OUR WORK CONTINUES AMIDST CHANGES!
Welcome ENP Friends,
 
Our ENP Team hope each of you and your families are in great health physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. We know it’s been a very interesting two months we’ve lived through and the road ahead will most likely have new versions of our old realities. Perhaps that will be both good and bad depending on each of our perspectives of our individual experiences. Regardless, we wish everyone well.
 
As ENP continues its modified focuses during the COVID19 season, we still maintain our ongoing heart to serve our community. We assist with coordinating relief efforts, leveraging our networks for good and providing virtual learning components for our volunteers and community partners.
 
In the weeks ahead as stores, restaurants and other community gathering spots slowly start to open, we’ll continue to re-look at how ENP can continue to be of service to our kids, families and community. Of course our big watch is what schools will look like in the months ahead. With schools being a large anchor in our work, we want to be as available in service as our school districts are comfortable with. We’ll just have to wait and see how everything rolls out later this summer.
 
In the meantime, stay encouraged!! We are a very resilient community and we’ll need all of our collective resilience to resume with our future new normal. 

Blessings to each of you and your families and we hope these stories of what ENP staff and our volunteers have been up to during this time encourages you!

Also check out the Donor Zoom call recording we did at the bottom of the email if you want more of an insider scoop.
Artie Padilla
Executive Director, Every Neighborhood Partnership
FEATURED NEWS
Fresno County Food Map
Looking to point people to food distributions around you? Or looking for food yourself? Thanks to  Bitwise Inc  and  Shift3 Technologies  and the COVID-19 Fresno County Food Group we built a map that has every food distribution in Fresno County that we know of on it. This is an INCREDIBLE resource.
You can also embed it on your org/church website! Visit fresnocountyfood.org
Food for Rural Communities
Last week ENP was able to connect food to rural communities. FCHIP  provided the resources.  Mennonite Central Committee - MCC  and  Central California Food Bank provided food.  Bitwise Industries provided the space.  Neighborhood Thrift  provided labor and deliveries. We are better together!
175 New Little Free Libraries!
The Fresno Bee donated 175 of their old Bee Boxes. We're working with Reading Heart and many volunteers to turn these into Little Free Libraries that will be strategically placed in "Book Deserts" across Fresno County.

Look at this train station the Malony Family painted! Wow! Follow us on social media to see others!
THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
ENP is a donor supported organization. So your monthly or annual gift is vital to our survival through this COVID-19 Pandemic.

We appreciate our recent investments from our community partners:
  • Cal Viva Health
  • Central Valley Community Foundation
  • Downtown Fresno Rotary
  • Katey's Kids'
  • Latino Community Foundation
  • Latino Giving Circle 
  • Next Generation Philanthropy
  • The Well Community Church

These investments are helping us get food, health products and other vital needs out to our community. We estimate we have given out over:

  • 75 cases of diapers
  • 40 packets of wipes
  • 100 containers of baby formula
  • 400 bars of soap
  • 10 cases of books/craft supplies
  • 3750 lbs of food
  • plus plenty of misc items

These funds also further our literacy work. We have sorted and distributed over 38,000 books, given away 150 literacy activity sets, and are working on installing 175 Little Free Libraries!
RECREATIONAL RESILIENCE
We miss our Saturday Sports kids!

Several sites are creatively connecting with kids to let them know they are loved and missed. The team from Well Community Church came together to create this photo for their Susan B Anthony kids.
Are your own kids getting restless??

Check out this blog that Amy Savage, our Saturday Sports Coordinator, put together for some new fun ideas!
LITERACY MENTORING
We need your help!!

We are working with Reading Heart to sort 150,000+ books to give to kids and families in Fresno County. We've already distributed 38,000 books, many to families without digital book access.

Please sign up at servefresno.org if you can help! Let's all keep reading!





Need some new reading materials?

During this time, we've made our Literacy kit materials free and available for download here .

Also several of our Literacy Mentors have come together to make read aloud videos for their students. Take a look!
High Schoolers Rock! Well Done CTEC.

We are so thankful for the hard-working students at CTEC High School . They designed and created 8 new Little Free Libraries, which we were able to place at schools, businesses, and residences across Fresno.

8 groups designed them in CAD, presented their ideas for design to a panel on a potential location and why this solves problem for literacy in Fresno and the panel voted for the top 3.

Love the creativity and ownership!
Clock Tower @ Tower Blendz
Snoopy House @ Isch Family
Ice Cream Truck @ Image Church
NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT
Fresno Working Together!
ENP has been helping support the weekly CBO (Community Based Organization) Virtual Weekly Meetings in both English and Spanish. About 500 community leaders come together to share resources and news that can then be distributed to our residents.



Neighborhood Fitness
Before the COVID-19 shut down we had around 80 folks in our Neighborhood Fitness Facebook Group.

Now there are over 270 and over 10 classes happening each week.


Also shout out to Fresno State marketing students who made this promo video!
CITY-WIDE EQUIPPING
Trauma & Resilience Network Update

Over the last four weeks a small group of advocates and practitioners from the Fresno County Trauma and Resilience Network have been meeting as workgroup to offer help and support to a larger network of CBO’s and agency leaders from across the county.

This workgroup was asked by the larger CBO group to use our content knowledge, expertise and network to help identify some of the Mental Health and Wellness issues that have been developing in our communities as a result of the COVI-19 Shelter in place and social distancing protocols. This process of how our community has responded to COVID-19 is both the evidence and validation for the ongoing work taking place across our county as we continue our journey of becoming a Resilience-Based and Trauma-Informed community.

If you would like more information about how you can get involved in either the Fresno County Trauma and Resilience Network or the Mental Health & Wellness workgroup please contact Brian Semsem at (559) 232-6720 or email at  [email protected]

Give One Time or Monthly!
Donor Webinar
We held a short Zoom call for ENP supporters and donors to learn about what ENP is hearing, learning, and doing in this time of COVID-19.We also shared the staff and organizational shifts we have made in this past month.

Please view the meeting here .