How to be a Good Neighbor
Cleo is a 60-year-old, petite woman, with dark skin, eyes that sparkle and a smile that can’t help but make you do the same. Her...
February 11, 2019
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Midway Mark for Room In The Inn
[caption id="attachment_4237" align="alignright" width="300"] Neighbors wait to check-in for RITI[/caption] It’s hard to believe, but we’re half way through the Room In The Inn season! The...
February 07, 2019
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Top 5 Results of Community Engagement (by the numbers)
Our mission promises to bring the community together to end homelessness, so we thought it might be fun to share some of the top ways...
January 28, 2019
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Bruised, Not Broken
A typical day in the life of Eveco probably sounds familiar to most of us: Getting up, going to work, coming home, tending to household...
December 19, 2018
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Tough Choices
Tabby’s life has been peppered with tough decisions: the decision to give her daughter to her mom to raise, the decision to leave abusive romantic...
December 11, 2018
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From the UMC Garden to Moore Place
For over a decade, the community garden at our College Street campus has provided nourishment for the spirit and the body, for both neighbors and...
November 12, 2018
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From the Woods to the Whitehouse
Byron was 20 years old and attending CPCC studying small business with the support of his mom, when she became ill in 2007. He quit...
November 06, 2018
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What is Community?
What is community? What does it mean to be a member of a community? What does it take to bring communities together? As a newcomer...
October 16, 2018
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Universalist Unitarians—a Decade of Friendship
Ten years ago Sandy Vermillion, Carol Rousey, Roger Coates, and their fellow church members attended a work day at the Urban Ministry Center’s College Street...
September 26, 2018
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Healthcare Connections at UMC
Everyone’s experienced something ‘going around’ at work or school before—suddenly it feels like half your staff is out sick. That happens here at the Urban...
August 16, 2018
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Homeless with a Housing Voucher
The Street Outreach Team and volunteers hit the streets of Uptown once a month starting at 9:00 PM to get a pulse on how many...
July 18, 2018
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Get a Job!
“I just want to sit on my own couch,” Tom said, wondering why it was so hard to get to that place. He is tired. When...
June 27, 2018
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