We're trying to reach more community members who might benefit from the services offered at Project Connect. The chart below shows the number of people in poverty in the City of Kalamazoo's neighborhoods (calculated from city-data.com percentages) vs. the number of Project Connect May 2011 attendees from those neighborhoods.
Where the red line doesn't align with the green line - we need your help with outreach in those neighborhoods, especially the Vine area. Contact Kelcie Douglas at the poverty reduction initiative by email at
povertysimulation@haltpoverty.org or call 269.615.1383. She's scheduling breakfast meetings for August.
I would note that we also have a lot of work to do in Edison and the Northside. They both have over 2,000 households in poverty, and less than 50 people in attendance. Just because the ratio of attendees to poverty is in line for those, does not mean that we don't have a ton of work to do in engaging those populations.
ReplyDeleteI'd just ask that we make sure that we continue to heavily target those neighborhoods as well.