solutions and strategize our advocacy.

 

Our first event will focus on housing, and be held on March 23, 2010, at the Lindy C. Boggs International Conference Center on the campus of the University of New Orleans (Room 154 Amphitheater; 10:30-2:30) in New Orleans, LA.  A light lunch will be provided.

 

Our second event will focus on health and healthcare, and be held on March 25, 2010, at the Dotch Community Center (3100 Banks Avenue; 10:30-2:30) in Mobile, AL.  A light lunch will be provided.

 

 

 

In order to ensure everyone will be accomodated,

please RSVP for these events by March 18, 2010,

to matthew@equityandinclusion.org.

In your e-mail, please note which event you will be attending.

 

For a full calendar of upcoming Equity and Inclusion Campaign Events,

please visit us HERE.

 

 

If you or someone in your community attending any of the above meetings is in need of language and/or sign interpretation service, please let us know as soon as possible so we may accommodate your request. Please email such requests to matthew@equityandinclusion.org.

 

Sincerely,

 

Equity and Inclusion Campaign Team

equityandinclusion.org

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NEW ORLEANS, LA – The Green Project will present A Studio in the Woods co- founders Lucianne and Joe Carmichael with the coveted “Green Giant” Award, honoring a local environmental hero. The award will be presented March 19,  2010during the organization’s annual gala. 

“Each year we honor those who have done exceptional environmental work in New Orleans with the Green Giant award. With the creation of  A Studio in the Woods, the Carmichaels built a sustainable environment from salvaged and reclaimed materials long before it was the accepted practice and then gifted it to Tulane,”said Phyllis Jordan,  one of the The Green Project’s board members. “What they’ve given to the city’s artists’ community is an invaluable gift that will last a lifetime.”

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Why You Should Start a Company in... New Orleans

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It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. In this series, we talk to leading figures in those communities about what makes them tick. Here, part eight in our series.

What do entrepreneurs do? They find an itch that needs to be scratched and go at it. After the devastating hurricane of 2005, New Orleans definitely had a lot of itches.

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Tunnel Vision: A Puppeteer Turns the CAC’s Third Floor into a Cardboard Catacombed Storyland — Will Coviello — The Gambit — March 9, 2010

If there’s one thing kids like more than puppets, it’s cardboard tunnels.

That was a lesson Arthur Mintz learned while teaching a puppet-making camp at theOgden Museum of Southern Art a couple of years ago.  He wanted to show the campers images of different types of puppets from around the world, but he didn’t want to do it in a classroom-like fashion—projecting slides on a wall.  So he built a cardboard tunnel and transferred the images onto acetate, while he inserted like windows in the tunnel.  And how did the experiment work?

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It’s the little things that makes New Orleans unlike any other city.  Beignets at Cafe du Monde.  St. Charles during Mardi Gras season. Local shops on Magazine St.  These cultural gems are the things we hold dear, it’s what makes new comers fall in love with our city, and a new local web show will look in all the crooks and crevasses of New Orleans that makes our city unique.

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products from its Orthopedics and Endoscopy business units at this
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Smith & Nephew's current portfolio, and representatives from Smith &
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It wouldn’t be the least bit surprising to hear that church attendance was down Sunday, at least among the hundreds of concert-goers who braved the rain on their pilgrimage to UCLA’s Royce Hall the night before.

After all, what’s left to atone for on Sunday morning after a spirit-infused, soul-enriching Saturday night spent soaking up the vibrant gospel sounds of the Blind Boys of Alabama and the sumptuous New Orleans R&B of songwriter, producer, pianist and singer Allen Toussaint?

These two stalwarts of different yet simpatico genres of American music spent a solid three hours in separate sets that preached to the choir of longtime fans and made converts of many initiates. By the end of the evening, all were up out of their seats, stamping feet and waving raised hands as senior Blind Boys singer Jimmy Carter made his way through the aisles to close the show on a note of unmitigated uplift.

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