May 12, 2022
You want to help Ukrainians in need. Should you donate to UNICEF, UNHCR, Red Cross, World Vision, Caritas, Save the Children or some other charitable organisation?
There are so many charities, and charitable causes, to choose from...
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Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court said Monday that state prisoners may not present new evidence in federal court in support of a claim that their post-conviction counsel in state court was ineffective in violation of the Constitution.
The ruling is a major defeat for two inmates on death row who said they had compelling claims that their state lawyers failed to pursue.
In addition, it will make it harder for inmates across the country to prevail on claims that they received ineffective counsel at the state court level in post-conviction proceedings.
The 6-3 opinion was penned by Justice Clarence Thomas...
Critics say that big-time donors wield too much power over their fellow-citizens and perpetuate social inequality. But don’t cancel Lady Bountiful just yet.
Organized philanthropy, like most things, looks different on the inside than it does from the outside. “Philanthropy” comes from the Greek for “love of humanity,” and public perceptions of it have usually centered on donors and how humanity-loving they really are. The good guys are generous rich people who give to causes we all approve of, like combatting climate change; the bad guys give in order to launder their reputations (like the opioid-promoting Sackler family) or to advance unsavory goals (like the anti-environmentalist Kochs). Either way, the salient questions about philanthropy, for most people, have to do with the size and the quality of a donor’s heart and soul...
Yolanda Davis, Arts Council Artist in Residence presents 'Unclassified' their work in fiber.
WEDNESDAY MAY 11 | 6-8 PM
Join us in The Sandbox, our free creative incubator space at 70 Audubon Street.
Light refreshments are available, and masks are required for this event.
DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS COORDINATOR
We Love What Makes You Unique
Your perspective fuels our mission-driven work at United Way of Greater New Haven. We are committed to building a team that is inclusive across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and lived experience. As an organization, we are committed to addressing systemic racism and injustice in our community, our partnerships, and our practices.
Who Are We Looking For?
Are you a goal-oriented problem solver who enjoys working with data? Do you want your work to help create positive change in our community?
United Way of Greater New Haven (UWGNH) is seeking a Development Operations Coordinator who is comfortable with deadlines and data management to support the administrative components of our fundraising and donor stewardship activities. This person will be a critical part of helping UWGNH reach its annual fundraising goals.
This is a full-time salaried position that includes benefits with a salary range of $40,000-$44,000.
What You'll Do
Process revenue
- United Way is privileged to have the support of thousands of individuals and companies in our community. It will be your responsibility to record gifts from various donation streams (including mail, online giving platforms, stock gifts and third-party vendors) in the database in a timely and accurate manner that conforms with United Way's accounting standards.
Provide exceptional customer service
- You will play an integral role in building and maintaining the trust of our donors through exceptional customer service. You will work closely with fundraising staff to troubleshoot donor data issues and make sure that donations and donor inquiries are handled in a professional manner and are resolved quickly.
Become a database expert
- You will become an expert on larger-scale data entry, data management and reporting. With training and support, you will be able to anticipate how fundraising strategies will impact data entry, reporting and analysis.
Support the fundraising and finance teams
- You will work cross-functionally to support the operational components of fundraising activities including mailings, events and donor stewardship, and work with the finance team to reconcile gifts recorded in CRM with accounting systems and bank records. You will also support administrative projects that further our organization’s mission.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience with data entry and working with strict deadlines
- Proficiency with Microsoft products including Word, Excel, and other Office 365 applications
- Knowledge of Excel lookup and database formulas, pivot charts, Power Query
- Experience working in cross-functional settings and/or meeting the needs of multiple people or departments.
- Familiarity with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platforms or other databases; Salesforce or fundraising platforms preferred
- Ability to make use of available resources to solve problems on the fly
- Comfort in summarizing and transforming data
- Willingness and ability to learn new workflows and an openness to change
In accordance with organizational policies, this position requires a criminal background check as a condition of employment.
About United Way
United Way of Greater New Haven brings people and organizations together to create solutions to Greater New Haven’s most pressing challenges in the areas of Education, Health, and Financial Stability grounded in racial and social justice. We tackle issues that cannot be solved by any one group working alone. We operate according to these organizational values.
This position will work in our New Haven office and staff currently work in a hybrid environment.
United Way is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
To apply: United Way Of Greater New Haven Inc - DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS COORDINATOR (paylocity.com)
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No, it’s not your imagination — New Haven really does make it harder than most cities do to let the public know basic information about crime and policing.
At least that’s what the Vera Institute concluded in an in-depth study that produced a “Police Data Transparency Index.”
The institute, which performs research about the criminal justice system, dived deep into the policies and performance of 94 local police departments representing over 25 percent of the nation’s population...
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/new_havens_pd_among_nations_least_transparent
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A bill signed Tuesday by Gov. Ned Lamont will limit the use of solitary confinement in Connecticut prisons, codifying some of the reforms sought for years by Stop Solitary CT advocates.
https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2022/05/11/lamont-signs-bill-limiting-solitary-confinement/
Updated at 6:00 p.m. ET on April 29, 2022.
Development projects in the United States are subject to a process I like to call “whoever yells the loudest and longest wins.” Some refer to this as participatory democracy...
On April 6th, Dr. Peter Kalmus, NASA climate scientist and author, walked up to the JP Morgan Chase bank building in Los Angeles, pulled a pair of handcuffs out of a cloth bag and chained himself to the front door. With tears in his eyes, he spoke about the climate crisis to a group of supporters. ..
In the best creative scenarios, the mind and hand engage in a back-and-forth of impulse and revision, allowing the artist to step back metaphorically and watch, remaining open to the surprise of what unfolds. You can see the results of this process yourself at the City Gallery exhibit IN MIND AND HAND featuring new fiber work by Jennifer Davies, on view May 6 - May 29. There will be an Opening Reception on Saturday, May 7 from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Davies is an accomplished and admired fiber artist who has exhibited her work across the country in galleries and museums. What sets her work apart is her ongoing inquisitive nature and her willingness to be the observer, to translate what she sees into both the making of paper and the creation of art.
She makes her own Japanese paper from mulberry branches which she cooks, cleans, and beats into a fluffy pulp. She then fashions this into artwork using techniques such as pulp painting, direct casting, and indigo dyeing. “Collage is another technique I use to build up layers of paper that have been painted or dyed with either indigo or persimmon. The impetus can be scraps and leftovers from other projects that beg to be assembled,” explains Davies, who also incorporates translucent sheets of kozo fiber, printed calligraphic shapes, and woven and sewn materials.
“Much of my work refers to natural forms, the surfaces of bark, boulders, or water,” says Davies. “Living by Long Island Sound, I see waves sliding onto the beach almost daily. I have tried to capture that feeling by pouring and splashing translucent pulp in layers over black paper. The smooth river rocks, long my companions for holding paper down in the breeze, I have honored by pouring pulp around them to suggest their silhouettes.”
Davies’ work was most recently featured at the Lexington Arts and Crafts Society, Lexington, MA, and at the Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA. In 2019, she was awarded Best in Show at the Surface Design Association’s exhibit Context: Language, Media, and Meaning at the Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA). She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and the Rome Honors Program, has studied and taught papermaking at Women’s Studio Workshop and Creative Arts Workshop, and has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows at museums and galleries including Hygienic Gallery (New London), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (Gatlinburg, TN), Artspace (New Haven), Center for Contemporary Printmaking (Norwalk), Hockaday Museum of Art (Kalispell, MT), Morgan Conservatory (Cleveland, OH), and the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking (Atlanta, GA). Davies’ work is included in numerous corporate and private collections. She is a long-standing member of the City Galley.
IN MIND AND HAND is free and open to the public, and runs May 6 - 29, 2022. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment (203-645-1404). City Gallery follows New Haven City’s mask mandate policy. For further information please contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.
Design for sales and/or educators with a dedicated page.
Here is our 1st exploration of the interactive video apps use for #TheGreatGive. #ThegreatGive06492
Apr 19, 2022
By: Kayla Giordano
With spring bringing warmer weather, households across Connecticut rejoice as temperatures rise and home heating season comes to an end. A recent survey found that the average monthly energy bill for Connecticut consumers is $411 the highest in the nation. Together with the threat of climate change, international conflict, and disrupted supply chains, increasing the energy efficiency of households is front of mind. This is doubly true for the state’s low- and moderate- income residents who bear an increased burden of high energy costs. A 2020 report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient EconomyDownload PDF found that low-income households faced the greatest energy burden of all income types, meaning they spent the largest percentage of their income on energy costs. Furthermore, low-income renters, who have limited ability to increase the energy efficiency of their homes, face a greater energy burden than those who own their homes. Low-income renters living in multifamily buildings spent 5% of their income on energy costs, compared to non-low-income renters who spent just 1.5% of their income on utilities. Given that one third of Connecticut residents are renters and over 300,000 of them make under 80% of the area median income, it is critical to consider energy efficiency in the construction and preservation of affordable housing...
You can’t hear or read the news without people screaming they don’t want Critical Race Theory (CRT) in their schools. This is not a problem because no one is interested in teaching legal theory in our K-12 schools...
Many people in Puerto Rico consider Harvard-educated Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos the father of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement. Following the conclusion of the Spanish American War (1898) Puerto Rico became a territory of the United States. Albizu Campos spent most of his life, from 1924 to his death in 1965, fighting to make Puerto Rico an independent nation. For his activities he spent much of this life in prison, both in the United State and Puerto Rico...
http://latinopia.com/latino-history/biography-pedro-albizu-campos/
You may be hearing a lot about community land trusts right now. They’ve become a popular answer to the question “How will we prevent displacement?” or “How do we keep housing permanently affordable?” But what are community land trusts, and how do they work? This page will give you a quick introduction to the topic, with lots of links to further reading from Shelterforce and advocacy organizations...
https://shelterforce.org/2021/07/12/understanding-community-land-trusts/amp/ ;
A few years ago, hospital workers tried to confiscate the purple-gray backpack that Christine carries with her everywhere, she said. At the time, the bag was her only possession; it doubled as a pillow when she slept on the streets.
Rather than sacrifice the bag, Christine refused health care. She has avoided medical centers ever since...
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/swan_study_supports_harm_reduction_model ;
Which people and professions rake in the most income year after year? Which are most adept at shielding that money from the taxman? And what does this tell you about America?
The top earners, of course, are often fodder for lists — but those are usually based on estimates or even speculation...
https://projects.propublica.org/americas-highest-incomes-and-taxes-revealed/
One year ago, Brookings and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) released a playbook for a new approach to advancing economic inclusion—one that centers disinvested neighborhoods as the locus for achieving inclusive regional economic recovery and growth. Inherently place-based and community-led in nature, this approach—“community-centered economic inclusion”—has been tested by the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, persistent racial injustice, and widening inequities in our nation’s most impoverished communities.
Today, as the economic challenges of the pandemic...
Leaders in America’s cities and regions are grappling with the fallout of a severe pandemic, historic economic crisis, and social and racial reckoning. In this post-crisis moment, a wide range of local government, business, civic, and community organizations—which in the past tended to operate in isolation, if not at cross purposes—are navigating their disparate narratives and goals, rethinking their missions to drive economic and racial inclusion, and forming new systemic alliances that will enable them to improve and scale their efforts. Drawing inspiration from case studies profiling efforts to “rewire systems” in five older industrial cities (Akron, Ohio; Birmingham, Ala.; Cincinnati, Ohio; St. Paul, Minn., and Syracuse, N.Y.), this report provides a framework and practical examples that can guide local action and state, federal, corporate, and philanthropic investment in cities across the nation.
