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  • February 3rd 2012

    Presenting the Honoring History Guest Blog Series

    Posted by Mia Bell

    Fair Share Housing Center is a culmination of diversity – connecting cultures, people and ideas. We pride ourselves on our ability to discover and honor what makes each of us, on the Fair Share team, different and unique and what sparks interesting discussions based on thoughts, ideas and opinions. In order to grasp the wide-range of impact that Black History Month has on various individuals in this community, we present the Honoring History Guest Blog Series, allowing our guest bloggers the opportunity to speak freely and fearlessly, about the impact that Black History has on each of them.  (more)

  • February 3rd 2012

    Did You Have Lunch with Fair Share Housing Center?

    Posted by Mia Bell

    January 31 was a milestone for Fair Share Housing Center as we launched the first phase of the “Fair Share Lunchtime Reader” – Fair Share Housing Center’s first social-media driven online newspaper publication. The launch has been phenomenally successful with coverage on publication sites and a favorite of eager subscribers in our community. We’ve had so many questions from people asking how this newspaper idea came about until we knew that we had to blog about it. (more)

  • January 31st 2012

    Fair Share Introduces Online Newspaper

    Posted by Mia Bell

    Today, we launched the “Fair Share Lunchtime Reader”, our social-media driven online newspaper – published at noon Monday – Friday and even on Saturdays and Sundays (for our weekend workers). This newspaper reflects the growth of our organization and our vision for the future. We want to provide relevant news in an innovative way. (more)

  • January 19th 2012

    The Google Effect: Empowering Individuals to Impact Change

    Posted by Mia Bell

    Did you see Google’s Homepage yesterday? It was seen by 21 million people within the first 60 minutes of its posting. It’s enough to make you wonder how, with a click of a button and a small black censor box, you can educate, empower and impact millions of everyday people.I am continually astounded by the power of individual people to make a difference.After seeing Google’s “Censor Google Campaign” that encouraged people to “tell congress don’t censor the web”, a campaign for Americans who oppose bills like SOPA and PIPA because they would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S, I was immediately inspired.The power of individuals to change the world has been a theme in our culture over the last year. It was a single person who thought of the “Censor Google” campaign, a campaign that caused more than nine other websites to follow suit and join the campaign. This caused me to wonder “am I doing all that I can to promote my mission to ensure that all families have a safe and warm place to come home to?” (more)

  • January 16th 2012

    What Dr. King would have had to say about Chris Christie on housing

    Posted by Adam Gordon

    Today commemorates what would have been the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 82nd birthday. It is striking to reflect that, absent the tragic end to Dr. King’s too-short life, he very well might still be alive today and, surely, not silent. So it’s not out of the question to imagine Dr. King being a force in today’s debates about fair housing – a topic that, in the last few years of his life, consumed a considerable amount of his time. Indeed, there are hundreds of people still alive in New Jersey who marched alongside Dr. King or otherwise had the honor of meeting the man. And we have heard from many of them over the past two years. The dominant theme of their words – and likely what Dr. King himself would say – is that Governor Christie is trying to turn back the clock to the pre-civil rights era in letting municipalities choose to keep out whomever they want.  (more)