The fresh fruits or vegetables you harvest at a gleaning, will reach the tables of hungry families in your community within 24-48 hours. Your efforts matter and share great nutrition AND hope for a better tomorrow.
Dear Southwest Ohio Faith Leaders,

My organization is a gleaning organization. We have been working with Miami University’s Institute for Food farm since fall of 2019, gleaning on a weekly basis throughout the harvest season. They have been a wonderful and generous partner, and the vast majority of their donations have remained within Butler County, distributed by TOPSS Pantry, Army of Kindness, and JEE Foods. TOPSS and Army of Kindness are this year’s recipients.It is a rare opportunity to be invited to a farm on a weekly basis, as the MUIFF has done. (Most of our gleanings are one-off events that arise when growers find they have a surplus that needs to be harvested before they plow it under.) Lately, we are having a particular challenge finding enough volunteers to show up, each week, as many of our past regulars are otherwise engaged, this season, and most students are away for the summer. I am reaching out to request your help in spreading the word about this wonderful weekly volunteer opportunity right in Oxford. I’m attaching a flier for posting or sharing electronically. Folks can also register as a volunteer at https://endhunger.org/ohio/, then find the event dates they want to sign up for. (Please note that we ask folks to sign up via our volunteer platform. It’s important that no one just shows up unannounced at an event, in consideration of the farm and the growers. We send specific instructions for where and when to meet, and any other requirements, the evening prior to each gleaning.)We are looking to fill up to 10 volunteer spots in a 3-hour shift on Wednesday mornings, 9-12. We are currently scheduled into November. The food we glean is some of the freshest available, and gets distributed to individuals to rarely otherwise have access to it. Our volunteers love the work and their time on the farm. I am more than happy to field any questions you have about this, via email or phone (see below).
Thank you for your time!
Sue Plummer | Ohio Program Coordinator
2366 Kemper Lane • Cincinnati, OH 45206513-458-9808 | ENDhunger.org Facebook | Instagram

Members of the NoDeathPenaltyOH coalition will be tabling at ComFest this year, a community festival at Goodale Park in Columbus from June 23rd – June 25th. This is an opportunity to work with others across the state, who share in the commitment to end Ohio’s death penalty. Training and materials will be provided.

Register here to volunteer. 

IJPC supports Cincinnati Action for Housing Now’s initiative for affordable housing and we need your help to get it on the November ballot. Join us this Saturday!

The day will include a brief training on how to collect signatures for the ballot initiative, and then teams of two will go to Vine St, Findlay Market, and City Flea in Washington Park to talk to Cincinnati voters about how we can fund more affordable housing in the city. Lunch will be provided. Can’t stay the whole time? No problem – show up when you can.

The ballot measure would restore our earned income tax to its 2020 levels in order to provide a dedicated funding stream to develop housing for the most vulnerable. While there is some promising affordable housing development happening in Cincinnati, very few of those units will serve those living <30% of the Area Median Income (<$18,150/person). The .3% increase will result in $40-50 million per year dedicated to those who need it most.

IJPC Canvass for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund
Saturday, May 13
10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Buddy’s Place (Miami University Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine)
1300 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Parking suggestion: Mercer Garage or Washington Park

Sign up here!

Findlay Market’s Annual Art & Poetry Day is Saturday, May 20th and we’re proud to be a sponsor, thanks to the generosity of one of our donors! Share your love of Women Writing for (a) Change at one of our city’s other crown jewels.
HELP US BY VOLUNTEERING AT OUR INFO TABLE FOR 2 HOURS between
10am-4pm.
We hope to have two community members sign up for each shift. We’d love to have adult and youth writers represented! What will you do?
  1. Answer questions about Women Writing for (a) Change youth and adult programs.
  2. Talk about your personal experience and why WWf(a)C means so much to you!
  3. Have info on hand about summer programs and events (provided by the office).
  4. Invite people to sign up for our newsletter.
  5. Offer visitors a takeaway activity called “Fast Writes at Findlay,” which are writing prompts people can take along during their day at the market and then return their writing to us or post to our Instagram.
Have a WWf(a)C friend? Sign up to work the same shift!
Shifts for May 20th:
10am – 12pm
12pm – 2pm
2pm – 4pm
Email Marilyn Nolan with your shift preference! mnolan@womenwriting.org

Join the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center for its Upstander Service Night. HHC will be leading a group volunteer activity at Freestore Foodbank’s Mayerson Distribution Center on December 1, from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. After learning about what it means to be an upstander and why HHC features the Freestore Foodbank in its Humanity Gallery, volunteers will help pack and organize food products for those in need. Freestore Foodbank’s mission is to improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community, and our vision is to create a hunger-free, healthy, and thriving community.

Upstander Service Days allow participants to give back to the community through a volunteer service project while learning about what it means to be an upstander.

LIMITED CAPACITY AVAILABLE. Please register on Freestore Foodbank’s website:  HTTP://VHUB.AT/XHHC

Learn more about HHC’S CINCY UPSTANDER PROJECT.

Join the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center for its Upstander Service Night. HHC will be leading a group volunteer activity at Freestore Foodbank’s Mayerson Distribution Center on December 1, from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. After learning about what it means to be an upstander and why HHC features the Freestore Foodbank in its Humanity Gallery, volunteers will help pack and organize food products for those in need. Freestore Foodbank’s mission is to improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community, and our vision is to create a hunger-free, healthy, and thriving community.

Upstander Service Days allow participants to give back to the community through a volunteer service project while learning about what it means to be an upstander.

LIMITED CAPACITY AVAILABLE. Please register on Freestore Foodbank’s website:  HTTP://VHUB.AT/XHHC

Learn more about HHC’S CINCY UPSTANDER PROJECT.

Nature & Spirit hikes are new monthly opportunities for Friends of Marianist Environmental Education Center donors and volunteers to spend time with each other in the Mount St. John nature preserve with staff to build awareness of seasonal changes that inform our spiritual journey. We will heighten our observation skills, using all our senses to learn about – and from – the species in our larger Earth community and their Creator. We will learn and practice prayer and reflection techniques to nurture ourselves as stewards, peacemakers, and justice seekers.
We’ll gather in Lot C at Mount Saint John at 12:45 on the fourth Friday of each month unless otherwise noted on our website. Hikes will last 60-90 minutes. No registration is required, but we do ask you let us know you plan to attend by emailing info@meec.center by Wednesday prior.
Nature & Spirit hikes are new monthly opportunities for Friends of Marianist Environmental Education Center donors and volunteers to spend time with each other in the Mount St. John nature preserve with staff to build awareness of seasonal changes that inform our spiritual journey. We will heighten our observation skills, using all our senses to learn about – and from – the species in our larger Earth community and their Creator. We will learn and practice prayer and reflection techniques to nurture ourselves as stewards, peacemakers, and justice seekers.
We’ll gather in Lot C at Mount Saint John at 12:45 on the fourth Friday of each month unless otherwise noted on our website. Hikes will last 60-90 minutes. No registration is required, but we do ask you let us know you plan to attend by emailing info@meec.center by Wednesday prior.
Nature & Spirit hikes are new monthly opportunities for Friends of Marianist Environmental Education Center donors and volunteers to spend time with each other in the Mount St. John nature preserve with staff to build awareness of seasonal changes that inform our spiritual journey. We will heighten our observation skills, using all our senses to learn about – and from – the species in our larger Earth community and their Creator. We will learn and practice prayer and reflection techniques to nurture ourselves as stewards, peacemakers, and justice seekers.
We’ll gather in Lot C at Mount Saint John at 12:45 on the fourth Friday of each month unless otherwise noted on our website. Hikes will last 60-90 minutes. No registration is required, but we do ask you let us know you plan to attend by emailing info@meec.center by Wednesday prior.
Nature & Spirit hikes are new monthly opportunities for Friends of Marianist Environmental Education Center donors and volunteers to spend time with each other in the Mount St. John nature preserve with staff to build awareness of seasonal changes that inform our spiritual journey. We will heighten our observation skills, using all our senses to learn about – and from – the species in our larger Earth community and their Creator. We will learn and practice prayer and reflection techniques to nurture ourselves as stewards, peacemakers, and justice seekers.
We’ll gather in Lot C at Mount Saint John at 12:45 on the fourth Friday of each month unless otherwise noted on our website. Hikes will last 60-90 minutes. No registration is required, but we do ask you let us know you plan to attend by emailing info@meec.center by Wednesday prior.