| 2011 City Champion - Central Care Mission's "Project Garden"
Spencer Pfleiderer is pictured at left receiving this year's City Champion award from POLIS' Rebecca Lujan Loveless. After surveying over 250 local non-profit programs, Project Garden was chosen for its holistic, collaborative approach. Central Care Mission is a residential program that seeks to not only empower the men that enter but their families and the community at large as well.
POLIS was interested in programs that properly engaged their clients talents, positively impacted a distressed neighborhood, effectively utilized partnerships, and directly combated Orlando's struggle to provide access to basic life necessities (from Gallup's Well-being Index).
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| Thanks to our volunteers and sponsors, we had a wonderful evening on one of the most beautiful nights of the year. We shared a lovely meal, heard some great talks, and were able to present our City Champion award.
A special thanks to Allogy Interactive for presenting the event this year. Allogy is an exciting new company that builds mobile applications that positively impact human relationships.
Our other sponsors included Florida Hospital, Crossman and Co, Westbrook Service Corp, Frontline Outreach, Toppers Creamery, Lifework Leadership, South Street Ministry, Reformed Theological Seminary, Compassion Corner, Summit Church, Armonia U.S., Heart of the City Foundation, Frieze Consulting, First Presbyterian Church Orlando, LabarAdams, Bags, Inc.
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PRESS RELEASE ::
POLIS Institute Hosts State of The City 2011: Hope from Mexico City for Orlando
What lessons of hope do impoverished communities in Mexico City hold for distressed neighborhoods of Orlando? Find out November 3, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., as POLIS Institute holds its second annual State of the City dinner at Rollins College in Winter Park. Saul Cruz, the founder Armonia – an organization transforming the lives of the poorest of the poor among Mexico City’s citizens – will speak.
Similar to Armonia, POLIS Institute works directly with distressed neighborhoods and trains others with the conviction that the well-being of the city will improve only when the talents of the poor are properly engaged. This year’s State of the City will be discussing how this can be achieved and what people are already doing to make Orlando great.
Gallup has ranked Greater Orlando 116th out of 188 U.S. cities in regards to human well-being. Five broad categories are essential to most people’s definition of well-being: career, social, financial, physical and community.In addition, POLIS Institute will reward this year’s City Champion (the organization that is doing the best job improving well-being in Greater Orlando) and reveal the latest POLIS Institute research on what we can do to improve well-being in our city.
During this sponsored event, community leaders from academia, government, religious and non-profit organizations will share a meal on the beautiful patio of Cornell Museum at Rollins College. To learn how you can sponsor Polis’ State of the City event, visit http://www.polisinstitute.org/stateofthecity/annualevent.html
Funds will not be solicited at this event.
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