by apadmin | Jan 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
August 12th, 2010 I learned so much at the Health Action Summit yesterday in Hoover. Keynote speaker Mark Fentonhad a lot to say about how smart community planning and zoning policies could make all of our communities more livable, walkable, and conducive to physical...
by apadmin | Jan 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
August 10th, 2010 On August 28 at the Bottletree Cafe, Alabama Possible, the Greater Birmingham Community Food Partners, Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities, Jones Valley Urban Farm, and the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival present the Southeastern premiere of Lunch...
by apadmin | Jan 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
August 9th, 2010 By 2018, nearly two-thirds of available jobs will require some form of higher education. But Alabama lags behind the nation in getting our young people to college. Alabama’s median household income is $9,443 less than the national average. According...
by apadmin | Jan 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
August 6th, 2010 You’re invited to join us for Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread: Feeding God’s Children, our Huntsville hunger and food security workshop. This event is co-sponsored by The Interfaith Mission Service. 13.3 percent of Alabamians are food insecure,...
by apadmin | Jan 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
August 5th, 2010 We’ve mentioned before how obesity and hunger are twin faces of the same coin here in Alabama,and both are related to poverty. This may seem counter-intuitive, but it’s true. Ellen Gustafson of the UN Global Hunger Initiative gave a great talk in May...
by apadmin | Jan 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
August 3rd, 2010 It’s about time we gave a shout-out to the fabulous work our friend Amanda Storey is doing coordinating Jefferson County’s Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities (HKHC) grant. HKHC is a 4-year grant funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation supporting...
by apadmin | Jan 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
July 30th, 2010 Last Wednesday, APP hosted our annual higher education alliance meeting and invited our members to discuss faculty incentives for service-learning. Our panelists – Dr. Cindy Walker from Faulkner University, Dr. Nancy Francisco Stuart from Jacksonville...
by apadmin | Jan 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
July 29th, 2010 Love yoga? Want to support Alabama Possible’s work to mobilize Alabamians to end poverty? Please join us on August 14, 4-6 pm at Yoga Circle in Birmingham, for a yoga fundraiser to support Alabama Possible. 100% of the proceeds will go to support the...
by apadmin | Jan 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
July 28th, 2010 Childhood food security – image via npr.org The Obama administration has pledged to end childhood hunger by 2015. What does that mean, and how can we reach that goal? NPR’s All Things Considered recently looked at this question over a 2-part series....
by apadmin | Jan 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
July 27th, 2010 Save the date: the 2010 Alabama Food Summit is scheduled for November 12-13, 2010. Mark Winne, author of Closing the Food Gap, will be the keynote speaker. We’re big fans of Mark’s advocacy on behalf of food access and food security; he writes that...
