Statewide Advocacy Day
Our Statewide Advocacy Day for Housing, Health, & Climate Justice on February 21st was a success!
The Turnaround Thursday Movement – Moving 2nd Chancers to Power
Anne Arundel County’s Turnaround Thursday Movement is celebrating its first anniversary! Turnaround Thursday launched (publically) on March 2, 2023. This “second chance job movement” is empowering those recently released from …
End 2023 by Giving to ACT
Remember ACT with Your End of Year Giving Celebrating Our First 5 Years… At our 5th Anniversary Action, we came together – 425 strong in attendance – to celebrate and …
Attainable Housing is Heard!
ACT members stood up and voiced their support to the County Council Members present to pass Bill #78-23 - the Essential Worker Housing Legislation -- and for our County to take a bold step in the right direction in making affordable housing attainable.
ACT is Back!
After being disorganized by the pandemic and reorganizing through our Listening Campaign, we came together saying: ACT is Back!
ACT’s Countywide Action Meeting
A Varsity Level Gathering, Planning for Varsity Level Action On September 7 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis, 128 of our members, representing our 18 member organizations, came out …
Turnaround Thursday is officially launched!
Together with ACT and the County Community Action Agency to celebrate this second chance jobs movement.
Grant partner of the Presbyterian Hunger Program makes strides on local issues
Pastor Tim Stern from Ark and Dove Presbyterian Church shared about ACT's work to address the systems that create poverty and oppression in our communities with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Check out the interview!
Episcopal Church awards reparations for ‘restoring Black communities’
From the Washington Post, Anne Arundel Connecting Together is one of the grant winners.
Karen V. Johnson and Timothy S. Stern: Anne Arundel council should force schools to invest in transportation
We were astonished when the Board of Education removed this funding. Concerned about student mental health amid the coronavirus, they narrowly voted to transfer these funds to mental health and other positions. This has created a specious argument between transportation and mental health. Read this commentary in the Capital Gazette.
Restore School Transportation Funding
Some of our students are being packed into Anne Arundel County school buses. Children are standing in the aisle. Others are sitting on the floor. This is not safe. Students in Anne Arundel County Public Schools who deserve safe and equitable transportation
ACT Update: Unemployment, Education Equity, Volunteering, Food Security/FAA
Quick follow-ups from today's county-wide check in on Unemployment, Food Security/FeedAnneArundel, Education Equity, and Volunteering.