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EPIC invites public to 40th birthday party
Enterprise for Progress in the Community turns 40 this year and the community is invited to celebrate at a free luncheon Friday.
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Yakima Herald-Republic
Rick Doehle, a local educator, has been named chief executive of Enterprise for Progress In the Community.
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EPIC receives $870,000 grant for Head Start
YAKIMA -- Enterprise for Progress in the Community, or EPIC, has received a federal grant for $870,000 to expand its Early Head Start program in the Yakima, Highland and Union Gap school districts.
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YAKIMA, Wash. -- Workers from the newly unionized Enterprise for Progress in the Community will hold a candlelight vigil tonight to bring attention to a contract dispute.
The event will begin at 7 p.m. at Millennium Plaza on South Third Street.
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By ERIN SNELGROVE
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC - Because of the Central Washington Distribution Center, Sandra Linde of Sunnyside Community Hospital was able to supply books to teenage mothers on nurturing, stuffed animals to children at Christmas, and reading lamps for parents and children. "You basically have to be creative with what they have," said Linde, special projects coordinator for the hospital. "I think it's really good for the Valley. I hope it stays." The distribution center, which opened at 720 N. 16th Ave. last summer, is run by Yakima-based Enterprise for Progress in the Community (EPIC), a nonprofit agency that offers early childhood education and family services in partnership with World Vision in Seattle, a global Christian-relief organization. Churches, hospitals, schools ...
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A Yakima shelter for runaway teens will remain open through June.
After that, its future is uncertain, according to Kyler Bachofner, director of the Youth Services Division for the Yakima- based Enterprise for Progress in the Community, or EPIC.
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EPIC hires director to help crime victims
Enterprise for Progress in the Community has named Lucy Urbina as director for its Victims of Crime Assistance Program. Urbina has 20 years of experience with minority populations and helping people become self-sufficient, most recently as a parent coordinator for the Gear Up Program at Heritage University in Toppenish and as a case manager and instructor at Yakima County's Juvenile Justice Center in Yakima.
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EPIC hires director to help crime victims
Enterprise for Progress in the Community has named Lucy Urbina as director for its Victims of Crime Assistance Program. Urbina has 20 years of experience with minority populations and helping people become self-sufficient, most recently as a parent coordinator for the Gear Up Program at Heritage University in Toppenish and as a case manager and instructor at Yakima County's Juvenile Justice Center in Yakima.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Living Goods, a San Francisco based social enterprise, is applying Avon's model of franchised door-to-door sales agents to dramatically increase access to products designed to fight poverty and disease in the developing world. Roughly 270 million people in Africa still lack access to life's most essential products. As a result, every four seconds, a child dies for want of simple health products that cost less than a cup of coffee.
Chuck Slaughter, Founder and President of Living Goods, says, "traditional aid is vital, but cannot alone address these problems at the scale they persist today. We must also harness truly sustainable, globally scalable business models." The model Mr. Slaughter developed at Living Goods harnesses the power of...
... who go door-to-door throughout the Tula community. Her branch quickly became the top-performing outl...
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EPIC hires director to help crime victims
Enterprise for Progress in the Community has named Lucy Urbina as director for its Victims of Crime Assistance Program. Urbina has 20 years of experience with minority populations and helping people become self-sufficient, most recently as a parent coordinator for the Gear Up Program at Heritage University in Toppenish and as a case manager and instructor at Yakima County's Juvenile Justice Center in Yakima.