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Most-Needed Food Items:
• Peanut butter • Canned meat
• Canned fruits and vegetables
• Cereal-whole grain, low sugar
• Soup, stews, chili, beans
• Milk-canned/dried • Rice and pasta
Volunteer Leadership Academy of Tempe - Leaders Serving through Training
Tempe is leading the way...again with the municipal, faith, nonprofit and business coming together to launch a "Volunteer Leadership Academy." This Academy is designed to increase the number of volunteers, assist in standardizing volunteer training and credentialing, empower volunteer coordinators and project managers. Representatives from the City of Tempe, For Our City, Tempe Leadership and Tempe Community Council along with people who want to be volunteers all were a part of the initial workshop, "Volunteer 101" led by Mary Anna Bastin, the volunteer coordinator for the City of Tempe.
This idea originated as a part of Project 85281, a For Our City - Tempe program, and Live Love Weekend, a joint project between For Our City Chandler and For Our City Tempe. We found that in order to have numerous citywide volunteer projects we must have trained and mentored project managers for sustainability. This is true for both the "event" oriented as well as the most needed "ongoing" volunteer needs.
There will be at least four workshops per year, centered around a major citywide volunteer project and opportunity. A special "shout out" to the project manager for the Academy, Jayson Matthews of Tempe Community Council. The next workshop will be held in September.
For Our City Tempe Launches "100 Hours in 2011"
On January 20th, over 100 leaders of Faith, Nonprofit, Business and Government gathered to launch a new initiative of For Our City called "100 hours in 2011."
"We are asking you to challenge your church, mosque, synagogue or business to volunteer 100 hours of service in 2011," Mayor Hugh Hallman reported.
He went on to say, "I don’t need to tell you times are tough. You hear it in the prayers of your congregations; you see it in the pleas, growing louder, for housing assistance, jobs and food donations. It is our calling as leaders to help…a little over 2 hours a week is all we are asking.” These 100 hours of service are in preparation for celebrating Arizona’s Centennial in 2012.
This is accomplished through ongoing volunteer activities such as delivering meals to the elderly, feeding the homeless, mentoring students and other essential services. Along with furnishing volunteers to Tempe organizations, For Our City will also hold citywide service events for individuals who want to volunteer one day a month with park and neighborhood cleanup, planting community gardens, and food and water collection and distribution.
The hours are tracked within each organization and tallied by the organization or individual volunteer filling out a “Service Report” form at www.forourcity.org.
There were presentations from various faith, municipal and nonprofit partnerships that showed how through strategic collaboration, communities can tackle such issues as home foreclosures, service to the poor, the homeless, the elderly and the disabled, and emergency preparedness.
“Separately we can…Together we will!”
The other For Our City Host Committees of Page, Sedona, Chandler, Maricopa and Sahuarita are discussing how to join in this initiative.
Tempe Volunteer Leadership Workshop Launching May 18
Representatives from the City of Tempe, For Our City, Tempe Leadership and Tempe Community Council have partnered together to create workshops that introduce volunteer opportunities and will provide the basics in leadership development.
To kick it off, the City of Tempe, Four Our City and Tempe Community Council are hosting “Volunteer 101: Important Information to Know Before Volunteering and Current Opportunities” on Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 5:30 PM – 7 PM at the Tempe Historic Museum’s Community Room.
This workshop is designed for members of the community who have a passion for giving back, but may be new to the Tempe or new to volunteering. This brief overview will connect those caring individuals to places that can help them help others! This workshop will include a welcome from Mayor Hugh Hallman, important instruction from Maryanna Bastin, City of Tempe Volunteer Coordinator, and additional information from Tempe Community Council.
This workshop will be followed up by a second opportunity in September 2011 that will focus on basic leadership skills, program management and volunteer coordination. This will be facilitated by Tempe Leadership.
Could you do me a favor and pass this along through your channels of communication? We would like to get a good sized group to hear about how to get involved!
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!
Many thanks,
Jayson S. Matthews
Chief Program Officer
Tempe Community Council
Hundreds in Service, Thousands Served
Live Love Weekend in Tempe was a great success due to the collaboration of numerous churches, nonprofit agencies, neighborhood services and municipal departments of Tempe.
The "Pick a Project" of the September 2nd For Our City Breakfast led to Community Gardens, 
Campuses cleaned, Parks adopted, 
Homeless served breakfast, single mothers had their cars repaired, washed and given time to relax while their children had fun. 
The GAIN event allowed more people to serve and others just to celebrate a good day’s service.
The service continued on Sunday with a group from Emmanuel Temple assisting Treasures 4 Teachers with another service project helping clean up a major fundraiser event for The Center for Habilitation. 
Live Love Weekend, October 23, 24 2010
We trust that the partnerships and collaboration that was initiated during our For Our City Breakfast on Sept. 2nd are thriving as we approach our Live Love Weekend on October 23rd and 24th. In addition, we are encouraging organizations and individuals to support the following projects. You can register at www.forourcity.org/tempe.
The I-HELP Breakfast is the service event for the homeless on Live Love Weekend. We are looking for people to prepare, deliver and serve food for around 50 people. For more information, contact Stephen Sparks at (480) 350-5893, stephens@tempeaction.org
The Community Garden and Campus Clean-up event is the service event for education on Live Love Weekend. We will be planting seeds, setting up garden fences, light gardening and maintenance and campus clean-up. For more information, contact Jevon at (480) 557-6211, jevonl@edkey.org
The Adopt-a-Park is a new service event for those who are looking for light maintenance in neighborhood communities in Tempe on October 23rd Live Love Weekend. For more information, contact Edith Ross at (480) 250-5192, edith_ross@tempe.gov
Here is a great and fun opportunity to serve the North Tempe Neighborhood Association (85281) on Saturday, October 23, for Live Love Weekend…“Picnic in the Park”
North Tempe Neighborhood Association Presents
10th Annual Picnic & GAIN Event
Saturday, October 23th
3-6 PM
Tempe Papago Park
SW Corner of College & Curry Roads
FREE Hot Dogs, Sodas & Chips from QuikTrip!
Recycle your worn out tennis shoes!! Get a raffle ticket for each pair of old tennis shoes that you turn in. BIG SURPRIZE FOR WINNER!! Please no tennis shoes with cleats, spikes, no dress shoes, sandals or hiking boots.
Event questions: Darlene @ 480-529-3584, d_justus@cox.net
Needs: 18- 20 - 6 ft tables. 35- 40 chairs. 5- 8 more shade canopies. 2-4 folks (teens) to do face painting. 10 to 20 small vanilla or coconut cream-like pies for the pie eating contest (contests). 1 dedicated Helium Balloon Person.
We set up at 12PM and clean Up at 6PM. Helpers are always welcomed.
OCTOBER 24TH SERVICE PROJECTSLive Love Weekend will continue its service projects on Sunday at Treasure for Teachers Warehouse. Volunteers will be sorting school supplies, organizing shelves, preparing teacher bags. Please bring line notebook paper for a donation. For more information contact, Judy of Temple Emmanuel (480) 510-9916, judystock@cox.net
The Centers for Habilitation are requesting volunteers to help clean up after the “Monster Mash – Gala of Giving” Fundraiser. We need people to move tables, chairs, pick up trash and general clean up. For more information contact, Dawn at (480) 730-4221, dawnhocking@tch-az.com
For Our City Tempe Helps Struggling Families
Excerpts from Dianna M. Náñez - Nov. 10, 2009
The Arizona Republic
It was not a traditional State of the City Address. No major development announcements. An abbreviated list of city accomplishments, compared to years prior. And instead of focusing on the city's goals for the next year, the estimated 320 people in the audience listened to Mayor Hugh Hallman spotlight the Tempe people and agencies that are working to lift the city out of a financial crisis that has left families across the nation reeling and states and cities facing massive budget cuts.
After thanking Tempe's faith community for helping the city's struggling families through the recession, Hallman introduced Pastor Sang-Hoon Yoo. Hallman praised Yoo for his efforts with "For Our City," an interfaith group that was partnering with the city and other organizations to expand services for needy residents. "Now is the time to be called into serving the needy instead of just serving the people in the church," Yoo said in a video. "I think the main thing is how the city government can work with the faith community to serve the community better."
Good Samaritans fill service gaps amid budget cuts
Excerpts from Alia Beard Rau - Nov. 1, 2009 The Arizona Republic
Faced with another year of declining revenue, Arizona municipalities are increasingly relying on the charity of others to meet the needs of residents. Tempe resident and Care Inc. non-profit founder Jon McHatton has organized volunteers in Tempe, Chandler and Page through his For Our City program. "Service is a good bridge between the faith community and municipal leaders because it doesn't deal with any issues of church and state," McHatton said. "It just deals with doing what's best for people." He said the trend of municipal volunteerism is gaining momentum, and each city is using it to serve its greatest needs.
Tempe's For Our City program has focused on creating emergency-preparedness programs, while the programs started this year in Page and Chandler have so far involved more general volunteer efforts. "Our goal has been to organize volunteer efforts and determine issues and projects that are bigger than any organization, the city or a group of churches could tackle by themselves," said Kevin Kartke, Trinity Christian Fellowship pastor and Chandler's For Our City director. Gilbert Mayor John Lewis is hoping the same thing may evolve out of the Gilbert Faith Leadership Summit he has organized for Thursday.
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Tempe Focuses on People Helping People
I-HELP (Interfaith Homeless Emergency Lodging Program) provides homeless people with hope and opportunity for a better future by offering shelter, meals and connections to community services. Six nights a week the I-HELP van transports approximately 30 homeless people from a central pickup point to a host site, which rotates among different Tempe faith communities. 
Tempe Community Action Agency (TCAA) administers this program in partnership with Tempe Emergency Assistance Ministries (TEAM), Urban Outreach of the Tempe First United Methodist Church, City of Tempe Housing Services, and the Tempe Salvation Army. For more information, see www.tempeaction.org or contact Stephen Sparks at or ihelp@tempeaction.org.
Open Table is a faith-based movement seeking to transform poverty and homelessness into wholeness and stability, one life at a time. A “Table” is a group of people and organizations – in a faith community, corporation or university – who act as a team of life specialists, encouragers and advocates to establish a plan for an individual or family to overcome obstacles that prevent the achievement of stability and self-sufficiency. Faith, corporate and university communities in Arizona, Kansas and Texas are using the Open Table model. Collaboration partners also include state, county, and city governments, as well as the faith and non-profit communities. For more information, see www.theopentable.org or contact Jon Katov at orjon.katov@theopentable.org.
Community Interfaith Ministries (CIM) began in 1997 and is staffed by spirit-led volunteers from area churches and other Christian faith-based organizations who have united to share and work together. CIM provides opportunities and activities that foster positive relationships and learning experiences. Our strength comes from collaboration and respect among peoples of diverse faith traditions. CIM is an interdenominational entity that currently offers 54 distinct ministries to those in need, including “Beat the Heat” Relief Program at the Tempe Christian Resource Center (TCRC). CIM unites volunteers from some 138 churches, ministries and businesses to perform good works. Seewww.communityinterfaith.org or contact Gary Bartlett at orcim_ministries@msn.com.
HURT (Holistic Urgent Recovery Training) is a concise “train the trainer” program. It is the FEMA IS-22 program with Internet support, plus PowerPoint and teacher’s guide, student manual, resources to assess faith and nonprofit organizations’ readiness and tools to maintain individuals in emergency preparation for the first 72 hours of crisis. The instructors are from the EMS, faith community and Citizen Corps. It is the initial “access” program for CERT in the Citizen Corps of Central Arizona and Christian Emergency Network. The goal is to complete this training in 30 locations throughout Arizona in 2009. See www.care-inc.org or contact Sanghoon Yoo at or tempehurt@gmail.com.