Philadelphia ‘Stuff the Bus’ Effort Big Success
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Nicole Fuller, AFL-CIO Community Services liaison for the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania/Philadelphia Council (UWSEPA), reports on the effort to provide book bags for children in need.
Five years ago, AFL-CIO Community Services liaison Janet Hammond Ryder, who is retiring this year, spearheaded a partnership with the UWSEPA, unions, local businesses and grassroots community leaders to raise money, collect school supplies and pack them in book bags and distribute them to children living in shelters in Philadelphia and three surrounding counties. Her vision dubbed “Stuff the Bus” is now being duplicated in sister United Way agencies.
New Community Services Liaison: People Are in Need Like Never Before
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AFL-CIO Community Services Director Will Fischer sends us this report.
We are happy to introduce Nicole Fuller, our new AFL-CIO Community Services Liaison for the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania/Philadelphia Council.
Fuller was a member of the UAW for more than 11 years in Detroit. She was the representative for the Employee Support Services Program at one of Ford Motor Co.’s parts facilities prior to moving to Philadelphia.
In Philadelphia, Fuller worked as a trainer and coordinator for the Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety and Health (PHILAPOSH). She is currently a member of Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 38010.
Fuller has been recognized in Michigan and Philadelphia for her work and dedication in the labor movement and community service.
Fuller says:
I hope the experience, education and passion that I bring to this position will afford me the opportunity to continue building, as well as developing new programs and partnerships. People are in need like never before during my lifetime and I would like to help make a difference.
Workers Remember 9/11 Victims, First Responders
Read the AFL-CIO Executive Council statement honoring America’s 911 Heroes here.
Working people across the country today are participating in community service and remembrance events to honor those who lost their lives in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the first responders who worked tirelessly to rescue the survivors.
These events, which cap a “summer of service” called for by President Obama, come just two days before the AFL-CIO begins its 26th constitutional convention in Pittsburgh, just 80 miles from Shanksville, where United Airlines flight 93 went down eight years ago.
From Anchorage, Alaska, to Peoria, Ill., to Nashville, Tenn., working people are organizing food drives, blood drives and other service events. AFL-CIO central labor councils have conducted more than 300 community-based service projects across the country throughout the summer. Local labor groups from across the country also have conducted activities to help the growing number of unemployed Americans in San Francisco, Dallas and dozens of other communities.
