Job Description: Full-time Lead Organizer

PREST is a youth-led organizing effort for racial and educational justice throughout Connecticut. We envision a country in which the histories of Black people and people of color are taught, understood, and celebrated as fundamental to American history and where people feel affirmed in their identities.

PREST is excited to add a full-time Lead Organizer to our team this year! The PREST Lead Organizer will be responsible for training and directing the organizing team, forging relationships between PREST and the community, and strategizing PREST’s campaign and movement activities.

The Lead Organizer will:

• Manage PREST Campaign Organizers, Student Organizers, and the PREST Youth Team
  • Facilitate regular PREST Youth Team (PYT) meetings
  • Deliver leadership and organizing training opportunities to PREST Student Organizers
  • Design workshops and trainings for PREST Student Organizers
  • Participate in occasional parent/guardian outreach
  • Lead field trips, special events, and parent workshops
• Provide strategic vision and direction to campaigns and projects
  • Develop, implement, and coordinate campaigns and projects with Student Organizers
• Mobilize and build PREST’s base
  • Manage campaign-related communications
  • Conduct outreach to and regular one-on-one meetings with young people
• Provide overall support for the PREST infrastructure
  • Attend all PREST Leadership Team meetings
  • Manage the PREST project budget, with support from the Executive Director
  • Support the Executive Director in fundraising efforts and organizational capacity-building
  • Perform other duties as assigned by Executive Director

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience as an organizer
  • Experience working with young people
  • Experience or demonstrated interest in facilitation
  • Experience with education justice work is a benefit
• Understanding of oppression, race, and identity, and commitment to fighting racial injustice
• Passion for real and sustainable change
• Flexibility in working within a new and growing organization
  • Willingness to learn and share knowledge, experience, and skills
  • Willingness to adopt best practices, to experiment, and to make and learn from mistakes
  • Capacity to lead and be led
• Strong communication skills
  • Comfort with social media such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
  • Knowledge of Prezi, Canva, Wix, and MailChimp are benefits
• Strong ties to the New Haven or Connecticut community a plus
• Must be at least 18 years of age

People of color, queer, trans/gender non-conforming, and recent college graduate-aged folks are strongly encouraged to apply.

Please send resumes and cover letters to info@theprestmovement.org to apply!

Metro Taxi is driving efforts to give people with disabilities more freedom.

http://www.metrotaxict.com/accessible/freedom-fund-taxi-voucher-program.htm

Catholic Charities is hosting a FREE Back To Preschool Fair on Wednesday, August 1st, 2018 from 3:00p.m. - 5:00p.m. at St. Francis & St. Rose School, 423 Ferry St. New Haven , CT 06513.

There will be FREE backpacks (as supplies last), FREE pony rides, snacks, face painting and fun activities!

There will also be an opportunity to enroll children 3-5 years old in preschool programming at one of Catholic Charities' three Child Development Centers in Fair Haven and tour the preschool classrooms at St. Francis & St. Rose School!

DON'T MISS THIS FUN, FREE EVENT!!!!!!!!!! 

Capital for Change is the nonprofit formed two years ago through the merger of Greater New Haven Community Loan Fund, Community Capital Fund and Connecticut Housing Investment Fund.  We are a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that creates high impact lending programs and products that help develop affordable housing, increase energy efficiency and nurture nonprofit organizations. We are looking to fill a crucial position in our growing organization.

The Senior Manager of Operations and Organizational Development provides strategic and visionary leadership to develop and implement planned interventions that increase organizational effectiveness. The position drives organizational culture and effectiveness through management of diverse systems including talent management/HR, strategic planning and evaluation, and programmatic and administrative operations.  Serving on the senior management team, the Senior Manager of Operations and Organizational Development reports to the CEO but serves all departments and staff of C4C. Initially the position will be based in New Haven with some travel to Hartford, and will then relocate to our new office in Wallingford this winter.

Applications must be received by Sunday, July 29th with interviews scheduled on a rolling basis.  For more information and to apply please go to:  https://www.ziprecruiter.com/job/a2b61a65

C4C is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any person because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.  People with disabilities, people of color, Hispanic/Latinx and LGBTQ candidates are encouraged to apply.  C4C is committed to developing a diverse, inclusive and talented staff team.  If you are excited about this role but are unsure whether you meet 100% of the requirements we encourage you to inquire and/or apply.

Anyone walking a hot stretch of sidewalk along Grand Avenue now has an inviting spot to rest in the shade, talk to neighbors, and watch children play.

The oasis is called a “parklet,” and was designed by two Yale graduate students who won New Haven’s first Parklet Design Competition, a collaboration between GoNewHavenGo, the Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking and MakeHaven.

After months of planning and construction, the Urban Canopy Parklet opened at 379 Grand Avenue, and involved the collaboration of local businesses, the community management team, and local nonprofits including the New Haven Land Trust and EMERGE.
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven provided a $2,000 year-round small grant in support of the project to the fiscal sponsor, Urban Resources Initiative.

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By Robert K. Ross Jul. 17, 2018

Civic engagement and community voice make up the secret sauce of US democracy. We need a new, community-generated social compact to assert the vision and policy framework for an inclusive 21st-century America.

https://ssir.org/articles/entry/on_shared_vision_and_a_new_social_compact

I’m reaching out today looking for a potential partner for a class at the University of New Haven.  I’m hoping that our students can help your organization while they gain a deeper understanding of the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world as they relate to the field of health care.    

The class is titled Elementary Spanish for Health Care I and the instructor, Dr. Alessia Dalsant, is looking for her students to volunteer at a local organization(s) that serves Spanish speaking clients.  We have about 12 college students who would each be available for about 20 hours from September – December 2018.  Students would not have previous knowledge of Spanish but would be learning the language throughout the semester. We are open to all ideas so please send them my way! 

Here is a description of Elementary Spanish Health Care:

This course is designed to help English-speaking health professionals better serve the growing population of Spanish-speaking patients. During the course, students will be exposed to basic grammatical structures and will learn specific vocabulary necessary for the health professions. Class activities will emphasize listening, writing, reading, and conversational skills through role-playing and dialogues related to clinical settings. Beside linguistic skills, the objective is also to promote a deeper understanding of the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world, as they relate to the field of health care. This component of the course will be fulfilled via service learning opportunities with community partners, where students will practice Spanish and offer community service. Upon completion of this course the student will be able to greet and introduce him/herself, will be familiar with vocabulary relating to body parts, injuries, and basic commands, will be able to conduct consultations and basic examinations with patients, and obtain clinical information. 

Please send me an email at sanastos@newhaven.edu or give me a call (203-479-4588) if you have an upcoming project or program where our students would be able to help your organization while they learn about others and practice their Spanish.   

Thank you, Sally 

The strength of American cities – and the nation as a whole – depends on generating inclusive growth for people of all races, ethnicities, and incomes...

Continued: http://www.sharedprosperitypartnership.org/

REPORT on: Building Shared Prosperity in America’s Cities

http://www.sharedprosperitypartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ACP1039-SP2-Framing-Paper-Final-1.pdf

Black Lives Matter at Five: Activists Take Stock

By  STEVE DUBB 

The acquittal of George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin took place on July 13, 2013. Reaction to the acquittal led to the birth of what is now known as the Black Lives Matter movement. Chauncey Alcorn, writing in Mic, recalls the movement’s origins...

Continued: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2018/07/16/black-lives-matter-at-five-activists-take-stock/?utm_content=74390363&utm_medium=social&utm_source=googleplus ;

What is art?

A simple definition of art can be many things to many people.

Webster's Dictionary defines it as "the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially
in the production of aesthetic objects.” That sounds about right. Broad enough for the intellects
and straightforward enough for the common folk.

Arts%20and%20its%20impact%20article.pdf

Why do so many pregnant women and young mothers die?

Your guess is as good as our government’s. We simply don’t know. Even the statistics we have aren’t current, though from all indications the U.S.’s mortality rate is rising, as it is in Afghanistan and Sudan.

But in the U.S., the rate has risen by 136 percent between 1990 and 2013...

http://c-hit.org/2018/07/10/maternal-deaths-rising-at-alarming-rate-but-whos-counting/

Nonprofit Quarterly: By  RUTH MCCAMBRIDGE | July 9, 2018

Superficially, it seems that the current US presidential administration has it in for babies. Even as it searches—under court order—for a group of more than 100 children under the age of five (among 3,000 children altogether) who were separated from their mothers unnecessarily in this country and then quickly lost to them in the system, it threatens World Health Assembly delegates as they introduced a resolution encouraging breastfeeding over formula where possible at its meeting in Geneva last week...

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2018/07/09/children-of-color-need-long-term-allies/?utm_content=74142830&utm_medium=social&utm ;