Hyde Park Blast After-Race Party
Saturday, June 30, 5:30 p.m., Hyde Park Square
Sign up now to help throw one of the summer's best parties, which benefits Give Back Cincinnati this year. Registration closes Wednesday, June 27.
Register: http://www.givebackcincinnati.org/events_details.asp?EventID=1168

Community Conversations: Preventing Child Abuse
Tuesday, July 17, 6-8 p.m., Downtown Cincinnati
Join our forum with ProKids, Lighthouse Youth Services and other organizations to learn how we all can protect our youngest community members.
Register: http://www.givebackcincinnati.org/events_details.asp?EventID=1132

Give Back Cincinnati Challenge
Saturday, July 21, 2 to 6 p.m., Fountain Square
Grab two to four friends for our Amazing Race! Follow clues to landmarks around downtown; prizes will be awarded at an after party. The mere $5-per-person fee is due when you arrive. (Put the team captain's name in the comments field when you register each person.)
Register: http://www.givebackcincinnati.org/events_details.asp?EventID=1133

Katrina Collaboration: Update from New Orleans
Between rain showers today, we laid subflooring for three houses and started installing floor joists in a fourth. Whenever we heard “duck and cover!” all the electrical equipment went back in the trailer and we sat under houses (they’re on concrete piers) until the all-clear.

We’re working on a Habitat for Humanity site called The Musician’s Village. Eventually, 75 or 80 houses will be here. Now, homes on a few streets are finished and the owners have moved in. Other houses are in various stages of completion.

Read more of our on-the-scenes report on Katrina Collaboration blog at http://www.myspace.com/katrinacollaboration,

Diane Haddad
Membership Director