NE FL COUNTS - CHANGE AGENT Leadership Scholarship Application

Strides for Pride April 21, 2012

Strides for Pride Participant Package

GSA Network Meeting Friday January 27th

Jasmyns Gsa Network Flyer 1-27-12

PFLAG Meeting January 19th

Please join PFLAG of Jacksonville Thursday, January 19th, 7pm, Christ Church of Peace for our monthly meeting. 

Speaker, Cindy Watson, Executive Director of JASMYN "Equal and Human Rights for the LGBT people living in Jacksonville" Social hour to follow.

We are continuing our project of food items for the JASMYN food pantry if you wish to bring something.

Look forward to an evening of a topic that is of great interest to us all.

January 2012 Flyer

Dessert Evening with PFLAG - December 15th

Join with your family and fiends as we celebrate the Holiday Season with a PFLAG of Jacksonville Dessert evening. Bring your favorite dessert to share. We will provide the beverages. For those of you who would like to participate in the Holiday Helpers giving event, we will be accepting children's toys to Helpers for their big Holiday Party.

Look forward to seeing you December 15th -7p.m. Christ Church of Peace 1240 S. Mc Duff Avenue. 

2011 Student Voices Flyer

Northeast Florida World AIDS Week Calendar of Events

Northeast Florida

World AIDS Week

Calendar of Events 2011

Monday, November 28

Women & Children Celebration

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Location

Shands-LRC Building

655 W 8^th St, Jax, FL 32209

Contact: Bonita Drayton: 904-244-3044

Tuesday, November 29

Community Connection/Education Day

Health Fairs at Local Colleges

Contact: Dr. Max Wilson: 904-253-2985

Wednesday, November 30

Community Connection/Education Day

Poetry Competition

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Location

Edward Waters College

1658 Kings Rd, Jax, FL 32209

Contact: Dr. Max Wilson: 904-253-2985

Thursday, December 1

National AIDS Quilt Opening Display

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Ceremony

Location

Jacksonville City Hall

(Duval and Laura Streets)

Contact: Doug Degenhardt: dardt@bellsouth.net

For Donations Call 904-356-1612 x 17

www.northeastfloridaworldaidsweek.com

Thursday, December 1

Memorial Service

6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Location

Bethel Baptist Institutional Church

215 Bethel Baptist St., Jax, FL 32202

Contact: Nicole Richardson: 904-722-3000 x219

Friday, December 2

10^th Annual Community Awards

Luncheon 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Location

Omni Hotel Jacksonville

245 Water Street

Speaker: Surprise Guest

Tickets: $30 Individual & $300 Table

Contact: Heather Vaughn 904-739-7016

          

Saturday, December 3

Community Connection/Education Day

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM 

Location

Bethel Baptist Institutional Church

215 Bethel Baptist St., Jax, FL 32202

Contact: Dr. Max Wilson at 904-253-2985

          

 Teddy Bear Touchdown

  Location and Time      

 TBD

Contact: Heather Vaughan: 904-739-7016    

BRING IN THOSE CANNED GOODS/NON-PERISHABLE ITEMS!

YOU DON'T HAVE TO JUST BRING CANNED GOODS...YOU CAN ALSO BRING:

• RICE
• BEANS
• PEANUT BUTTER
• RAMEN NOODLES
• anything else that does not require refrigeration 

Non-perishable Food Drive

Don't forget to bring non-perishable food items to guidance. There will be a box for collection near the main entrance to the guidance office. All collected items will be donated to JASMYN. Officers and other interested club members will be delivering the items on Drop-In days. Give your club president (Rihan Griffin) a shout if you would like to help deliver our donations!

BREAKING NEWS

Broward County Passes Equal Benefits Ordinance

Companies must treat domestic partners and married couples equally

Just moments ago the Broward County Commission voted unanimously to approve Florida's first countywide Equal Benefits Ordinance (EBO), a measure that requires the county's vendors to provide domestic partners with benefits equal to those offered to spouses of married employees. In other words, if you want to do business with Broward County, you must treat domestic partners and married employees equally. This amazing victory is the culmination of more than a year's work on the part of Equality Florida and local organizers. Way to go team!
By enacting this ordinance, Broward County adopts one of the nation's most significant policies furthering workplace equality. Today, Broward County continues its long history of leadership in the area of human rights by delivering on the promise of equal pay for equal work.
Broward is the first county Florida to adopt an EBO. In 2005 Miami Beach became the first city in the state to pass an EBO, and the Miami Beach policy has been praised by the city commission and the staff, while reporting no negative fiscal impact.
The ordinance places Broward County's domestic partnership policies among the strongest in the country. In recent years EBOs have been adopted as a state law in California, and in the cities of San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Olympia, Minneapolis, and Portland. The ordinance was introduced by Mayor Sue Gunzburger and was co-sponsored by all members of the commission.
The EBO applies to companies who are in contracts of $100,000 or more with the county and who have 5 or more employees. If a company does not currently provide benefits to the spouses of their employees, then they are not required to provide benefits to the domestic partners of their employees.
If companies are not able to provide benefits to domestic partners, they may provide the cash equivalent to the employee and still meet the requirements of the EBO.
Special thanks to our Broward Coalition partners who made up our winning team: the Pride Center, Sunserve, the Dolphin Democrats, the GLBT Democratic Caucus, and the many community leaders who stood with us.
Sincerely,

Stratton Pollitzer
Deupty Director
Equality Florida