One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 157
Did you know that May is #GetCaughtReadingMonth? Well, that is as good an excuse as any to talk libraries and proposed legislation that...
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Helena Williams
- 5 days ago
- 1 min
CAFE Meeting 05/17/23
Coalition Meeting Notes In-Person at Goodwood Library Needs and Offers Activity: Need: Food Delivery Service > Asset Mapping > GGH has a...
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Helena Williams
- 5 days ago
- 3 min
Education to Career (E2C) Coalition Meeting Notes 5.16.23
Meeting Notes & Next Steps May 16, 2023 @ EBR Goodwood Library Quarterly In-Person Convening Opening and Overview Group shared stats...
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onerouge
- May 20
- 1 min
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 156
Transportation describes the act of moving something or someone, whereas mobility describes the ability of a person to move or be moved....
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onerouge
- May 12
- 1 min
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 155
The first slave ships from Africa arrived in Louisiana in 1719 mostly from Senegambia, the Bight of Benin, the Bight of Biafra, and...
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onerouge
- May 5
- 1 min
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 154
A recent study revealed there were “34,210 unaccompanied youth under the age of 25 experiencing homelessness”. That is an increase...
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onerouge
- Apr 28
- 1 min
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 153
The tough on crime rhetoric has been with us since the 70s. And though longer and more stringent sentences are a logical deterrent to...
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onerouge
- Apr 21
- 1 min
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 152
OneRouge started as a weekly call at the start of the Covid shut down just to share information. Over time, it has grown into a movement...
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onerouge
- Apr 14
- 1 min
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 151
Louisiana is increasingly prone to natural disasters. There is even an entire season dedicated to watching and preparing for hurricanes....
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onerouge
- Apr 7
- 1 min
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 150
We all know there is a connection between poverty and health, poverty and food insecurity, poverty and transportation, poverty and...
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onerouge
- Mar 31
- 1 min
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 149
Everyone has seen a forest – but if you are from South Louisiana, chances are it’s only been in books. That’s because we don’t have...
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onerouge
- Mar 24
- 1 min
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 148
It is almost surreal to think that the onset of COVID spurred our Friday calls and the OneRouge Coalition. We have made friends and...
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onerouge
- Mar 17
- 2 min
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 147
The month of March, we are celebrating Women’s History Month. That means we are looking at women’s initiatives through both historic and...
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Helena Williams
- Mar 13
- 1 min
CAFE Meeting 03/08/23
Coalition Meeting Notes At March's CAFÉ meeting, we met as a group to hear from Farmer Jones on the Black Farmer experience. We then...
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onerouge
- Mar 10
- 1 min
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 146
Did you know that wo men have gained more jobs than men for 4 straight months in 2023? It is amazing because Coronavirus deeply impacted...
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onerouge
- Mar 3
- 1 min
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 145
In 2021, Baton Rouge was dubbed the "least equitable" city in the country for the gender pay gap since there's a difference of 48.5%...
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onerouge
- Feb 24
- 1 min
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 144
In 2022, Louis iana had the second highest poverty rate in the US at 18%, meaning 845,230 people living in poverty. The number of...
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onerouge
- Feb 17
- 1 min
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 143
Every year since 1986, we have celebrated Black History Month. We repeat and relive stories of school segregation and integration,...
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onerouge
- Feb 11
- 1 min
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 142
OneRouge Meeting #142 will be in keeping with the theme of Baton Rouge stories for Black History Month, we will be hearing from My...
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Helena Williams
- Feb 9
- 1 min
CAFE Meeting 02/08/23
Coalition Meeting Notes At February's CAFE meeting, we met to discuss the policy work Food Policy Action Council (FPAC) is currently...
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