Thursday, July 01, 2010

City Share: “Idea Exchange”

Next Wednesday July 7 from 12:00-1:00 pm, Urban League will be hosting City Share: “Idea Exchange,” a PechaKucha-style presentation featuring a variety of pitches from a handful of active citizens with ideas centered around crime prevention and increased safety in our city. 

For the last month, Stand & Deliver: Safety has brought like-minded individuals from many proactive organizations across the city together around a common table to discuss how they can improve their services through interagency collaboration.  Groups formed as part of this endeavor have addressed key concepts such as mentoring, women’s issues, and an athletic league to keep kids off the streets.

“Idea Exchange” has been designed to provide a platform for these new and existing initiatives—whether conceived as part Stand & Deliver: Safety or outside of it—to offer community members a chance to commit their time, energy, and expertise to address complex community issues above and beyond the confines of their day job.

It’s all part of our overarching goal for Stand & Deliver: we want to encourage individuals to become active citizens.  At this point, we’re moving the process along from the conversation stage into an action stage.  The time has come to get people involved in their communities in tangible ways that reach toward common solutions.

Come on out and join us from 12:00-1:00 pm on July 7 at Urban League (730 E. MLK Blvd.) for light lunch, inspiring ideas, and a unique chance to enlist in exciting and meaningful initiatives.  As always, City Share is a free event, but please remember to RSVP to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or on the Facebook page.