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| | | | | | Join the CAFC Data Task Force Frustrated by Funders' Calls for Data? Want to Educate Yourself About Data? What Kinds of Data Best Serve to Measure Your Impact? |
| If you want to get on top of the sudden upsurge in demand from funders for survey data about your organization, your impact, your audiences, etc, come join the 20 organizations who have signed up for our "Data Task Force." It's free and we're working together to define what kinds of data we need to measure our own impact on our communities and more.
Learn more by reading this announcement about how and why we got started. And then go here to read the notes on our first two meetings.
We have set aside Thursdays at 9:30am for our meetings (not every week) and we will meet this Thursday to discuss what our data needs are.
Sign up here if you are interested, of feel free to call me directly at any time at 203-212-6894. |
| | | | The 2022 Arts & Culture Empowerment (ACE) awardees have been announced! Congratulations to the winners:
Alicia Cobb, ACE Artist Award William Felton, ACE Citizen Award Fairfield County Bank, ACE Corporate Award Pam Lewis, ACE Educator Award City Lights & Company, ACE Non-Profit Award Alexandra Davern Korry, ACE President's Award
The winners will be celebrated at the ACE Awards Celebration Breakfast on June 15th at Shore & Country Club in Norwalk. Join us! |
| | | SECOND CAARI CONVERSATION TOPIC: HEATHER McGHEE "THE SUM OF US" MONDAY MAY 23, 6PM |
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As part of the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County's Collective Action Against Racism and Inequity (CAARI) workshop and discussion series, we are presenting a follow-up discussion to Heather McGhee's upcoming May 18 in-person talk at The Westport Library.
Join our expert facilitators at the Westport Library for this discussion of Heather McGhee's talk, her book, and your thoughts and observations. Although reading the book is not a requirement, we would recommend it.
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| READ THE BOOK
Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policymaking. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out? More...
Buy a signed copy through the Westport Library here
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Wed. May 18, 7pmWestport Library
Get your free ticket to this Westport Library live event here. Presented by: Westport Library, Westport Country Playhouse, TEAM Westport, Westport/Weston Interfaith Council, and the Westport/Weston Interfaith Clergy as their postponed celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Live streaming also available on Zoom. |
| | JOIN THE CONVERSATION Mon. May 23, 6pmWestport Library
Sign up now for your spot in The Cultural Alliance's in-person discussion group, with expert facilitators at Westport Library, for a discussion of Heather McGhee's talk, and her book. Although reading the book is not a requirement, we would recommend it. |
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