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Restore the 42nd Avenue Community Cupboard
A petition has been created calling on the the Capitola City Council to restore the 42nd Avenue Community Cupboard. To sign this petition: https://www.change.org/p/capitola-city-council-restore-the-42nd-avenue-community-cupboard
Please restore the 42nd Avenue Community Cupboard.
1) It increases our community capacity to look out for each other.
2) It strengthens the safety net without costing the government a dime.
3) It is a constant public example of the civic duty of caring for each other.
4) It taps the vast resource of people’s willingness to help each other.
5) It creates the social capital of neighbors helping neighbors.
The local Community Cupboard Program is sponsored by TimeBank Santa Cruz. Such sharing-economy programs exist quite successfully worldwide. We’re hoping the City of Capitola will see the benefit of the Cupboard Program and support it wholeheartedly.
One in five children in our County is hungry. Forty percent of college students are hungry. California has the highest poverty rate in the nation, given our high cost of living. All the great hunger efforts underway are not a drop in the bucket, given the scale of the crisis.
We propose that we restore the Cupboard and monitor its operation closely for three months to sort through any potential concerns. We additionally propose that we pilot a Community Cupboard Program in Capitola in collaboration with the City in which we install at least five Cupboards at various locations - a church and a business as well as other nonprofits and individual residences. We would similarly monitor their operation.
Please sign to indicate your support for the Community Cupboard Program.
To sign this petition:
Restore the 42nd Avenue Community Cupboard
https://www.change.org/p/capitola-city-council-restore-the-42nd-avenue-community-cupboard
1) It increases our community capacity to look out for each other.
2) It strengthens the safety net without costing the government a dime.
3) It is a constant public example of the civic duty of caring for each other.
4) It taps the vast resource of people’s willingness to help each other.
5) It creates the social capital of neighbors helping neighbors.
The local Community Cupboard Program is sponsored by TimeBank Santa Cruz. Such sharing-economy programs exist quite successfully worldwide. We’re hoping the City of Capitola will see the benefit of the Cupboard Program and support it wholeheartedly.
One in five children in our County is hungry. Forty percent of college students are hungry. California has the highest poverty rate in the nation, given our high cost of living. All the great hunger efforts underway are not a drop in the bucket, given the scale of the crisis.
We propose that we restore the Cupboard and monitor its operation closely for three months to sort through any potential concerns. We additionally propose that we pilot a Community Cupboard Program in Capitola in collaboration with the City in which we install at least five Cupboards at various locations - a church and a business as well as other nonprofits and individual residences. We would similarly monitor their operation.
Please sign to indicate your support for the Community Cupboard Program.
To sign this petition:
Restore the 42nd Avenue Community Cupboard
https://www.change.org/p/capitola-city-council-restore-the-42nd-avenue-community-cupboard
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"Complaints from neighbors prompted city staff to shut down the "community cupboard" that Capitola resident Bonnie Linden had been running in her front yard since July 2017. Mayor Michael Termini says he feels strongly about the need to help people who are hungry and wants to craft an ordinance to allow free pantries to exist in Capitola."
Read more:
City staff shuts down free pantry in Capitola neighborhood
http://www.ksbw.com/article/city-staff-shuts-down-free-pantry-in-capitola-neighborhood/19823843
Read more:
City staff shuts down free pantry in Capitola neighborhood
http://www.ksbw.com/article/city-staff-shuts-down-free-pantry-in-capitola-neighborhood/19823843
A box of free poems, sage and sunflower seedlings and a bulletin board full of colorful notices sat at the end of Bonnie Linden’s 42nd Avenue driveway late last week.
Missing from the collection was a sizeable cupboard filled with neighbor-stocked food offerings, free for the taking.
Early this month, Linden, director and cofounder of the TimeBank Santa Cruz, was forced to take down the Community Cupboard she had run since July, after sharing an estimated hundreds of pounds of food. A neighbor’s complaint brought the unpermitted structure and residential food distribution to the attention of Capitola Planning Department officials.
Linden is fighting back against the city decision, however, urging her supporters to write to city officials and sign her petition to reopen the cupboard.
Read more:
Neighborhood free food ‘cupboard’ in Capitola under scrutiny
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/lifestyle/20180416/neighborhood-free-food-cupboard-in-capitola-under-scrutiny
Missing from the collection was a sizeable cupboard filled with neighbor-stocked food offerings, free for the taking.
Early this month, Linden, director and cofounder of the TimeBank Santa Cruz, was forced to take down the Community Cupboard she had run since July, after sharing an estimated hundreds of pounds of food. A neighbor’s complaint brought the unpermitted structure and residential food distribution to the attention of Capitola Planning Department officials.
Linden is fighting back against the city decision, however, urging her supporters to write to city officials and sign her petition to reopen the cupboard.
Read more:
Neighborhood free food ‘cupboard’ in Capitola under scrutiny
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/lifestyle/20180416/neighborhood-free-food-cupboard-in-capitola-under-scrutiny
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