Maytag Introduces New 'Feel Good Fridge' Initiative to Help Provide Dependable Access to Healthy Food for Children

 

 

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/maytag-introduces-new-feel-good-fridge-initiative-to-help-provide-dependable-access-to-healthy-food-for-children-301394093.html Maytag Introduces New 'Feel Good Fridge' Initiative to Help Provide Dependable Access to Healthy Food for Children Brand leverages long-standing relationship with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to help address an increasing food insecurity issue across the country NEWS PROVIDED BY Maytag  Oct 06, 2021, 08:59 ET SHARE THIS ARTICLE BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Oct. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Access to healthy food is an issue for millions of children and the pandemic made the situation even worse. In fact, a 2020 study cites that 27.5 percent of households with children are food insecure, which means about 14 million children in the United States are not getting enough to eat1.  That is why Maytag – a leading appliance brand built on dependability – is launching the Maytag® Feel Good Fridge program in collaboration with Boys & Girls Clubs of America, placing Maytag® refrigerators in select Boys & Girls Clubs in underserved communities across the country. The purpose-driven initiative is launching with ten fridges with a goal to be in 30 Clubs by early 2022, to help create thriving communities that children and their families can consistently depend on.   "Maytag believes dependability starts with ensuring that all Americans have access to their most basic needs, and having access to healthy and nourishing food is one of the most important needs of children," says Kelly Roche, Brand Manager for Maytag. "We're delighted to help provide children with this access by placing our Feel Good Fridges at the Boys & Girls Clubs, proudly expanding on our nearly 20-year relationship with the organization." Maytag is working with Academy Award winner, producer, actor and TV host Terrence Jenkins, to launch the Maytag® Feel Good Fridge efforts. Jenkins is very involved with Boys & Girls Clubs of America as an alum from North Carolina and an advocate for fighting food insecurity, most recently working with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) around the country to get healthier food to students and establish healthier habits for them. Jenkins recently visited the first Maytag® Feel Good Fridge reveal in Los Angeles to officially launch the initiative. "I am very passionate about helping meet children's needs for healthy food. So, working with Maytag for the opportunity to bring Feel Good Fridges to the Boys & Girls Clubs across the country was a no brainer to me," says Jenkins. "As someone who personally knows the importance of having a local Boys & Girls Club, I am honored to help Club kids in underserved communities get access to healthy food." In addition to providing the refrigerators, Maytag is providing Boys & Girls Clubs of America with a small grant to help fill the Feel Good Fridges with healthy food. The Clubs will also leverage their local relationships to keep the fridges full of healthy options for kids and their families. It's estimated that each Maytag® Feel Good Fridge will help provide healthy food to an estimated 130 Club kids each day.2 Club kids and teens will customize the fridge with Maytag decals, which suggest healthy food choices and healthy eating tips to support Boys and Girls Clubs' existing Healthy Habits curriculum.  "Maytag has been a dependable ally in our Club communities for nearly two decades and the Feel Good Fridge program addresses a very important effort, allowing our youth and their families to live a healthier lifestyle," says Laura Gover, Senior Director of Health & Wellness at Boys & Girls Clubs of America. "Access to healthy food encourages youth to make choices that support their overall wellness, which can change the trajectory of a youth's life entirely. Giving our Club children access to healthy food will help them to thrive and continue our mission of helping kids achieve their potential." Boys & Girls Clubs in Los Angeles, New York, Detroit and Grand Rapids will be the first to receive official Maytag® Feel Good Fridges. Once installed, the Maytag® Feel Good Fridges will help ensure an important basic need is met, removing a barrier to healthier communities and helping children to thrive. To learn more, donate or volunteer at your local Club, please visit maytag.com/feelgoodfridge. About Maytag® Feel Good Fridge The Maytag® Feel Good Fridge is a donated refrigerator located at select Boys & Girls Clubs across the country that will be stocked with healthy food for Club kids and their families to take when in-need. Boys & Girls Clubs in Los Angeles, New York, Detroit and Grand Rapids will be the first to receive Feel Good Fridges and Maytag plans to place 20 additional Feel Good Fridges in Clubs around the country by early 2022. To learn more about the program or how to get involved, please visit maytag.com/feelgoodfridge. About Maytag Brand For more than a century, Maytag® appliances have been synonymous with dependability and durability. For over 100 years- Maytag has an enduring tradition of quality production and powerful performance.  Durable, commercial-grade components are found in many Maytag® appliances – including Maytag® front-load and top-load washers and dryers.  Maytag also offers a full range of kitchen appliances - Maytag® dishwashers with the PowerBlast® cycle, Maytag® refrigerators with the Powercold® option, as well as Maytag® ranges, cooktops and ovens with Power™ burner and Power™ element options. In January 2014, Maytag introduced America to the Maytag Man – a dependable machine and the human embodiment of the durability, reliability and power inside all Maytag® appliances. In addition to creating durable appliances, Maytag also is a dependable partner to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America in their effort to support communities across America and help young people achieve great futures.   For more information about Maytag, please visit Maytag.com, or find us on Twitter at @TheMaytagMan, Instagram at instagram.com/Maytag,  Facebook at Facebook.com/Maytag or Pinterest at pinterest.com/Maytag.   About Boys & Girls Clubs of America For 160 years, Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA.org) has provided a safe place for kids and teens to learn and grow. Clubs offer caring adult mentors, fun and friendship, and high-impact youth development programs on a daily basis during critical non-school hours. Boys & Girls Clubs programming promotes academic success, good character and leadership, and healthy lifestyles. More than 4,700 Clubs serve over 4.3 million young people through Club membership and community outreach. Clubs are located in cities, towns, public housing and on Native lands throughout the country, and serve military families in BGCA-affiliated Youth Centers on U.S. military installations worldwide. National headquarters are located in Atlanta. Learn more about Boys & Girls Clubs of America on Facebook and Twitter.   1 As of June 2020. An analysis by the Brookings Institution 2 Based on ten Maytag® Feel Good Fridges installed in LA, NY, Detroit and Grand Rapids, MI Clubs in September and October 2021   SOURCE Maytag

Without Indigenous History, There Is No U.S. History

 

 

 

https://time.com/6274071/us-history-indigenous-americans/    History George Rinhart—Corbis/Getty Images IDEAS BY NED BLACKHAWK   APRIL 26, 2023 7:00 AM EDT Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, where he is the faculty coordinator for the Yale Group for the Study of Native America. His previous books include the prizewinning Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West It is time to build a new foundation for American history. Its old paradigms have grown thin and worn. For so long, the field’s exclusive focus on Europeans and their descendants has left us with more problems than answers. Generations of other imperialists, for example, preceded the Puritans, who we have been told governed a commonwealth in the “wilderness.” Similarly, histories that celebrated pioneers upon western “frontiers” have remained incomplete without attention to broader tales of expansion and empire. If history provides the common soil for a nation’s growth and a window into its future, it is time to reimagine U.S. history and to do so outside the tropes of discovery that have often bred exclusion and misunderstanding. To find answers to the challenges of our time—racial strife, climate crisis, and domestic and global inequities, among others—will require new concepts, approaches, and commitments. It is time to put down the interpretive tools of the previous century and take up new ones.   Even the word “America” refers to Europeans and discovery. In 1507, cartographers Matthias Ringmann and Martin Waldseemüller renamed the recently encountered “fourth part” of the world after Americus Vesputius (Vespucci), its supposed discoverer. Unlike Columbus in the 1490s, in 1503, Vespucci claimed to have found—not passage to Asia—but something more. He claimed to have discovered “a new world.”   For centuries, America and the New World have become ideas and synonyms that convey a sense of wonder and possibility made manifest by discovery, a historical act in which explorers are the protagonists. They are its actors and subjects. They think and name, conquer and settle, govern and own. They have formed the historic center of our national story and have done so at the expense of the first Americas—Native peoples—who have remained consistently excluded from the continent’s history. Either as hostile impediments or romanticized peoples awaiting discovery, American Indians appear as passive subjects in a larger drama, understudies in the very dramas remaking their homelands.   Indigenous absence has been a long tradition of American historical analysis. Many scholars are building a different view of the past. I am a part of a generation of historians whose collective works have reframed critical elements of the nation’s past, particularly its earliest chapters. My new work thus draws upon an outpouring of scholarship that has made Indigenous history a growing field. The argument is simple: a full telling of American history must account for the dynamics of struggle, survival, and resurgence that frame America’s Indigenous past. Focus upon Native American history must remain an essential practice of American historical inquiry. Existing paradigms of U.S. history remain incomplete without engaging with this history. It is now time to rediscover the American past.   A reorientation of U.S. history is required for many reasons. It cannot be accomplished simply by adding new cast-members to existing dramas. Our history must reckon with the fact that Indigenous peoples, African Americans, and millions of other non-white citizens have not enjoyed the self-evident truths of equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness proclaimed at the Founding as being inalienable rights belonging to all. Native peoples were not granted U.S. citizenship until 1924, by which time the federal government had seized hundreds of millions of acres of land from Native nations in over 300 treaties. Tens of thousands of Native peoples were killed by settler militias and U.S. armed forces during the Civil War era while government-sponsored campaigns of child removal thereafter resulted in forty percent of Indian children forcibly separated from their families and taken to boarding schools by 1928.   Pervasive violence and dispossession are more than sidebars or parentheses in the story of American history. They call into question its central thesis. The exclusion of Native Americans was codified in the Constitution, maintained throughout the Antebellum era, and legislated into the twentieth century. Far from being incidental, such exclusion and dispossession enabled the development of the United States. U.S. history as we currently know it does not account for the centrality of Native Americans.   Scholars have recently come to view African-American slavery as central to the making of America, but few have seen Native Americans in a similar light. Binary, rather than multiracial, visions dominate studies of the past where slavery represents America’s original sin or the antithesis of the American idea. But can we imagine an American Eden that is not cultivated by its original caretakers? Exiled from the American origin story, Indigenous peoples await the telling of a continental history that includes them. It was their garden homelands, after all, that birthed America. Building a new theory of American history will take years. It will require the labor of generations of contributors, and it will need new themes, new geographies, new chronologies, and new ideas that better explain the course of American history. It is a challenge open to all, one that falls particularly hard on tribal members who continue to bear the burdens of explaining Indigenous experiences, history, and policies to non-Native peoples. To understand the formation of the earliest American colonies requires seeing Indigenous societies in motion, not stasis. Like the oceans upon which newcomers traveled, North America’s earliest colonies experienced waves of turbulence within pre-existing Indigenous geographies. From the foods they ate to the economies that sustained them, colonists depended on Indigenous peoples. To conceive of their composition, survival, and growth otherwise is fallacy. Indigenous-imperial relations explain the distinctions among Europe’s American colonies, several of which, including colonial New Mexico, were a part of European empires longer than they have been a part of the United States. European contact sent shockwaves across Indigenous homelands, reverberating in many forms, some of them undocumented. Scholars have spent over fifty years attempting to measure the impacts of these intrusions. They suggest that the worlds of Native peoples became irrevocably disrupted by the most traumatic development in American history: the loss of Indigenous life due to European diseases. Epidemics tore apart numerous communities and set in motion unprecedented migrations and transformations. North America’s total population nearly halved from 1492 to 1776: from approximately 8 million to under 4 million. The almost unimaginable scale of death and depopulation calls into question celebratory portraits of the Founding, and also helps to explain the motivations for American Indian trade, diplomacy, and warfare, all of which shaped the evolution of European settlements. From the rise of New France in 1609 to the colonization of California in 1769, the economic, diplomatic, and military influence of American Indians were key factors in imperial decision-making. The treaties with Indigenous nations ratified by the U.S. Senate constitute the largest number of diplomatic commitments made by the federal government throughout its first century. These truths show that it is impossible to understand the United States without understanding its Indigenous history. Native Americans have emerged in the last few decades from the shadows of historical neglect in their full complexity, living in varied societies, speaking centuries-old Indigenous languages, and governing often vast territories. Many continue to live in the homes of their ancestors and tend gardens that pre-date European arrival, such as the 21 Pueblo Indian nations of Arizona and New Mexico who maintain North America’s oldest continuously inhabited communities. The rediscovery of American history that is under way continues to swell. Each year, new courses, publications, and partnerships between tribal communities and non-tribal institutions continue to shape the practices of researchers, teachers, tribal members, and students of all ages who yearn for more accurate, multi-racial histories. Tribal governments have grown in their size and capacities, providing the clearest examples in American politics of the retained, inherent sovereignty of Native nations. Some, like the Navajo Nation, govern hundreds of thousands of tribal citizens across millions of acres. Others employ thousands of Native and non-Native workers in their industries and economies. These nations reside within the borders of the United States where they maintain autonomy, sovereignty, and power and do so in concert with the federal government. If the schools or university classrooms are to remain vital civic institutions, we must create richer and more truthful accounts of the American Republic’s origins, expansion, and current form. Studying and teaching America’s Indigenous truths reveals anew the varied meanings of America. My aim is to reorient U.S. history by redressing the absence of American Indians within it. During the past 500 years, American history developed out of the epic encounter between Indians and European empires and out of the struggles for sovereignty between Native peoples and the U.S. American Indians were central to every century of U.S. historical development. Rather than seeing U.S. history and Native American history as separated or disaggregated, this project envisions them as inter-related. It underscores the mutually constitutive nature of each. The two remain interwoven. Notwithstanding its growth, Native American history remains encumbered by challenges. The habits of previous generations remain calcified. College campuses, textbooks, and public memorials continue to exclude Native peoples. As Pawnee Scholar Walter Echo-Hawk maintains, “the widespread lack of reliable information about Native issues is the most pressing problem confronting Native Americans in the United States today.” From The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of American History, by Ned Blackhawk. Published by Yale University Press on April 25, 2023. Copyright © 2023 by Ned Blackhawk. Reprinted by permission of Yale University Press.

 

Haitian Heritage Month in May, and June is National Caribbean American Heritage Month.

 

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May is Haitian Heritage Month Haitian Heritage Month is nationally recognized month celebrated in May. It celebrates the vibrant culture and distinct art.

​ June is National Caribbean American Heritage Month June marks the proclamation of National Caribbean-American Heritage Month (NCAHM), the nationwide commemoration of Caribbean American contributions to the United State of America (USA).

Native Americans and the Opioid Epidemic - Finding Solutions in the Workforce. Register Now

Events You're Invited to the Event Native Americans and the Opioid Epidemic - Finding Solutions in the Workforce Register Now This webinar brings experts from Native American organizations and tribal entities to discuss the prevalent use of opioids in Native American and Tribal Communities and how its workforce system combats the impacts associated with the opioid crisis. According to the American Addiction Centers, Native Americans experience higher rates of substance abuse and overdose than most other ethnicities in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that opioid overdoses in Native communities increased by 9.7 percent from 2019 to 2020 alone. Historical trauma, poverty, discrimination, lack of access to treatment, and other factors contribute to the heightened risks and impact of opioid misuse among tribal populations. This webinar will first provide an overview of opioid and substance misuse in Native American communities, presented by Dr. Spero Manson (Little Shell Chippewa) from the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health. Following the overview, representatives from Cherokee Nation will share how the tribe leverages its workforce system and Department of Labor grants to promote recovery and reintegration. Presenter(s): Spero M. Manson, PhD, Little Shell Chippewa - Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry Director, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center Jacky England, CAREER Programs Manager, Cherokee Nation Matt Lamont, RE-ENTRY Program Director, Cherokee Nation Jennifer Davis, Career Specialist, Cherokee Nation Johnna Williams, (PRSS) Peer Recovery Support Specialist, Chickasaw Nation Moderator(s): Ashley Moore, Workforce Analyst, Office of Workforce Investment, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor Vivian Clarke, Osage Nation - Workforce Intern, UNC-Chapel Hill, Office of Workforce Investment, Employment and Training Administration Date: Monday, May 08, 2023 Time: 2:00 PM-3:30 PM ET Length: 1 hour 30 minutes Registration for this event is limited and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis; please register today. Register Now On the Day of Your Event, Remember: 1.     You can login to the event no earlier than 30 minutes before the start of your event. 2.     The audio will be broadcast through your computer speakers. 3.     Once you have joined the event, if you need additional support, please ask the event facilitator. 4.     Attendees are registered on a first come, first served basis; there is no wait list. You may unregister from this event by clicking on your MyEvents page. 5.     Virtual events are recorded and archived on WorkforceGPS five business days after the event concludes; you may manage your events from your MyEvents Profile page. 6.     Virtual events are supported by all major browsers. Please make sure yours is up to date. Need Help? Please contact the WorkforceGPS Helpdesk at Support@WorkforceGPS.org or give us a call 1-888-848-3696. American Sign Language (ASL)/Closed Captions After registering for this webinar, you will receive information for how to request an ASL interpreter. Requests made less than five business days before the event cannot be guaranteed. Closed captions are provided for all webinars. Thank You! Sincerely, The WorkforceGPS Team Helping You Navigate to Success Today U.S. Department of Labor Employment & Training Administration

The U.S. Immigration System: Explained

 Homeland Security Partners,

For your awareness, we are sharing an informational video, “The U.S. Immigration System: Explained”, which has been posted on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security website.

“The U.S. Immigration System: Explained,” is available in English at www.DHS.gov/ImmigrationLaws  and in Spanish: https://www.dhs.gov/leyesmigratorias .

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