ou may have gotten our letter in the mail. It’s the only fundraiser that keeps Omni Center itself running all year. It’s important to Fayetteville that there’s an Omni Center here. There aren’t many towns with a place where progressive values that support peace, justice and a thriving Earth exist.
Right now, more than ever before, Omni Center is needed. Your support will keep the doors open and the coffee pot on, waiting for you. The people you love, and the issues you care for most are supported here, no matter what else is thrashing about in the winds of change.
In 2024 we saw the writing on the wall about housing and homelessness in our city. And you’ve been part of grappling with this tough issue. Many of you show up with our Homeless Solutions group to City Council and Housing Task Force meetings to keep our leaders in touch.
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But that’s not all that happened at Omni. Here’s what Some Omni Folks Did in 2024 …
This may not be a comprehensive list. If we missed your project please tell us!
Your gifts keep this busy building working for our community.
THANK YOU OMNI FRIENDS!
- KPSQ Radio – 91.3 on the air or KPSQ.org
- Open Mic for Peace monthly
o Dale Carpenter CD Release 10/10
- Vegan Potlucks monthly
- Homeless Solutions Gatherings monthly
- Homeless Solutions members monitor the city Housing Task Force
- Gateway Village Pod Housing Project
o Public Input Session July 9
o Gateway Primo Team building infrastructure
- Several Group Calls to Sen Boozman on issues
o With Friends Committee on Nat’l Legislation and Food for the World
- Omni House was a petition site during the drives
- Post cards to swing states project – 40 people mailed 1000 postcards
- Walked together in the Pride Parade and the Trans Parade
- Hiroshima Nagasaki Dinner –
o honored the dead, educated on the issue
o supported MayDay Kitchen who prepared the meal
- Presentations on homelessness
- Joined collaborations with other groups
o Citizens First Congress
o IAF Community Builders
o Continuum of Care (housing network)
o Participated in the Point in Time Count (counting homeless people)
- Hosted an educational event for City of Fayetteville Planning
- Monitor the Quorum Court
- Fiscally sponsored new project “Democracy Is Us”
- Started “NWA Together” post-election dialogue support groups
(you’ll hear more about this project soon)
AND
Supported other area groups by providing meeting space and other support:
- Arkansas Renters United
- Arkansas Tibet Losar Celebration
- Family Promise (for unhoused families – they use our zoom)
- Fayetteville Friends (Quakers)
- Friends of Palestine
- MayDay Kitchen NWA Meals Project
- Recovery from Religion
- Tree Guardians
AND
Omni hosted memorial services for several Omni families who lost loved ones last year.
It was a busy year and everything that happened wove a stronger community.
THANK YOU AWESOME OMNI FRIENDS!