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Free training program aims to help people of color run for public office

Posted by Lee Cruz on January 28, 2021 at 6:00am

New Haven Register

By Business Staff

Jan. 28, 2021

A volunteer holds a sticker to give to a voter at a polling place on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in Stamford. Jessica Hill / Associated Press

A free two-day training program aimed at helping more people of color run for public office will be held virtually next month, a product of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and Campaign School at Yale University, according to a release.

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Free-training-program-aims-to-help-people-of-15903692.php?

Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis in Connecticut: Why and How?

Posted by Samantha Lew on January 26, 2021 at 9:16am

Good afternoon, sharing this upcoming event to those interested &/ if you would like to share with your networks!

Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis in Connecticut: Why and How?

Welcome to a two-part webinar event on Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis!

Part 1 Making the Declaration: The first event will explain what it means to declare racism a public health crisis and why 20 municipalities in Connecticut and 173 states, municipalities, and organizations across the U.S. have made the declaration.

Part 2 Taking the Next Step: The second event will be a panel discussion with local leaders to discuss what next steps have been taken and how to leverage declarations to make anti-racist policy! This event will be recorded.

To register & for more details https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcuqurDgrE9H4hOKezSXiIILxyLHEF7ni

Recognizing Racism as a Public Health Threat: A Conversation with Dr. Willarda V. Edwards

Posted by Lee Cruz on January 26, 2021 at 5:15am

This article comes from the winter 2020 edition of the Nonprofit Quarterly as part of an article series on “America’s healthcare crisis.”

The Nonprofit Quarterly recently sat down with Dr. Willarda V. Edwards, who has been helping to spearhead an effort inside the House of Delegates at the American Medical Association (AMA) to reorient the organization around antiracist principles. This has resulted in a policy platform, made public in mid-November 2020, that took on a wide variety of issues seen as needing systemic redress. The new policy,¹ now approved by the AMA House of Delegates, will do the following...

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/recognizing-racism-as-a-public-health-threat-a-conversation-with-dr-willarda-v-edwards/?utm_content=152202180&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-542508 ;

#TeamResilient - Student Success Every!

Posted by H.O.P.E., Inc on January 23, 2021 at 2:01pm

For Kids and Adults

Free program we at H.O.P.E., Inc. are offering for kids and adults called #TeamResilient-Student Success Every Day!The purpose of the program is to address mental well-being during these trying times of COVID, distance learning and social distancing and racial turmoil. We plan to offer programs to help us have fun, and connect with others, build and maintain relationships, and practice social skills to boost personal development and wellbeing. The program is open to all of those interested, and we have received enough funding to serve a minimum of 75 participants.

Visit our website for more information about the program, and click here to register. We are available for group information sessions if you want to hear more about the program and specific activities.

Greater New Haven Green Fund Seeking Applications for Funding

Posted by Aaron Goode on January 21, 2021 at 8:00am

Request for Proposals for grants in 2021 are now open.

Visit our website: www.gnhgreenfund.org for details.

We offer grant awards from $1,000 to $10,000 for environmental and public health initiatives in the Greater New Haven region (New Haven, Hamden, East Haven and Woodbridge).

The application is online and due by January 22, 2021 at 5:00 PM.

Resident-led Video Series Presented by Purple States and DataHaven

Posted by The Community Foundation for GNH on January 20, 2021 at 8:02am

A powerful new video series produced by Purple States and DataHaven brings local voices to the conversation about the need for equity. Produced with New Haven residents Aziya Ricard and Tyrone Jones, "Covid Reckonings" is the first of a four-part series created with Connecticut communities hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

To help heal racial wounds, Black national anthem would become America's hymn under proposal

Posted by Lee Cruz on January 13, 2021 at 5:41am

Deborah Barfield Berry

USA TODAY - January 11, 2021

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., wants a song about faith and resilience long revered in the Black community to become the national hymn and help unite the country after centuries of racial turmoil.

Clyburn, the House majority whip, plans to introduce a measure as early as this week that would make “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” known as the Black national anthem, the national hymn and give it a special place alongside the country’s anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."

“To make it a national hymn, I think, would be an act of bringing the country together. It would say to people, ‘You aren’t singing a separate national anthem, you are singing the country’s national hymn,’” said Clyburn, the highest-ranking Black American in Congress. “The gesture itself would be an act of healing. Everybody can identify with that song.”

Continues: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/12/black-national-anthem-jim-clyburn-pushes-song-national-hymn/6560250002/ ;

Funding Opportunities for Greater New Haven Nonprofits

Posted by The Community Foundation for GNH on January 12, 2021 at 6:31am

Grantseeker Information Webinar

Last chance to register!

Thursday, January 14, 20219:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Learn all about 2021 deadlines, capacity building training sessions and more.

Topics covered:

• All of the Community Foundation's grant processes

• Changes to increase access for organizations new to The Foundation

• Changes to the Responsive Grant process

• How to apply for a Responsive Grant

• The timeline from start to finish

• Upcoming technical assistance opportunities to support your application preparation

The Hamden Economic Development Corporation (HEDC) in partnershup with the CT Department of Housing (DOH) and the CT Housing Finance Authority (CHFA) is pleased to announce this exciting new training

Posted by Dale Kroop on January 8, 2021 at 3:30am

The Hamden Economic Development Corporation (HEDC) in partnershup with the CT Department of Housing (DOH) and the CT Housing Finance Authority (CHFA) is pleased to announce this exciting new training opportuntiy. This program is open to CT Residents who are interested in a career in the field of housing and community development. Here are links to the facebook page (new web site coming soon).

https://www.facebook.com/Housing-and-Community-Development-Leadership-Institute-102838981701519

More information about the program....

Every day across CT and across the country, there are hundreds and thousands of people who work in the field of community and economic development. They work for communites large and small, they work for Housing Authoriites, non-profit housing developers, in the private market place and the list goes on. They may also work in the construction industry.

They do housing counseling, housing rehabilitation, they run public service agencies, small business loan programs, they do neighborhood redevelopment, brownfield work, run innovation programs, senior programs and on and on. These skills are generally not taught in college programs, and people come into the industry from many other places, real estate, social work, marketing etc.

They have acquired a lifetime of experience in grant writing, and adminstration, they are engaging public speakers, they do accounting, marketing and tax credit applications, they are leaders in their communities. The excutive and construction functions are still mostly done by men (I am a man) but increasingly women have grown in numbers in the field. The current professionals are retiring at an accelorated pace and we must replace them and their institutional knowledge.

Millenials and Gen Z people want and demand meaningful careers. The Institute will focus on teaching people these skills within tracks that meet their skill set. The Institute will teach motivated people, focused on young women of color and others in affected communites the skills needed to make it in this exciting field. Our application proccess is open for virtual learning in 2021, check it out and watch for course updates on the facebook page, a full web site is under design and will be ready over the winter and spring. For those of you in the field , please post your job experiences here, share the wealth! Oh and one final thing today, you can make a really good living in this field, it has a never ending career path if you want to learn.

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