Today we are celebrating and honoring Ava DuVernay, is a writer, producer, director, and distributor of independent film. One of her latest project that she wrote and directed is currently on Netflix. When They See Us, a series based on the Central Park Five, five teens that were falsely accused of an attack at Central Park.

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Learn more: http://bit.ly/2wRfHnf

Today we are celebrating and honoring the late Elijah E. Cummings. He was a #civil rights #activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Maryland.

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Learn more: http://bit.ly/2VvcoMH

Learn about how to empower your community to respond to the 2020 Census. Make sure that we receive fair representation and adequate federal funding for important programs. 

Aprenda cómo movilizar a la comunidad para responder al Censo 2020. Asegúrese que nuestra comunidad recibe una representación justa y fondos federales para programas importantes.

REGISTER NOW for one of the following sessions:

Sábado 29 de Febrero, 1:30-3:30PM
Fair Haven Library (182 Grand Ave.)
*En español

Wednesday March 4, 6:00-8:00PM
Stetson Library (200 Dixwell Ave)

Wednesday, March 11, 6:00-8:00PM
Ives Main Library (133 Elm Street)

Jueves 26 de Marzo, 6:00-8:00PM
Fair Haven Library (182 Grand Ave.)
*En español

Saturday, March 28, 1:00-3:00PM
Stetson Library (200 Dixwell Ave)

We Love What Makes You Unique

Your perspective fuels our mission-driven work at United Way of Greater New Haven. We are committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience.

Who We Are Looking For?

Are you passionate about using your organizational talents as a force for good in our community? Are you the type of person who has an attention to detail and can support a team to reach their goals such as ending homelessness in greater New Haven?

United Way is seeking a CAN Coordinator that is passionate and organized to serve as the glue the that keeps our other CAN staff and community partners operating at their highest potential to end homelessness in our region.  This person will provide critical administrative and data management support to the Greater New Haven Coordinated Access Network system, to ensure that progress is continually made towards meeting system goals.

What You Will Do:

• Provide support to monitor system performance and drive improvement. If that statement gets you excited, keep reading. If not, this may not be for you. This position will compile, monitor and report on data and trends for the CAN, including monitoring data quality. This person will also provide technical support to our Entry and Exit Managers to maintain accurate lists for households seeking housing support. The right candidate will be comfortable with viewing and analyzing data in order to provide suggestions for improvement.

• Support collaborative activities for the CAN. Coordination and collaboration are key ingredients to the CAN and ending homelessness. As part of the United Way team, the CAN Coordinator will assist in setting up committee meetings, work with co-chairs to develop, circulate and distribute meeting materials. This position will also ensure transparency of the CAN by maintaining and updating CAN policies and procedures and other CAN documents.

• You will work as part of a team. You will work closely with every department at United Way. You will report to the CAN Exit Manager and meet regularly with the entire CAN team. You’ll collaborate with our marketing team to tell the story of United Way to ensure that our community understands the work and impact of ending homelessness in our community. You will also maintain good working relationships with community, nonprofit and business leaders in the community. And of course, there will be other duties as assigned.

What You Need:

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to manage and analyze data in Excel is required.
• Experience working with various types of databases and content management systems is preferred.
• Knowledge of CT HMIS is preferred.
• Ability to develop visual presentations of data/metrics is preferred.
• Excellent organization skills and attention to detail is required.
• Strong communication skills, including basic business writing skills and positive phone personality with active listening skills.
• Ability to work independently, adjusting to changing priorities is required.
• Ability to work with groups and balance multiple points of view is required.
• Ability to take initiative and implement projects.
• Ability to establish and maintain high quality relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
• Ability to speak and write clearly and concisely for a broad audience.
• Ability to analyze and exercise sound judgment.
• Highly motivated and creative problem solver
• Attention to detail and strong organizational skills required.
• Ability to relate to people of different economic and ethnic backgrounds.
• Ability to be diplomatic when working with staff from other agencies and clients in crisis.
• Knowledge of the challenges and barriers that homeless people face is preferred.
• Local and statewide travel is required; Out of state travel as needed.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree preferred with at least one year of similar experience; equivalent life experience may be substituted for education.

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.  We tackle issues that cannot be solved by any one group working alone. United Way is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

How to Apply

Submit your resume and cover letter, telling us about why we should bring you in for an interview to careers@uwgnh.org. No phone calls, please, but we encourage you to explore uwgnh.org to learn more about what we do. The position will remain open until filled.

Stop Solitary CT’s website says the replica will allow those who visit to “experience the horror, isolation, and dehumanization that is solitary confinement.” It will be in the lobby of the Capitol until March 4.

Members of Stop Solitary CT argue that increased isolation in prisons may achieve the very opposite goal of rehabilitating inmates.

“Correction means to correct something. But this is not correction, this is torture,” said James Tillman, who was wrongly convicted and served more than 18 years in prison for a rape he never committed.

Tillman said three of those years were spent in solitary confinement at the Northern Correctional Institution in Somers...

https://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives/entry/20200225_judiciary_committee_to_tackle_end_to_solitary_confinement/

It brought riches to Britain and many other European nations; played a major role in enslaving more than 10 million Africans; and created the first global markets in cotton, tobacco and sugar. But now colonialism has been accused of having an even greater influence. It is claimed that it changed the Earth’s very makeup...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/10/colonialism-changed-earth-geology-claim-scientists?

Today we are honoring and celebrating Dr. Esmeralda Simmons, who was the Executive Director of the Center for Law and Social #Justice, a community-based legal institution, based at Medgar Evers College.

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Watch as Dr. Simmons was honored as back in 2014 during Women's History Month: http://bit.ly/2HZy0ZH

Mapped: Visualizing the True Size of Africa

Published February 19, 2020

By Jeff Desjardins

Today we are celebrating and honoring Jesse Williams. Many may know him as Jackson Avery, one of the many good-looking doctors on Shonda Rhimes' long running medical drama Grey's Anatomy, but he is also an #activist.

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Learn more: https://n.pr/2wCgAjA

“So, how much money do you guys make if I do that test you’re ordering for me?” This is a question I hear frequently from my patients, and it’s often followed by some variant of, “I thought hospitals were supposed to be nonprofit.”

Patients are understandably confused. They see hospitals consolidating and creating vast medical empires with sophisticated marketing campaigns and sleek digs that resemble luxury hotels. And then there was the headline-grabbing nugget from a Health Affairs study that seven of the 10 most profitable hospitals in America are nonprofit hospitals...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/opinion/nonprofit-hospitals.html?fbclid=IwAR2UM7QKGJ9JlM0ye3os96p1ah6vCzswOyOxEYyVkbVfW1K7k4Lop2OkVgE

Today we are celebrating and honoring Maya Wiley who is is a nationally renowned expert on #racial justice and #equity. She is currently the Senior Vice President for Social Justice at the New School University and the Henry Cohen Professor of Public and Urban Policy at The New School’s Milano School of Management, Policy & Environment.

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Learn more: http://bit.ly/2VdINHt

On May 2nd, United Way of Greater New Haven will be having it's first Over the Edge fundraiser event!

100 brave participants will be stepping over the edge and rappelling off the AVANGRID building in Orange with the goal of

raising funds to help families thrive!

If you are interested in volunteering, rappelling, sponsoring the event or just interested in knowing more:

https://uwgnh.org/over-the-edge/

Contact:

Maria Gomez

magomez@uwgnh.org

203.691.4223

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The Animal Haven in North Haven recently opened its new cat wing with grant support from the Lillian and Henry Konopacke Fund at The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. The wing is part of a larger renovation that brings the shelter up to best practice standards for housing, socialization, training and enrichment of its animals. Improving the psychological and physical comfort of the animals is key to increasing chances for adoption.

Animal Haven is a “no kill” shelter that provides care and temporary homes to more than 400 abandoned and neglected cat and dogs every year. Read more.

Black History Month is first and foremost a weeks-long celebration of the pioneering black Americans who changed the course of our culture and country. 

For white parents, particularly those who don't feel comfortable or prepared to talk with their children about race and racism, the month should also be seen as a timely opportunity to start essential, on-going conversations about racist ideas if they haven't already.

https://mashable-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/mashable.com/article/how-to-talk-to-kids-about-race.amp

Today we are celebrating and honoring, Ta-Nehisi Coates who is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me, winner of the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Learn more: http://bit.ly/39QVRXI

Could worker ownership of corporations hit mainstream US politics in 2020? Some Democratic presidential candidates are making that case, reports Jeff Stein in the Washington Post...

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/will-worker-ownership-seize-center-stage-in-us-politics-in-2020/?utm_content=117346822&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-542508

Today we are celebrating and honoring Van Jones who is an American news commentator, author and a world-class change maker.

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Learn more: http://bit.ly/2HqAujM

Today we are celebrating and honoring Ashley Jackson who an activist, advocate, fiber artist and program management consultant. She served as the first Alabama State Director for the Human Rights Campaign.

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Learn more: http://bit.ly/38s8isv