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November 1997

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Community Outreach Weekend #2, Fall 1997
Community Outreach Weekend #2 was one of the most successful community outreach weekends ever. We brought 125 University students to East St. Louis and completed work at 10 sites around the community. Some of the highlights of student activities:

• Informed residents how to get involved in the neighborhood organization.
• Recorded memoirs for the world renowned Katherine Dunham.
• Cleaned an abandoned building for rehabilitation as low-income apartments.
• Landscaped a community garden and the Illinois Avenue playground.

Neighborhood News
Neighborhood News, a newsletter published every other month, gives an update of the projects that are currently undertaken by East St. Louis Neighborhood Technical Assistance Center (NTAC). NTAC assists residents, non-profit groups, community businesses and municipal agencies in formulating strategies for meeting their technical assistance and training needs in the areas of community organization, neighborhood planning, building and urban design, grant writing and non-profit management.

• ESL-CAN Completes Summer Youth Employment Project
  
• The Grantsmanship Center offers Grant Writing Workshop
  
• Katherine Dunham Centers Offer Free Internet Access
  
• Illinois Facility Fund Visits East St.Louis
  
• Neighborhood-Based Family Housing Program
  
• Grant for Martin Luther King Jr. Service Day
  
• Americorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC)
  
• University of Illinois Community Outreach Weekends
  
• Scholarship For Women Returning to College Available
  
• Volunteer Center Proposed: Citizen Input Needed
  
• Citizens for the Future: Job Opening
  
• 1997 Urban Resource Partnership Grant Recipients

Community Outreach Weekend #3, Fall 1997
Another successful outreach weekend was completed on Nov. 14-15. Read about the exciting details that happened on the Community Outreach Weekend #3 in the next issue of this newsletter.

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Document author(s) : Deanna Koenigs
Last modified: 19 November 1997, Deanna Koenigs