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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Community Check-Ins
Each Friday morning, we host an open forum for a weekly Driver-themed conversation.
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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%...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 141
Join us at 8:30 am for Week #141 via Zoom for this special African American History Month call co-curated by our very own Rodneyna Hart,...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 140
Join us at 8:30 am for Week #140 via Zoom. Our Education to Career Coalition Co-Chair Dustin Lafont has been saying for what feels like...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 139
Join us at 8:30 am for Week #139 via Zoom. Transportation is more than about getting from here to there. Walkable cities not only...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 138
Join us at 8:30 am for Week #138 via Zoom. Let’s talk housing! Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome recently gave the State of the City...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 137
Happy New Year, OneRouge Family! For Week #137 via Zoom for the first OneRouge Friday call of 2023, we are level setting and talking...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 136
Week #136 Join us this Friday for OneRouge Week #136 at 8:30 am via Zoom. We are talking about Baton Rouge and making it the place we all...
CAFE Coalition Meeting #5 Notes
Meeting #5 - 12/08/22 Agenda: Here Attendees: Jan Ross • Donald Andrews •.Carl Motsenbocker • Casey Phillips• Helena Williams • Emily...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 135
Week #135 Join us this Friday for OneRouge Week#134 at 8:30 am via Zoom. We will be talking about “Leadership from Across the City”. We...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 134
Week #134 Join us this Friday for OneRouge Week#134 at 8:30 am via Zoom. We will be talking about the ‘Quality of Place from Within -...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 132
Week #132 Join us this Friday for OneRouge Week#132 at 8:30 AM via Zoom. The Driver ‘Lack of access to foods to sustain a healthy life'...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 131
Week #130 Join us this Friday for OneRouge Week#131 at 8:30 AM via Zoom. The Driver ‘Lack of access to foods to sustain a healthy life'...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 130
Week #130 Join us this Friday for OneRouge Week #130 at 8:30am via Zoom. This week’s call will continuation of our series on the driver...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 129
Week #129 Join us this Friday for OneRouge Week #129 at 8:30am via Zoom. This week’s call will feature a livestream panel conversation...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 128
Week #128 Join us this Friday for OneRouge Week #128 at 8:30am via Zoom. we will start Friday’s session with an overview of the...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 127
Week #127 Join us this Friday for OneRouge Week #127 at 8:30am via Zoom. This will be a continuation of our series on the driver ‘High...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 126
Week #126 This is a a special topic on ‘Health Literacy in BIPOC communities’ featuring speakers with lived experience to share with the...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 125
Week #125 This is a continuation of our series on the driver ‘English Proficiency & Cultural Differences’ can create poverty traps for...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 124
Week #124 This is a continuation of our series on the driver ‘Access to Affordable & Safe Housing’ with a focus on the challenges for the...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 123
_________———— Week #123 This talk is a a continuation of our series on the driver ‘Growing Number of Neighborhoods in Poverty’ with a...
CAFE Coalition Meeting #2 9/7/22
The Capital Area Food Equity Coalition met together on 9/7/22 to discuss creating a unified project to collaborate on and share...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 122
Week #122 This talk is a continuation of our series on the Earth’s Climate Change with a focus on the EBR Groundwater Assessment...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 121
Week #121 This talk is a continuation of our Equal Pay Series - Part IX in alignment with the driver of ‘High Poverty Rates & Low Wages...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 120
Week #120 This talk is a continuation of our Economic & Workforce Development series Part VIII with the exciting launch of the 'Capitol...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 119
Week #119 This talk is an expansion of our ‘Access to Equitable & Affordable Housing' series with a focus on Land: the new diversity and...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 118
Week #118 This talk is a continuation of our ‘Healthy Food Access For All’ series with an update from the Capital Area Food Equity (CAFÉ)...
CAFE Coalition Meeting #1 - 8/03/22
CAFE Coalition August 3, 2022 2:00 pm Meeting Notes: OneRouge + Capital Area Food Equity Coaltion Overview: Clarity of Aspirational...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 117
Week #117 This talk is a continuation of our ‘Education For All’ series with a focus on Back-To-School in EBR with updates from primary...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 116
Week #116 This conversation is a continuation of our ‘Economic & Workforce Development’ series. Today we discuss the continued supply...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 115
Week #115 This conversation is a special topic on “Blues Skies Disaster Response Session” with a goal for OneRouge coalition members to...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 114
Week #114 The focus of the conversation is a continuation on our 9 Drivers of Poverty series on Maternal Health & Teen Pregnancy with a...
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