Organizational Highlights from Flagstaff, Arizona [Flagstaff Central]

Flagstaff Family Food Center

Flagstaff Family Food Center
1903 N. 2nd Street
Flagstaff, AZ 86004
(928) 774-3188
Fax (928) 774-7469

For Kids:
The Paul Sweitzer Reading Room started in 1996 and is supervised daily. Children gather after they have eaten to receive help with reading & homework. Children are also offered a variety of educational computer programs, games and crafts.

The mission of the Flagstaff Family Food Center is to provide wholesome meals in a safe and pleasant environment as well as help children with reading, homework, and social skills.

Since 1991, FFFC has served over 810,400 hot dinners. They are open every day of the year from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. There is no documentation of need required. They do not serve anyone who appears drunk, on drugs, or who creates a disturbance.

Many of their clients are employed, usually for minimum wage, and may have lost welfare benefits. Some live in motels without cooking facilities. Some are camping out or traveling and others are between jobs. Some of our clients eat here regularly, others move through the system until they can stabilize their lives. About 20% of their meals are served to children under the age of 16. Many are “at risk” kids from Sunnyside.

At FFFC, they offer their clients not only a nutritious meal, but a chance to be treated with respect and dignity from caring staff and volunteers.

The idea of caring for our own is what makes Flagstaff such a special place to live!

PO Box 1528
Flagstaff, AZ 86002
(928) 226-0673

Painted Sky Music Festival

The Painted Sky Music Festival offers exciting, new and innovative musical experiences to broad and diverse audiences throughout Northern Arizona. Their concerts present "chamber music with a twist" in a relaxed, festive atmosphere complete with audience interaction, unconventional programming, colorful stage sets, door prizes, cross-generational and cultural appeal, cabaret-style seating, and mystery guests. Painted Sky's eclectic programs feature musical selections from the standard chamber music repertoire by well-known composers, flavored with more exotic works influenced by American, traditional, and Jazz styles.

Flagstaff Center for
Compassionate Communication

Flagstaff Center
for Compassionate
Communication
1621 N West St.
Flagstaff, AZ 86004
(928) 526-4796
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Contact
Mary MacKenzie

Many of us have learned to communicate with messages that make it easy for others to perceive (or for us to hear) criticism, attack, demands and other challenging traits. These patterns contribute to pain and struggle in relationships, inaccuracies and inefficiency in business, resistance and rebellion in education, conflict and violence between groups, dissatisfaction and turnover with employees, and distance and disintegration in families.

Flagstaff Center for Compassionate Communication offers solutions to these communication patterns with Nonviolent Communication^SM (NVC). Our NVC training has two main goals: 1) to develop communication skills for clear, accurate, and passionate expression of one's own wants and needs in a way that increases the likelihood that those needs will get met in harmony with others' needs; 2) to develop skills for accurately hearing what others are needing even when they express themselves in aggressive, defensive, or in an otherwise polluted manner.

Our services include: 1) Individualized Trainings and Seminars; 2) NVC Skills, Cooperation, and Community Building for Youth; 3) Adult Public Classes, Practice Groups, and Retreats; 4) NVC Coaching Sessions for Individuals and Families; 4) Management and Personnel Consultation and 5) Mediation.

Flagstaff Activist Network

Flagstaff Activist Network
P.O. Box 911
Flagstaff, AZ 86002-0911

(928) 213-9507

The Flagstaff Activist Network (F.A.N.) is a coalition of groups and individuals who demonstrate their commitment to the earth by defending cultural diversity, ecological health and natural beauty. We hold a biocentric worldview and value personal and spiritual integrity. F.A.N. supports sustainable communities and provides opportunities for concerned people to resist the destruction of their cultures and the natural world.

Retired And Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)
Retired And Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) PO Box 5063 Flagstaff, AZ 86011 Riles Building (#15) NAU Campus, Rm. 305 (928) 523-6585 Fax (928) 523-9189	The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) is one of the largest volunteer efforts in the nation. RSVP believes that people age 55 and older have life experiences that are a valuable, and often untapped, resource. To ensure that these resources are put to good use in the community, RSVP acts as a bridge connecting individual skills with local organizations in need of volunteer service.

Foster Grandparent Program
Of Northern and Central Arizona

Foster Grandparent Program
of Northern and Central Arizona
Carole D. Mandino, Director
PO Box 5063
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5063
NAU SBS West, Building 70, Room 110

(928) 523-3560
Fax (928) 523-9189

The Foster Grandparent Program recruits low income adults to be "Foster Grandparents" to children with special or exceptional needs. Children do not live with the foster grandparents, instead the foster grandparents volunteer with schools, Head Start centers, hospitals, nurseries, and other organizations that serve children. Foster Grandparent volunteers receive a small government stipend of $2.55 an hour to enable them to volunteer, meal and mileage reimbursement, secondary insurance coverage while volunteering and other benefits. Grandparents can help children learn their colors and numbers, learn to read, learn how to behave in social situations, and learn how to become good citizens.

Senior Companion Program
of Northern and Central Arizona

The Senior Companions Program recruits low income adults that are 60+ years old to help homebound elderly (50+). Senior companions receive a small government stipend of $2.55 an hour to enable them to volunteer, provide meal and mileage reimbursement, and secondary insurance coverage while volunteering. The homebound receive much needed services, such as help with minor housekeeping, running errands, shopping, preparing meals, etc., at no cost. This service truly provides for the needs of our elderly by getting them help from their peers.

Senior Companion Program of Northern and Central Arizona
Carole D. Mandino, Director
PO Box 5063
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-5063
NAU SBS West,
Building 70, Room 110

(928) 523-3560
Fax (928) 523-9189

Friends Of Flagstaff's Future

Friends of Flagstaff's Future (F³) believes that the collective action of engaged and informed citizens can help Flagstaff to retain its unique character. The organization now boasts some 600 members and continues to grow. Very few communities of Flagstaff's size have a full-time advocacy group like F³ working to manage growth and build a stronger community. With community support, Friends of Flagstaff's Future will keep on working for bike trails, pedestrian-friendly streets, regional planning, open space, and good community design.

Friends Of Flagstaff's Future
P.O. Box 23462 Flagstaff, AZ 86002-3462
(928) 556-8663 contact@friendsofflagstaff.org

www.friendsofflagstaff.org

"To sustain and enhance the greater Flagstaff area's high quality of life through activism and advocacy of policies supporting a livable community."

Junior Achievement
Of Flagstaff

Leupp School Kindergartners found out that:

"Junior Achievement
is all about learning
to work together!"

Junior Achievement (JA) educates and inspires young people to value free enterprise, business, and economics to improve the quality of their lives.

It can honestly be said that JA is one of the most active organization that works within our school system. Their programs are aimed at every level and every child in the district. You can find JA in school hallways and cafeterias, in businesses in our community, and running functions wherever it serves to benefit the children.

Junior Achievement
P.O. Box 23396 Flagstaff, AZ 86002
928-714-1354

Animal Defense League of Arizona (ADLA)	Foster Grandparent Program of Northern Arizona	Plateauland Mobile Veterinary Clinic
Flagstaff Activist Network	Friends of Flagstaff's Future	Retired And Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)
Flagstaff Center for Compassionate Communication	Junior Achievement of Flagstaff	Senior Companion Program of Northern Arizona
Flagstaff Family Food Center	Northern Arizona Food Bank	We'd like to encourage non-profit organizations to email us their information for our site!
Flagstaff Pet Assistance League (FlagPAL)	Painted Sky Music Festival


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