Learn how to canvass businesses in your neighborhood to share information about immigrant’s rights.
Business Canvassing Training
Tuesday, December 2
5:30 – 6:30 PM
Zoom – Register here
Interfaith CincinnatiInterfaith CincinnatiLearn how to canvass businesses in your neighborhood to share information about immigrant’s rights.
Business Canvassing Training
Tuesday, December 2
5:30 – 6:30 PM
Zoom – Register here
Curious about how the world is changing and what it means for your future?
Designed for high school students and educators, IES offers a day of hands-on workshops, inspiring speakers, and career-focused networking — all centered on how global events and local communities are more connected than ever.
Hosted by the World Affairs Council of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, this annual summit helps students explore real-world issues, develop practical skills, and discover career opportunities in a wide range of fields.
What you’ll experience:
Whether you’re planning your next steps or just want to understand the world around you better, this event will give you the tools and confidence to move forward.
Join Faith Communities Good Green on Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 7:00pm to 8:30pm ET
Discussion facilitated by Mimi Rook
Book: Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City
by Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates
LIVE ON ZOOM
When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a “permaculture paradise” replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa—all told, more than two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an innovative food forest on a small city lot. The garden—intended to function like a natural ecosystem with the plants themselves providing most of the garden’s needs for fertility, pest control, and weed suppression—also features an edible water garden, a year-round unheated greenhouse, tropical crops, urban poultry, and even silkworms.
In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the principles and practices of permaculture, the choice of exotic and unusual food plants, the techniques of design and cultivation, and, of course, the adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process. Packed full of detailed, useful information about designing a highly productive permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a funny and charming story of two single guys, both plant nerds, with a wild plan: to realize the garden of their dreams and meet women to share it with. Amazingly, on both counts, they succeed.
Join guest curator Abby Schwartz for an illustrated talk about the collars of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Schwartz will also discuss jewelry and amulets in the collections of the Skirball as they reflect symbol, function, and beauty in similar ways to the collars depicted in Carucci’s photographs. The evening includes a walk-through of the exhibition.
Reservations recommended.
Enjoy a light lunch and illustrated overview of the exhibition followed by a walk-through of the exhibition.
SPECIAL BONUS! Schwartz will also comment on the retrospective exhibition of the works of renowned artist Mark Podwal (1945–2024) surrounding guests in Mayerson Auditorium.
Reservations required.
The World Affairs Council is partnering with the Contemporary Arts Center for a special Educator Workshop on Wednesday, November 5th.
Join us in partnership with the Hamilton County Educational Service Center (HCESC) for an informative workshop on how Google’s new AI tools are transforming and supporting both educators and students.
These innovations are especially valuable for today’s global classroom, enhancing accessibility, collaboration, and cross-cultural learning.
Date: October 16
Time: 11:30AM-12:15PM
Location: Virtual
Tickets are $20 per person.*
*This workshop will be recorded and sent to registered participants.
Presented by
Faith Communities Go Green and Green Umbrella
A free, virtual program
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
2:00 – 3:00pm ET
For the link to event
Faith Communities Go Green is hosting Green Umbrella to introduce a powerful new effort to make our tri-state region increasingly sustainable, resilient, and healthy. In late July, Green Umbrella will launch the 25 Communities Project, a regional cohort of communities working together to reduce pollution and strengthen resilience. Join us to learn how community advocates can help their local governments discover the power to protect their communities and save money by developing and implementing sustainability plans.
Speakers: Ryan Mooney-Bullock, Executive Director of Green Umbrella and member of the Faith Communities Go Green Steering Team, and Bamidele Osamika, Green Umbrella’s Regional Climate Collaborative Manager, will include an overview of the technical assistance Green Umbrella provides to local governments, a success story, and specific ways that you and your congregation can help engage elected officials and public sector staff. The 25 Communities Project is an unprecedented opportunity to benefit your neighbors and the entire planet by adopting clean energy and energy efficiency, and reducing exposure to air pollution, dangerous heat, and flood damage.
Please attend to learn the critical role that faith communities have in this endeavor.