YWCA Spokane is on a mission to ensure equity for all. Every April, YWCA's USA organization and allied groups hold local, community conversations about how to do this with local experts. Spokane's gathering will take place Friday, from 5 to 7 p.m., at the Women's Club of Spokane (1428 W. 9th Ave.) The event is also available on zoom with a registration.
Read More »‘New Story Spokane Festival’ Presents a New Way of Looking at Climate Change
The “New Story Spokane Festival” runs May 19 – 20 at GU’s Hemmingson Center (702 E. Desmet Ave.) The two-day festival — which is set up as a sort of “banquet” for participants to consume information on these ideas — will feature speakers and breakout sessions on a variety of topics that include sustainable agriculture, ecological restoration, green building, resource efficiency, social equity, cultural preservation and much more.
Read More »GU Adds New Certificate in Climate Action Planning to Fight Climate Change
“The human species now threaten Earth’s capacity to sustain life as we know it.” So begins the Certificate in Climate Action Planning description on its website. This professional certificate is Gonzaga University’s newest 18-week continuing education program, which begins on Aug. 30.
Read More »VIDEO: Coffee Talk – Religion Reporters, the Next Generation
Below is a video of the first ever Pullman Coffee Talk, featuring WSU journalism students. The students spoke about their year-long religion reporting experience.
Read More »Boys Are in Trouble — ‘Helping Boys Thrive Summit’ to be Held Saturday in Response
For every 100 girls, 614 boys and men are incarcerated in local jails, 441 boys and men aged 20 to 29 — and 293 aged 15 to 19 — die by suicide and 255 are classified as having an emotional disturbance in schools.
Read More »April Coffee Talk — Religion Reporters: The Next Generation This Saturday
For the past school year FāVS editor Tracy Simmons has been leading a group of journalism students from Washington State University on a religion reporting field trip where they toured houses of worship and learned about faiths and cultures they might report on one day.
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