May 15: Community Forum Meeting on 2017 School Corporation Annual Performance Report

The September meeting of the Community Forum for Economic Development is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 16, from 7 – 9 pm at the office of the Minority Health Coalition, 915 N. Bendix Drive (in LaSalle Square).  All meetings of the Community Forum are open to the public.  This month’s meeting is a business meeting, focusing…

Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Time: 7 PM Location: LaSalle Branch Library, 3232 West Ardmore Trail, South Bend Speakers: Community activists Hardie Blake, Ray Turner, and Shane Peters   This meeting will discuss a program, called Blakeonomics, that uses a new systemic participation method of teaching, learning and training the poor and homeless how to…

When: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 7 pm Where: LaSalle Branch Library, 3232 West Ardmore Trail, South Bend Sponsored by: Community Forum for Economic Development  and South Bend NAACP Branch         Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Common Councilwoman Karen White will be joining us.  Diversity Board Members have also been invited. The public is encouraged to attend…

            The Community Forum for Economic Justice will hold a public forum on the issue of redistricting and gerrymandering.  Topics of discussion will include — how the democratic process is thwarted through the manipulation of local and federal districts that favor the party in power — various mechanisms used to suppress voter participation — the…

     The Community Forum for Economic Development advocates a "community-based" approach for solving the problem of vacant and abandoned properties.  We recently completed a position paper that describes this approach, "Neighbors Saving Neighborhoods."       Central to our position is the view that "the problem we are addressing involves more than empty buildings and lots.  It concerns the…