Welcome to November! Here at CityView, we’re reflecting on the season of giving through our “Giving Issue” magazine.
For a lot of people, giving can mean financial donations or gifts, but for others, it’s giving back to the community through time and service.
CityView’s November issue demonstrates all the ways you can give—through acts of kindness, volunteering, and community events—in the Greater Fayetteville area.
Our cover story for this edition of “The Giving Issue” highlights giving back to the environment and local ecosystem through the North Carolina Bradford Pear Bounty program. The event-based program invites participants across the state to donate their time and effort digging up their invasive Bradford pear trees, and in exchange, receive a free native replacement. An event in our county took place on Oct. 11 at the Cumberland County Cooperative Extension Office. The program is a collaboration between NC State Extension, the North Carolina Urban Forest Council, North Carolina Wildlife Federation, and North Carolina Forest Service.
Cut My City, a local nonprofit, offers free haircuts to low-income individuals in Cumberland County and beyond. Co-founders Dr. Lumumba Quow and Dr. Sundiata Morris attend events throughout the county to give these haircuts, most recently the Umoja Festival in late August, and make monthly visits to the Fayetteville Cares Day Resource Center. Beyond the haircuts, the co-founders hope to mentor and train Fayetteville’s youth in barbering.
The Cumberland County Public Library System also gives back through a new program that teaches community members cooking skills, educates them on nutrition, and promotes healthier eating habits. The program, Cumberland Cooks, uses a Charlie Cart, a mobile kitchen on wheels, to put on cooking demonstrations every month across the eight public libraries on a rotating schedule. Their first event was on Sept. 24.
This month, our columnists explore what giving and November mean to them. The first highlights the importance of local journalism and explains how you can support it through a local GivingTuesday campaign by the Cumberland Community Foundation. Another shares how she is spending extra time leading up to Thanksgiving, acknowledging all she is grateful for and how to express that to those around her. Our bilingual columnist focuses on the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead—or Día de Muertos—that honors loved ones who have passed away. The last recommends eight books about how you can give during this season of giving.
Our November To-Do List will keep you entertained with hockey games at the Crown Coliseum, basketball and football games at local colleges and universities, and many more activities.
Were you at our Food, Wine & ART event presented by Cape Fear Valley Health on Oct. 9? We may have spotted you for this month’s Seen @ the Scene.
Get ready for Cumberland Community Foundation’s GivingTuesday campaign to help support local nonprofits with its Guide to Giving publication, which is a registry of local nonprofits to help guide your GivingTuesday donations. The guide will be mailed to subscribers and will be available on newsstands across the county this month. The foundation’s campaign this year will amplify donations with matching funds provided by the foundation and matching donors, and runs from Nov. 24 to Dec. 2.
As this November magazine shows, there are so many ways for you to give during the season. I hope the magazine inspires you as you go through the month.
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