<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8909559171189632864</id><updated>2011-08-17T09:47:52.018-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Salem Street Project</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://salemstreetnbo.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8909559171189632864/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://salemstreetnbo.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Mikey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04109246359535272618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8909559171189632864.post-7330437474552773003</id><published>2009-04-24T12:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-29T14:41:42.355-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y3F4e0whu9U/SfSF1uFCu9I/AAAAAAAAAAo/siNUvKsLUpU/s1600-h/bridge+of+hope.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; 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"&gt;New Beginnings Outreach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=""&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;206 Hood Street&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=""&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Durham NC &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=""&gt;&lt;div style="display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=""&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;27701&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=""&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=""&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=""&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;Dear Friends and Supporters,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Join your neighbors in June 2009 to fund job training for low-income communities.  Trainees are being taught how to develop their own communities in Durham.  A group of our clients are completing a series of training courses in the condemned house at 407 Salem Street.  They are learning valuable construction skills while building a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Environmental_Design"&gt;LEED&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Environmental_Design"&gt; certified house&lt;/a&gt;.  This group that completes our training process will be prepared for the workforce.  Additionally,  the home will be used as transitional housing to support the next group of trainees while they renovate another house in Durham.  This process has been effective in developing positive relationships between people and their society.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Your monetary donations will go directly into organizing, material, and labor costs of this training project.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--StartFragment--&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;New Beginnings Outreach.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Why is Salem Street important?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This home will support people that:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "&gt;1.)&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;struggle with financial instability&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "&gt;2.)&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;live in an environment threatened by criminal culture&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "&gt;3.)&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;have the desire to better their lives and their community&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Our clients are creating their own jobs that:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "&gt;1.)&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;integrate alternative energy solutions into our homes (green jobs)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "&gt;2.)&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;create affordable housing from existing condemned sites&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "&gt;3.)&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;do not steal business from existing companies&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "&gt;4.)&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;can never be outsourced&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;        &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;(local jobs)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "&gt;Click on the graphic below to view our strategic efforts to empower our clients:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y3F4e0whu9U/SfXgoveMNmI/AAAAAAAAABA/XFwsIG47tkY/s1600-h/diagram.bmp"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y3F4e0whu9U/SfXgoveMNmI/AAAAAAAAABA/XFwsIG47tkY/s400/diagram.bmp" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329412724605335138" style="display: block; 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