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The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, August 24, 2011-9
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
Scenes From Greenbriar’s Community
Outreach Friends and Family Day
Greenbriar Children's Center held a Community Outreach Family and Friends Day
on Thursday, July 28, 2011 on the grounds of the facility located at 3709 Hopkins St. in
Savannah.
Nominations for Workplace
Innovator Award
Step Up Savannah, Inc.
will recognize businesses that
have adopted creative work
place practices for their lower-
wage employees with the 2011
Workplace Innovator Award,
to be presented at the organiza
tion’s annual meeting on Oct.
27. The selected employer
understands the value in
retaining lower-wage workers,
and recognizes the benefits to
the company.
Nominations for the Step
Up Workplace Innovator
Award are due September 1
and can be submitted using the
“Workplace Innovator
Nomination form” on Step
Up’s website: http://stepupsa-
vannah.org/employersupport
The Workforce Innovator
Award is a distinction con
ferred by Step Up Savannah to
showcase innovative and
meaningful employer prac
tices that benefit that employ
er’s low-wage employees.
Recipients are presented the
award at the Step Up Annual
Meeting at a breakfast on
October 27 at Savannah
Technical College.
Broadly speaking, the
award seeks to recognize
employers that are implement
ing a wide array of creative
processes or programs to
develop their low-wage work
force professionally and per
sonally, ultimately providing
tools to increase their income.
These practices must add
value to the employer and the
employee.
To be considered for the
2011 Workplace Innovator
Award, an organization must
fill in a two-page nomination
form; organizations are
encouraged to self-nominate.
Nomination forms are due by
September 1 and will be eval
uated by a team of judges.
Nominations for the
Workplace Innovator Award
may be submitted by e-mail to
Shawnte Tyler
(styler@stepupsavannah.org) .
Or call (912) 232-6747 to
request a copy of the nomina
tion form.
For more information
about Step Up Savannah,
please visit its website at
www.stepupsavannah.org.
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SSU to Kick off
“Tell Them We Are Rising” Project
Michael Gomez
Savannah State
University will kick off
its "Tell Them We Are
Rising!: Exploring
Slavery, Emancipation
and the African-
American Experience in
Savannah and Southeast
Georgia" project at 6
p.m., Thursday, Aug. 25,
with a lecture on
Lowcountry Africana
heritage from New York
University history profes
sor Michael Gomez.
The event will be
held in Torian Auditorium
in the Howard Jordan
building on campus and
is free and open to the
public.
The founding director of
the Association for the Study
of the Worldwide African
Diaspora (ASWAD), Gomez is
widely recognized for his
research on African identities
and the South, particularly the
Lowcountry region. He is the
editor and author of several
books, including "Black
Crescent: African Muslims in
the Americas" and "Reversing
Sail: A History of the African
Diaspora," and has written
articles appearing in The
Journal of African American
History, Journal of Black
Studies and numerous other
publications. Savannah
State received a $99,929 grant
from the National Endowment
for the Humanities to fund the
"Tell Them We Are Rising"
project, in which a group of
faculty from several academic
disciplines will participate in
lectures, colloquia, workshops
and conferences. The initial
phase of the project will focus
on the historical periods of
slavery and emancipation;
public lectures and workshops
are scheduled monthly from
August 2011 and April 2012.
"The main goal is to
develop new insights and
teaching and learning materi
als so that the rich story of
the Africana experience in
this region can be sustained
and integrated in the
Savannah State curriculum,
and shared with colleagues
on other campuses and in
community settings where
the study of the African
American experience is
ongoing," said Ronald
Bailey, Ph.D., distinguished
senior lecturer at SSU and
project director.
Established in 1890,
Savannah State University
is on the move to become
the best value-added uni
versity in the nation.
The university’s 4,100
students are enrolled in 23
undergraduate and five gradu
ate programs in three colleges:
Liberal Arts and Social
Sciences, Business
Administration and Sciences
and Technology.
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