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Recipient of 2004 Woman of the Year Award for Community Service
Congratulations to Ms. Munlyn! Below is an excerpt from the DC Chambers of Commerce press release.
For Immediate Release
Alverta Munlyn Receives Chamber Community Service Award June 9 2004 If not for Alverta Munlyn, there may be no place for children to play and learn computer skills after school, no place for a mother to leave her child as she heads off to work and nowhere for a future high school graduate to excel in art and ceramics in a local DC neighborhood. It all takes place at the Perry School Community Services Center, which was co- founded and was formerly chaired by Ms. Munlyn as a way to achieve upward mobility in an area of the nation's capital that has seen its fair share of hardship over the years. Ms. Munlyn refused to let her community fall into the deep pits of blight and crime that plagues so many urban streets across our country, and her drive and force in fighting for the lives of her community's residents is why she is being honored with the DC Chamber of Commerce's Community Service Award at the organization's Women in Business Awards Luncheon. This year's event is titled "The Power To Influence and Create Wealth," all traits of Ms. Munlyn and the five other women who will also be honored. |
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CCPH and the Northwest Health Foundation Publish Directory
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and the
Northwest Health
Foundation have published a directory of U.S. funding
sources for
community-based particpatory research (CBPR).
The directory is
now available as a PDF document in the "what's new"
section of their homepage. The directory includes
public and private
funding opportunities that either explicitly support
CBPR or could support
CBPR (including planning processses, actual research
projects, training
programs, fellowships, etc.).
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Making Art:: Changing Lives
Make Piece\Peace Inc. will be holding their next class
at the Perry School Community Services Center. The
class is set
to begin on September 14, 2004. They seek to enroll
about ten students into the class, which will meet
Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 1 to 4:30 PM for
about 3 months. The women who have participated
in past classes are producing lovely jewelry, now on
sale in the Gift Shops of the National Museum of
Women in the Arts and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
The jewelery can also be purchased online.
Make Piece\Peace, Inc. (MKPeace) is a small, new Washington area nonprofit organization that offers an economic development program based on principles of a living wage, workforce development/self- determination, and fair trade. In the context of a high-end jewelry business, economically disadvantaged women learn a marketable skill, financial literacy, small business basics, job readiness, and life skills. After graduation, they may continue working with the organization to expand the market for their wares under the MKPeace 'brand'. Make Piece\Peace Inc. is also seeking an Entrepreneurship Teacher for future classes. For further information, contact the organization at (301) 320-5421 or info@mkpeace.com. |
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