Community
Thursday, September 16, 7-8:15pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
The Ohio Legislature will come back into session during September. What will they be talking about? What bills will be coming up?
Join us at 7pm on Thursday, September 16 for a discussion of what to expect this fall at the Ohio Statehouse with Tadd Pinkston of Pinkston Law, Rev. Joan VanBecelaere, and others.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Thursday, September 16, 3-4:15pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Living Positively is an open group offering support, encouragement, and dialogue for those living with HIV/AIDS, including people who are newly diagnosed, living undetectable, and long-term survivors.
This group meets on the first and third Thursday of each month and serves people living anywhere in Ohio.
Wednesday, September 15, 12noon, this on-line event requires advance registration
Come and join a conversation about what’s going on at the Statehouse and what is going on in your community!
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Hosted by Hunger Network in Ohio.
Tuesday, September 14, 8-9:30pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom
Join us for BQIC’s monthly fundraiser, “Speak Up! Spoken Word and Open Mic.” Come out and share your poems, songs, monologues, inner musings, and good encounters, bad days, good dates etc., on the digital mic! LGBTQIA+ people of color take priority.
Tuesday, September 14, 7-9pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Learn what Street Epistemology is, why people might find it useful, and get a rough understanding how a decent exercise might go, and then, hopefully, an exciting question-and-answer period to close out. This is Part One of a two-part series.
Tuesday, September 14, 5:30pm, Whetstone Park of Roses, 3901 N. High St.
Come and enjoy meeting others at the open-air shelter #1 at Whetstone Park.
We will be providing hot dogs, individual packages of chips, and water. You are welcome to bring your own food and drinks. Or just come and see your friends and discuss what is going on in our city.
We will open at 5:30pm and hope to have local office-holders and candidates for local offices join us. We expect to have folks who are guests introduced at 6:15pm.
Tuesday, September 14, 5-6pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Columbus faces a serious challenge with developing affordable housing and providing rent subsidies to people with very low income. Most of the affordable housing in development now doesn’t work for people with very low income. The Columbus Coalition for the Homeless is proposing a 3% set-aside of new housing units for people who experience homelessness for any project that receives tax abatement. What other ideas do you have to share about how to develop and sustain affordable housing?
Tuesday, September 14, 4pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Join us on Tuesday, September 14, at 4pm, for “Power of the Lines: The Redistricting Process: Ohio Redistricting and Map Making for Classrooms,” a webinar for educators about Ohio redistricting and mapmaking curriculum. During this session, we will discuss how our redistricting and map-making educational resources and activities can be utilized in your classroom on Constitution Day (September 17) or anytime during Ohio’s redistricting process.
Tuesday, September 14, 3-4pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Tuesday, September 14, 12noon-1pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Join the Ohio Environmental Council’s team of experts to learn more about how you can get involved in advocacy to protect our environment. Designed to complement our new Advocacy Toolkit, these trainings will help you to understand some key parts of successful advocacy. These virtual training sessions will take place on three different days through the coming weeks.
“Advocacy Training: Advocacy 101: How a Bill Becomes a Law in Ohio”