Friday, October 3, 2008

Poverty Summit in IL, Dec 9&10

Opportunities for Change: Taking Action to End Extreme Poverty in Illinois
December 9-10, 2008
Peoria, Illinois

This summit, occurring in conjunction with International Human Rights Day, is part of the new Commission on the Elimination of Poverty's work and is a direct result of all of your hard work as part of the From Poverty to Opportunity Campaign.

This event will bring people from across Illinois together to hear from national experts and
to begin developing the short-term and long-term plans for ending poverty in Illinois.

More information to come. Registration will begin in mid-October.

From Poverty to Opportunity Campaign: Realizing Human Rights in Illinois
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
4411 N. Ravenswood, 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60640
773.336.6084
773.506.6649 (fax)
frompovertytoopportunity@heartlandalliance.org

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

How can we cure others poverty if we can't cure our own?
What would you do if I told you a way to cure our poverty? I call it open source philanthropy because you can do this yourselves anywhere in the country without obligation or payment to me.

Join The Benefactor Project.

http://www.thebenefactorproject.com

Altruistically Yours,
Tom Canavan