25 results for tag: equal opportunity
Empowerment through Civic Engagment
by Courtney Stone
Courtney Stone is the Community Organizing Manager at the Independence Center. She gave this speech at the 2015 Creating Community Breakfast.
My name is Courtney Stone and I am a community organizer at The Independence Center. My job is to work to empower people with disabilities to live independent lives and one of the best ways to begin feeling empowered is to become civically engaged. Whether it’s volunteering or voting, investing in our community only makes us individually and collectively stronger.
Citizen’s Project mission is similar to my own, which is why I’m so happy to work together on the Pikes Peak ...
Hard Work and Affecting Change: A Springs Thing
By Anya Arndt
As many of you may know, I am leaving Citizens Project after 15 amazing and rewarding months on staff. At the end of this month, I will be embarking on a journey to spend a year (and maybe more) working in Beirut, Lebanon. It has long been a goal of mine to spend time living and working in the Middle East to expand my own knowledge appreciation of different cultures and ways of life in the world. I am excited for this adventure, but sad to leave my current position; but before I go, I’d like to share with you a little bit about my time here at CP.
When I first came to Citizens Project as an intern in the summer of 2012, I ...
Citizens Project Mid-Year Update
Earlier this year we asked you, our loyal friends and supporters, to give us feedback about our work and impact. Thanks to the participation of 100 Citizens Project supporters, we learned a lot about our organization, including our strengths and our challenges. One of the opportunities for growth we identified was communication: we learned that we could be doing a better job of keeping you posted on all our programs and successes. To that end, we happily present this mid-year report of exactly what Citizens Project has been up to:
Collaborating with the Pikes Peak Equality Coalition: On February 14, we worked closely with member organizations of ...
Community Discussions to Improve Local Election Processes
The League of Women Voters will host one additional community discussion on March 29th from 9:30-11:30am at First United Methodist Church, 420 N. Nevada.
Contact Kristy or Rachel with questions.
Language Matters
By Kristy Milligan
A few weeks ago, I shared lunch with a close friend, who also happens to be a Citizens Project donor, volunteer, committee member, and former board member.
When it was my turn to give a work update, I droned on for several minutes on about our organizational priorities and calendar for the next few months. My friend paused, considered and asked the most simple, profound question.
“What does all that actually mean?”
Most cultures, ranging from ethnic to geographic to professional specialty, adopt a particular vernacular to describe the world around them. That specialized vernacular appears in the form of acronyms, ...
#IHeartCOS
If you love Colorado Springs (and we know you do) join Citizens Project and the Pikes Peak Equality Coalition to spread the love today in our city:
Follow the action on Twitter and use #IHeartCOS to share your own reasons for loving this city
Change your own profile picture to the image at the right
Take a selfie and share with your Facebook friends and Twitter followers why you ♥ Colorado Springs
Finally check out this Buzzfeed article to see why others love Colorado Springs and maybe get some inspiration yourself!
We believe in the transformative power of language. By changing the conversation about our community, we can change our ...
ENDA to be brought up in Senate for vote
Harry Reid is planning on bringing up the Employment Non-Discrimination Act for a vote early next week in the Senate. Keep your ears open for news on this important piece of legislation that supports LGBT rights.
ENDA would ban workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. When the Senate convened Monday afternoon, Reid formally announced his plans to bring up ENDA during the current work period, which ends the week before Thanksgiving. Reid has long been a supporter of ENDA, cosponsoring it as early as 1997.
Read the full article on the Huffington Post here.
March with CP in the Pride Parade!
Join us on July 21 to march in solidarity with the PrideFest Parade! This is a great opportunity to connect with other Citizens Project supporters and engage with the community.
The parade will begin at 11 am, and we would like to have everyone meet up at 10:30 beforehand. We'll have Citizens Project banners to carry, but feel free to bring anything else or wear fun flair to show your Pride!
Parade staging and Start: Cimarron & South Tejon. Parade Participants need to enter Tejon from Cimarron only
Parade Route: From Cimarron, Head north on S Tejon St toward E Costilla St. Turn left onto E Colorado Ave. Turn left onto Cimino Drive on ...
The VRA and the Path to Freedom
by Lionel Washington, Citizens Project Board Member
The US Supreme Court is hearing a case from Shelby County Alabama challenging the 1965 Voting Rights Act on the grounds it violates Tenth Amendment to Constitution protecting states’ rights. Shelby County argues that the section 5 provision of the Voting Rights Act calling for pre-clearance from the Federal Government to review any changes to that state’s voting laws that might be discriminatory in nature or disenfranchise a specific group of voters. Shelby County also argues that the VRA does not reflect the modern values of Shelby County and the Supreme Court should overturn the VRA to ...