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The NC Huddle – January 2022 Hello!  Welcome to PORCH Chapel Hill-Carrboro's quarterly message that we send to all PORCH Neighborhood Coordinators (NCs), hoping that it will provide support and inspiration for the incredible work that you do.    2022 is off to a great start! This month, we packed 340 bags of non-perishable food for our Food For Families participants and distributed about 221 bags of food to the pantries that we help stock. Great work!    Don’t forget that all 2022 PORCH dates can be found here.    A note about the monthly emails that you receive in the days leading up to your PORCH food collections: We are now sending plain-text emails from our chc@porchcommunities.org address, featuring a LINK, HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW, to the familiar Constant Contact newsletter with info about dates, a list of needed foods, and details about how to support PORCH financially. You can still hit forward and send this message to your neighbors, adding a personal message to it. The difference is that they (and you) will need to click to see the newsletter instead of merely scrolling down. Here is a visual example of the new process, in case that is helpful. Of course, we want you to make your communications your own – this is simply a suggested approach when reaching out to your list each month. We have made this change in order to protect NCs from inadvertently becoming unsubscribed to PORCH emails.   As always, if you are interested in scheduling a one-on-one consultation with our team to discuss ways you can inject energy into your neighborhood’s PORCH activities, please email us at chc@porchcommunities.org. We’d be happy to brainstorm with you!  Best, The PORCH Team 

Web Update Our website now has an updated list of active PORCH neighborhoods. We are updating this quarterly. Plus, the site links to this form that folks can fill out if they want to be connected to their NC. Please note: We aren’t distributing your contact information or making it known that you are involved. Rather, we are passing along relevant contact information to NCs when we learn about a neighbor who wants to donate to PORCH.

A Site to See Announcing a field trip opportunity! If you’d like to visit our PORCH distribution site in the coming months, please let Laura Malinchock know – email lauram@porchcommunities.org. It’s so powerful to witness the impact of your contributions and meet the families picking up the food that you so lovingly collected. We would be happy to have a volunteer show you around. We have offered this to new Neighborhood Coordinators, and it’s extremely valuable and fun.

Meet Your Fellow NCs Pictured are two of our youngest and newest NCs. They demonstrate that you’re never too young to make a difference! During their first neighborhood collection for PORCH, they gathered more than 20 bags full of healthy food.  In case you missed it, we have featured the following NCs on our blog recently. Get to know them – plus learn their best tricks for getting more neighbors involved!  Betty Davis, Wolfs Pond Elizabeth Kunz, Westwood/Dogwood Drive Candice Goerger, Barred Owl Creek Pat Saling, Westside   We are seeking additional NCs. If you know of someone outside of your neighborhood who may be well suited for the role of Neighborhood Coordinator, please send them a compelling note explaining why you do this work and how rewarded you feel by it. You can pass along the link to this page, which gets into the nuts and bolts of this work; it includes this very handy video.  Encourage them to get in touch with us at chc@porchcommunities.org if they are interested in becoming a Neighborhood Coordinator.  Thank you for all you do for PORCH! We look forward to seeing you at Extraordinary Ventures on Feb. 13 and 14!

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