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Three Full Scholarships Available
Due to multiple philanthropic support, (three) full scholarships are remaining for next week’s Facing Change Executive Director Summer Retreat for Greater New Haven area nonprofits. If you are an Executive Director of a Greater New Haven nonprofit and would like to apply for the scholarship please contact Linda Friedman at linda.friedman@uconn.edu or 860-486-9318.
Individual days can be attended if a director cannot make the complete retreat. Please forward if you know of a colleague who may have interest.
Wed. August 3: Leadership and Planning in Times of Scarce Resources
Thurs. August 4: Effectively Communicating in Times of Change
Fri. August 5: Building Strategic Alliances in Stressed Environments
Fri. November 4: Three months later: Assess, Adjust, and Move Forward
Special Panel updates:
Social Enterprise—New Forms of Income (Thursday, August 4)
Change comes in many forms…specifically in the field of Social Enterprise, the newest revenue producing strategy for the sector. Learn from a panel of peers who already engage in social enterprise ventures as well as resource experts in this exciting new field. With:
- Tod Van Kirk, Director of Organizational Development, Vista Ventures
- Michelle Cote, Board Member of ReSet
- Kelly Ramirez, Executive Director of Social Venture Partners of RI
Shared Services—The New Norm (Friday, August 5)
Money tight? Find efficiency, greater impact and revenue through the practice of shared services. This panel will provide examples and strategies for those wanting to create back office integration as a means of saving money. With:
- Deb Heinrich, Nonprofit Liaison to Governor Malloy
- Ron Cretaro, Executive Director of the Connecticut Association of Nonprofits
New Life Corporation is a small 501(c)(3) organization based in New Haven Connecticut. Its mission is to improve the economic security of low and moderate-income families living in Greater New Haven through a combination of financial education and asset-building services. We currently have two opportunities for the Greater New Haven area, that being of a Financial Services Program Manager and a staff Grant Writer to work with our development team.
Please see the links below if you are interested, or know of individuals whom may be.
Financial Services Program Manger & Grant Writing RFP
Click here to find office furniture, computers and other items. This is a FREE online resource created to help organizations in Connecticut find, sell, trade or give away useful used or surplus materials.
Child Trends Research Update:
Children's experiences both inside the home and in early care and education settings play a significant role in the development of their emerging language and literacy skills. Results from experimental evaluations of different approaches to improve early language and literacy have suggested that children's skills can be influenced by effective early childhood interventions. Child Trends recently reviewed findings from fifteen random assignment experimental evaluations of literacy and language programs. This fact sheet... |
http://www.luminafoundation.org/publications/A_stronger_nation.pdf
Based on an analysis conducted by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, a much larger proportion of jobs in the U.S. will require higher education — even in the near term. This analysis — Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018— shows that fully 60 percent of jobs in the U.S will require postsecondary education by 2018 — well before the target date for Lumina’s “audacious” goal. For better or worse, the Great Recession is putting the relationship between higher education and the economy into stark relief, and we are making the connections between economic forces and higher education attainment.
Two simple facts point to the nature of this key relationship. The first is that college graduates are employed at much higher rates than are non-college graduates. Today, while overall unemployment rates are hovering around 10 percent, only 4.5 percent of college graduates are unemployed. It has become clear, not just to economists, but to millions of Americans, that completing some form of higher education is the best insurance against unemployment.
Data on wages are even more telling. Of course, it is well known that college graduates make more money than those who have only completed high school, who in turn make more money than high school dropouts. Frankly, that doesn’t prove much; in a tight employment market, employers can be expected to favor those with credentials over those without. What is less well understood is that the gap in earnings between these groups is growing. Even in this job market, employers are paying an increasing premium for college graduates. This same phenomenon is occurring in 29 of the 30 most developed countries.3 This is not a coincidence.
What is happening has been documented in Help Wanted and other reports: Employers increasingly depend on the skills and knowledge of their workers, and they are paying a premium to get those skills. Meanwhile, the well-paying, low-skill jobs that American industry used to provide in abundance are disappearing quickly. What is left, as documented by MIT economist David Autor,4 is a stratified job market in which jobs are either high-skill/high-wage or low-skill/low-wage. In this economy, workers with jobs in the former category are in the middle class or above; those with jobs in the latter category are the working poor. Just as importantly, the only route between the two strata is through education to obtain the skills and knowledge the global marketplace demands.
http://www.luminafoundation.org/publications/A_stronger_nation.pdf
