MORE2 http://www.more2.org Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:23:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Fifth Annual Imagine Banquet http://www.more2.org/2010/05/fifth-annual-imagine-banquet/ http://www.more2.org/2010/05/fifth-annual-imagine-banquet/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 15:35:36 +0000 editor http://www.more2.org/?p=349 Thursday, June 10, 2010

6:00 p.m. Social hour; 7:00 Dinner

Hyatt Regency Crown Center

2345 McGee St., Kansas City Missouri

Dianne Cleaver, Keynote Speaker

Dianne Cleaver is well known to Greater Kansas City residents.  She is President of Symmetry Consulting, LLC, sits on the Executive Board of the United Way of Greater Kansas City, is a member of the University of Missouri Kansas City Board of Trustees, and is a member of the National Advisory Board Institute of Urban Education. 

Working for quality public education is one of Ms. Cleaver’s passions.

 

 
 

 
 

 

 
 

 

]]> http://www.more2.org/2010/05/fifth-annual-imagine-banquet/feed/ 0 The State of Public Education in Metropolitan Kansas City http://www.more2.org/2010/04/the-state-of-public-education-in-metropolitan-kansas-city-part-i/ http://www.more2.org/2010/04/the-state-of-public-education-in-metropolitan-kansas-city-part-i/#comments Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:58:56 +0000 editor http://www.more2.org/?p=332

A Public Opinion Survey Conducted by the MORE2 Education Task Force,

Roma Lee Taunton, PhD, Project Director

Over the summer and fall of 2009 the MORE2 Education Task Force conducted a survey related to public education within the Metro Kansas City Area. Data were collected across the covenanting congregations via electronic and paper questionnaires. The Task Force will use findings from the survey for two purposes: (a) to inform its 2010 policy agenda, and (b) as baseline data for evaluation of achievement of its 2012 outcome goals.

Click on the above image to read the report.  You can also access the report on the Education page.  Click the Issues tab and follow the link to Education.

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Sunday, February 28, 2010

3:30-5:00 p.m.

Second Baptist Church of Olathe

331 North Kansas Avenue, Olathe, Kansas

This meeting will feature a panel discussion and dialog with superintendents Dr. Patricia All, Olathe USD 233, and Dr. Gene Johnson, Shawnee Mission USD 513,  to discuss the impact of Kansas funding cuts on education and strategies for preventing further cuts.  The group will also explore ways that MORE2 can build relationships with these school districts in an effort to ensure high quality, equitable public education for al Kansas children. 

Please join us for this important disciussion. 

 

]]> http://www.more2.org/2010/02/320/feed/ 0 A Time to Tell Our Stories: A Transportation Public Meeting http://www.more2.org/2009/08/a-time-to-tell-our-stories-a-transportation-public-meeting/ http://www.more2.org/2009/08/a-time-to-tell-our-stories-a-transportation-public-meeting/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:47:44 +0000 editor http://www.more2.org/?p=249 Thursday, August 27, 2009  6:00 p.m.
Zion Grove Missionary Baptist Church
2801 Swope Parkway, Kansas City, Missouri

A piper will pipe, clergy will process, policy makers will listen, ordinary citizens will tell their stories and we will all pray for a new transportation policy that transcends the boundaries of race and poverty to bring equity to our bi-state metro region.

 Over three hundred residents from across the bi-state metro area are expected to attend this important MORE2 sponsored public transit summit. Policy makers slated to attend the event include: U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, representing Missouri; staff persons from Senator Pat Roberts’, Senator Sam Brownback’s and Representative Dennis Moore’s offices representing Kansas.

Greater Kansas City has hundreds of miles of roads that intersect our bi-state municipalities. To some these highways serve as connecting paths from one point to another; to others they are concrete canyons that garrison them within their impoverished neighborhoods; to others they are obstacles to be conquered on the way to mastering the public transit system. The impact of urban sprawl and the far flung communities of our metropolitan area, make the new transportation bill a major concern to the future of Greater Kansas City.

Join with us to make a difference.

]]> http://www.more2.org/2009/08/a-time-to-tell-our-stories-a-transportation-public-meeting/feed/ 0 Best and Most Compelling http://www.more2.org/2009/06/best-and-most-compelling/ http://www.more2.org/2009/06/best-and-most-compelling/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:32:22 +0000 admin http://www.more2.org/?p=228 Over 600 people of faith came from all over the metro area to join together in support of racial and economic equity. Included in the audience were 120 leaders from Gamaliel affiliates from across the country who were in Overland Park, Kansas for the annual African American Leadership Conference. Rev. Dr. James Forbes gave a rousing call for the individuals in the room to work together on issues that will change our communities for the better. MORE2 leaders, in a statement of solidarity, signed over 500 postcards to their Senators (representing 11 states) in support of the Dream Act. Overall, participants called this Fourth Annual imagine Banquet the best and most compelling event that MORE2 has organized in the organization’s short history.

Check out the MORE2 Timeline

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