Job Description: Full-time Lead Organizer

PREST is a youth-led organizing effort for racial and educational justice throughout Connecticut. We envision a country in which the histories of Black people and people of color are taught, understood, and celebrated as fundamental to American history and where people feel affirmed in their identities.

PREST is excited to add a full-time…

Metro Taxi is driving efforts to give people with disabilities more freedom.…

Catholic Charities is hosting a FREE Back To Preschool Fair on Wednesday, August 1st, 2018 from 3:00p.m. - 5:00p.m. at St. Francis & St. Rose School, 423 Ferry St. New Haven , CT 06513.

There will be FREE backpacks (as…

Capital for Change is the nonprofit formed two years ago through the merger of Greater New Haven Community Loan Fund, Community Capital Fund and Connecticut Housing Investment Fund.  We are a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that creates high impact lending programs and products that help develop affordable housing, increase energy efficiency and nurture nonprofit organizations. We are looking to fill a crucial position in our growing organization.

The Senior…

Public Allies Connecticut, an AmeriCorps program focused on creating a more just and equitable society through the promotion of diverse, new leadership is seeking nonprofit partners to host our talented AmeriCorps members starting this fall! 

Allies work full time, Monday - Thursday, Sept. - June to build organizational capacity, all while developing their leadership abilities, earning a living stipend and money for school. Members are diverse and reflective of our local communities.…

Anyone walking a hot stretch of sidewalk along Grand Avenue now has an inviting spot to rest in the shade, talk to neighbors, and watch children play.

The oasis is called a “parklet,” and was designed by two Yale graduate students who won New Haven’s first Parklet Design Competition, a collaboration between GoNewHavenGo, the Department of Transportation,…

By Robert K. Ross Jul. 17, 2018

Civic engagement and community voice make up the secret sauce of US democracy. We need a new, community-generated social compact to assert the vision and policy framework for an inclusive 21st-century America.…

I’m reaching out today looking for a potential partner for a class at the University of New Haven.  I’m hoping that our students can help your organization while they gain a deeper understanding of the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world as they relate to the field of health care.    

The class is titled Elementary Spanish for Health Care I and the instructor, Dr. Alessia Dalsant, is looking for her students to volunteer at a local organization(s) that serves Spanish…

The strength of American cities – and the nation as a whole – depends on generating inclusive growth for people of all races, ethnicities, and incomes...

Continued: http://www.sharedprosperitypartnership.org/

REPORT on: Building Shared Prosperity in America’s Cities…

Black Lives Matter at Five: Activists Take Stock

By   STEVE DUBB 

The acquittal of George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting…

What is art?

A simple definition of art can be many things to many people.

Webster's Dictionary defines it as "the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially

in the production of aesthetic objects.” That sounds about right. Broad enough for the intellects

and straightforward enough for the common folk.…

Why do so many pregnant women and young mothers die?

Your guess is as good as our government’s. We simply don’t know. Even the statistics we have aren’t current, though from all indications the U.S.’s mortality rate is rising, as it is in Afghanistan and Sudan.

But in the U.S., the rate has risen by 136 percent between 1990 and 2013...…

Nonprofit Quarterly: By   RUTH MCCAMBRIDGE | July 9, 2018

Superficially, it seems that the current US presidential administration has it in for babies. Even as it…