OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 211
Fast facts! June 20 is world World Refugee Day. The observance was started in 2001 by the UN to commemorate the 50 year anniversary of...
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Friday Community Call Notes
Each Friday morning, we host an open forum for a weekly Driver-themed conversation.
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 210
Well, we missed National Healthy Homes month this year (they moved the observance from June to April). However, the Dallas Housing Summit...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 209
"All is quiet on the western front", is not necessarily an adage many would consider applicable to 2024. But here we are in June and past...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 208
Since March 2020 during the Covid outbreak a rotating group of 400+ community leaders from the business, municipal, and nonprofit sectors...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 207
The quest for knowledge is not new. I mean, who doesn't want to know stuff?!?!? Discovery, necessity, mother of invention, and all have...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 206
Did you know? The first community land trust, New Communities was created in 1969 to support black farmers. Socially...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 205
May is a time for so many things – none more important than Mothers’ Day and Mental Health Awareness! Mothers’ Day is an international...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 204
Jiminy Cricket - we are speeding to the end of the school year! Prom Season is over. LEAP testing is underway. Last day of school and...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 203
Autism is not just one thing, one condition, or one set of behaviors. It is challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 202
It seems like only yesterday that the CAFÉ coalition was jolted into action by the possibility that there would not be a summer EBT...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 201
In the ancient history I call my youth, I would sneak into clubs in The City and dance to artists like MC Hammer, When in Rome, and The...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 200
A wise man once said to me “we all we got!” That is never more true than when we look to the health of our community. Whether it is...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 199
The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a stark spotlight on the challenges faced by mom and pop shops. These small, independent businesses, often...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 198
Did you know that 2024 has seen some pretty amazing advances for women in Louisiana? The first woman took office as Attorney General The...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 197
Here we are in the year of Da'Vine Joy Randolf's 1st Oscar and 51 wins for her roll in Holdovers and women STILL make pittance compared...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 196
On Monday March 11, LaLeg kicks off the Regular Session. But they didn't just start working. When Gov. Jeff Landry was sworn in on...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 195
Since March 2020 during the Covid outbreak a rotating group of 400+ community leaders from the business, municipal, and nonprofit sectors...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 194
Stereotypes are a hard thing to surpass. Think lazy and shiftless to a brute who cannot be trusted around decent, respectable women or...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 193
Housing inequality and predatory lending under the guise of equity are nothing new. Pulitzer prize nominated and winning books have been...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 192
It is not hyperbole to assert that being Black and/or poor should not be a death sentence. In the year of Tracy Chapman's Grammy, Black...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 191
Fun facts, useful for trivia nights... Despite all the rigamarole around freedom and one man, one voice, newly established Americans did...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 190
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is supposed to be a movement "to transform society into a more just place." It was a direct...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 189
The Capital Area Food Equity (CAFÉ) Coalition is OneRouge's first anti-poverty coalition to stand up. The reason was (and remains) that...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 188
Back when COVID hit, the brokenness of the collective systems we use daily were laid bare. The most shocking was how tenuous our food...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 187
Welcome to 2024! And welcome back to One Rouge Fridays. It's hard to believe that in March we will hit 4 years of OneRouge calls! If you...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 186
Did you know that stress responses occur in stages on the “continuum of behavioral and emotional responses”? The CDC says there are 4...
OneRouge Community Check-In: Week 185
Food is such an integral part of life! It’s not just that it keeps us alive, but that in many ways, food facilitates living. But...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 184
It's the start of the last month of the year so this Friday we are kicking off Wellness Month by sharing tips and tricks to get through...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 184
It's the start of the last month of the year so this Friday we are kicking off Wellness Month by sharing tips and tricks to get through...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 182
Thanksgiving is next week. November is almost over. And 2024 is right around the corner. But before we go too far, we are going to take a...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 181
Every year the results come out and they seem to be getting no better. Louisiana is 5th in heart disease, 10th in cancer, 3rd in strokes,...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 180
Some numbers to keep in mind. 36. 4. 1. 36: In October 36% of Louisiana residents showed up to cast a vote in the Gubernatorial...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 179
OneRouge Fam, we have been talking about broadband and access for a while now. You might have made it to our call on what it is and why...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 178
There are a lot of scary things going on in October. Halloween. State elections. Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter, and Uranus are all in...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 177
Have you been to one of our Transportation and Mobility Coalition meetings? Admittedly, most of the time we talk alternatives to driving...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 176
Now that climate change is real, there are a lot of weird things that are happening. One of them is drought in South Louisiana where we...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 175
Statistics are interesting things. We know that between 2010 and 2020, the Hispanic population in EBR specifically grew 88%. But did we...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 174
Nola.com reported Nearly 85,000 Hispanic people moved to Louisiana between 2000 and 2010; without them, the state would have shrunk by...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 173
Join us this Friday for Week 173 of OneRouge at 8:30 am. In September 2020, Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome established Safe Hopeful...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 172
Stop me if you have heard this one before, but elections do matter. And we have a pretty big one coming up this November 18. In case you...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 171
The focus of the conversation will be on the impact the extreme heat has on our local economy and workforce with our featured speakers :...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 170
Since March 2020 during the Covid outbreak a rotating group of 400+ community leaders from the business, municipal, and nonprofit sectors...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 169
Hunger affects over 34 million people in the US, including 9 million children. There were an estimated 640,540 people in Louisiana live...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 168
We’ve all heard that there is such a thing as a digital divide. This essentially refers to the gap that some folk fall into because they...
OneRouge Community Check -In - Week 166
End of July means the end of summer camps, summer jobs, summer internships ... well, it's just the end of summer. This is also about the...
OneRouge Community Check -In - Week 165
Fun fact! In Louisiana, the poverty rate is 19.6%; meanwhile is it 11.6% nationwide (also not great, but still). We have been the...
OneRouge Community Check -In - Week 164
Couple of questions for you... Have you ever wondered about the connection of ableism to the patriarchy? Well, to start at the...
OneRouge Community Check -In - Week 163
There used to be a narrative that tech raised wages for everyone except the truly poor because the theory was in order to capitalize off...
OneRouge Community Check -In - Week 162
As horrifying as it, most people know that Black women have the highest mortality rate in the US. Some have even heard that Black girls...
OneRouge Community Check -In - Week 161
Good, bad, or indifferent, the image of the starving artist has persisted through time. They are likely presented as tortured, maybe a...
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