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Hey Greater New Haven Emerging Nonprofit Leaders! The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven (CT) is entering its last week to recruit for its new BIPOC Cohort for Nonprofit Leadership.

This comprehensive program is for currently employed nonprofit staff of color who work for nonprofit organizations serving Greater New Haven and who aspire to senior leadership positions in the local nonprofit sector.

This will be a two-year experience that provides in-depth nonprofit leadership and management development, general operating support for participating nonprofits, a comprehensive organizational assessment, networking, and mentoring/coaching support.

The application deadline is Friday, June 4. By July 16, 2021, 10 people will be chosen for the cohort, based on career goals in nonprofit leadership and management in Greater New Haven.

Learn more, help spread the word to your networks!  #racialequity #nonprofitleadership #socialjustice

BIPOC Cohort for Nonprofit Leadership - The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven (cfgnh.org)

Join us at the Capitol on June 2nd at 12:00 pm in order to demand action on the PROTECT Act, Senate Bill 1059, which would dramatically restrict solitary and improve DOC oversight. 

For more info visit www.stopsolitaryct.org/events/wedemandaction

I sit here every day,

Looking at the sky

Ever wondering why

I dream my dreams away

And I'm living for today

In my mind's eye.

These opening lines from a 1966 hit single by UK rock band Small Faces could very well have been written to describe our experience of 2020. Instead, they serve as introduction to Sheila Kaczmarek’s show SMALL FACES AND SHADOWS, on view at City Gallery from Saturday, June 5 until Sunday, June 27. Visitors can meet Kaczmarek, a founding member of City Gallery, on June 5, June 6, and June 27.

SMALL FACES AND SHADOWS comprises six mixed-media collages incorporating silk tissue and inks. In each, Kaczmarek creates the appearance of layers and indistinct shapes and shadows. Some of the clay forms were pit fired to give unexpected results, then incorporated randomly in the body of the work. Two handmade paper paintings began as an experiment for Kaczmarek and lend an element of surprise to the show, as do the (small) faces of five clay heads and masks.

While the show's title may have been inspired by two 1960s rock bands, the work in this exhibit is very much a reflection of our 2020 pandemic experience: indistinct, unexpected, random, experiment, surprise.

As an added bonus for Gallery visitors, founding member Jane Harris will be showing several of her recent sketch books. Harris, a long-time friend and collaborator with Kaczmarek, received a B.A. from Brown University, studied at The Art Students League of New York, apprenticed with designer Lester Beall, and worked on the staff of Apparel Arts (Esquire) and Harper’s Bazaar. She’s been featured in solo and collaborative installations at Silvermine Guild Art Center (New Canaan, CT), New Britain Museum of American Art, and the John Slade Ely House, among others.

Kaczmarek studied art at St. Martin’s School of Art, London; UCLA, California; and the Academie des Beaux Arts, Brussels. She has taught art for over 20 years. She is a founding member of City Gallery, President of the Guilford Art League, and served on the Board of the New Haven Paint and Clay Club. She works with mixed media, including transferred photographic images. Her interest lies in both the process of layering and in stripping away surfaces. She apprenticed in the ceramic studio of the Guilford Art Center for five years. Her work with clay incorporates paint, metal and encaustic wax. Most recently, she has been intrigued by the complexity and unexpected nature of assembling multiple organic forms.

SMALL FACES AND SHADOWS is free and open to the public, and runs June 5 - June 27, 2021. Visitors can Meet the Artist on June 5, 6 and 27, from 2PM - 4PM. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Modified gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 1pm - 4 pm, or by appointment. The number of visitors is limited to 4 at a time. All visitors are required to wear a mask and observe social distancing protocols. For further information please contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.

City Galley is honored to present Legacy & Rupture, a group show curated by interdisciplinary artist and educator Howard el-Yasin. Work by artists Nathaniel Donnett, Sika Foyer, Merik Goma, James Montford, Ransome, Kamar Thomas, and Marisa Williamson will be on display from May 1 through May 30, with an opportunity to meet the artists during extended gallery hours on Saturday, May 1, 1PM - 5PM.

Legacy & Rupture brings together these seven wonderful contemporary black artists whose work expresses the multiplicity of our identities framed by the everydayness of precarity, trauma, and memories. Critical black consciousness thinker Christina Sharpe reminds us that “the past that is not past reappears, always, to rupture the present.” If rupture, as such, is also understood to mean resistance, black aesthetic practitioners have the capacity to resist the historical materiality (race, class, gender, and sexuality) and the subjectivity of blackness. The artwork in this show explores differences in representation rather than the reproduction of blackness. 

Howard el-Yasin is an interdisciplinary artist/educator/curator based in New Haven. His practice investigates value systems and cultural signifiers of contemporary everydayness, marginality, and materiality. He collects fragments of organic (banana skins, human hair, dryer lint...) and industrial detritus as surplus production. His practice occupies installation, performance, sculpture, sound, and video mediums.

el-Yasin received an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2016. He has exhibited nationally and has been a Visiting Artist-in-Residence at private high schools and an adjunct college instructor in Connecticut, Georgia, and Maryland. He has attended residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Anderson Ranch. He is a past recipient of MICA’s Leslie King-Hammond and FASQA awards, and has held volunteer leadership, curatorial positions with several non-profit organizations.

Legacy & Rupture is free and open to the public, and runs May 1 - May 30, 2021. Visitors can Meet the Artist on Saturday, May 1 during extended gallery hours, 1PM - 5PM. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Modified gallery hours for May are Friday - Sunday, 1PM - 4PM or by appointment. Due to Covid-19, the number of visitors at any one time will be limited to 5. All visitors are required to wear a mask and observe social distancing protocols. For further information please contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.

We are looking for Volunteers for Friday May 21st 1:30-5pm for CT Food Bank Distribution at Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center 428 Columbus Ave in parking lot.  Please contact me at rmoody@cornellscott.org if you would like to volunteer.  Thanks

Come join our proud team of community health heroes!

FHCHC will be holding a job fair at our Shoreline Family Health Care location, 221 West Main Street in Branford. The job fair will be on Saturday May, 22^nd from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm.

Please see flyer for more details.

On Monday, May 10th, the FDA approved emergency use of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 12 to 15.

Fair Haven Community Health Care is offering walk-up COVID vaccinations at Wilbur Cross High School, 181 Mitchell Drive in New Haven. Our vaccine clinic will be taking walk-ups Tuesday to Friday, from 10 am to 2 pm. Please note that children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult to their vaccination.

You can also make an appointment for a COVID vaccine here.

Unaccompanied children refugees arriving in American is not a new immigrant story. In this 2017 Interview, remaster for podcast, Terry Gomez Lombardi speaks with Georgian Lussier, MidLifeMatter Host about her personal Operation Pedro Pan story.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1197485/8181265-terry-gomez-lombardi-operation-pedro-pan-cuba-with-georgian-lussier-midlife-matters-wpaa-tv.mp3?download=true

Terry's story starts with life in Cuba under Fidel Castro. Learn why her mother decided to send her away. What happens when she arrives as a refugee. The Foster Family & school experience and what qualities helped her emerge from adversity.

New Reach values the input of its stakeholders. As such, we are implementing a survey to get feedback from our stakeholders on how satisfied they are with New Reach’s communication and services. 
The survey results are anonymous. New Reach leadership will review the results of the surveys and assess if any policy/procedures/strategies need to be changed or created. We are asking everyone to complete the online survey by the end of the day on Wednesday May 19th.
Survey Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VSN69J6

The “Great Give 2021” community fundraiser passed the $3 million mark as it ended its final hour — but no begins an overtime period in which New Haven can help break a $3.6 million record...

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/great_give_aims_to_top_3.6m/

Thank you donors, nonprofit boards, volunteers and staff for participating. Thank you also to The New Haven Independent. The Valley Independent and WNHH FM for promoting The Great give 2021.

Maybe we’ve been going about it all wrong. Whenever people ask me the above question, they tend to want some action-oriented answers such as “publicize job postings in ethnic media,” “provide childcare and transportation for board meetings,” “have a clear equity and diversity statement,” “provide more than just hummus, baby carrots, and a few cans of La Croix at meetings, especially if it’s around dinner time!” etc. These technical things are necessary but they’re not sufficient. Diversity is complex, and making a few technical changes is not going to cut it. If you’ve been having trouble diversifying your board, staff, fundraising committee, conference planning team, or whatever, here are a few things to reflect on, based on conversations I’ve had with colleagues from various diverse backgrounds:..

https://nonprofitaf.com/2021/05/the-real-reasons-many-organizations-are-still-unable-to-diversify-their-board-staff-fundraising-committees-etc/ ;