Help shape a collective vision and enjoy food, raffle prizes, and kids activities! Share your ideas on improving community well-being, including housing and neighborhood services, and learn about the ongoing International District Choice Neighborhood Initiative project.
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Category: Home and Housing
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International District Choice Neighborhood Meeting
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International District Choice Neighborhoods Community Meeting
Calling all International District residents! Come find out about the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative at the first International District Choice Neighborhoods Community Meeting. Connect with your neighbors and learn how you can make a difference.
Needs assessments will be launched for AHA residents and for ID community members to get started on the neighborhood’s Transformation Plan. Be there and enjoy food, raffle prizes, and community! Learn more at www.abqchoice.com.
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Goodwill Community Resource Fair
Overcome your obstacles! Get direct access to all kinds of resources – for work, food, housing, health, and more – at Goodwill’s Community Resource Fair.
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Weather the Drought: 3 Steps to Landscape Success
Time for a desert-friendly landscape! In this free online class, Water Authority Conservation experts will show you a three-step plan to make your landscape more resilient and beautiful.
Participants who attend the class IN FULL will receive a $20 rebate on their bill.
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One rebate per account regardless of how many times you have participated in a Water Smart class.
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Must attend class in full.
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Rebate takes 2 to 3 months to process, depending on your billing cycle.
Sign up HERE. Questions: abcwa@kessjones.com
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Let’s Talk African-American Gardens: Reconnect to Nature (Indoors!)
Join Mignon Hemsley and Danuelle Doswell to learn about our ancestral ties to houseplants in this free webinar. Embrace indoor greenery to enhance your mental and physical well-being!
Hemsley and Doswell are founders of Grounded in Washington DC, and are dedicated to rekindling the bond between people and nature by bringing the energy of the outdoors into our homes. They’ll share stories, scientific evidence, and practical tips to bring you into this healthy, connected lifestyle.
Register HERE for Zoom link.
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Melanated & Educated Part 1: Life
Are you living your best life? Learn how to get closer to it with this credit building and home ownership hybrid event presented by ABQ’s Delta Sigma Theta chapter. Door prizes and light refreshments!
Please RSVP at their website. Zoom available.
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Homeless Persons’ Memorial Vigil
Mark Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day with a silent march from the Compassion Center to the Albuquerque Indian Center, followed by a calling of the names of unhoused people who have died this year.
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“A Decent Home” Film Screening
“A Decent Home” chronicles what happens to homeowners when their mobile-home parks are snapped up by corporate investors. This displacement, and the struggles that follow, is a growing issue in New Mexico.
FREE screening in UNM Law Room 2401, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Sara Terry. Can’t make this screening? Check out the South Broadway Cultural Center screening on January 10.
View the trailer HERE.
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“A Decent Home” Film Screening
“A Decent Home” chronicles what happens to homeowners when their mobile-home parks are snapped up by corporate investors. This displacement, and the struggles that follow, is a growing issue in New Mexico.
FREE screening followed by a discussion with filmmaker Sara Terry. Can’t make this screening? Check out the UNM School of Law screening on January 16.
View the trailer HERE.
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NMBLC Tour of the Gateway Center
Join us for a tour of the city’s Gateway Center at Gibson Health Hub, which helps unhoused people with overnight beds and connections to services.
We will meet at 10:45 in the NMBLC lobby at 1314 Madeira, behind the Twister’s on Gibson! (Or meet us at the Gateway Center at 11:00.)