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Hello my name is Sasha Budd and I am a rising senior at Randolph College and I was interested in knowing if you had a internship available for this summer.
Hi Sasha – yes, we do have a part-time position open: http://www.bpallianceblog.org/2010/04/job-part-time-membership-coordinator-black-philanthropic-alliance
Do you know someone whose health or aspirations have been affected because of an unacceptable environment or social issue in their community? Or maybe you have your own story? If so, we want to hear it.
In our commitment to serve as a trusted leader in caring for people and advancing health, we are in the process of collecting and showcasing compelling stories that will: 1) help healthcare professionals provide better and more compassionate care; and 2) help the business community and decisionmakers understand how to create and sustain healthy communities.
Please reply to this email or call the number below if you; 1) live in the Baltimore/Washington community; and 2) are interested in sharing your story, which may include publicly available photos and/or a taped interview.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Christopher J. King, FACHE
Assistant Vice President, Community Health
410 772 6587 phone
410 992 6865 fax
christopher.j.king@medstar.net
I am planning to move to DC in January and work or volunteer for a local organization doing organizing or advocacy for social justice. I have some experience in community development and housing and legal services. I graduated from college four years ago with a degree in public policy.
Can you recommend some prospects? Thank you.
Check out this new blog that discusses professional development in the philanthropic community. http://blog.learnphilanthropy.net/?p=784
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR GFE’s ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Answering the Call: Uniting for Impact, Fostering Solutions
October 3-5, 2011, Los Angeles, California
Grantmakers for Education invites its members to submit session proposals for our annual conference, the nation’s largest gathering of education funders. Submissions should clearly indicate the proposed session’s learning objectives, its relevance to education grantmakers, how the session’s design will engage conference attendees, and the ways the session connects to the conference theme and framing language included below. This year, we also invite proposals for a limited number of three-hour sessions focused on specific problems of practice. Because these sessions differ in format and approach from the more numerous 90-minute sessions, please read the RFP carefully to determine which length and format is best suited to the approach you want to propose.
You can download a full set of directions for crafting and submitting proposals online: http://www.edfunders.org/downloads/conf2011/2011_GFE_Conference_RFP.pdf
Proposals are due Tuesday, March 15, 5:00 pm PT.
Answering the Call: Uniting for Impact, Fostering Solutions
When it comes to fulfilling the potential of our nation’s learners, we have no time to waste. How can grantmakers act in the moment to address the needs of millions of students whose futures remain in peril, while maintaining the patience and persistence necessary to see long-term solutions through to fruition? How can we move past ideological debates and unite around our shared commitment to expanding opportunities and improving outcomes for all learners? How can we use our role as education grantmakers to drive better outcomes for all communities?
As education’s entrenched problems persist and new challenges arise, let us focus on the goals we hold in common, forging effective, collective approaches to achieve them. Keeping the success of diverse learners at the center of our efforts, we must build new alliances with unlikely partners. Moving past any belief in silver bullets or siloed approaches, we can rethink, reframe and redesign what education means in America.
Join Grantmakers for Education in Los Angeles for the nation’s largest gathering of education funders. Against the backdrop of one of our country’s most creative, diverse, and globally-minded cities, we will learn lessons from small towns, large urban centers and other nations, elevating the voices of those who are too seldom heard in education debates. Together, we will answer the call.
We look forward to seeing your proposal. Please contact DeL’Aurore Kyly if you have any questions or need any assistance in preparing your proposal.
2011 Conference Planning Committee
Alvertha Penny, California Community Foundation (co-chair)
Anne Stanton, The James Irvine Foundation (co-chair)
Christine Doby, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
H. Mitchell D’Olier, Harold K. L. Castle Foundation
Marcia Egbert, The George Gund Foundation
John Fitzpatrick, Communities Foundation of Texas, Inc.
Michelle Gilliard, The Walmart Foundation
Andrés Henríquez, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Christy Pichel, Stuart Foundation
Harriet Sanford, The NEA Foundation
Kristy Teskey, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Internship: Communications Intern
Position reports jointly to Friends of the Earth’s Communications Director and Deputy Communications Director.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Summary
Friends of the Earth belongs to a federation of grassroots groups in 76 countries fighting for a more healthy and just world. We’re a principled and progressive organization known for speaking sometimes uncomfortable truths to power, and our campaigns demonstrate our belief that the fight for justice and the movement to protect the health of the planet are part of the same struggle. Our top domestic campaign priorities include protecting the public from dangerous nuclear reactors, promoting environmentally responsible federal budget practices (including an end to taxpayer subsidies for polluters), and preventing the construction of an oil pipeline that would bring the world’s dirtiest oil from Canada to the United States.
We are looking for a communications intern to expand our organization’s communications capacity. You will be tasked with engaging in communications work that supports our policy advocates and helps them win campaigns in the short term, while helping to strengthen Friends of the Earth and the broader progressive and environmental movements in the long run. You will engage in activities including generating media coverage, sending email alerts to activists, writing persuasive blog posts and op-eds, participating in online social networks, and developing communications and campaign strategies.
Major Responsibilities
- Quickly learn about the issues on which we work and the positions we take on them, as well as the range of communications tactics we employ.
- Draft and edit a wide variety of written content, including e-action alerts, fact sheets, news releases, blog posts, web page text, op-eds, letters to newspaper editors, memoranda, and magazine articles.
- Build and update media contact lists and pitch stories to reporters.
- Track media coverage, e-alert performance, and ad performance.
- Learn how to use and then use our online advocacy and email software, as well as our website content management system and our media contact database.
- Produce content for Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites.
- Produce multimedia content, including videos and photos.
- Attend, facilitate, and help with logistics for various events and meetings.
- Conduct research.
- Perform other functions as needed.
You Should
- be a superb writer who communicates in a precise, concise, accessible and persuasive manner.
- work hard and stay on task.
- pay attention to detail.
- excel whether working individually or in teams.
- take responsibility for assignments and meet deadlines.
- possesses political savvy, and be knowledgeable about and interested in politics, policy, advocacy, and social movements.
- consume various types of media and be familiar with current events.
- care deeply about the future of our planet and the people on it.
Salary and Benefits
This temporary three-month internship pays $10/hour, with 37.5 hour workweeks. There are no additional benefits.
To Apply
E-mail cover letter, resume and short writing sample to jobs@foe.org with the subject heading “Communications Internship.” No mail applications or phone calls. Position will remain open until filled.
Friends of the Earth is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from women, people of color and other members of underrepresented groups who will contribute to the diversity of our staff.
Development & Communication Manager
About CCC
College & Career Connections’ mission is to effect a radical transformation in the aspirations and capacity of youth from Washington DC’s low-income communities to graduate from high school and pursue higher education. This year, we will achieve our mission by offering early exposure to college and careers to approximately 800 middle and early high school youth in DC’s Wards 7 & 8 through our award-winning OnTrack! program.
Development & Communications Manager Position Description
CCC is looking for an organized, ambitious, and hard-working Communications Associate. The Communications Associate will be involved in all aspects of the organization’s administrative and communication operations. This is an exciting opportunity to grow professionally and support a nonprofit making a difference for our city’s low-income youth!
Responsibilities include:
Communications & Outreach
- Managing website content, and updating content as necessary.
- Serving as liaison to external website developers.
- Drafting, designing, and sending regular email blasts or newsletters to our list.
- Building press contacts and relationships.
- Drafting and sending press releases to press contacts.
- Drafting and designing internal and external materials, or working with external designers as needed.
- Working with external vendors to print and produce materials such as brochures, walk-cards, program overviews, etc.
- Engaging in outreach with community and nonprofit partners to continue to enhance and build CCC’s network and public profile in the local nonprofit community.
- Overseeing and building CCC’s social media presence on Twitter, Facebook, and beyond.
Administrative
- Serve as assistant to the Executive Director
- Researching potential foundation, corporate, and government funders.
- Coordinating with external grant writer: editing grants that have been drafted, compiling grant attachments, and ensuring final submission of grants.
- Maintaining the organization’s grant calendar
- Maintaining funder files and records
- Serving as primary contact for funders
- Organizing site visits as needed
- Supporting ED with individual donor outreach and campaigns
- Overseeing recognition process (thank you letters)
- Supporting with fundraising events, Board development, corporate sponsorships as needed
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- A B.A. from a four year university, enthusiasm for CCC’s mission and work with youth.
- Experience in the nonprofit sector, either with development or communications. Press or media experience is desirable.
- Must be detail-oriented, an exceptionally strong writer, able to work independently, and have good communication skills.
- Experience with Office Applications, Salesforce, Constant Contact, WordPress is also desirable.
Salary:
Low 20’s
To apply please forward a cover letter, resume and brief writing sample to: Apply@collegeandcareerconnections.org
College & Career Connections
Workshop Facilitator
Job Description
Are you an enthusiastic and skilled classroom instructor who is passionate about helping youth? College & Career Connections is recruiting for the 2011-2012 school year and we’d like YOU to join our program team!
Workshop Facilitator Job Description: Workshop facilitators deliver CCC’s signature OnTrack! Program to an assigned cohort of students every other week at a designated school site throughout the 2010-2011 school year. CCC provides a curriculum for facilitators to teach and training to ensure quality and consistency in delivery. Each workshop (12 in all) will require one hour of instruction every other week, usually during the school day. Facilitators will also be required to attend training meetings, provide feedback about program implementation, and be evaluated by the Program Manager and Site Coordinators.
Primary Responsibilities:
- ensure that CCC’s curriculum is delivered professionally and effectively to meet desired learning objectives
- maintain classroom management within a class of approx. 30 8th or 9th grade students
- arrive punctually to school sites and expertly manage time during the course of the workshops to ensure that all aspects of the lesson plan are delivered
- relate to students about their personal aspirations, college and career options, and skills for success in school and life
- contribute feedback to other facilitators and Director of Programming
Experience Requirements:
- must have instruction experience preferably working with students from low-income communities
- must have completed or be currently enrolled in postsecondary education
- must have a familiarity with the DC area, schools, and students
- background in college access and/or youth development programs a plus
Desired Personal Qualities:
- patience
- good sense of humor
- strong sense of presence in a classroom setting
- enthusiastic and objective-oriented presentation style
- passion for helping youth, especially those who are disengaged, understand the connection between education and a better life
Wage: $25/hour (facilitators are paid for each hour of instruction as well as all CCC required training sessions).
Application Instructions:
Please send your cover letter and resume to apply@collegeandcareerconnections.org. The deadline to apply is August 30th 2011.
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History is looking to fill the position of a Director of Development. The posting can be found on our site at http://www.asalh.net/communityjobs.html.
Sunday, November 20 OWN Network 10:00pm (et)
We shoudl be watching this and talking about it sooner rather than later…
Our America with Lisa Ling
Incarceration Generation
In this episode, Lisa Ling takes a close look behind the staggering statistics of incarceration in the African American community, and meets three men and families hoping to break the cycle once and for all.
Read more: http://www.oprah.com/own/tv-schedule/index.html?date=2011-11-20&stype=daily#ixzz1dz3ZSBJH
Latest issue of WSJ is featuring the nonprofit and philanthropic communities: http://online.wsj.com/itp/20111128/us/thejournalreport
: http://storify.com/cof_/philchat-philanthropy-s-role-in-advancing-global