Category: Community Wellbeing
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How to Write About Local Issues
Passionate about an issue? I’m imagining all of us becoming community reporters, sending a letter to the editor of our local papers every week. Add a Facebook post and Tweet telling the same story to reach more people. Then go to a local town hall with copies of what you’ve written.
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How This Kansas City Project is Helping Homeless Veterans
The Veterans Village gives me hope that as a society we’ll serve veterans whose service to society too often is dismissed when they return home. Two veterans in the Kansas City area, Kevin Jamison and Chris Stout took action on their concern about homeless veterans. They formed the Veterans Community Project and organized volunteers and…
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Transforming the way we care
Caring Across Generations is building a movement of the caring majority to create a culture of care in the U.S. Recognizing that care is the work that makes all other work possible, this movement also is making care visible and working on local and state legislative initiatives to make a difference now. Participating in this…