Community Shares of Mid Ohio

Community Impact in April
	ACLU is asking for an execution to be blocked until DNA testing can be completed. Get the full story from the Dispatch. Capital Area Humane Society held their annual Celebrity Chef fundraiser. Learn about the event from Columbus Alive. Also details from ThisWeek. Check out the photos from the event on Columbus Alive.
Angie Palmer, representative and board member of Columbus International Film + Video Festival, was selected for Business First’s Forty Under 40. See who else made the list here. Coalition on Homelessness & Housing in Ohio is working with business to provide support and guidance to young adults too old for adoption but too young to make it on their own. Read about this touching program in the Dispatch. Karla Rothan, Executive Director of Stonewall Columbus, was quoted on how Obama’s directive preventing discrimination by hospitals against same-sex couples. Find how Central Ohio hospitals respond. Kathy Mast Kane of Columbus Landmarks Foundation spoke in favor of saving a historic building in Franklinton to the Columbus City Council. Find out how City Council responded. Carol Goland, Executive Director of OEFFA, wrote a letter of the editor of the Dispatch speaking out against the funding mechanisms in place for the new Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board. Read her full letter in the Dispatch here. COSI received a grant from Columbus Foundation. Find out from the Dispatch how much and who else received funds. COSI celebrated Earth Day by providing activities focusing on the environment and how to preserve it. Learn from the Dispatch what kind of programming was featured. Asha Ray of Hope held Kalanjali, an evening of dance and music, to help raise awareness of domestic violence in the Southeast Asian community living in Central Ohio. Read the full story about this great event in ThisWeek. You can also get the story from New Albany News. The Furniture Bank of Central Ohio was featured on Fox 28’s Good Day Columbus. Check out the video here. Check out some of the quirky items you can find at the Habitat for Humanity Restore. The video here is on the Dispatch website. Hocking-Athens-Perry Community Action will participate in a program from the City of Athens and the Community Food Initiative to supply more food to the hungry by growing fruit around the city. Get the full details from The Post in Athens. Hocking-Athens-Perry Community Action is working with Murray City residents to apply for a federal grant. Find out how much and what they could do with it. Read more in the story from The Logan Daily News. BRAVO was featured on Columbus Underground for Philanthropy Friday. Read the full profile here. Then read a letter from an individual who found support and courage through support from BRAVO. ACLU hosted a panel discussion at OSU on the topic of reforming Ohio’s criminal justice system. Get the full details from The OSU's student newspaper, The Lantern. Local women learned basic tool skills to help construction of Habitat for Humanity Homes. Learn in The Other paper how women are creating change in their communities. Bill Faith, Executive Director of Coalition on Homelessness & Housing in Ohio, was quoted on Ohio being the recipient of federal money to help stem foreclosures. Learn from Business First how much money Ohio is receiving and what they'd like to do with it. Local dog poisoning are increasing in the area which has Capital Area Humane Society on alert. Find out in The Other Paper article what you can do to protect your pet.
Community Shares Agencies Make the News! March Edition
	Habitat for Humanity saw a surge in volunteer interest due to Disney's "Give a Day, Get a Disney Day" campaign. Find out from the Dispatch the impact the campaign made. COHHIO Executive Director Bill Faith wrote an editorial in the Dispatch on ways Ohio could help to reduce foreclosures in the state. Read his ideas in the Dispatch. WOSU has begun documentaries featuring the history of Columbus Neighborhoods. Learn more and find out how Columbus Landmarks is involved.
The recession affected the city's roll out of bike improvements. Find out from the Dispatch the actions taking place this year to help get the plan moving again and thoughts from Consider Biking. Get more from NBC4 too. Columbus Landmarks will be working with Columbus school officials to develop uses for 1904 Annex building at Clinton Elementary School. Get the scoop from ThisWeek. Also details from the Dispatch too. The ACLU was quoted about business versus customer rights in regards to an incident at MoJoe Lounge. Read the full story from The Other Paper here. Habitat for Humanity will be renovating 10 homes in Whitehall thanks to HUD money & support from Franklin county and Whitehall officials. Get the full story from the Dispatch here. SAVE led a group of school students on a march for peace in a South Linden neighborhood. Find out how the neighborhood reacted from the Dispatch here. "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" is returning to COSI with some new artifacts and surprises. Get a preview from the Dispatch before you go. CASA volunteer, Nancy B. Heller, was one of 20 selected for the final round of the Jefferson Awards. Learn more about her from ThisWeek Clintonville. Find out about all 20 nominees from the Dispatch. The USDA is making some changes to the organic program. Find out OEFFA's reaction from the Newark Advocate. Deaf Services Center has started offering American Sing Language classes. Find out from the Dispatch why so many are signing up to learn. Central Ohio is increasing the amount of available bike trails. Check out Consider Biking's reaction in the Dispatch. FreeGeek in association with the University Area Enrichment Association has opened a public computer lab in the University District. Learn more about how it came into being from Columbus Underground. Bill Faith, Executive Director of COHHIO, speaks out about the inaction of Ohio Senate for not attempting to help the foreclosure situation in Ohio. Listen to the story from WOSU here. Also read about it in the Dispatch here. Community Shares of Mid Ohio added 3 new members to its organization. Find out from ThisWeek who they are. Columbus Landmarks participate in the meeting on possibilities for the 1904 building. Find out the community's input from ThisWeek. Read more from The Booster too.
Earth Day 2010: Support the Environment & Our Members
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. In honor of the day, a few of our members have created worksite volunteer projects. Click each project to learn more and sign up. Friends of the Scioto River at Greenlawn/Berliner River Clean-up Habitat for Humanity Neighborhood Clean-up at Linvingston Park Habitat for Humanity's ReStore Earthtouch Giving Garden Greater Linden Development Corp. Village Clean-Up More information on Earth Day 2010: The Update and other volunteer opportunities in Columbus can be found at www.update2010.org.