Imagine No Poverty in Oakland County
Help make the dream reality at the May 12 Pathways to Self-Sustainability Community Conference
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Imagine a time when there is no poverty in Oakland County, and join the Pathways to Self-Sustainability project to make the dream reality. Local programs to help people leave poverty behind need your volunteer and financial support as well as your advocacy. Every hour, every dollar helps. There is also work to be done to change policies and systems that keep people in poverty. Every letter, every phone call helps.
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Poverty in Oakland County is a solvable problem. Our unique combination of wealth, industry, education and poverty make this the place and now the time to solve the poverty problem. People with a passion to make this happen here and now are needed. People are needed to be youth mentors and life coaches for teens, young adults and adults. People are needed to help develop or coordinate new services; people to help identify business or corporate support; people to support entrepreneurs with Kiva loans; people to help with our website; and people to make calls and write letters to influence policy decisions. People are needed to provide financial support for these services. The list goes on and on. There is a role for everyone who is frustrated by the poverty among us and wants to solve it.
Find out more at the Pathways to Self-Sustainability Community Conference. The conference is Monday, May 12, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church of Birmingham located at 1589 W. Maple Rd., Birmingham, Mich. 48009. Doors open at 6 p.m., and the conference begins promptly at 6:30 p.m.
John Ziraldo, president and CEO of Lighthouse of Oakland County, is the keynote speaker. The conference will feature information sessions with the leadership from some of the most crucial human service agencies in the county including Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County; Hispanic Outreach Services, Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan; Kiva; Lighthouse of Oakland County; Rochester Area Neighborhood House (RANH); and South Oakland Shelter (SOS).
There is no cost to attend, and light refreshments will be served.
For more information, please contact Susan Masiak at stmasiak@hotmail.com, Kathy Bommarito at kathyabommarito@gmail.com, or call 248-705-8868.
