https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/home daily 1.0 2022-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3eb5e907cf365f799f3e/1620927835264-UZTJQQWWU51SYE5LAFO8/DSC_9731%5B1%5D.JPG Home - Who we are Find us on Facebook Nora Neighborhood Ambassadors is a partnership of community organizations seeking to empower our neighbors to thrive physically, socially, emotionally and spiritually. We stand with the vulnerable in our neighborhood, as with all our neighbors, and make visible the whole Gospel. While Nora Neighborhood Ambassadors is a faith-based group, we partner with many organizations in a common goal of seeking justice for those who have been denied it, and seeking the good (הצדקה-hatzedka) of all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3eb5e907cf365f799f3e/1620933779461-EE29D8G4OQFNVK2QU4N6/IMG_0075.jpg Home - How We Started Neighborhood Ambassadors began out of Faith Church and a 10 year study on biblical theology and the story of justice in the Bible. As we looked for ways to apply what we had learned, we saw that we only needed to go as far as across the street. The apartment complex that had housed many of our immigrant neighbors was denying access to livable, safe, affordable and dignified housing. We began to partner with other community organizations and churches who had also been seeking justice for our neighbors. We began to advocate for housing issues, which gave rise to recognizing other ways we could stand with our neighbors - social service and food needs,and education. https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/how-we-started daily 0.75 2021-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3eb5e907cf365f799f3e/1623009279162-SO236WI3ZJMBTEAHTUYR/chet-wood.png How We Started At Faith, we had been studying the story of Justice in the Bible with the theological Chet Wood. And we knew we needed to be doing something about what we learned. At the same time, many of us had been watching the decline of the apartments across the street through our relationships with our English students from FIEC (Faith International English Classes) and were discouraged by the conditions as well as maintenance request response time. One of our attendees at Faith struggled with a management issue and a threat of eviction and we worked alongside him to get it resolved. Realizing that not everyone over at the apartments had advocates like Ron did, we began to get more involved. We formed a group called Neighborhood Ambassadors (as we had just completed a building project with a similar name) in the summer of 2019 and began mobilizing. Soon realizing we needed to expand our base and that other area churches were both eager to get involved and many were already doing a good work, we formed Nora Neighborhood Ambassadors by June of 2020. Our advocacy groups included Food, Housing, social services, and education. We had a google line through which residents could call us for help. Often maintenance requests evolved into social service needs so we found that a separate group to fill those needs would be helpful. Also in the summer of 2020, because of COVID, the schools were closing for virtual school. This was challenging for our new immigrant neighbors whose English had not yet fully developed. So the education advocacy group did a Friday virtual school support with Monday evening tutoring. Housing had developed a rapport with management and was working towards resolve for tenants but the need was overwhelming so by January of 2021, we recommended to the city that tax exemption status be revoked and we met with government officials to discuss next steps. https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/vision-and-mission daily 0.75 2021-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3eb5e907cf365f799f3e/1623009549188-TN1K08KXS248C4IQ2296/Nora+Neighborhood+Plan+%283%29.pptx.png Vision and Mission https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/updates daily 0.75 2021-08-13 https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/updates/monthly-meeting-may-13-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-06-06 https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/updates/community-food-event-report monthly 0.5 2021-06-06 https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/updates/summer-camp-soon monthly 0.5 2021-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3eb5e907cf365f799f3e/1623007305720-P04XP65IO0XG8WOKPS43/Summer+Camp+Volunteer+Flier.png Updates - Summer Camp Soon! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/updates/executive-summary-for-the-dire-situation-at-lakeside-pointe-at-nora-apartment-complex monthly 0.5 2021-06-06 https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/updates/july-food-pantry-opportunities monthly 0.5 2021-06-28 https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/updates/june-2021-nora-neighborhood-ambassadors-update monthly 0.5 2021-06-24 https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/updates/welcoming-the-nations-among-us monthly 0.5 2021-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3eb5e907cf365f799f3e/1628896227603-EDMNTG5MXHZC1822FBUI/Welcoming+the+Nations+Among+Us.jpg Updates - Welcoming the Nations Among Us - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/food daily 0.75 2022-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3eb5e907cf365f799f3e/15cbc050-8cfb-486f-aa61-331162a31cb5/IMG_1156.jpg Food https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3eb5e907cf365f799f3e/fe04f105-128b-493c-bc83-53c416b4771f/IMG_1157.jpg Food https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3eb5e907cf365f799f3e/d62508e4-425d-4698-9d84-73cb76f675e2/IMG_1160.jpg Food https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/tenantcrisis daily 0.75 2022-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Tenant Crisis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Tenant Crisis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607638148090-Y6OFDI575CM3NQV732RJ/Large+JPG-Aro+Ha_0387.jpg Tenant Crisis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Tenant Crisis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847743861-GWVMBPD7Z7WQRQL9IZZ8/Large+JPG-Aro+Ha_0380.jpg Tenant Crisis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607628784608-5D22G9GPLHDSAB2IXC2G/Large+JPG-Aro+Ha_0638.jpg Tenant Crisis https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/tenantcrisis/the-tenant-crisis monthly 0.5 2022-05-30 https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/education daily 0.75 2022-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3eb5e907cf365f799f3e/3c962b09-b542-4aa7-84f5-b2019ec1f34c/Nora+Neighborhood+Ambassadors+tutoring+flier.png Education https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/events daily 0.75 2022-10-13 https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/events/event-one-m2jb2 monthly 0.5 2022-04-13 https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/events/event-one-y4bfb monthly 0.5 2022-10-13 https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/eventsummits daily 0.75 2022-10-13 https://www.noraneighborhoodambassadors.org/eventsummits/housing-summit-coalition-building-legislative-change monthly 0.5 2022-10-13