pine bluff icvr, inc.

Pine Bluff Interested Citizens for Voter Registration Inc.

MISSION: To improve the quality of life for all citizens with special concerns for youth

Help us continue to provide programming to Pine Bluff youth and community. Make a donation today! $5 or $500 will helps us expand what you see on the promo below. THANKS...

Original KingFest™ Celebration
January 14-20, 2020
OKFC Theme: “Let’s Talk About Our Dream: Writing A New History”
-OFFICIAL SCHEDULE OF EVENT-
Tuesday, January 14th - Student Pledge against Violence Day Pine Bluff, Watson Chapel, and Dollarway School Districts
Wednesday, January 15th – PBICVR PEN OR PENCIL MLK Birthday Bash
Pine Bluff Lighthouse Academy Public Charter School @ 2:30 PM
Thursday, January 16th 12 noon – PBICVR & West Pine Bluff Rotary Club 12th Annual Original KingFest™ Celebration Kick-off at Pine Bluff Country Club 46th Avenue at Cherry Street
Speaker: Freddie Scott, Sr., Operation Manager for the Arkansas Department of Education Charter Schools – [100 students to Attend] from PBSD, WCSD, DWSD and PBLA. This meeting is open to the public
Friday, January 17th 6PM – PBICVR Original KingFest™ Celebration Youth/Young Adult Gospel Extravaganza Location Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church 1801 Indiana Street
Saturday, January 18th 8 AM – The 37th annual Original KingFest™ Youth/Adult Community Service Day in collaboration with the City of Pine Bluff. Staging location: Pine Bluff High School at 8:00 am; sign-in and receive instructions. Clean up sites will consist of locations throughout the Southside. Lunch will be served at 12:00 Noon. Tree planting at City Hall.
Sunday, January 19th, 6PM - The Original KingFest™ Justice Sunday Commemoration Program at Old Saint James Missionary Baptist Church 4512 South Ohio Street - Speaker: Pastor Gary Bell, First Assembly of God Pine Bluff, AR; Music: Old Saint James MBC Coir and First Assembly of God Mass Choir. Faith and Justice to honor Law Enforcement City, County and State.
Monday, January 20th, 2PM – 37th Annual PBICVR Original KingFest™ (Parade/March) Parade
Theme: “Let’s Talk About Our Dream: Writing A New History”
Lineup time @ 1 PM – 3rd at Walnut Street: Grand Parade Marshals – Superintendents Barbara Warren (DWSD), Jerry Guess (WCSD) and Jeremy Owoh (PBSD)
Limousines provided by: *Brown, Paradise and Christian Way Funeral Homes*
PEN OR PENCIL Educational/Entertainment Program in collaboration with Ivy Center for Education, Inc., after the Parade/Marade inside the Pine Bluff Convention Center
MC: Kaitlyn Peterson, PBSD, SPEAKER: Jonathan Burgess, PBSD, PRAYER: Joshua Hunt, PBSD, WELCOME: Jaumaria Byrd, DWSD, NATIONAL ANTHEM and PEN OR PENCIL PLEDGE AGAINST VIOLENCE: Kelsie Roberson, WCSD, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Kelby Scarver, PBSD
Special Entertainment - PINE BLUFF BETA CLUB
Fifth Annual MLK/Lorenzo Smith Battle of the Bands – & Trophies Presentations - Details 870.730.1131

Applications can be filled out Monday thru Wednesday from 11 AM to 12 Noon at the PBICVR office located 211 West 3rd Avenue, Suite 109 also upon request, applications can also be obtained by calling Mary Liddell at 870.643.2383, Pelida Norris 870.692.8579 or email pbicvr@aol.com. To volunteer or for details call 870.730.1131. Doors at the Pine Bluff Convention Center will open at 2:30 PM on the day of the Marade.
***ACCORDING TO PBICVR 2019 DOCUMENTS 2020 IS THE THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR FOR OKFC***

Justice Sunday, 6 P.M. Jan. 19th @ Old Saint James MB Church, 4512 South Ohio Street Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Wednesday, October 02, 2019, over 350 students at Broadmor Elementary School MARCHED in the streets of the city to call for an end to "bullying and gun violence" during a Pine Bluff TenPoint PEN OR PENCIL Expansion Hub Initiative. We thank Parents, Broadmor Principal Fitz, Teachers, Staff, PBSD Superintendent Owoh, and PB Police Department. PEN OR PENCIL supports Pine Bluff schools with this PBIS and ESL activity.

The Thirty-Seventh Annual Original KingFest™ January 14-20, 2020

We decided to be "UNITED" PBICVR Coffee with the Chiefs

PBICVR National Partners and Local TenPoint Partners

Pine Bluff Mayor Shirley M. Washington and Pine Bluff Police Chief Kelvin Sergeant sign TenPoint PEN OR PENCIL Expansion Hub Documents

During National Crime Prevention and Anti-bullying Month October 1, 2018, Pine Bluff ICVR, the local NAFJ affiliate organized 2,000 kids to march against violence with all Pine Bluff School Districts. "Nonviolence to No Violence." Please visit: www.penorpencilmovement.org - Contact pbicvr@aol.com or call our office 870.730.1131 for additional information concerning youth involvement.

Pine Bluff, Watson Chapel and Dollarway School District participate in PEN OR PENCIL "Nonviolence to No Violence" initiative.

Students signing PEN OR PENCIL Pledge against violence - Youngsters who remain in the PEN OR PENCIL Transformation Initiative have a 97% High School graduation rate

PEN OR PENCIL King Team prepare to march against gun violence downtown Main Street in Pine Bluff

Pine Bluff National TEN POINT PEN OR PENCIL Expansion Hub being deployed in Pine Bluff Arkansas. Pine Bluff Mayor Shirley Washington and PBPD Kelvin Sergeant signed TEN POINT deployment document, also signing were Superintendent (s) Barbara Warren, Dollarway School District, Dr. Jerry Guess, Watson Chapel School District, and Dr. Jeremy Owoh, Pine Bluff School District. For additional information call 870.730.1131

Bishop Henry Hearns, first African American Mayor of Lancaster California, also pastor/author visit with Pine Bluff High School students during the PBICVR MLK Original KINGFEST Week

PEN OR PENCIL students participate in critical thinking skills at Pine Bluff High School

Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney S. Kyle Hunter has his rights read to him by PEN OR PENCIL Students assisted by a POP mentor

Testimonies from PBICVR PEN OR PENCIL King Team Alumni

What is the PBICVR PEN OR PENCIL King Team?
Pine Bluff Interested Citizens for Voter Registration, Inc. [PBICVR] serves as Arkansas’ Lead PEN OR PENCIL Affiliate. PEN OR PENCIL is a copy written national group mentoring program of the National Alliance of Faith and Justice [NAFJ] based in Washington, DC. with affiliates located around the nation whose aim is to encourage youngsters to choose education and to boycott bullying, violence and negative behaviors, and the things which can put them in the pipeline to the juvenile justice system and ultimately get in prison. THE PROGRAM IS DESIGNED FOR ALL STUDENTS IN GRADES 6-12TH

POP has a unique curriculum, which consists of an extensive menu of activities. POP has been endorsed by the National Council for the Social Studies, aligned with Common Core Standards. POP is supported by empirical data which supports the program’s effectiveness.

POP targets At-Risk, High-Risk, and Underserved Youth in Pine Bluff. POP uses service learning, Standards -National Social Studies, Common Core, Thematic vocabularies and View-Ins. Youth who have moved beyond delinquent acts to achieve positive developmental outcomes despite difficult life circumstances often attribute their success to the influence of and natural bond with a caring adult.

POP is being deployed in all three school districts in Pine Bluff and has the potential to reducing bullying, violence, and trauma by 5 to 10%. PBICVR needs your support of its programming click on DONATE; your support is much appreciated

PBICVR Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (PB VITA) Center collaborating with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) since 2006; prepares Federal and State income taxes for low to moderate income citizens free of charge. The PBICVR volunteers have returned millions of dollars back into the pockets of these families for more than a decade.

Pine Bluff Wealth Building Coalition Planning Meeting for 2020 PBWBC Grand Opening of VITA Sites

PBICVR, Inc. Second annual "Shoes for Kids" drive. Contact our office to donate. 870.730.1131

PBICVR POP student makes trip to Washington, DC and travels to Selma, Alabama for the 50th Anniversary of "Bloody Sunday."

THE MOVING CLASSROOM

Pine Bluff PEN OR PENCIL carried students to Washington, DC and to Selma, Alabama on the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," when civil rights activists were attacked by Alabama law enforcement as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge however, two weeks later Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and people from across the nation gathered to march hand in hand across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery for equal treatment and voting rights. The Interested Citizens for Voter Registration, Inc. Arkansas' lead Pen or Pencil affiliate for the National Alliance of Faith and Justice in Washington, DC is collaborating with Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site to participate in Selma to Montgomery, Alabama project called, Pen or Pencil "Let Me Read You Your Rights Moving Classroom," scheduled took place March 19-25, 2015. The Arkansas delegation and 150 youth plus two distinguished professionals representing law and education. "The centerpiece of the journey was the week-long “Walking and Riding Classroom” (54 miles from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama), which will reveal the determination of youth and adults to change the attitudes of a nation and to stimulate and empower participants to share with peers and a broader audiences the ongoing struggle for human rights." - Rev. Jesse C. Turner, NAFJ PEN OR PENCIL program director.

PBICVR PEN OR PENCIL King Team complete community service project of weeding, cleaning and planting flowers in planters at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Park - To join the King Team call 870.730.1131

PBICVR POP King Team students visit Mr. Henri Linton at UAPB to learn African American history of AM&N/UAPB and Pine Bluff

Mr. Codney Washington a PEN OR PENCIL mentor works with students at Robert F. Morehead Middle School

POP Nonviolence to Noviolence rally at Watson Chapel Junior High School

Working with children from Nonviolence to No Violence March

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News & Updates

PBICVR PEN OR PENCIL students participate in a B.U.S. Boycott, go 40 days without negative behaviors and Let Me Read You Your Rights activity at Robert F. Morehead Middle School

Rebecca Newby a former Pen or Pencil Student and current Watson Chapel School Teachers delivers a message in poetry about Pen or Pencil Movement.