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| We are currently
seeking judges for the 2008 Coaster Project. Please
contact Zach if you
are interested in volunteering as a judge. |
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We invite any and all
non-profit organizations within the Johnson County
area to participate in this endeavor. We have
compiled a list of NPOs in Johnson County to help
artists find an organization to represent. Due to the
fact that this is a contest we cannot guarantee that
any registered NPO will be automatically represented
with a printed coaster. We have, however, capped each
represented NPO at a maximum of three final printed
entries to avoid flooding any particular NPO and
allow variations to coexist within the endeavor. In
addition, if an NPO has a coaster printed during the
prior years project, there is a one year waiting
period for them to be eligible again, so we can
showcase as many local NPOs as possible. This list
is not definitive. Any NPO is eligible as long as
they are a local group or have a local branch (ie.
United Way of Johnson County) and they have agreed to
be part of the project. It is the artists'
responsibility to contact an NPO for permission
before submitting a coaster design.
Feel free to contact us
with any questions.
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4Cs Resource & Referral promotes the
well-being of children by assisting families,
child care providers, employers and others
with their child care needs. We address
challenges to the community's child care
system and serve as a resource for the
development of new programs.
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The 10,000 Hours Show (10K) is a year-round
effort to engage young people in volunteer
service that culminates in a free concert for
which the only admission is 10 or more
volunteer hours to local nonprofits. You
volunteer, you rock.
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the American Society on Aging is an
association of diverse individuals bound by a
common goal: to support the commitment and
enhance the knowledge and skills of those who
seek to improve the quality of life of older
adults and their families. The membership of
ASA is a multidisciplinary array of
professionals who are concerned with the
physical, emotional, social, economic and
spiritual aspects of aging. They range from
practitioners, educators, administrators,
policymakers, business people, researchers,
students, and more.
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Our goal is to put more people on bicycles.
We do this by “checking out”
bicycles like a library checks out books. In
doing so, we also hope to expand
transportation options, reduce auto traffic
congestion, and provide the general health
benefits that accompany cycling. The Bike
Library is a volunteer-run enterprise and the
bikes are received as donations to the
project.
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Mission: The Community Mental Health Center
for Mid-Eastern Iowa promotes and provides
quality, accessible, accredited mental health
services to any child or adult in need of
care.
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Mission: Compeer is a not for profit
organization which matches community
volunteers in supportive friendship
relationships with adults receiving mental
health treatment.
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Mission: We provide free pregnancy testing
and we are adding limited obsttrical
ultrasound exams to confirm pregnancy. We
assist clients in alternatives to
abortions.
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Mission: The Crisis Center provides basic
emotional and material support through
trained volunteers and staff in an
accessible, nonjudgmental, and caring
environment.
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Mission: We work with families who have been
affected by domestic violence, primarily
women and children of Johnson County.
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Mission: Dreamwell Theatre creates
challenging, innovative and inclusive
experiences as a local volunteer theatre.
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Mission: The purpose of EarthExpo is to
celebrate and showcase alternative energy and
environmental solutions in the Iowa
City/Coralville community. EarthExpo will
provide an
entertaining, educational, engaging and
inspiring atmosphere for the community to
learn about solutions that can easily be
applied in the home, in the yard, at the
office, and in
everyday lives.
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Mission: The mission of Elder Services, Inc.
is to;
- Enhance the quality of life of older
persons by providing them affordable
high-quality home and community-based
services;
- Support family caregivers in both
arranging and providing care for family
members in need of assistance;
- Promote meaningful reciprocal community
involvement by creating opportunities for
older persons to contribute through
intergenerational volunteer
opportunities.
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Mission: The Emma Goldman Clinic provides
respectful nonjudgmental gynecology,
abortion, free walk-in and massage therapy
services to both women and men. We promote
people finding their own voices in the public
policy decisions surrounding reproductive
health care.
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Mission: The mission of the Englert Civic
Theatre, Inc. is to own, maintain and operate
the Englert Theatre as a community arts
center and performance space, enhancing the
vitality of Iowa Cityʼs historic
downtown by preserving its last historic
theater. The Englert Civic Theatre, Inc.
provides diverse programming, educational
opportunities, and exposure to the performing
and visual arts. Our focus is also to
highlight the talents of local performers,
artists, and ensembles.
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Mission: Eulenspiegel Puppet Theatre Company
is a non-profit, tax-exempt puppet company
which promotes the art of puppetry by
producing and presenting high-quality
performances and workshops, educating the
public about the arts, and enhancing the
quality of community life.
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A weekend-long outdoor celebration of
community and local music, and a fundraising
opportunity for local nonprofit
organizations.
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Mission: FACE AIDS is a campaign to mobilize
and inspire students to fight AIDS in
Africa.
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Mission: The Foster Grandparent Program
offers seniors age 60 and older opportunities
to serve as mentors, tutors, and loving
caregivers for children and youth with
special needs.
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Mission: To increase the access to and
availability of affordable housing in Johnson
County.
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Mission: To provide a flexible and innovative
source of funds to produce new and preserve
existing affordable rental and transitional
housing, promote homeownership and support
homeless services in Johnson County.
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Mission: Our purpose is to foster
appreciation of historical keyboard
instruments, primarily the harpsichord,
fortepiano, organ and clavichord, through
education and performance.
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Mission: ICARE’s mission is to enrich
the quality of life for persons living with
and affected by HIV/AIDS. Through the
distribution of information and services, we
aim to foster the self-empowerment necessary
to live productively and positively in the
face of HIV/AIDS.
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Mission: Providing health care to those in
need.
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Mission: To provide patient-centered
palliative care and services to anyone
affected by a terminal illness. need.
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Mission: The Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance
(ICCA) seeks to leverage the vigor of its
broad membership to build, strengthen and
lead the local cultural industry and the
communities it serves. It was founded with
the purpose of working more cooperatively to
promote new funding, favorable public sector
policies, and heightened awareness of
cultural activities and their impact to the
Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Corridor.
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Mission: Iowa Donor Network is dedicated to
maximizing the recovery of transplantable
organs and tissues by serving donor families,
potential donors and candidates for
transplantation, through the identification
of potential donors, and supporting and
respecting donation decisions. Through the
vehicle of the Iowa Donor Registry, Iowa
Donor Network encourages Iowans to register
their donation consent so organ and tissue
donation can be carried out upon death.
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Mission: Iowa Valley Habitat for Humanity is
a grassroots, non-profit organization that
uses the support of communities to create
better housing for people in need.
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Mission: The mission of the Iowa Women's
Foundation is to bring about a just society
by supporting the empowerment of all women
and girls throughout the state of Iowa. We
seek to expand and improve opportunities and
choices in all aspects of women's and girls'
lives through raising funds, awarding grants,
providing education and technical assistance,
and bringing women and girls together. The
Iowa Women's Foundation is a public nonprofit
organization.
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Mission: JC DogPAC's mission is to work and
advocate for the creation of a fenced,
Off-Leash Recreation Area in Johnson County
where people and their well-behaved dogs can
socialize and exercise in a clean, safe
environment, without endangering or
disturbing people, property, or wildlife.
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Mission: We are not the animal shelter, but
an all-volunteer group supported entirely by
donations that offers spay/neuter subsidies,
in-home foster care for animals in need,
support for colonies of feral cats, help with
costs of veterinary care for pets belonging
to low-income and elderly people, assistance
in animal emergencies, and general advocacy
for animal welfare. We have a newsletter and
also sponsor an annual awards event honoring
significant achievements of members of the
community on behalf of animals and animal
welfare.
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Mission: We provide information and technical
assistance to plan and apply conservation
systems on privately owned rural and urban
land in Johnson County. We provide education
services to shools and the public and assist
local governement, developers, consultants,
and homeowners in applying conservation
systems.
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Landlocked Film Festival will be making its
premiere in downtown Iowa City in August
2007. The fest will have events throughout
the pedestrian mall section of downtown and
our showcase cinema will be none other than
the beautifully remodeled, historic Englert
Theatre.
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Mission: Our mission is to cure Leukemia,
Lymphoma, Hodgkinsʼ Disease and Myeloma
and to improve the lives of patients and
their families. Light the Night is a two-mile
walk and team in training on endurance
training program. We have over 800 patients
in Iowa who receive financial aid as well as
two research doctors at the University of
Iowa Hospitals who we give research
grants.
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Mission: Local Foods Connection (formerly
Adopt-A-Family) purchases produce, bread,
eggs, meat and other products from local
farms and donates these goods to families
whose economic or social status prevent them
from enjoying such nutritious, tasty and
fresh foods.
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Mission: The Macbride Raptor Project strives
to create more public awareness of the need
for greater environmental stewardship on
behalf of Iowaʼs birds of prey. This is
accomplished through public education, raptor
rehabilitation and research.
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Mission: Our program serves teenagers with
disabilities. We have programming after
school, no-school days, through the summer
and one Saturday a month. We also have a bike
shop where we receive donated bikes, clean
them or repair them and sell them.
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Mission: Miracles in Motion fosters personal
achievement by providing diverse equestrian
activities with therapeutic, educational and
recreational benefits for persons with
disabilities.
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Mission: The Neighborhood Associations of
Iowa City are volunteer groups of
neighborhood residents who wish to take a
more active role in their neighborhoods and
as a group, receive information and provide
input into decisions that are being made
about their area of Iowa City. As a group,
they meet monthly as the Neighborhood Council
and provide a voice for all the neighborhoods
of Iowa City.
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The Nest program seeks to reduce the
incidence of birth defects, low-birthweight,
and infant deaths by promoting educational
opportunities and early consistent prenatal
care. Participants have an opportunity to
utilize existing health, welfare, and
educational services available within Johnson
County. Participants must meet Nest criteria,
live in Johnson County, and be pregnant at
the time of enrollment in the program.
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Mission: To provide healthcare services,
education and advocacy that ensures the right
and ability of all individuals to manage
their sexual and reproductive health.
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Mission: PATV provides media training and
equipment to volunteer community producers in
the Iowa City area.
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Mission: A not-for-profit, volunteer-run art,
culture and performance venue in downtown
Iowa City providing opportunities for local
visual and performance artists to "Go Public"
with their talents.
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Mission: The Rape Victim Advocacy Program (RVAP) is a
sexual assault crisis center based in Iowa City,
Iowa. RVAP provides crisis line support, counseling,
advocacy, and education services.
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Mission: To create a system of care for individuals
with complex conditions that provides:
- options for living in the community;
- supports for attaining independence; and
- opportunities for personal growth and personal
connection in natural settings.
We believe that individuals should have the
opportunity to receive services and supports in their
own communities regardless of the complexity of their
condition, severity of their disability, or
challenges of their behavior.
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Mission: The mission of Ronald McDonald House
Charities is to create, find and support programs
that directly improve the health and well-being of
children in Eastern Iowa. Our first priority is to
provide a place for families to stay when their child
is in a hospital far from home.
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Mission: Shelter House is the only general use
homeless shelter in Johnson County. We provide
overnight shelter and assist with transition for
families or individuals who are homeless in our
community. We serve a nightly meal and have a drop in
center for showers, laundry, mail and telephone
services.
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In 2005 the four great Iowa City traditions of The
Iowa Arts Festival, The Iowa City Jazz Festival, The
Friday Night Concert Series, and The Saturday Night
Free Movie Series joined together to become Summer of
the Arts. Summer of the Arts continues to bring FREE,
FAMILY-FRIENDLY, FUN events that you have come to
enjoy over the past 25+ years.
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Mission: Systems Unlimited, Inc. provides services to
children, adults, and families with disabilities and
other challenges. These services include supported
community living, vocational, and family therapy.
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Mission: Table to Table rescues food that might
otherwise be discarded and delivers it to
organizations who provide it to the community. Over
750,000 lbs of food delivered to over 30 social
service agencies. Only food rescue organization in
Iowa. Rescued over $1,000,000 in food and delivered
to free lunches, food panties and other organizations
that serve the hungry.
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Mission: UAY is a community-based service agency
which offers crisis intervention, confidential
counseling, creative activities, and other helping
services to youth and families in Johnson County and
surrounding communities.
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Mission: United Way of Johnson County is a local,
non-profit organization that brings people, health
and human service agencies, government entities, and
community groups together to help our friends, family
members, and neighbors who are in need.
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Mission: Guided by the basic tenets of a free society
to which The University of Iowa is committed, The
University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR):
engages in research, teaching, and other activities
including artistic advocacy and community outreach,
nurtures interdisciplinary collaboration and varied
human rights research, encourages the active
participation of faculty, students, and others both
within and beyond the UI campus, shares information
with both human rights specialists and the general
public about its activities and about human rights
issues generally.
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The mission of the Extend the Dream Foundation (EDF)
is reflected in its Uptown Bill's Projects. These
projects are all associated with small business
opportunities and employment for persons with
disabilities. The history of EDF and its projects is
connected to the Bill Sackter story.
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Mission: The mission of Ushers Ferry Historic Village
is to interpret life in a small Iowa town at the turn
of the 20th Century.
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Mission: Waypoint strengthens and empowers women and
families in their life's journey by providing
advocacy, crisis intervention, supportive services,
shelter, quality child care, and community
leadership.
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Mission: The WiderNet Project is a service program at
the University of Iowa that works to improve digital
communication in developing countries. Their current
focus is in Africa and their closest ties and
connections are with Nigerian universities. The
WiderNet Project focuses on the improvement of
educational communication systems in Africa by
providing faculty and students with access to
computers, email, and the Internet.
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At the Women’s Resource and Action Center, one
of our hallmarks is our combination of useful direct
service programs and powerful activism to create
social change. Few organizations combine a mission to
respond to direct need with a vision to change the
world. We do, and have for 35 years.
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We would be honored to have you host the coaster project in future years, whether
from your office lobby and conference rooms, to bar or table
surfaces. In return for a tax deductible donation to The
Coaster Project, you will be eligible to distribute the
artfully created coasters to your patrons, in effect,
promoting all represented non-profit organizations and
artists and as a result the culture and service they share
with others. Please contact us and help
us give back to Johnson County.
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