Parliament of Worlds Religion 1999 Capetown SA

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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1999 GIFTS OF SERVICE TO THE
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Community Foundations of Canada, Our Millennium
Our Millennium is a nationwide initiative of Canada's community foundations that encourages Canadians to celebrate the millennium by coming together to do something special in their communities - something that lasts. It is an opportunity to get together with neighbors, friends, family or co-workers, to find an idea, a gift or a project that will make the community a better, stronger, more vibrant place. A gift project can be one of time, labor, commitment or money. Projects can be big and ambitious or small and simple.
A Catalogue of Possibilities has all the information people need to participate in Our Millennium. It is filled with over 100 gift ideas, as well as many examples of community initiatives and projects across the country. Gift ideas are divided into categories: Youth and Children, Heritage, Learning, Environment, Connections, Arts and Culture, Safety, Care and Support, and Recreation.
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Sample Our Millennium Gifts or Projects include: creating an artistic mural that tells a community's history; building the Trans-Canada Trail - the longest trail of its kind; developing a volunteer community taxi service or a shopping brigade for those who need help; contributing to an endowment fund; setting up a mentoring program or becoming a volunteer grandparent; and restoring an historic building. Canadians are invited to register their millennium gifts so they can be part of the record of how Canada marked the passage into the new millennium. Participants can register a gift nationally on the website at www.ourmillennium.ca or by contacting a local Our Millennium organizer. Our Millennium CANADA
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Youth Development Project
This project serves youth living in areas with high rates of crime and gangsterism. The Community in Schools Program provides support services to prevent children from dropping out. The Community Youth-Based Centers provide services for youths who have dropped out of school and are unemployed. Mr. Jasper Walsh
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A Partnership in Faith-based African-American Community
Since 1982, Hartford Memorial Baptist Church has operated fourteen programs that address the basic needs of community residents. The larger, more successful programs include a Hunger Task Force and Clothing Mission, Women, Infants and Children (WIC)", and a Tele-A-Friend Latch Key Program. Other successful programs include the Hartford Satellite Meals Catering, Hartford Senior Center, and the Kafo Academy (young manhood training). The partnerships have also created a Kentake Academy (young womanhood training) and the Hartford Start Agency (preschool program). In November 1998, through the partnership created between Hartford Memorial Baptist Church and Kmart Corporation, a retail outlet opened in the City of Detroit, an example of faith-based, social, economic development has been created. This partnership between business and an African-American faith community serves as a national model of creative engagement. Hartford Agape House
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TRANSIT: Today, Religion, Art, Nature, Science & Industry, Interfaith Together
Developed at the Black Sea Conference (sponsored by the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew), the TRANSIT project seeks to raise consciousness about the bio-social impacts associated with Black Sea resource management. The project links religious leaders, young artists, scientists, conservationists, non-governmental organizations, academics, health professionals and micro-enterprise practitioners to create works of art that serve as catalysts for galvanizing positive action by communities, both around the Black Sea and worldwide. The works convey the importance of saving the Black Sea as a resource for future generations.
The National Arts Club USA
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