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CPC (Center for Participatory Change) is a nonprofit organization in Asheville, NC. Their mission: to help people recognize their own power, work together, and transform their communities.
CPC awarded the North Carolina Peace Prize
Posted by johndilbeck on Wednesday, February 9 2005 at 3:45 AM
Category: cpc
The North Carolina Peace Corps Association will present its eighth annual North Carolina Peace Prize to the Center for Participatory Change of Asheville. The award will be given on Saturday, February 5, 2005 at the Sheraton Capital Center Hotel (421 South Salisbury Street, Raleigh, 919-834-9900). A reception will start at 7:00 PM with the presentation to follow. Sarah Parker, Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and returned Peace Corps volunteer, will present the prize, which is a vase from Turn & Burn Pottery in Seagrove. The prize also includes $750. The public is invited to the award reception and presentation.
The presentation is part of the winter board meeting of the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA). Jody Olson, Deputy Director of Peace Corps, will be attending the NPCA meeting and will make a speech at the peace prize presentation. Kevin Quigley, NPCA President, will also speak.
NCPCA is very proud to have been asked to host the NPCA board meeting because it is a recognition of the vitality of our group among the many RPCV groups that are affiliated with NPCA. We want to demonstrate our vitality by a good turnout of our membership at the reception. If you have time available on that evening, please make plans to join other NCPCA and NPCA members at the reception. Please send your RSVP to Emily Coble at csmith9899@aol.com or 919-231-6874.
Donations will be accepted for the Friends of Thailand’s Project Restore to rebuild two rural elementary schools in Thailand that are in need of assistance as one school begins the task of rebuilding its facility and the other works to restore the lives of 148 children orphaned by the tsunami. The Friends of Thailand is affiliated with NPCA and is a group of returned Peace Corps volunteers who served in Thailand.
The North Carolina Peace Prize was established to honor small North Carolina community-based non-profit groups that demonstrate the ideals of the Peace Corps – helping people to help themselves and promoting peace and cross-cultural understanding. Previous prize winners are High Country Amigos (Boone, 2003), Durham- San Ramón Sister Communities (Durham, 2002), North Carolina Partners of the Americas (Raleigh, 2001), El Centro Hispano (Durham, 1999); SEEDS (South Eastern Efforts Developing Sustainable Spaces) (Durham, 1998), Friends of the Glenwood Library (Greensboro, 1997), and Student Action for Farm Workers (Durham, 1996).
The Center for Participatory Change (CPC) was founded in 1999 to support grassroots groups in western North Carolina. Its mission is to help people recognize their own power to work together to transform their communities. Its geographic target includes 18 western counties and it is supporting more than 25 groups in 12 of these counties and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. These groups focus on economic justice, racial justice, and community support. CPC helps rural people make improvements in their communities through projects that they plan, implement, and evaluate themselves. The projects involve grassroots organizing, leadership development, capacity building, networking and a self-development fund.
Justice Sarah Parker has served in the North Carolina Supreme Court since 1993 and was recently reelected to that position. Previously, she served in the North Carolina Court of Appeals from 1985 to 1993 and was in private legal practice earlier. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ankara, Turkey from 1964 to 1966. NCPCA is honored to have her as the presenter of the 2005 North Carolina Peace Prize.
North Carolina Peace Corps Association, 201 East Hargett Street, Raleigh, NC 27601. For information about the peace prize, contact Tom Elkins at 919-855-3867 or 919-571-7881 or at tomam@bellsouth.net or Tom.Elkins@ncmail.net
Center for Participatory Change (www.cpcwnc.org), P.O. Box 9238, Asheville, NC 28815. For more information, contact CPC at 828-299-9437 or info@cpcwnc.org.
National Peace Corps Association, 1900 L Street, NW, Suite 205, Washington, D.C. 20036-5002. For more information, contact NPCA at (202) 293-7728 or npca@rpcv.org.
Jeannette Butterworth
Program Coordinator
Center for Participatory Change
PO Box 9238
Asheville, NC 28815
Email: jeannette@cpcwnc.org
Web: www.cpcwnc.org
Phone: 828.280-8122
Fax: 828.694-0792
CPC works to help people across Western North Carolina recognize their own power, work together, and transform their communities.
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