August 30, 2011
Community members are taking action to help make the Decoto district safer with the launching of a new neighborhood watch program. The program will be the first based in the heart of the historically troubled neighborhood, organizers said. Leaders from Congregations Organizing for Renewal and Our Lady of the Rosary Church are inviting the public to attend a presentation from the Union City Police Department's Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving unit, to be held Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the church.
By Eric Kurhi Oakland Tribune Community leaders and the school district are taking aim at a problem that, while not exclusive to Hayward, has long plagued its schools: a disparity in test scores that has black students lagging behind their peers. School officials met with a church full of members of Congregations Organizing for Renewal -- a faith-based group that takes up social causes -- in May, at which time they agreed to make the achievement gap a priority and to create a task force to help address the problem.
July 14, 2011
Community leaders from Congregations Organizing for Renewal urge residents to push for state tax extensions.
July 07, 2011
On Wednesday June 29th, almost 200 community members gathered at Our Lady of the Rosary Church for CommUNITY Dreams, a COR celebration for the city’s 5-0 vote in support of a resolution to pass the DREAM Act, the city’s allocation of $1.6 million dollars for a renovated teen center, and the continued support for youth counselors as part a larger youth violence prevention strategy won in 2008.
May 31, 2011
Congregations Organizing for Renewal (COR) is calling the community to ACTION about the Hayward Unified School District’s failure to raise the Academic Performance Index (API) for African American Students in the District.
May 25, 2011
COR leaders, parents, students, and community members, in collaboration with New Haven Unified School District are celebrating as they wrap up enrollment for students of the Institute of Community Leaders (ICL) for fall 2011. The Institute of Community Leaders is a new school within a school at Logan High School.
February 02, 2011
DREAM Students Rally for Equal Rights! Barbara Boxer's staff meets with COR Students from Our Lady of the Rosary Youth Group and Chabot Active DREAMers and our partners from Chabot College MEChA, CHabot College Puente, and Tennyson High School Puente.
December 21, 2010
Youth activists with Congregations Organizing for Renewal hold press conference at community college, urging support for the immigration legislation.
December 01, 2010
Filipino Advocates for Justice, Asian Law Caucus and Congregations Organizing for Renewal take action in support of the pending legislation. COR to hold rally today; FAJ and ALC to hold DREAM Act workshop tonight.
May 02, 2010
COR works with Local officials to put an end to murder and crime in our communities and to create career pathways for our youth.
January 31, 2010
"I know firsthand what happens when youths in this community do not have places to go, to express themselves, grow and receive services. I have had friends who have ended up in drugs or violence because there were no alternatives for them," he said during a recent City Council meeting.
December 16, 2009
With the stimulus money, we can invest in companies that produce things in an environmentally sustainable way, but also live up to their moral imperative to provide a fair wage. The American dream might be in jeopardy, but when opportunity and need meet, amazing dreams will come true.
December 13, 2009
The need for affordable child care in San Leandro will be alleviated for the parents of 60 children because of a $20,000 grant from the Low Income Investment Fund, a national community development financial institution based in San Francisco.
October 04, 2009
"There was a young boy with an ear infection, and he couldn't get in to see a primary physician at a hospital for nine days," said Pat Payne, a member of a congregation-based group petitioning to get a clinic in Cherryland. "The consequences were very serious. He had an infection that spread and paralyzed a whole side of his face and impaired his hearing." Such were the horror stories told at a Thursday meeting with Supervisor Nate Miley, who has been working with Congregations Organizing Renewal to address some of the most critical needs of Cherryland residents.
August 19, 2009
Guadalupe Cruz came to the U.S. with her family at age 1 and, in the 19 years since, has never returned to Mexico. She grew up embracing the food, music and culture of this country and has no memories of living elsewhere. As far as Cruz is concerned, she is an American.
March 31, 2009
San Lorenzo residents identified neighborhood revitalization, land-use planning, youth development and early childhood services as the area's most important "key action" issues at a community forum over the weekend.
January 23, 2009
Valle characterized TRI-CED's future regional education center as a "human infrastructure" because "it's an investment in our kids," he said. On Friday, Valle, the mayor, police officers, and representatives from Chabot College, the youth coalition and Congregations Organizing for Renewal gathered at TRI-CED and called on their congressman to urge funding for the proposed regional education center.
October 09, 2008
Karen Yifru, a member of the Youth Violence Prevention Coalition as well as Congregations Organizing for Renewal, said the city first must conduct a crime data analysis to identify where problems are occurring in the city and who's causing them. Funding priority also should go toward hiring community outreach workers, Spanish-speaking counselors and staff to help at-risk youths with job placements to keep them off the streets, Yifru said.
July 17, 2008
"When kids are engaged in school, then they have more hope. They have a future, they have dreams. "... They tend to stay in school more. You have less violence in the community," Yifru said.
June 02, 2007
On Tuesday, COR, which represents 13 congregations from San Leandro to Fremont, called on elected officials at St. Leander's to take a closer look at the transit-oriented development plan for downtown that now is under review, to ensure that a variety of affordable housing gets built.
September 21, 2005
More than 800,000 children in California do not have insurance —about 27,000 of them in Alameda County. "I have asthma and it is scary when I can't breathe," Estephany said. "My asthma also makes school hard because every time I have an attack I miss up to a week." One time, Estephany's parents brought her to the emergency room but she was turned away because she was not insured, she said. Her parents had to take her to another hospital.
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