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Thriving

In order for a community to thrive, its residents need to thrive. Access to nutritious, affordable food is critical.
Harriet Goldman, interim CEO, Center for Poverty Solutions

CLOH.Org is action and passion

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said, "I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a person that you should share the passion and the action of time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

CLOH.Org hopes to be an efficient catalist for garnering citizen contributions that blend their life-actions of passion.

Call:

To be efficient, a resounding call to participate and recruitment effort is needed for each person. These web pages and the various sites are tangled and perhaps overboard. People want to know what they are getting themselves into and why it makes sense to do so. A personal investement requires a match from the others associated with the organization so as to be appreciated and appropriate.

Expansive Harbors

Mixing action and passion needs space, else we spin our wheels and sit in gridlock. The web pages offer containers, much like the branches on the trees in the forest for the leaves and the fuits and the seeds to grow and reproduce. Some of the sites are seedling or just stubs. However, each site has the potential to grow and engage dozens if not thousands of others on a regular basis.

Digital Divide Matters

REPORT SAYS DIGITAL DIVIDE STILL EXISTS

A report from the Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy, the Consumer Federation of America, and the Consumers Union argues that the Bush administration has ended its efforts to address the digital divide before the gap is nearly closed. The report says that low-income groups continue to lag significantly behind higher income people in terms of Internet access and access to broadband services. According to the report, U.S. households with annual incomes of $50,000 or more are three times as likely to have Internet access as households with incomes of less than $25,000. The groups that authored the report also criticized the administration for eliminating the Technology Opportunities Program and the Community Technology Centers program, both of which have lost their funding in the 2003 budget.
Washington Post, 30 May 2002

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