The “Enough for All” Campaign:A Two-Day Community Effort to Raise Awareness of the Issues of Poverty in Minnesota
When: Wednesday, Aug. 10th at 5:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Where: Whistle Binkie’s Old World Pub, 3120 Wellner Dr. NE, Rochester, MN 55906
Activities:
- Order food and drink: For your purchase, beers, wines, mixed drinks, of appetizers, entrees, soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps, deserts and more.
- Micro Lending in Rochester: Introduction to Rochester efforts
- Enough for All videos with Minnesota Church Ladies (they have solutions to poverty!)
- A Minnesota Without Poverty New Statistics: How bad is poverty in Minnesota?
- Legislative Commission Without Poverty Commission’s Recommendations
- Art Exhibit: Sample
- Enough for All Study Guide Introduction: A Justice curriculum for the faith community
- What’s Next?: Action
- Free Will Offering
When: Thursday, Aug. 11th at 4:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Where: Rochester Art Center. 40 Civic Center Drive SE, Rochester, MN 55904
Activities:
- Open Cash Bar FINNEGANS Irish Amber Beer and Wine
- Complementary (**) Rice Bar Dinner
- Select from several Mini Workshops: (Hunger 101; Enough for All Study Guide; Allyship Project; Health Care Issues What’s really at stake; and more)
- Select from several Work Stations—open throughout the evening (Poverty trivia game; Enough for All Squares art project; Poverty Statistics Story Collection Booth people record their poverty stories in private; Micro Lending in Rochester Introduction to Rochester efforts)
- Meet with State and Federal Legislators
- Special Children’s Program
- A Minnesota Without Poverty Statistics with Legislative Commission to End Poverty Recommendations
- Videos Minnesota Church Ladies they have the “solutions” to poverty.
- What’s Next? Action
RSVP to Local Convener:
Bob Maegerlein
RCM1@Q.COM 507 281 1471
Please specify WED, or THURS, or BOTH
(*) Sponsored by “A Minnesota without Poverty,”
www.mnwithoutpoverty.org; “Half in Ten,” a national
campaign to cut U.S. poverty in half in ten years; Olmsted
County CAP; Centro Campesino; and Several other Non-
Profits.
(**) Free=will Offering
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