Testimonials
When I called 2-1-1 because someone told me they could help with nutrition, I never expected to get fresh food. They sent me to a food pantry where I got 3 onions, 4 potatoes, 4 bananas, orange, brown rice, black beans, 3 artichokes, raspberries, packaged lettuce for salad, carrots, purple cabbage, and chicken breast. I called 2-1-1 again right away and asked if I could go back to the pantry again and they told me I could go every week if I needed food. I would never have found about this if it weren’t for the people at 2-1-1!
Issues in the News
Bay Area United Way wants people to call 211 for children's summer program info
Vallejo Times Herald
April 27, 2011
Times-Herald Staff Report
Parents and caregivers can call 211 for information about children's summer programs, including day camps, residential camps and therapeutic camps for those with disabilities or specific health conditions, United Way of the Bay Area officials announced.
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The Information Age Goes Old School
Stanford Social Innovation Review
April 14, 2010
By Peter Manzo
“But it’s really an information ocean, not a highway. If you think of it as an ocean, then you have to consider the kind of tools that are used, who builds the boats, who designs them, and whether you’re surfing or diving. If you have a message in the bottle, how do you get the bottle to the people who need it?” Peter Gabriel, (New York Times, July 13, 1994 )
Many of us have come to expect uninterrupted access to the Internet everywhere. For too many of us, round-the-clock checking of email, Twitter and Facebook have become an unhealthy obsession, and increasingly, an intrusive expectation of employers and co-workers. For the connected, the challenge is now how to unplug, to avoid being overwhelmed by the fire hose. As Nicholas Carr recently observed, reflecting on what seems to be growing revulsion to this “Disconnection is the new counterculture.”