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Archived example of a typical CUCA General meeting:

Report-back on community-based tutoring programs:  What works and what doesn’t work

The IN-justice of UN-affordable housing in St. Petersburg

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Lakeview Presbyterian Church

22nd Avenue South

St. Petersburg

Rev. Todd Sutton, Pastor

 

Report-back from CUCA research committee on community-based tutoring programs.

Ensuring that education funding goes where it is needed most.

The Affordable Housing problem in St. Petersburg.

How congregations can get involved.

 

As people of faith we share common aspirations for our neighborhoods and our city. Together, we can make a difference in our community!

Whether or not you or your congregation have been involved in CUCA in the past, we need you to be involved now.  Please join us in this vital interfaith effort.

The community will be heard!  CUCA promotes education and community justice; we hold ourselves and our public institutions accountable!

727-822.0784  

See Press Release below:

Congregations United For Community Action

P.O. Box 3111   St. Petersburg, Florida 33731-3111

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                           CONTACT:  Kitty Pelster Rawson

                                                                                                   727.866.0315

                                                                                                           cuca@cuca.org

 

St. Petersburg Neighborly Housing Services and

Congregations United for Community Action

Schedule Affordable Housing Forum

 

Who:               Congregations United for Community Action, also called CUCA

What:              “Affordable Housing: Can We Find It in St. Petersburg?”

When:             Tuesday, January 31, 2006, 7:00 pm until 8:30 pm

Where:            Lakeview Presbyterian Church

                        1310 22nd Avenue South, St. Petersburg

 

January 9, 2006, St. Petersburg, FL – Congregations United for Community Action, also called CUCA, and St. Petersburg Neighborhood Housing Services have partnered to sponsor a forum to answer questions about the affordable housing crisis in St. Petersburg. Scheduled to take place on Tuesday, January 31, the program will take place at Lakeview Presbyterian Church, 1310 22nd Avenue South, starting at 7:00 pm. All are invited to attend this free program.

 

Scheduled panelists include County Commissioner Ken Welch, St. Petersburg City Councilperson Rene Flowers, and Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity Barbara Inman. The County Commission and their Affordable Housing Task Force have taken steps to address this issue. Flowers co-chairs the City’s Affordable Housing Committee. She will address both the rental and for-sale crisis in St. Petersburg and what is being done about it. Habitat for Humanity is actively and directly involved in addressing this issue.

 

Monday, November 14, 2005  

CUCA General Meeting on:

“The Education of our Children: Justice and Success in our Classrooms”

First Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church

1121 22nd Street South
St. Petersburg

Rev. Wallace Elliott, Pastor

Speaker: Dr. Doretha Jackson, Pinellas County Schools

Pressing Issues:

Ensuring that education funding goes where it is needed the most!

Tutoring programs- what works what doesn't !

How congregations can get involved !

Helping parents to know how to help their children !

 

As people of faith we share common aspirations for our neighborhoods and our city. Together, we can make a difference in our community!

Whether or not you or your congregation have been involved in CUCA in the past, we need you to be involved now.  Please join us in this vital interfaith effort.

The community will be heard!  CUCA promotes education; we hold ourselves and our school system accountable!