VITA (VOLUNTEER INCOME TAX ASSISTANCE) Looking for an interesting volunteer opportunity? Want to use your mind at the same time that you are providing a real service to low and moderate-income residents of our community. Want to meet interesting people, both your fellow volunteers as well as taxpayers with varied backgrounds? Then VITA is…
SOUTH BEND COMMUNITY SCHOOL BOARD MEETING MONDAY, SEPT. 20, 5:30 PM, WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, 4747 W. Washington Street Community Action for Education (CAFE), Community Forum for Economic Justice, NAACP South Bend Branch, the Michiana Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression and BLM South Bend call on you to join us for an urgent mobilization at…
HAVE YOU REGISTERED FOR WEDNESDAY’S PUBLIC FORUMABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN ST. JOSEPH COUNTY? “Eviction is a national crisis. It is a humanitarian crisis. It is ahealth crisis. Yet, it has been a silent crisis because most of itsvictims are poor. For a brief moment during the coronaviruspandemic of 2020, policymakers seemed to recognize theconnections between…
Land Banks as a Tool to Address Vacant Properties A public event sponsored by the Civil Rights Heritage Center, Near Northwest Neighborhood, Inc., the Community Forum for Economic Justice, and many other community partners. MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 2021 AT 7– 9 PM (EDT) Join us (in-person or online) as we welcome Tarik Abdelazim, Director of National Technical…
COVID – 19 & its economic consequences have magnified a long-existing threat to housing security in Michiana, especially for low-income residents. Emergency funding through the American Recovery Act of 2021 and temporary moratoriums on evictions have provided temporary relief for some. However, the central problem remains. There is insufficient affordable housing in our community. On…
Register to join this conversation here: https://go.iu.edu/3LIK In the wake of ongoing and escalating gun violence in our local community, the painful regularity of mass shootings across the country, and the incessant killing of unarmed Black people by police and other state actors, it is clear that traditional measures of dealing with crime and violence are…
CAFE Welcomes Guest Speaker Noah Remnick: The History and Future of Policing in Schools WEDNESDAY, May 26, 2021 | 6:00PM Doctoral Candidate Noah Remnick will join CAFE on Wednesday, May 26 for a discussion on the history and future of policing in schools. His presentation will outline how school-police partnerships and punitive disciplinary policies arose out of…
At their March 15 Meeting, the SBCSC BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES will discuss current efforts to comply with provisions of the Consent Decree. You can view this discussion at 5:30 pm on You Tube. (South Bend Community School Corporation Live Stream – You Tube) The SBCSC has experienced over 40 years of Federal Oversight….
Monday, March 15th @ 6 PM Police Accountability & South Bend's Community Police Review Board: A Roundtable Discussion Join our panel discussion about the successes, challenges and limitations of Citizens Review Boards. We will acknowledge the importance of the City of South Bend's landmark Community Police Review Board and discuss how South Bend's Board and accompanying office can…
FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY CIVIL RIGHTS HERITAGE CENTER: FAITH, BLACK CHURCHES, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2021, 6PM – 8PMRegister to join a panel of local faith leaders as they confront their role in movements for social justice. In February 2021, local PBS affiliate, WNIT, aired the two-part documentary series, “The Black Church,” from noted…
RIGHTSIZE / REORGANIZE / REDESIGN / INNOVATEWHAT’S AHEAD FOR SOUTH BEND SCHOOLS? A Virtual Public Forum sponsored by theCommunity Forum for Economic JusticeWEDNESDAY, FEB. 24, 2021, 6 – 7:30 pm We first learned about the proposal to “right-size” and “reorganize” South Bend’s public schools at the January 25th meeting of the Board of School Trustees. For…
VITA, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, is the program that provides free income-tax preparation to low-and moderate-income taxpayers. The Community Forum for Economic Justice has supported VITA for many years, and a number of our members participate actively in the program. The program this year is being sponsored by Goodwill. Goodwill has a long history…