*Union Project’s Town Hall Meeting Invites You to “Speak UP!”* *Saturday, November 19th from 10-Noon at Union Project 801 N. Negley Avenue, Pgh, PA 15206 Meet Union Project’s strategic planning team, learn more about our plan, and offer your input. Bring the family. UP Ceramic Studio will offer fun arts activities for kids. Please RSVP to 412-363-4550x37 or email Kelly@unionproject.org by Wednesday, November 16, 2011.* Over the last decade, with community support, Union Project has accomplished amazing things: •Over 36,500 community volunteer hours contributed •Key renovations completed to date include: Build out and rental of 8 office spaces, a ceramic studio and a café, new Roof, cleaning and re-pointing our exterior stone, and completely renovating all 155 stained glass windows by community hands! •Nearly 100 jobs created •Over 350 community programs in our space each year •Support of dozens of local and emerging artists •Recipient of numerous community awards including the 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership and Diversity Award by Coro Pittsburgh As Union Project celebrates a decade of service to building community amongst thousands of community members, we are also engaged in strategic planning for 2012-15. Since May 2011, our planning team has been conducting surveys, hosting focus groups, interviews, and gathering data to review and improve our services and facilities, facilitate new community programming, and create new strategies for making our corner a more vibrant place. Now, it’s your turn to “Speak UP!” Please join us for a fun morning of community building as we vision our future together. *About Union Project: **Union Project (UP) is a dynamic non-profit community arts, enterprise, and event center where our mission is to use our space to bring people together to connect, create, and celebrate. Since 2001, we’ve repurposed our historic church building to provide an affordable, safe, and welcoming home to grassroots entrepreneurs, artists, non-profits, and people of all faiths as a catalyst for creating a more vibrant community. Positioned at the intersection of some of Pittsburgh’s most racially and economically diverse urban neighborhoods, Union Project is a community hub and literal and figurative common ground for surrounding neighbors. Guided by a servant leadership model, UP staff and board work together acting as intrapreneurs to connect and strengthen a network of community partners in order to nurture people's skills, spirits, and self-sufficiency. From public safety meetings to family ceramics classes to weddings, UP actively facilitates intergenerational programming that brings people from diverse backgrounds together in community*. *As members of our community, we hope you will join us and offer your valuable input to help shape the future of the work we do in Highland Park. Visit www.unionproject.org or just stop in weekdays between 9am-5pm or evenings and weekends by appointment for more information.*