Clothing drop-off

Clothing drop-off

POLAND

Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 2985 Center Road, is sponsoring a clothing drop-off shed. The clothing is collected by St. Pauly Textiles, a family-owned, upstate New York company. St. Pauly collects usable clothing, and in 2012, more than 59 million garments were distributed to an estimated 7.5 million people.

St. Pauly has more than 800 clothing drop-off sheds in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont. This program keeps clothing out of the landfill and helps out those in need, and Prince of Peace donates the small revenue generated to local causes.

ACTION meeting

YOUNGSTOWN

In September, ACTION began discussion about building bases in congregations that will create congregational and ACTION power.

The leadership meeting next Sunday will continue that strategy. All Alliance for Congregational Transformation Influencing Our Neighborhoods task force committee leaders, board members and pastors are asked to bring five members. Areas represented are education, crime and safety, education, health foods, South Avenue corridor and McGuffey Mall.

The session will take place at 6 p.m. at St. Edward Church, 270 Tod Lane.

SID Network grants

CUYAHOGA FALLS

The SID Network of Ohio has created a mini-grant program to provide funding to neighborhood and community groups for outreach projects to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and other sleep-related causes of infant death.

Requests, which may not exceed $600, will be reviewed by the SID Network of Ohio advisory committee. There will be two rounds of Infant Safe Sleep Mini-Grants annually. Round 1: For projects occurring between Jan. 1 and April 30, 2015, application deadline is Nov. 1; and Round 2: For projects occurring between July 1 and Oct. 31, 2015, application deadline is May 1, 2015.

For details, contact C/O SID Network of Ohio, Dr. Stacy Scott, Program Manager, 421 Graham Road, Suite H, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221.