Subject: [North Star Fund] Get Hooked Up: Tools for Community Organizing
Date: 11/4/2005 10:28:52 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: news@northstarfund.org
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GET HOOKED UP:
TOOLS FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 5:30 - 8:30 pm
DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Refreshments will be provided
The North Star Fund and YaYa Network in partnership with May FirstTechnology Collective, NYC Grassroots Media Coalition and the NYC SocialForum invite you to celebrate the release of several exciting newresources for activists:
* Compass for Change - The new and improved activist portal, a series ofonline tools designed to expand activists and community organizersnetworks and broadend the field of social justice work. Featuring its newCollective Calendar. http://www.compassforchange.net
* YaYa Network's Youth Activist Calendar and Bulletin.
http://www.yayanet.org
* The NYC Grassroots Media Coalition Web Portal - A virtual space forsocial justice organizers and media makers to come together, connect andform collaborative partnerships. http://www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org
Hosted by Downtown Community TV Center (DCTV) and Manhattan NeighborhoodNetwork, this event is not just another meeting, it's a fun informalevent! Join us to celebrate, meet other local activists, and learn aboutonline tools that provide the social justice community with the meansorganize and make media with just the click of your mouse.
Please rsvp by Friday, November 11 to http://northstarfund.org:2095/3rdparty/squirrelmail/src/compose.php?send_to=emily%40northstarfund.org.
For moreinformation, contact 212-620-9110.
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Subject: [North Star Fund] Community Digest for 11/3/05
Date: 11/3/2005 10:40:25 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: news@northstarfund.org
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North Star Fund Community Digest for 11/3/05
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1 message in this week's Digest
MESSAGE 1 - EMERGENCY GRANTS FOR VISUAL ARTISTS
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1) EMERGENCY GRANTS FOR VISUAL ARTISTS
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The Wheeler Foundation offers Emergency Grants to visual artists of color
who are 21 years of age or older and live in the tri-state, greater New
York City area.
Grants help meet urgent financial needs involving housing, medical costs,
fire, flood and storm damage, etc. To request application forms and
information about eligibility, write, phone or fax to:
The Wheeler Foundation
Box 300507
Brooklyn, NY 11230
tel: 718-951-0581
fax: 718-258-1157
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