FALL 2023 ITEMS FOR ACTION

* CVSA Launches First-Ever U.S. People’s Report on SDG Shortfall and Potential Viable Solutions

 

* Government Abandonment Follows Disasters from Sea to Shining Sea

CVSA Newsletter-ITEMS Fall 2023.pdf
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Summer 2023 ITEMS FOR ACTION

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Remote Area Medical USA looking for West Coast Hosts

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WINTER 2023 ITEMS FOR ACTION

From the halls of the United Nations to business conventions in Los Angeles, and from classrooms in universities on both coasts to webinars held via Zoom for nationwide memberships of professional associations, Commission on Voluntary Service & Action’s (CVSA) Community Education Campaign for the Implementation of the 2030 SDGs in the U.S. has expanded into new sectors nationally and internationally.

 

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New Nonprofit: SAVe - Sustainability in Audio Visual Tackling E-waste

Volunteers Strengthening Community Ties in a West VIrginia Town

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SPRING 2022 ITEMS FOR ACTION

New INVEST YOURSELF Catalogue Connects Member Organizations with the 2030 SDGs

 

Also read about a Northern Idaho Community's Fight for Health, Clean Water,
Non-Toxic Land and Accountability

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WINTER 2021 ITEMS FOR ACTION

Grassroots Volunteers Mobilize in Response to Community Needs During COVID-19 Pandemic

In the face of catastrophic medical, economic and environmental damage to communities across the U.S. since March of last year, the burden of organizing aid and relief for the millions in need has largely fallen upon non-profits, volunteer associations and organically grown self-help mutual aid organizations resulting from a noticeable absence of federal coordination and relief. 

Also In This Issue:
- Small Businesses + Volunteer Organizations: Natural Allies, CVSA Develops Extraordinary Benefit
- Reports from the 2020 High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
- Column: Implementation of the SDGs: Global Examples: Cuba, Uganda
- Editorial: "Test, test, Test...Isolate, Trace." Why Aren't They Still?
- Commentary: It's Up to Us
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SPRING 2019  ITEMS FOR ACTION

The New INVEST YOURSELF Campaign is On; CVSA Prepares for the 2019 HLPF on the 2030 SDGS
CVSA Prepares for the 2019 High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at the UN

CVSA Community Education Campaign for the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in the U.S. - Update

Global Meeting on "Reimagining Volunteerism for the 2030 Agenda" planned by UN for 2020

In Memorium: Stan Brock, Founder of Remote Area Medical
ITEMS Newsletter Spring 2019.pdf
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SPRING 2018 ITEMS FOR ACTION

UPDATES on CVSA's Community Education Campaign for the Implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals

FEATURE: CVSA Brings University of Southern California Engineering Students to Texas for Disaster Recovery Projects

CVSA's Move to Los Angeles
CVSA ITEMS Spring 2018 for website.pdf
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SPRING 2017

CVSA’s “Taking Ownership of the SDGs” Community Workshops Take Off! Click to open in Adobe Acrobat or clidk download to save file.
ITEMS Spring 2017 post.pdf
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FALL 2016

CVSA Takes the Lead Bringing the SDGs to Communities in the U.S. Click to open in Adobe Acrobat or click download to save file.
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SPRING 2016

CVSA Launches Nationwide Community Education Campaign for the SDGs. Click to open in Adobe Acrobat or click downlaod to save file.
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SPRING 2015

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ITEMS Fall 2015.pdf
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In this edition:

 

  INVEST YOURSELF Goes to United Methodist Regional Conferences

 

  TRIBUTE to Reverend Randle B. Dew

 

  UN: General Assembly Unanimously Approves 2030 Sustainable 
  Development Goals

 

  CVSA Volunteer Delivers Medical Supplies to Greek Community 
  Clinic

 

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In this edition:

 

   Launch of 2015 INVEST YOURSELF Campaign Held at 53rd 
   Session of Commission on Social Development at UN

 

   CVSA Member Organizations Offer Their Organizing Expertise to
   NGOs at UN Conference

 

   CVSA's US-China Volunteer English Teaching Project 

SUMMER 2014

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In this edition:

 

    CVSA Gains Special NGO Status to UN Economic and Social
    Council 

 

    Free Health Clinic in Greece Joins CVSA - International Support
    Sought to Address Public Health Crisis in Face of Austerity Policies 

 

    The Power of the Full-time Volunteer to Break the Popular Sense
    of Powerlessness

 

    Water denials a growing U.S. trend: Detroit Residents Fight 
    Household Water Shutoffs, Gain UN Attention

 

SPRING 2013

Health Care Volunteers Needed for
First Free Indigenous-run Hospital in Honduras

Internationalist Call for Garífuna Hospital Volunteers and Support

 

Dr. Luther Castillo, founder of the First Popular Garífuna Hospital in Ciroboya, Colon, on the northern coast of of Honduras, was hosted by CVSA and the New York Support Committee for the First Popular Garífuna Hospital for a week of speaking engagements in New York City, speaking about an alternative model to health care delivery — as a human right.

CVSA Establishes Ongoing Disaster Volunteer Information & Referral Service

In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, from which tens of thousands of families in working class neighborhoods in the New York Metropolitan area are still struggling to recover five months later, CVSA volunteers spearheaded the formation of a Disaster Relief Information Volunteer Information & Referral Service.