Are you in middle school or high school? Are you good with young kids? Do you want to volunteer some time to help out with a kids’ program?
Next Wednesday, November 6th Friends for Good (formally Kids4Peace) restarts a program called Citizens of the World where they will play games, do crafts, and more all centered around broadening worldview. Participants will learn universal values and virtues through various religions and cultures from around the world. Friends for Good needs your help to carry out this program with the kids!
If you choose to help, you can lead or co-lead games and other activities. You can work one on one with a child in the program. And you can simply be another helpful, positive, participant in the program to help model kind and loving behavior.
To sign up to help with this program simply fill out this short form.
IPM runs a mobile food pantry around the Cincinnati area. Whether you have need of food or the ability to support others in need, you are welcome to attend the food pantry as it moves around the city.
TO RECEIVE:
10 a.m.-noon Wednesday, Sept. 4: Felicity United Methodist Church, 420 Walnut Lane, Felicity, 45120.
TO GIVE:
Here are IPM’s current most-needed items to stock our pantry:
- Canned meat: particularly chicken, but also beef, tuna, corned beef hash, fish, beef chili (Skyline, Gold Star)
- Peanut butter
- Jelly
- Shampoo
- Deodorant
- Dish detergent
- Adult diapers
Please bring donations to our pantry, 4623 Aicholtz Rd.:
12-3 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday.
9 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday.
Thank you for your generosity!
TO CELEBRATE:
IPM will mark its 60th anniversary this month. Please join the celebration on September 27th from 6-8:30 pm. Reservations are required. Click HERE to register.
After a summer of home hosting students from around the world, we have a couple dinner hosting opportunities coming up:
- Sept 22: Integrated Cybersecurity Education IVLP Group with delegates from Indonesia.
- Oct 14: Youth Empowerment and Civic Engagement IVLP Group with delegates from Serbia.
Whether you take them out to your favorite restaurant, make a home cooked meal with your family and friends, or have a potluck, food is a great cultural bridge.
Hosted before? Email Emily Rose at erose@cincyworldaffairs.org
After a summer of home hosting students from around the world, we have a couple dinner hosting opportunities coming up:
- Sept 22: Integrated Cybersecurity Education IVLP Group with delegates from Indonesia.
- Oct 14: Youth Empowerment and Civic Engagement IVLP Group with delegates from Serbia.
Whether you take them out to your favorite restaurant, make a home cooked meal with your family and friends, or have a potluck, food is a great cultural bridge.
Hosted before? Email Emily Rose at erose@cincyworldaffairs.org
IPM Food Pantry will be hosting its mobile pantry in the month of June at the following locations.
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10 a.m.- noon Saturday, June 1: Bridgeway Riverside Church, 30 Wells St., Moscow, 45153.
10 a.m.-noon Wednesday, June 5: William Bick Primary School, 101 Fossyl Dr., Bethel, 45106.
10 a.m.-noon Thursday, June 6: Lynchburg-Clay Elementary School, 6760 Ohio 134, Lynchburg, 45142.
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IPM is so thankful for all the skilled gardeners who share the fruits and vegetables of your labors with us!
In 2023 you donated more than FIVE TONS of fresh produce that we distributed to families in need at our pantries throughout the summer and fall seasons.
If you have a green thumb and a bountiful crop, please consider donating your produce extras to IPM this year!
Are you interested in hosting high school students from around the world? If so, please express your interest by completing a short form HERE.
IJPC supports Cincinnati Action for Housing Now’s initiative for affordable housing and we need your help to get it on the November ballot. Join us this Saturday!
The day will include a brief training on how to collect signatures for the ballot initiative, and then teams of two will go to Vine St, Findlay Market, and City Flea in Washington Park to talk to Cincinnati voters about how we can fund more affordable housing in the city. Lunch will be provided. Can’t stay the whole time? No problem – show up when you can.
The ballot measure would restore our earned income tax to its 2020 levels in order to provide a dedicated funding stream to develop housing for the most vulnerable. While there is some promising affordable housing development happening in Cincinnati, very few of those units will serve those living <30% of the Area Median Income (<$18,150/person). The .3% increase will result in $40-50 million per year dedicated to those who need it most.
IJPC Canvass for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund
Saturday, May 13
10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Buddy’s Place (Miami University Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine)
1300 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Parking suggestion: Mercer Garage or Washington Park
Sign up here!
Findlay Market’s Annual Art & Poetry Day is Saturday, May 20th and we’re proud to be a sponsor, thanks to the generosity of one of our donors! Share your love of Women Writing for (a) Change at one of our city’s other crown jewels.
HELP US BY VOLUNTEERING AT OUR INFO TABLE FOR 2 HOURS between
10am-4pm.
We hope to have two community members sign up for each shift. We’d love to have adult and youth writers represented! What will you do?
- Answer questions about Women Writing for (a) Change youth and adult programs.
- Talk about your personal experience and why WWf(a)C means so much to you!
- Have info on hand about summer programs and events (provided by the office).
- Invite people to sign up for our newsletter.
- Offer visitors a takeaway activity called “Fast Writes at Findlay,” which are writing prompts people can take along during their day at the market and then return their writing to us or post to our Instagram.
Have a WWf(a)C friend? Sign up to work the same shift!
Shifts for May 20th:
10am – 12pm
12pm – 2pm
2pm – 4pm
