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Community Kitchen to teach food-service to job seekers having the toughest time
Wednesday, December 04, 2013
Pittsburgh Community Kitchen
has been quietly working since July to create a catering business that provides food-service training to people who often have the toughest time getting a job: those reentering society from jail, people who have experienced recent homelessness, and individuals recovering from drug and alcohol abuse or who have experienced behavioral health issues.
"And it's often more than one" issue that their clients are getting past, says Jennifer Flanagan, who founded the Kitchen along with Tod Shoenberger, an executive chef with 20 years of operational experience in the food industry. "Food service is a really forgiving industry," Flanagan says, "if you are responsible and have some skills," and the Kitchen will offer "more than job readiness – industry-specific training."
Flanagan works for Allegheny County's Department of Human Services, where she co-directs a Department of Justice-funded program offering workforce development for former inmates, so she has important experience creating such a program. And there are 42 other community kitchens with similar missions in the national Catalyst Kitchens Network, which originated in Seattle.
The Kitchen has already undertaken catering jobs for nearly half a year. "You can't really train people if you're not running the business well," she says. The free program uses chefs as teachers and also offers clientele access to case managers to provide extra support and make referrals to social-service agencies. "Our goal is to get them through the their barriers and stabilized" in life, she explains.
To accompany the training experience, which begins with the new year, the Kitchen already has a shared-use commercial kitchen in Pittsburgh Public Market's recently opened Penn Avenue location. There, they'll also train participants in co-packing: working with smaller food producers to produce their products and/or pack them for sale.
In addition, the Kitchen is planning a restaurant – at a location to be determined – that will "make the restaurant experience available to folks who couldn't necessarily support it," Flanagan says. They're also expecting to put a 10,000-square-foot commissary kitchen, using green technology, in the Energy Innovation Center opening in the Hill District in late 2014.
"We're looking to do other things to support whatever communities we go into," she adds, such as making meals from the 30,000 pounds of end-of-shelf-life produce tossed by food banks every month.
Concludes Flanagan: "I'm excited to start the training in January, and see where it takes us."
Marty Levine
Source: Jennifer Flanagan, Pittsburgh Community Kitchen
Thought school was tough? Stigma of mental illness makes it tougher
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Getting kids to encourage their classmates to stop stigmatizing mental health issues is somewhat uncharted territory, which is one of the reasons Pittsburgh Cares is teaming with Allegheny County to devise new school-based programs around this issue.
The program,
Stand Together
, began a few weeks ago with workshops in 10 area schools: Pittsburgh's Perry and Allderdice high schools and the Environmental Charter School, Propel Braddock Hills, South Allegheny Middle School, South Brook Middle School, South Park High School, Woodland Hills Junior High School and West Mifflin Area middle and high schools.
Working with the county's Office of Behavioral Health in the Department of Human Services, Pittsburgh Cares devised an initial full-day workshop in which the students learn about both mental illness and the stigma that often goes along with it.
Nationally, says Holly McGraw-Turkovic, program director at Pittsburgh Cares, 16 percent of school-age kids with mental illness will think about suicide, with up 44 percent of them dropping out of school, while about two thirds do not even receive treatment. "There's a lot of myths out there connected to mental illness," says McGraw-Turkovic. "Stigma comes from students being isolated."
During the first workshop, students also paint an "awareness icon" – a mannequin that they cover with positive messages about mental health issues. The second workshop uses Pittsburgh Cares' strength as a nonprofit affiliate of the national
HandsOn Network
– creating service-learning projects – and focuses it on the subject of mental illness stigma. The kids will brainstorm project ideas, then apply for the organization's mini-grant program for $100-$1000 to fund each project.
At the Stand Together website, the organization will be posting project ideas and guides, local connections and educational material on the issue, mental health fact sheets and a photo collections from finished projects, as well as a blog and project assessment tools.
South Allegheny is the only school so far to have completed its second workshop, and ideas for effective programs may be tough to devise, McGraw-Turkovic notes. There weren't many successful national programs to use as models, she says, so the pilot year of this two-year program will be testing how much kids' attitudes and knowledge have changed from its effects.
"We're hoping in two years we can share this model with all our HandsOn affiliates across the country," she says, "giving them all the tools they need to replicate this program." Stand Together was funded by a $105,000 grant from the Staunton Farm Foundation.
Marty Levine
Source: Holly McGraw-Turkovic, Pittsburgh Cares
Eat for a good cause with Bite Catering from Community Human Services
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
It's not unusual for a nonprofit to engage in social enterprises, or to raise money through side businesses, but it's probably unusual for that business to be catering.
That's what
Community Human Services
has been developing for the last year. The Oakland nonprofit already serves half-price lunches for those in need in its Bite Café on Lawn Street, dishing out about 5,000 a year. With their chef and executive staff aiming to cook up healthy fare for the neighborhood, Director Of Community Programs Trevor Smith said the organization decided it was time to take their talents to a wider audience.
The café, Smith says, provides " a chance to make some folks get a hot meal and have a chance to socialize." However, he adds, "we honestly lose money for each meal that we sell" there. With Bite Catering, the organization is trying make the café services self-sustaining.
"Food is a common theme of what we do," Smith notes, since the group also runs a food pantry and a second kitchen. "So it fits in with the character of the agency."
So far, Bite has catered lots of meals for a number of other nonprofits – for meetings of 10 and dinners for 100, from the United Way and Forbes Funds to neighborhood churches and groups. Now they are trying to build up their business among for-profit companies as well.
"Nonprofits are or should be looking for ways to generate funding" from nontraditional sources, Smith says. "It certainly requires that our team work harder but by no means is it beyond their capacity."
His hope for Bite Catering, he concludes, "is that it is able to fund in its entirety the lunches, and that we do an excellent job of catering, that we do great food and great service … If we can do that, the money for lunches will fall into place."
Marty Levine
Source: Trevor Smith, Community Human Services
How do homeless children do homework?
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
"The largest percentage of individuals who are experiencing homelessness are children – they far outnumber those individuals you see on the street," says Bill Wolfe, executive director? of the
Homeless Children's Education Fund
? in the Strip District.
The latest federal stats show there are nearly 1.2 million homeless kids in the U.S. More than 1,700 of them are in Allegheny County. "That is a number that continues to grow," Wolfe says.
And the problem is spread throughout the area, too: "A lot of people think that homelessness and poverty in general is just an urban problem. But there are 43 school districts in Allegheny County and every one of them has children experiencing homelessness. The only way we are going to break this cycle of homelessness is education."
That's why the Homeless Children's Education Fund has services in all 27 county agencies that serve the homeless – 20 shelters and seven places that provide services during the day. "We have become the educational wing for those 27 facilities," Wolfe says.
Founder Joe Lagana, the retired head of the local Allegheny Intermediate Unit, "visited some of the shelters and agencies, and he noticed that when the kids came [there] they were basically put in front of a television set," Wolfe says. "The agencies didn't have anybody to do [education] and the moms and dads were struggling with their own issues."
In 17 of the facilities, the Fund has built learning and resource centers with computers and spots for kids to do homework. It provides tutors and volunteer mentors to work with kids after school and pays reading specialists to work on literacy issues. It brings in art, music and language lessons as well as artists to work with the students.
"Those portions of our programs really work to get the parents involved in the educational process with the children," he says.
The Fund also provides books and schools supplies. Each August, with the help of Citizens Bank, the Fund distributes 2,500 new backpacks filled with age-appropriate school supplies.
The Fund is always looking for people to spread the word about the need in our community, and for volunteer help" "We are in constant need of volunteers to go in and work with children in the shelters. We will take one day a month if that is all you can give."
Marty Levine
Source: Bill Wolfe, Homeless Children's Education Fund
Find the right hire, intern to CEO, via Nonprofit Talent
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Nonprofits looking for great matches for everyone from executive directors to volunteers now have someplace central to turn:
Nonprofit Talent
On Nov. 1, Todd Owens and Michelle Pagano Heck left spots with other local talent-search agencies to start the new venture. "We are extremely passionate about the work the nonprofit organizations do," says Owens. "We are, at our core, people who care tremendously about people and organizations that are working to help society.
"The whole premise of our business is that nonprofit organizations need talent in many forms to meet their missions," he says – from interns to board members, from volunteers to full-time staff. Now nonprofits here and across the state can find people in those four categories through Nonprofit Talent's services and through their website. "We can do a full executive search to find a CEO or someone in other key leadership roles. We can assess current talent and make recommendations on how the organization can better serve its mission."
The company has more than 100 positions posted on its website already and gets thousands of hits a day, he says. These postings are also spread through the company's social media and bi-weekly newsletter. This will be a particular help, Owens believes, to the 75 percent of nonprofits who have budgets under a million dollars and don't have well-developed human resources departments – or anyone whose specific job it is to seek and find the right personnel.
Nonprofit Talent already works with clients from here to Philadelphia, Doylestown, Lehigh Valley, Lancaster and Harrisburg. Their first major local client is a Pittsburgh Foundation-funded initiative called Talent City (Talent-city.com), a community project to identify those who can best serve in key leadership roles in the new mayoral administration beginning this January. It is also designed to solicit ideas about the future of Pittsburgh.
The local nonprofit sector is "fairly healthy," Owens allows, "in a community that is blessed with much largesse," including generous corporate donors, a successful United Way campaign, foundations still giving away the wealth of the industrial giants of the 1900s and new wealth being generated. "That's not to say that there aren't some challenges on the horizon" – including those Nonprofit Talent is designed to overcome.
Marty Levine
Source: Todd Owens, Nonprofit Talent
WorkAble finds clients jobs, even in recession
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
A year after beginning the countywide WorkAble job assistance program, it has a 90 percent job placement rate and is providing other important help for families on the edge of crisis during this recession.
The program is funded by the United Way and run by three faith-based groups – Jewish Family & Children's Service (JFCS), North Hills Community Outreach and South Hills Interfaith Ministries – but it is open to anyone who has found themselves un- or under-employed in recent years.
Just walk in the door of any of these agencies, call 412-904-5993 or click
and job counselors will take your employment and educational history and help figure out your employment needs and barriers. Do you have skills that could lead to more work in your field? Do you need to retrain? What else is going on in your life that you might need help with?
WorkAble has traditional workshops on resume writing, cover letters, job searches and networking as well as nontraditional ones on social media and budgeting, It brings in job recruiters and employers and holds career fairs once a month that offer mini-interviews with employers, not just places to drop off a resume.
But the program also provides deeper help, says JFCS Chief Operating Officer Linda Ehrenreich, using personal and group sessions to find out what other economic, social or psychological needs participants might have and helping them get aid for those issues as well. Each of the agencies has strengths in job counseling and all work with people who have barriers to gaining and retaining employment.
Of the 500 people served by WorkAble between October 2012 and today, 350 have graduated from the program, so to speak – and 330 have gotten jobs. But WorkAble is helping even after employment, assisting people with other needs that aid them in getting through life and keeping their jobs.
Says Ehrenreich: "It focuses on those who are falling off the cliff … the struggling families who are really in crisis.
For the future, she sees WorkAble expanding its volunteer base, seeking more corporate partners and developing its website and reach into the community. WorkAble is, she concludes, "a common sense model building on the strengths of three different agencies in three different locations."
Marty Levine
Source: Linda Ehrenreich, Jewish Family & Children's Service
MLK essay contest sending winners to Chautauqua
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Carnegie Mellon University's
Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Awards
contest for local high-school and college students is calling for entries once again – and winners this year may get the chance to read their works at a special event in Chautauqua, New York.
Poetry and prose about students' personal experiences with race and discrimination are invited as contest entries by Nov. 22, with the awards ceremony set for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Jan. 20, 2014).
It's sometimes difficult to get entries from kids in high school unless their teachers get involved and oversee the writing process, says organizer Jim Daniels, Thomas Stockham Baker Professor of English at CMU. "It's a hard subject for [kids] to write about and they need a lot of encouragement," Daniels says, "but if we ignore or don't talk about it, it's just beneath the surface and horrible things happen."
Among the increasing subjects of past winners has been the experience of international students here and in their own countries, "a reminder that it is not just an issue for this country," he says. Last year's winners included a student from Sri Lanka who talked about her experience there and in Lebanon as a family of immigrants finding their way. Another winning essay concerned a student whose mixed Latin American heritage, he said, was not evident, even to fellow Latinos. The first time a stranger approached him as a fellow Hispanic, asking him in Spanish what country he was from, was a thrilling moment he was able to record for his essay.
For the contest's 15th year, says Daniels, the awards ceremony and reading will also involve a performance by the CMU drama department's gospel choir. But bringing winners to Chautauqua is the most exciting development, he says, helping both students and the audience ponder the issues of race and discrimination more often than one day per year.
"None of them had been there before," he says of the students he brought to New York. "They were particularly surprised by the enthusiasm of the audience. They wanted us to stay longer." The group had a lunch and tour and were interviewed by the local daily for a long article. "They want us back. We want to go back. It's an exciting development."
Daniels hopes this year's entrants include more college students too. "The more people who get involved in responding, the more rewarding the awards will be," he concludes. "There are always surprises; I learn something every year from these pieces."
Entries should be less than 2,000 words and double-spaced (or up to five poems) and should be sent as Microsoft Word attachments (.docx preferred)
or to MLK Writing Contest, Department of English, Baker Hall 259, CMU, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213.?Include your name, school, age, title of work(s) submitted, category of work(s) submitted (fiction, poetry, nonfiction), email address, home address and home phone number.
Selected entries are published by CMU.
Marty Levine
Source: Jim Daniels, CMU
All nonprofits need apps, and CodeFest can design them
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Nov. 15 is the deadline to submit your app needs to
Steel City CodeFest
, the 24-hour app-building event, which for its second year will concentrate on creating apps to help with the challenges nonprofits face.
"We see that nonprofits in general are very risk-averse in spending precious resources and investing in technology," says Garrett Cooper, director of innovation for the Forbes Funds, one CodeFest's organizers. Perhaps an expensive but unsuccessful technological fix burned them in the past, "so they are really cautious looking at the next generation of technology that might help them most efficiently," he says. Yet external demands from government and the public for accountability will force them to look for improvements. Cooper believes the majority of nonprofits can benefit from having even a single, simple app to help staff communicate or work more efficiently.
CodeFest started last year when Google Pittsburgh asked to team with a city agency and approached the Urban Redevelopment Authority, says Jennifer Wilhelm, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Strategist at the URA. CodeFest 2013, in February, designed apps mostly for local government agencies but found that implementation of the apps has been slower than they'd hoped, she says. Organizers intend for this year's focus on apps for nonprofits – likely 10 of them -- will lead to their use more quickly in the community.
Last year's winning apps were ParkIt, for commuters wishing to pay for parking with their mobile devices; OpenDataPgh, "for connecting the communities of Pittsburgh and city government through an open data platform"; and enLightened, for people to share energy-use data for cost savings and conservation. About 20 teams in all designed as many apps.
"We really want a bridge for technology groups between the for-profit world and the non-profit world," Cooper says. Thus, Forbes and the partnering organizations – which include American Eagle, Google, Maya Design and the University of Pittsburgh – will continue to help develop the apps after CodeFest is finished. He believes these apps can show the rest of the city how technology can be beneficial for its charitable groups.
Concludes Cooper: "We think we are going to come up with several apps that really help the local nonprofit sector."
Get an application for CodeFest
and direct any questions to
Brittany Schrenker
Marty Levine
Sources: Garrett Cooper, Forbes Funds; Jennifer Wilhelm, URA
At TRETC, tech meets education in and out of classrooms
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
The Three Rivers Educational Technology Conference (
) returns Nov. 19 and 20, and this year even more emphasis will be on helping educational efforts that happen outside of schools. Last year more than 400 educators from K-12 schools, universities and nonprofits attended the event.
The conference is growing in the number of attendees, educational sessions and vendors from the many local educational tech startups, says Justin Driscoll of the Pittsburgh Technology Council, one of the organizers.
TRETC, says another organizer, Norton Gusky of NLG-Consulting, "has kept the conversation alive in terms of the roles of technology as a better strategy for meeting the needs of learners, both in school and out of school." The conference aims to help educational programs best use, and use the best, technology in their learning spaces.
This year's first keynote speaker is Andrew Slack, Executive Director of the Harry Potter Alliance, a self-described group of "wizards and muggles" who are working for social change. Slack is a Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow spending the year in New York City developing the Imagine Better Network, which will try to enlist an even broader fantasy fandom into improving the real world. He'll be talking about participatory learning, civic engagement and mobilizing social media to do social good.
The other keynote speaker is Richard Culatta, acting director of the Office of Educational Technology for the U.S. Department of Education. "He's very involved in the whole idea of using technology to remake learning," Gusky says.
TRETC's local presenters will include Nikki Navta, who authored the Zulama curriculum, which blends classroom and online learning. She will be demonstrating how game-based learning – not just playing but conceiving and developing games – has become a powerful tool for education. Also presenting is Ed McKaveney, technology director for the Hampton Township School District, who was named Chief Technology Officer of the Year for 2013 by the Consortium for School Networking – the first such awardee in Pennsylvania.
"We feel really fortunate he is here in our backyard," says Gusky. He'll be speaking about such new tech developments as 3D printing and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses).
Justin Aglio and Joe Oliphant, co-principals at Propel Braddock Hills High Schooj, will talk about Propel's new focus on innovation and design. The Sprout Fund will also have a Remake Learning Zone to showcase the projects they've funded at the intersection of digital learning and media. Another part of the program will highlight the roles of women in technology.
TRETC has been so successful, says Gusky, that organizers are thinking about expanding it into a national conference. "How do we highlight the region, not just for the region, but for the entire country?" he says.
Marty Levine
Sources: Norton Gusky, Justin Driscoll
HE-HO -- not a holiday fair, but housing and health help for artists
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Individual artists are pioneers, of a sort--the first to move back into neighborhoods that have fallen on hard times. Then, once these places are made safe and attractive for the rest of us, real estate prices begin to rise--and artists get priced out.
Since they work for themselves, artists have also had a hard time getting health insurance, due to cost and availability. But with the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) offering health insurance to more people--and requiring adults to buy it--now seemed the right time to reach out to help local artists with both issues. So was born
HE-HO: Artists' Health and Housing Fair for the Community
from the
Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
, a free seminar to be held on Nov. 16, noon-6 p.m. at the Kingsley Association.
GPAC, says CEO Mitch Swain, "has made a commitment as an organization to do everything we can to help individual artists. We feel individual artists are an important cog as Pittsburgh seeks to redevelop itself."
HE-HO--for health and housing, of course--can benefit any low- to moderate-income Pittsburgher who needs help in these areas. HE-HO will include a home-buying workshop by sponsor Dollar Bank and another by Kingsley's NeighborWorks and a home-improvement session from the Urban Redevelopment Authority.
With help from the other sponsor, Highmark (Blue Cross Blue Shield), the event will also have free health screenings, and information and advice from the local Healthy Artists and Be Well!, PA Health Access Network and the Artists Health Insurance Resource Center of New York City.
From this last group, Renata Marinaro, who has been helping artists get health insurance for two decades, will
the previous evening at 6 at Pittsburgh Filmmakers on "Navigating Health Care Reform for Arts Organizations, Collectives, and Arts Businesses," then address individual artists' needs at HE-HO.
GPAC has been hearing from its 67-member artists' advisory group that health insurance and housing are two big, tough issues for the local arts community. HE-HO organizer Christiane Leach, GPAC's artist relations coordinator and office manager, knows the artist's dilemma first-hand. She and other friends in the local arts community have donated their art to raise money for other artists' hospital bills. She has heard artists ask, "How can I live in a neighborhood, own a house and be part of the resurgence that is going on?" she says.
The event also includes information from local arts groups, yoga, massages, music (by Phat Man Dee, the Delicious Pastries and vocalist Anqwenique Wingfield), poetry, food and drink.
Marty Levine
Sources: Mitch Swain and Christiane Leach, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
The newest college prep program in town already having success
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
In its second year in Pittsburgh,
Higher Achievement
is finding that it's a great fit for helping local 5th through 8th graders become college-bound.
"There are no entry requirements other than the will to do well," says Executive Director Wendy Etheridge Smith. "Both the child and the parent have to think that college is a good idea and that it is the goal." The nonprofit group aims to help kids "develop the culture and the character" to succeed.
Higher Achievement offers a summer program in the Hill District and Homewood, plus an afterschool program. "In order to compete effectively, students are going to graduate and go out and get more education," Smith says. "But you don't have to be a straight A fifth grader. You can be a C+ fifth grader and become a college scholar."
In fact, the program's average participant has a C+ average coming into the 5th grade. After a year in their program here, she says, 74 percent of students in math and 73 percent in reading went up a grade or maintained a high grade.
Besides academics and fun competitions surrounding them, the program offers electives in arts and recreation, from African drumming to jewelry making. The HA experience includes a three-day, two-night immersive college stay once a year, during which kids live in a dorm and take classes with college profs.
Higher Achievement, based in Washington, D.C., chose to come to Pittsburgh last year partly due to the Pittsburgh Promise college scholarship program and its Pathway programs designed to make sure kids are qualified for the scholarships. Today it operates in Pittsburgh Westinghouse and University Prep schools, which have the lowest percentage of Promise students.
Ninety-three percent of those who complete the HA program go to college and 76 percent of those students graduate, Smith says: "We're hoping to be a real catalyst for families and communities to reach for kids' dreams."
Marty Levine
Source: Wendy Etheridge Smith, Higher Achievement
Ready Freddy now ready to tackle school attendance issue
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Ready Freddy
is ready to move beyond its original mission of prepping kids for kindergarten enrollment to tackle school attendance problems.
The program was begun in 2006 by the University of Pittsburgh's Office of Child Development, which devises demo projects and test programs for school improvement.
Ready Freddy has aimed to get all eligible kids enrolled in kindergarten on time, even early, so they can be prepared for that first day. Being ready to transition to kindergarten is an important factor for school success.
Ready Freddy concentrates on seven Pittsburgh Public School: Langley, King, Miller, Weil, Faison, Arlington and Spring Hill. At each school it puts together a kindergarten team made up of school staff, such as principals, kindergarten teachers, social workers, counselors and others, then reaches out to community groups in the neighborhood to get them involved as well.
At Pittsburgh King PreK-8, for instance, the team is working with Reading is Fundamental, A+ Schools and local family support centers to figure out new ways to reach the community. If families do not enroll early or on time, says the program director, Aisha White, schools can even have too few classrooms and teachers set to handle the incoming kids.
Ready Freddy teams have been handing out flyers, setting up parent welcome spots at child-care centers and going door to door in public housing, telling parents how to enroll at their local schools and informing them that the district's pre-K program is free to certain income levels. During summers, kindergarten clubs at the seven focal schools invite families to attend preparatory sessions.
The schools also hold transition events that allow kids and parents to tour their future school building and meet the teachers, "so that process is not so anxiety-based, once they start school in September," White says. "They will already have made a connection with the staff people at the school and they will better know what to expect."
Then, she says, "we make the first day of kindergarten a big deal," by welcoming kids at the door with refreshments and decorations.
"We've had major impact at the very beginning," reports White. "Ready Freddy was able to increase kindergarten enrollment to 100 percent" of eligible kids at King and Pittsburgh Weil PreK-5.
Today, the program is planning "to come up with strategies to encourage and reward attendance," she says. "Attendance is a major issue nationwide," and of course it affects a child's ability to perform well in school. Kids who miss 18 or more days of school per year in kindergarten perform worse than their peers in first grade. In fact, it affects their education for years: only 17 percent of kids with high absences in the first two grades are proficient in reading in third grade.
At Spring Hill, King and Arlington, a Public Allies Americorps volunteer is collecting kindergarten attendance data, visiting the schools and calling the families of absent kids to encourage their attendance. The first two schools now use a kindergarten parent newsletter to keep families informed about classroom work and activities, and all three schools are working to reward the classrooms with the best attendance. White is hoping businesses local to all seven schools will pitch in by donating items for attendance rewards.
Marty Levine
Source: Aisha White, Ready Freddy
Free nonprofit consulting -- you know you can use it
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Local nonprofits have a chance to get free management consulting from the University of Pittsburgh, and they're jumping at the chance.
The annual Nonprofit Clinic, run by Prof. Kevin Kearns' "Consulting in Nonprofit Organizations" class in Pitt's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), gives second-year students headed for a life of public service the chance to serve now.
Not only is it a good educational experience for his students, Kearns says, but smaller nonprofits can take best advantage of free consulting, which includes marketing studies, feasibility studies, strategic planning, data collection, cost-benefit analyses and other services.
"The students bring some analytical skills, the nonprofits being the problems and it's a win-win for everybody," he says.
The four-year-old clinic always has "significantly more applicants than we can handle," he adds, since they can only help 10 nonprofits per year. While mostly social services groups apply, all types of nonprofits are eligible, including arts, economic development and neighborhood development groups.
One client last year, Kearns reports, asked the students to study how feasible it would be to apply for a complicated federal grant. The students found out that fulfilling the grant's requirements would cause the nonprofit to shift its mission and core values; they successfully warned the group not to seek this funding.
"They decided not to pursue that particular grant opportunity because it would have probably led them astray," says Kearns.
Applicants should contact Kearns
for an application form.
Marty Levine
Source: Kevin Kearns, GSPIA
ReelAbilities fest shows the power of film to reveal hidden lives
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
"About 20 percent of American's have some sort of disability," notes Kristy Trautmann, head of the
FISA Foundation
, which focuses on improving the lives of people with disabilities, as well as women and girls. "It's the only minority group that any of us could join at any time through illness or accident. And yet many people were raised to avoid people with disabilities. Children are chastened not to stare, not to ask questions. In fact, if they were honest many adults would admit that they aren't sure how to approach a person with a disability – they don't know what language is appropriate or how to act, and they don't want to offend."
That's why FISA has teamed with
, whose annual Jewish Film Festival aims to promote diversity and inclusion, to bring
to Pittsburgh for the first time. Pop City is a media sponsor. The Oct. 26-29 film festival (begun in New York in 2007) aims to "change perceptions and celebrate the many contributions of people with disabilities to our society," Trautmann says.
"It's all about looking and seeing and coming to better understand someone else's experience," Trautmann adds.
Says Kathryn Spitz Cohan, JFilm executive director: "While television shows have recently added more characters with disabilities … it is in these films that we really get a deeper look into the lives of individuals with disabilities."
Each film is accompanied by local programming, including speakers, panel discussions, art exhibits. In Jet Li's first dramatic role, in "Ocean Heaven," he plays a single father of a son with autism; the ReelAbilities showing of this movie concludes with a talk on community and social capital by Al Condeluci, head of Community Living and Support Services, and a reception. A program of short films includes guided tours of the University of Pittsburgh's Human Engineering Research Laboratory, while the documentary "Crooked Beauty" is followed by story telling and performance art emceed by stand-up comedian Marion Grodin.
Says Trautmann: "There are a lot of challenges still facing people with disabilities: stigma, lack of accessible housing, a shortage of services to help individuals live in the community, difficulty finding employment. We hope that the festival will help people see that inclusion of people with disabilities is an important issue for our whole community. It's about justice, not about charity."
For more information, go to the
ReelAbilities website
, call 412-992-5203 or email
Marty Levine
Sources: Kristy Trautmann, FISA Foundation; Kathryn Spitz Cohan, JFilm
Finding the kids most vulnerable for school trouble
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
A little knowledge is going a long way to help Pittsburgh Public Schools and other local districts pinpoint kids who are most vulnerable to falling behind or dropping out of school, and in devising early interventions.
Before 2010, the city school district didn't know how many of their kids were involved with the Allegheny County Department of Human Services' Office of Children, Youth and Families, which helps when youngsters are abused or neglected and sometimes separated from their families. But Erin Dalton, deputy director of DHS's Office of Data Analysis, Research, and Evaluation, credits Frederick W. Thieman, president of the Buhl Foundation, with bringing her agency and the school district together that year in their mutual quest to find better ways to serve local youth.
As a
DHS report
released just before the current school year says:
"While the protective benefits of involvement in the child welfare system are well documented, there is increasing recognition that the unstable family living situations and/or frequent placement changes experienced by children in this system can result in delays in school enrollment, increases in absenteeism, disruptive school changes and lack of continuity in curricula. These factors, in turn, are associated with negative school outcomes such as higher rates of dropout and truancy, lower achievement and increased risk of assignment to alternative school placements, and failure to receive critical special education services."
Previously, says Samantha Murphy, education liaison in the executive office of DHS, school districts have studied school absenteeism by looking at other possible contributing factors, such as children's gender or race. "Now it's a different conversation we're able to have," she says. The shared information allows the district and DHS to know whether the kids they have in common are absent or tardy, "so that our workers don't have to wait until there are 20 absences and a magistrate's hearing to intervene," Dalton says.
To help correct student attendance problems and subsequent achievement shortfalls, DHS and the district first targeted middle-school kids who got high scores on achievement tests but had low attendance and low grade-point averages. The idea of this effort, which lasted from 2011 until this year, was to take these smart kids and give them a different peer group and a challenging program at the gifted center in the city's West End, so "it would give them a different message about their future," Dalton says.
The trouble was, she reports, "the kids weren't coming here often enough to expect a change" in their grades. Now the effort is aiming higher, she says, with after-school programs already having impacts on attendance and grades. This "Focus on Attendance" initiative kicked off in the 2012-13 school year. A school outreach specialist was hired for two district K-8 schools, working with staff as well as with 170 kids who missed too much school. The specialists involved the kids' families as well, and saw improved attendance as a result. The district also is emphasizing getting kids registered for kindergarten on time, making certain these children get on track from the very beginning of school.
DHS is now working with and sharing data with nine districts. "The relationships we're making between service providers and schools is really invaluable," says Murphy.
"We were among the first" to share data between the child-welfare office and school districts, notes Dalton. "Now, it's like, if you're not doing it, why aren't you working on that?"
Marty Levine
Sources: Erin Dalton and Samantha Murphy, Department of Human Services
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I (Yousuf Philips)
have created this website for the purpose of distributing the Qbasic
programs that I had created to the different QuickBasic programmers
who may find it useful.
I don't update the website very
often because I have moved on and have started programming in Visual
Basic, Perl, and PHP. The last time I updated this website was November
2000, so I am going through all the source code that I never released
and will start posting them online.
YPI Editor 1.0
- Simple text editor I was working on, but I never got around to
add the mouse functionality I was planning to add. Also I hadn't
added any error handling routines and you are limited to view and
edit a maximum of 28 lines. I also fixed a bug which was happening
in the executable version on the website when you try to open a
ZIP Viewer 1.0
- One of the first programs that I built after getting into file
formats. It basically displays the file details of the files stored
in a ZIP file, which includes the original file size, compressed
file size, compression ratio, the files modified date and time,
and the file name.
Library Recommendations
I used the Altquick (Assembly Language Toolbox for Quickbasic) for
a number of programs that I build and you can download it from here.
In my opinion, it was the best Qb library that I had downloaded
(and I downloaded alot). The GPS (General Purpose Subroutines) library
was also a good library, which you can download from here.
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A handy checklist of things you should get taken care of before moving day.
Donald in our home office is riding the MS 150, benefiting the Gateway Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Let's help him and Gateway raise funds to help find a cure.
We're installing solar panels on the roofs of many of our StorageMart Toronto storage facilities. Warehouse rooftops are ideal for solar panel installation. These images are from our StorageMart Toronto self storage facility located at 1776 O'Connor Drive.
We're excited StorageMart Toronto can do its part to help create a Greener Toronto.
We're installing solar panels on the roofs of many of our StorageMart Toronto storage facilities. Warehouse rooftops are ideal for solar panel installation. These images are from our StorageMart Toronto self storage facility located at 1776 O'Connor Drive.
We're excited StorageMart Toronto can do its part to help create a Greener Toronto.
It may be chilly, but you know it's spring when baseball games start counting in the standings.
To celebrate, we're giving away a four-pack of tickets to see the Chicago Cubs host the Milwaukee Brewers on April 9th.
To enter, visit http://www.storage-mart.com/blog/contests-giveaways/win-4-tickets-to-wrigley-field/. A winner will be chosen at noon (Central time) on April 4th (that's this Thursday).
Good luck…and play ball.
Columbia, MO – March 1, 2013 – StorageMart, a full-service storage company with more than 130 locations across the United States and Canada, announced today the winners of "StorageMart ScholarSmarts", a higher education scholarship program. The program is designed to reward students from any level of higher education in the United States or Canada who may not otherwise find themselves eligible for more "traditional" scholarships. The program will provide five students with $1,000 gifts.
Recipients of the Spring 2013 StorageMart ScholarSmarts are:
- Tanya Riz Tan of Ryerson University (Toronto, Ontario)
- Stephanie Fell of Okanagan College (West Kelowna, British Columbia)
- Denis Bento of Athabasca University (Calgary, Alberta)
- Lee Anne Zajicek of Cerro Coso Community College (Ridgecrest, California)
- Michael Didyk of Columbia University (New York, New York)
Recipients were chosen on the basis of essays written answering the question "What link is there between a clutter-free workspace and increased productivity" or "How has self storage improved your lifestyle". Winning essays will be published to the StorageMart blogs. The winning essays were chosen from a pool of nearly 400 submissions.
ScholarSmarts differs from many scholarship programs in that its eligibility is open to any student enrolled at any college, university, apprenticeship program or other institution of higher learning. This open eligibility was designed to allow for a wide spectrum of students, but particularly non-traditional students, to apply.
Additionally, the $1,000 gifts are given directly to the recipients, allowing for their use toward any expenses involved with the pursuit of higher education, whether they be tuition, books, rent/mortgage or even child care.
StorageMart will launch another ScholarSmarts program leading up to the beginning of Fall Semester 2013. Stay tuned for updates on Facebook and Twitter @StorageMart.
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StorageMart focuses on strengthening its communities for children and improving education. StorageMart ScholarSmarts is just the latest program from StorageMart. The self storage company also launched the "Draw My Favorite Teacher" contest and has partnerships with local non-profits including: the Muscular Dystrophy Association, Habitat for Humanity, and the Ronald McDonald House, as well as many adoption and foster care programs, local animal rescue missions and more. To learn more about StorageMart's charitable vision visit http://www.storage-mart.com/local-charities
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This Edmonton self storage facility features optional climate-controlled storage units, oversized storage units and parking available for boat storage, RV parking, RV storage and trailer storage.
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BackgroundEurope, 1960. The Nazis turned the tide of the war using a new kind of mysterious, advanced technology. Using unrelenting force and intimidation, they have brought even the most powerful of nations to their knees. The Nazi regime now rules the globe with an iron fist. Play as the one man who dares go up against the world's most formidable military. You are B.J. Blazkowicz, the American war hero. You are the only man capable of rewriting history.
GameplayWolfenstein: The New Order reignites the series that created the first-person shooter genre. The year is 1960 and the Nazi's have won World War II. War hero B.J. Blazkowicz must launch an impossible counter-offensive against the monstrous Nazi regime that has conquered the globe.
Intense, cinematic and rendered in stunning detail with id Software's id Tech 5 engine, Wolfenstein sends players across Europe on a mission to bring down the Nazi war machine. Infiltrate their most heavily guarded facilities, battle high-tech Nazi legions, and take control of super-weapons that have conquered the earth – and beyond.
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I'm looking forward to the next few days when the shine of the Andy Reid to Kansas City story begins to wear a bit. But for now, as the Eagles search for their next head coach, we're left posting memes poking fun at Andy Reid's weight. People love these things and though it's not particularly tasteful we are whores for site hits. Let's call it like it is.
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...they fuck off and die the better.
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I'd do what I did in 2005. Install linux and never look back.
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jesus dude, you look for any specious reason to shit on microsoft don't you?
No reason is required to shit on Microsoft. Microsoft *is* shit, coated in a frothy shit frosting, with shit sprinkles liberally dusted on top of that shit. Clearly, you don't know shit when you see it.
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Except that you have no control over whether that book will remain on your Kindle. You just have to have faith that your books won't be revoked for $SomeRandomReason.
Oh yes I do. I strip the DRM and keep copies on my computer. Easy as pie. I bought 'em, they are MINE.
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...it's about time.
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they never did.
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MY car better shut the fuck up and let me drive.
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adhere: stick fast to (a surface or substance).
endear: cause to be loved or liked.
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Cockpit voice recorder (CVR) records in a 2 hour loop. It's quite likely to contain 2 hours of silence. Flight data recorder (FDR) is more likely to contain useful information.
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You must use very short passwords.
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Time to reboob.
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Chernobyl kicking in.
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lightning: electrical discharges in the atmosphere.
lightening: what happens just before dawn.
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PhotoChron - daily selfie
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+ By Andy Dyer-Smith
Take a photo every day, week or month and build it into a timelapse video for you to share with your friends.
- Take a selfie every day and watch as you change over time
- Track your 'tache for Movember
- Keep a record of your baby growing up
- Track your appearance as you start a new workout routine
- Cloud backup - Don't lose those photos, turn on back up and your photos will be backed up to your Google Drive account.
- PhotoChron can remind you to take a photo a day, week or month
- HD or SD video output
- Share the videos to YouTube, Facebook, Google+ or simply email
- Align your photo with using a simple guide or overlaying it with the last photo you took
- Didn't line up the photo quite right? Edit the photo afterwards to make the perfect time lapse
- Add photos you might have already taken that are in your phone gallery
If you see any problems email me: email@example.com
Tags: photochron - daily selfie, time lapse daily photo.
v2.5 - very long photo series now work better, and importing photos from the same day works.
vv2.3 - Will now warn you if you try to backup over mobile data, backed up photos are now visible in your Google Drive account
v2.2 - Fixed crashes on start for some devices
v2 - Backup your photos to Google Drive! (use 'backup/restore' under the options menu on the home screen).
(62 stars)
A generally great app but I tried uploading a photo that the app probably didn't support and it told me to delete the corrupted image. Whenever I try to delete it by tapping the image, it returns to the app home screen. Whenever I try to build a video it stops when the corrupted photo comes up. Really annoying. edit: after reinstalling the app i also cant switch out of landscape mode to portrait m
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I have a problem. So far I've taken 70 pictures. However when I play the video, it plags to around the 20th or 30th picture, then loops back to the beginning. After doing this, it plays to maybe the 50th or 60th picture and loops again. Why is this? Please help!
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I love the idea of this app and it worked well the first few days, but now the overlay of the last photo I took is upside down no matter which way I rotate my phone, so it's difficult to line the next photo I want to take up properly. Also, the face icon only lines up for portrait, not landscape, so I can't line the photo up that way either. If this bug was fixed I would give this app 5 stars!
(62 stars)
It works perfectly, until some weeks ago: I don't think it's the app fault, but I cannot add photos from the phone memory! There is no "camera" tab anymore in the window, and all the other tabs don't work ("the photo must be in the phone camera, not in Picasa etc")
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I would definitely pay for this! This was the only application I've found that let me try the overlay feature (that permits you to align the picture taken now with the previous one) without paying first. And it just works! So, I'm not paying for any of the others. For the reviewer concerned with the rendering, do it elsewhere. Use this software just to capture the images.


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2007 Calendar Project: Monosashi
The Time Is Now Calendar
2007 CALENDAR GUIDE Nikki McClure's calendar is officially a Mighty Goods favorite. It's inspiring, touching, and features twelve lovely paper cut designs. Also, it's good for the planet, as it's printed on acid-free, chlorine-free, recycled paper using soy ink. The perfect gift.
(12" x 12")
Multi Purpose Clipp1
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The World's Smallest Umbrella by Samsonite
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(Measures 6 3/4" when closed.)
One Year of White Pages
For the writer, artist, anal-retentive list maker in your life – one slim journal for each month of the year.
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On a clear sunny day, in a beautiful forest, in a tall oak tree, Samuel the woodcarving gnome was in his workshop, carving some tables, while his wife, Elizabeth was getting ready to go out to pick some ripe blackberries to make a blackberrie pie, she went in front of Samuel's workshop door, She knocked on the door.
"Samuel, I'm going out", Elizabeth said.
"Ok, be careful, I heard that their's some trolls lurking about", Samuel replied.
"Don't worry, I won't", Elizabeth replied.
Elizabeth walked from his workshop door, to the front door, she went up the long steps, outside the tall oak tree, she started walking towered the path that led to the blackberrie patch.
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Welcome to the St. Stephens Indian School website. We are a K-12 school, funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), servicing the needs of the St. Stephens community. Our school site was just recently created so please feel free to look around and get familiar with all the links that our site will provide.
Vision Statement
All students will be provided a safe, success-oriented, culturally-responsive educational environment which will develop responsible, respectful, productive, and well-adjusted individuals in an ever-changing world.
Mission Statement
To walk with dignity, knowledge, and wisdom
Our Philosophy
We at St. Stephens Indian School believe in the simple philosophy of life that has sustained the Indian people through the centuries;
"To walk with dignity, knowledge, and wisdom, to live in harmony with earth and everything on it, to acknowledge with thanks the Great Spirit."
We believe that St. Stephens Indian School exists first and foremost for teaching and learning. Our students will be taught the techniques for living and leadership in modern society within a curriculum framework, which includes the art language and beliefs of American Indian culture and heritage. We believe that all students can learn provided with positive, success oriented, and safe environment. Students, teachers, administrators, parents, and community are equally important in the learning process.
St. Stephens Indian School is pleased to announce the district has met Adequate Yearly Progress, (AYP) the educational standards set by the Federal Department of Education and the Bureau of Indian Education. AYP is part of the federal No Child Left Behind Act and holds schools accountable to students, parents, teachers, and the community. The purpose of AYP is to ensure that all students have reading and math skills that prepare them for the future.
Overall, a school either meets AYP or it does not. Fortunately, there are many ways for schools to meet the criteria for AYP. St. Stephens Indian School was able to meet AYP performance through a provision called Safe Harbor, which is a measurement of test improvement. Safe Harbor is achieved when a subgroup has greatly improved since the previous year even though they have not met the state goal. This past year, St. Stephens Students showed great success in the area of reading.
While we are excited that our students made great gains in reading ability, we understand there are many more gains to be made. St. Stephens Indian School is committed to using all our available resources to help our students achieve on grade level with all of our learning targets and show we can be competitive with any other school in the state.
St. Stephens Indian School, Education Association Incorporated
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Glee is a great show that sends a positive message that it is OK to be yourself. Gay kids in some areas only get negative views from the local community, so Glee serves an important role for them. Bryan Fischer wouldn't know compassion if he ran into it. It is Bryan's type of bigotry that actually encourages bullying and teen suicide. As far as I can see, the American Family Association is no different than the Westboro Baptist Church, both send hate messages.
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On April 26, 2011, KRIV Fox 26 in Houston, Texas, gave voice to one of the country's most vocal anti-gay activists during a "debate" on its news program entitled, "Is TV Too Gay?" The focus was that night's episode of the show Glee which featured a theme of self-acceptance and celebration of diversity inspired by the Lady Gaga hit song "Born This Way."
Fox Houston Calls Gay Characters "Product Placement"
The segment on Fox in Focus began on the wrong foot, by even suggesting that television programs with positive portrayals of gay characters could negatively impact teens. As the show progressed, it only got worse:
· Instead of inviting experts on young adult development or youth themselves, the show framed the question as "gay" versus "anti-gay."
· Guest Bryan Fischer from American Family Association took this as an opportunity to make horribly offensive comparisons about gay and lesbian families and called Glee "propaganda."
· Fischer said that being gay "is conduct that bears enormous psychological and physical risk to those that engage in it" and that "homosexual behavior is just as risky and just as dangerous as injection drug use."
· Fox host Damali Keith compared the gay characters on Glee to "product placement" by soda companies in movies, where "everyone in the theater is thirsty for that particular brand."
Bryan Fischer is an extremist with no qualifications to offer the discussion apart from his bigotry. This a man whose disdain for diversity is evident in his track record of making statements such as calling Muslim student associations "parasites" and a "toxic cancer." Fox Houston gave Fischer a platform in the nation's fourth largest city, and one of its top ten media markets, to broadcast his anti-gay rhetoric. And rather than challenge him, the host, Damali Keith, contributed her own uninformed and anti-gay commentary.
After receiving complaints about this Fox Houston program, GLAAD contacted the station to demand that they issue an apology. Broadcasting anti-gay speech is dangerously irresponsible, and the station must be accountable. In conversations with GLAAD, a representative of the station implied that an apology was in order and should be expected. However, no apology has been issued, and in an abrupt reversal, representatives of the station now maintain that they stand behind this content.
This is all the more disturbing given the positive and affirming messages and stance against bullying that were part of the theme of the particular episode of Glee in question. Currently, equality groups are advocating for the passage of a comprehensive anti-bullying bill in the Texas legislature - which has already passed the State Senate 29-2. But any parents or students who stuck around for the news after last week's Glee got a very different, and potentially damaging, message from Fox Houston about LGBT young people.
Please take a moment to defend last week's Glee and the young people who identify with the show's characters. Take a stand in favor of diversity and inclusiveness, and against bullying and harmful anti-gay rhetoric. Tell Fox Houston to issue an apology now for the words of their host and their guest.
See http://glaad.org/defendglee for more information. Click here to watch the video.
Mr. Tom Doerr, Vice President & News Director/KRIV-26 (FOX affiliate; Houston, TX)
Mr. Tom Doerr, Vice President & News Director/KRIV-26 (FOX affiliate; Houston, TX)
D'Artagnan Bebel, Vice President & General Manager/KRIV-26 (FOX affiliate; Houston, TX)
Aprille Meek, Executive Producer/KRIV-26 (FOX affiliate; Houston, TX)
The title of last week's segment was irresponsible from the outset....
The title of last week's segment was irresponsible from the outset. Given that bullying has been established as a problem in Texas and throughout the nation, the mere suggestion that television programs featuring positive portrayals of gay characters could negatively impact teens only adds to the problem. The episode of Glee to which your segment referred was a celebration of diversity meant to encourage self-acceptance among the show's characters – and hopefully its audience. If we are to reduce bullying in our nation's schools, messages of self-acceptance are something young people will need to see more of, not less of.
Instead of inviting experts to discuss the influence of media on young adult development, or even young people themselves, last Tuesday night's Fox in Focus segment missed an opportunity to foster an important and thoughtful conversation by framing the issue as "gay" vs. "anti-gay." Guest Bryan Fischer from American Family Association took this as an opportunity to make horribly offensive comparisons about gay and lesbian families and called Glee "propaganda." Bryan Fischer is an extremist with no qualifications to offer the discussion apart from his bigotry. Fox Houston gave Fischer a platform in the nation's fourth largest city, and one of its top ten media markets, to broadcast his anti-gay rhetoric. Rather than challenging him, your host, Damali Keith, contributed her own uninformed and anti-gay commentary. She compared the gay characters on Glee to "product placement" by soda companies in movies, where "everyone in the theater is thirsty for that particular brand."
Journalists have a responsibility to educate their audiences by reporting stories in a fair, accurate and inclusive manner. Going forward, I also ask that you be more thoughtful. I urge you to not let any more time pass before issuing a public apology, so that viewers know that we can trust that KRIV is committed to responsible journalism and to not causing harm to your audience.
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Rich Quigley CHICAGO, IL
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Steve Koreis CENTRALIA, WA
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I'm happy to see that it was (hopefully) only one Fox affiliate that trotted out this "expert" on all things gay. I am a Christian, I am a conservative. That said, I also believe that if the founding fathers saw the kind of discrimination so-called conservatives defend; they would be ashamed!
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
More conservatives need to wake up to the fact that like it or not, gay and lesbians are also created equal! It's time we stop behaving as if some are more equal than others!REPORT THIS COMMENT:
Anastasia MacDowell QUEEN CREEK, AZ
- over 3 years ago
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This is SO stupid. Texas WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!! U said that Gay people having sex is "Dangerous"?? They weren't having sex!? They were holding hands!! Anyway straight or gay, Sex is dangerous equally.
Bronte Brecht LAKE OSWEGO, OR
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"Everyone in the theater is thirsty for that particular brand"? Are you kidding me? That is so ignorant it's almost laughable. I'm pretty sure whoever Damali Keith is, they are hiding a "thirst for that particular brand". If you oppose being gay so much that you spend all of your time talking about gay people and how much you hate them, it gets kinda suspicious. I mean, I don't know this person, but I'm pretty sure they're in the closet.REPORT THIS COMMENT:
Anastasia MacDowell QUEEN CREEK, AZ
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Daniel Bingham Jr HUNTINGTON, IN
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omg! that is ridiculous. Boycott FOX 27 Houston!!!REPORT THIS COMMENT:
Brianna Lopez MINNEAPOLIS, MN
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Fox? Houston? I think it's sad that I am not surprised that these heinous actions are being committed by Fox and by Houston.REPORT THIS COMMENT:
Paula Brown BROOKLINE, MA
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I honestly can't stand the show Glee. I find it to be inane and the characters uninteresting. However, the positive portrayal of homosexuality on public television is a very good thing. This "debate" is beyond absurd; it's obscene.REPORT THIS COMMENT:
Mary Napier HARSENS ISLAND, MI
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I am bi sexua and proud and i watch glee and they along with the it gets better project is what inspired me to come out and not be afraid to be different.REPORT THIS COMMENT:
Siobhan Fitzpatrick TYLER, UNITED STATES
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I am signing because Glee is a blessing. It is one of the first truly all-inclusive shows where young people from nearly all walks of life are represented. Growing up, I had no such show and I'm proud that this generation does. I am also, yet again, ashamed of my home state for representing those of us who live here as closed-minded bigots, and hope that with my signature I can show that no, not all of us Texans are that way.REPORT THIS COMMENT:


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Parsons summer school students were here and were deeply impressed.
I was still living in Vicenza throughout 1979 but I was unaware of the filming until I saw it in Chicago in 1980. I cried throughout the entire film as soon as I saw the villa Capra. I was so saddened to realize that after 5 years I'd finally left my home in Vicenza. It's a bittersweet memory for me when I watch it.
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In one of the biggest non-conference games in O'Connell Center history, the nineteenth ranked Florida Gators beat the thirteenth ranked Kansas Jayhawks, 67-61. UF improves to 7-2 on the season while KU falls to 6-3, losing their third straight road game and second straight overall. The Gators used great zone defense to turn the Jayhawks over 24 times in the game. Florida finally had most of their pieces on the floor, fielding the closest semblance to the team we thought the Gators would have before the season started all year.
In the first half, the Gators struggled early, going 1-for-9 from the field to start the game. But they quickly turned it around with a 21-0 run in which the Jayhawks didn't score for 8:42. Kansas struggled getting anything going on offense. The Florida zone defense caused all kinds of trouble and forced 16 turnovers. Having point guards Scottie Wilbekin and Kasey Hill on the floor helped Florida as well. Wilbekin and Hill combined for 10 points and 7 assists in the first half, sometimes playing on the court at the same time. Dorian Finney-Smith led the Gators with 12 points off the bench, while Patric Young scored 10 and tallied 5 offensive rebounds. As a team, Florida created multiple second-chance scoring points by getting 11 offensive rebounds. Not only were they great on the offensive glass, but they hustled harder than Kansas, diving for loose balls and being more active offensively and defensively. The Gators carried a 36-21 advantage into the second half.
The second half started just like the first ended. Young blocked a shot on one end and then shot a 10-footer to extend the Florida lead to 17. From that moment on, however, Kansas chipped away at the Florida lead. For about a 15 minute stretch, the Jayhawks were hovering between a deficit of 11 or 9. But it seemed like every time KU cut the lead to single digits, Wilbekin had an answer. With about three minutes to play, Kansas really put the pressure on Florida. Andrew Wiggins hit a three-point jumper with 2:26 left to bring the game to a 56-49 Gators advantage, the first of three that really made the game close. Casey Prather hit two from the charity stripe to put the lead back at eight. Wiggins hit another three to cut the lead to 6 with 1:20 left in the game. Prather responded with two free throws to get the lead back to 8, but Wiggins again hit a 3-pointer with 55.8 seconds left to put Kansas within 5. Kasey Hill hit 1-of-2 free throws to put the Gators up by 6. The Jayhawks then turned the ball over and Prather hit two more free throws to ice the game.
Wilbekin finished the game with a career-high 18 points and added 6 assists and 4 steals. Prather added 12 points, all in the second half, along with 8 rebounds, and Finney-Smith scored 15 points and 5 rebounds. Kansas freshman phenom Andrew Wiggins led all scorers with 26 points and 11 rebounds. No other Jayhawk scored double digits. Kansas actually outrebounded Florida 39-30 and held the advantage in field goal percentage at 43.2% to 37%. But turnovers doomed the 'Hawks and the Gators tenacity on the offensive glass proved to be the difference. Florida continues to struggle on the young season from the charity stripe, hitting only 20-34 for only 58.8%. Free throw shooting is definitely something Billy Donovan will work on this week before next week's game against Memphis.
Florida will have a full week off before traveling to New York City to take on the 16th-ranked Memphis Tigers in Madison Square Garden at the Jimmy V Classic. The Gators are expected to get a huge boost with freshman center Chris Walker set to join the team in time for the game. Walker is a five-star recruit, top 10 overall recruit, and McDonald's All-American. Even if Walker doesn't play against the Tigers, it has all the makings of a great game. Florida needs to pull out the win to pick up a big road/neutral game. The Gators have lost at No. 20 Wisconsin and twelfth ranked Connecticut. Florida's game against Memphis next Tuesday starts at 9 pm will be broadcast on ESPN.
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