05/25/10 Hartford Public Library Outreach Model Current Library Staff Activity This list includes all community activities or relationships in which library staff is engaged in the six categories listed below, including regular attendance at meetings, partnering regularly on programs or other activities, and other kinds of ongoing relationships. Updates should be sent to the Associate Librarian for Community Development. 1. Community/Neighborhoods CITYWIDE/DOWNTOWN Hartford 2000 (Richard Frieder) Hartford Neighborhood Environmental Partnership (Mary Albro) Interfaith Coalition for Equity and Justice (Richard Frieder) South Downtown NRZ (Daniel Alexandre) NORTH Blue Hills Civic Association (Anwar Ahmad/Richard Frieder) Blue Hills NRZ (Linda Kurylowski/Elena Filios) Clay Arsenal NRZ (Irene Blean) Northeast NRZ (Richard Frieder/Anwar Ahmad) Upper Albany Main Street (Celestia Simmons) Upper Albany Merchants Association (Anwar Ahmad) Upper Albany NRZ (Celestia Simmons) Upper Albany Neighborhood Collaborative (Anwar Ahmad) Vine/Central Block Watch (Richard Frieder) SOUTH Fairfield Avenue Neighbors Association (Mary Billings) Friends of Forster Park (Penny Rusnak) Friends of Goodwin Park (Elizabeth Davis) Frog Hollow NRZ (Letty Cotto) HART ( ) Hispanic Senior Center (Leticia Cotto) MARG NRZ (Pat Knapp)
South End NRZ (Pat Knapp) South Green NRZ (Tony Bernardo) South Hartford Community Alliance (Richard Frieder) WEST Asylum Hill Educational & Cultural Committee (Kat Lyons) Asylum Hill NRZ Neighborhood Association AHNA () CSS/CON NRZ (Debra Perry/Tony Bernardo) Farmington Avenue Alliance (Auden di-corcia D Amato) Farmington Avenue Business District (Pramod Pradhan) Friends of Pope Park (Lucy Fuentes) Parkville Business Association (Jose Santiago/Richard Frieder) Parkville NRZ (Kellie O Donnell) West End Civic Association (NRZ) (Julie Carroll) 2. Non-Profit Organizations Achieve Hartford ( Richard Frieder) ACLU (Richard Frieder) ACLU Foundation of Connecticut (Daniel Alexandre) American Book Collectors of Children s Literature (ABC s), President (Kat Lyons) American Savings Foundation (Daniel Alexandre) Auerbach Art Library Association (Brenda Miller) A Better Way Foundation (Richard Frieder) BikeWalk Connecticut (Mary Albro) Bishop Fund For Children (Richard Frieder) CRT Client Employment Groups (Kellie O Donnell) Capital Community College Arthur C. Banks Library (Mary Albro) Capital Region Council of Governments (Richard Frieder) Capital Region Mental Health Center (Mary Albro) Casey Family Services (Mary Albro) Catholic Charities (Daniel Alexandre) Central Connecticut Bicycle Alliance Christian Activities Council (Daniel Alexandre) Chrysalis Client Employment Groups (Kellie O Donnell) Citizens for Quality Sickle Cell Care, Inc. (Mary Albro) Citizens Network (Richard Frieder) Clean Slate (Kellie O Donnell) CLC Roundtable: Services to Older Adults Roundtable (SOAR) Community Health Network (Mary Albro) Community Partners in Action (Kellie O Donnell) ConnCAN (Richard Frieder) Connecticut Assets Network (Richard Frieder)
Connecticut Association for Human Services (Daniel Alexandre) Connecticut Book Festival () Connecticut Center For A New Economy ( Richard Frieder) Connecticut Chapter of the Olmstead Association (Brenda Miller) Connecticut Children s Book Fair Planning Committee (Kat Lyons) Connecticut Common Cause (Richard Frieder) Connecticut Community Investing Corporation (Mary Albro) Connecticut Forum () Connecticut Historical Society (Brenda Miller) Connecticut Humanities Council and ECHO (Brenda Miller) Connecticut Humanities Council GoReadCT Connecticut League of History Organizations (Brenda Miller) Connecticut Pardon Team (Kellie O Donnell) Connecticut Pipeline Initiative (Richard Frieder) Connecticut Small Business Development Center (Mary Albro) Co-Opportunity (Richard Frieder) CRT (Daniel Alexandre) Everyday Democracy (Richard Frieder) Friends of Keney Park (Brenda Miller) Hands on Hartford (Daniel Alexandre) HartBeat Ensemble (Richard Frieder) Hartford Children s Zone (Elena Filios) Hartford Federal Credit Union (Daniel Alexandre) Hartford Food System Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Daniel Alexandre) Hartford Job Corps Academy Community Relations Council ( ) Hartford Public Access TV (Daniel Alexandre) Hartford 2000 () Hispanic Health Council (Leticia Cotto) Hog River Journal (Brenda Miller) Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy ( Richard Frieder) Job Developers Consortium (Kellie O Donnell) John E. Rogers African American Cultural Center (Brenda Miller) Knox Park Foundation (Leticia Cotto) Leadership Greater Hartford (Brenda Miller) League of Women of Voters of Greater Hartford (Richard Frieder) Literacy Project sponsored by HFPG (Homa Naficy) MetroHartford Alliance (Richard Frieder) Mothers United Against Violence () Nancy A. Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work (UCONN) (Richard Frieder) National Conference for Community and Justice (Richard Frieder) National Executive Service Corps (Daniel Alexandre) Nutmeg Big Brothers and Big Sisters ( Richard Frieder)
Organizing for CT (Richard Frieder) Planning Department of the City of Hartford () ProBono Partnership (Daniel Alexandre) Puerto Rican Forum (Richard Frieder) Shelter Case Worker Meetings (Homa Naficy) Sister Cities International (Homa Naficy) Spanish American Merchants Association (Richard Frieder) TANGO The Amistad Center for Art & Cultural (Brenda Miller) The Bushnell (Daniel Alexandre) UCONN Law School (Daniel Alexandre) UCONN School of Social Work (Daniel Alexandre) UCONN: Thomas J. Dodd Research Center (Brenda Miller) United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (Daniel Alexandre) United Way Non Profits Program (Daniel Alexandre) VA Connecticut Healthcare System (Mary Albro) Village for Families and Children (Richard Frieder) VLO Group Community Enterprise Corp (Daniel Alexandre) Watkinson Library at Trinity College (Brenda Miller) WNPR (Richard Frieder) YMCA (Anwar Ahmad) 3. Youth Family Day at Kinsella School (Patricia Knapp) Family Support Network Planning Group (Debra Perry) Kinsella School (Patricia Knapp) Let s Talk Committee (Debra Perry) Simpson Waverly PTO ( ) Wish School Governance Council (Rubina Hamd) Youth Build CRT (Kellie O Donnell) 4. Government Census 2010 City Council (Richard Frieder) City Council Education Committee(Richard Frieder ) City Goal Group II (Debra Perry) City of Hartford Department Heads (Matt Poland) City of Hartford Department of Management and Budget (Daniel Alexandre) City of Hartford Health and Human Services (Mary Albro) City of Hartford Mayor s office (Matt Poland) City of Hartford Registrar of Voters (Richard Frieder) City of Hartford Web Advisory Committee (Irene Iwan) Connecticut Department of Labor / CT Works (Kellie O Donnell) Connecticut Immigrant and Refugee Coalition (Homa Naficy)
Connecticut Licensing Information Center Connecticut Office of the Healthcare Advocate FDIC (Daniel Alexandre) Journey Home Committee on Education and Employment (Homa Naficy) Mayor s Office of the City of Hartford Planning Department of the City of Hartford (Anwar Ahmad) U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (Daniel Alexandre) Working Task Force on Homelessness (Tony Bernardo) 5. Library Committees Connecticut Center for the Book Advisory Council (Kat Lyons) Hartford Friends & Enemies of Wallace Stevens (Kat Lyons) Hartford History Center Advisory Committee (Brenda Miller) 6. Professional Service (not including memberships in ALA, CLA, etc.) Association of Administrative Professionals (Carol Poehnert) Connecticut State Library (archives) (Brenda Miller) Connecticut Urban Libraries Caucus (Matt Poland) Connecticut Young Adult Librarians Roundtable () BCALA-CT (Celestia Simmons) CCB Liaison, Connecticut Library Association Executive Board (Kat Lyons) Center for the Book in the Library of Congress (Kat Lyons) Connecticut State Library Digital Library Advisory Board, Chair (Irene Iwan) Connecticut State Library Statewide Open Source Integrated Library System Study Group (Irene Iwan) EMIERT Roundtable Web Administrator-Library &Information Technology Association (Irene Iwan) Human Resource Association of Central Connecticut (Carol Poehnert) National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (Elena Filios) Urban Libraries Council (Matt Poland) Young Adult Library Services Association () Senior Community Service Employment Program (Easter Seals) ()