IMPACT Silver Spring looking for candidates for training program
This announcement has come across the wires from Frankie Blackburn, the executive director of IMPACT Silver Spring. As a graduate of the IMPACT program, I highly recommend it to anyone interested in making a difference in our community.
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IMPACT Silver Spring is now accepting applications for the eighth year of its training program, Neighborhood IMPACT 2007, formerly called Community Empowerment Program (CEP). Neighborhood IMPACT is a unique leadership development and community action program offered to Silver
Spring renters.
The goal of Neighborhood IMPACT is to increase the ability of 8-10 renters and 3-4 community workers of diverse backgrounds and cultures to build community within their rental complex and surrounding neighborhood.
For instance, a past participant, Rosa Sanchez, is applying her communication and negotiation skills to reach out to her neighbors and improve living conditions. Rosa's efforts have resulted in new parking lot lighting and a renewed year long lease, at current rates, for her family. Another graduate of Neighborhood IMPACT, Delilah Marrow, felt compelled to act after she learned that residents in a nearby senior apartment complex were struggling from a flood caused by faulty equipment. Nine months later, her resident team is working with apartment managers to develop an evacuation plan.
As IMPACT begins its application process, we request your help in identifying renters and community workers that you think are good candidates for Neighborhood IMPACT 2007. If you know renters that are interested in pursuing change within their rental complex and could benefit from new skills and a community support network, then please reply to this e-mail with their contact information so that IMPACT may follow up with them.
Also, IMPACT invites you to learn more about the program by attending the "Neighborhood IMPACT 2007 Information Session" on Monday, June 25, 2007 from 7-9pm at 1313 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD.
To find out more about IMPACT Silver Spring, follow this link www.impactsilverspring.org
Frankie Blackburn
Executive Director
Impact Silver Spring