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This Week's Facts:
Online
Community Designed for Social Hoosiers
Join the
Fight Against Hunger on World Food Day
Legal
Immigrants May Sign Up for 2013 Visa Lottery
Online
Portal Created for Relocated High School & College Students
Recent reports
suggest that many of our neighbors in Ohio, Illinois, and other
surrounding states are moving to Indiana. While we all agree
that Indiana is a great place to be, there are many issues faced
by families moving to a new state, particularly those with
children. For families with
high school
or
college students
,
TransferIN
is a great resource. TransferIN is an initiative of the
Indiana Commission
for Higher Education.
This website is all about transferring to schools in Indiana and
contains a
map
with Indiana Colleges and Universities. There is information
about how to transfer college credit, how to navigate financial
aid in Indiana, and even what sort of benefits you can receive
for being a veteran. There is also information for guidance
counselors. Moving to a new state can be scary; even scarier is
the prospect of transferring to a new school. Hopefully the
steps,
tools and resources on this website will help make the process a
little less frightening.
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Friday Facts Editorial Team:
Katharine Springer
State Data
Center Coordinator
Elisabeth
O’Donnell
Federal Documents Librarian
&
Kim Brown-Harden
State
Documents Coordinator
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Online Community Designed for Social Hoosiers
 Indiana
just got smaller! There’s a new social-networking website,
Smaller
Indiana, to
get Indiana’s most creative and ‘social’ residents, or Smoosiers,
to come together for ideas, community, and local & upcoming
events.
Included on the Smaller Indiana site is the
leaf cam
group,
which helps to promote fall travel and tourism in Indiana. Of
course, this includes the beautiful sites and pictures of the
leaf cams located throughout the state. Smaller Indiana
encourages all Smoosiers to blog, tweet, and share your photos
from your various fall travels. You could win a prize! For more
information and details, visit
visitindiana.com.
Remember to break out those cameras and enjoy the beauty of fall
in Indiana.
Join the
Fight Against Hunger on World Food Day
 October
16 is
World Food
Day (WFD).
Celebrated on the day that the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization was founded in 1945, WFD is a way for communities
and other local organizations to work together to fight hunger
around the world. Although it is sponsored by the US National
Committee, it is up to the individual groups involved to host
events and band together with other groups to make the day
happen. The purpose of World Hunger Day is to raise money and
exchange ideas on how fighting hunger can best be accomplished.
World Hunger Day USA sponsors a
teleconference
for just such an exchange. You must have a login name to view
the sponsored events for this year, but you can look at the
directory
to see which organizations are involved and what they are doing.
This year, in addition to community activities, the USDA, the
State Department, and USAID will be joining other organizations
in Des Moines, Iowa to discuss how we can improve agricultural
development and production around the world. Check out their
website
to see what these and other government agencies are doing to
help fight hunger. By collaborating with communities, host
countries, and private organizations, they are working to keep
more people around the world fed.
Legal Immigrants May Sign Up for 2013 Visa Lottery
 Communities
with large immigrant populations will be interested to learn
about the
2013 US
Visa Lottery.
Every year, thousands of people legally immigrate to the United
States. In order to promote diversity among the immigrant
population, the State Department sponsors this
lottery to encourage people from countries with low rates of
immigration to come to the United States. Citizens of countries
with fewer than 50,000 new immigrants, such as Malaysia or
Belarus, are invited to apply for this. It is free to apply and
registration is currently open. 50,000 winners are randomly
selected by a computer and are awarded a green card. It is
important to fill out all of the information requested – if
someone has children and does not mention it on the entry form,
they will not be able to immigrate with them. Entrants will be
able to check their status starting May 1, 2012. Check out the USA.gov
blog post
on the visa lottery for more information.
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