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UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INVITES YOU TO JOIN VIRTUAL COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS: EMPLOYMENT & INCOME

Your experience as a job seeker is wanted - whether you are currently looking for a job, you would like to advance your career, or if you’ve been hired and want to share your feedback on how to make the job search process more supportive, coordinated, and successful.

United Way of Greater New Haven is holding a series of community conversations with job seekers, employers, and workforce development agencies to understand how to make the process of finding a well-paying job easier and more equitable to navigate.

Sign up for one of the virtual sessions below to take part in a facilitated community conversation with other job seekers.  All you need is a willingness to share your experience and ideas. You will receive a $25 gift card for your participation. Space is limited and registration is required.  

For questions or help registering, please contact Luz Holmes at lholmes@uwgnh.org or 203-981-6088.

General Sessions - Register here.

• Monday, September 27 - 11:00am-12:00pm
• Thursday, September 30 - 6:00pm-7:00pm
• Monday, October 4 - 6:00pm-7:00pm

West Haven Residents - Register here.

• Wednesday, September 29 - 6:00pm-7:00pm. 

Hamden Residents - Register here.

• Tuesday, October 5 - 6:00pm-7:00pm. Register here.

Shoreline Residents - Register here.

• Thursday, October 7 - 6:00pm-7:00pm

Artspace’s Open Source 2021 is the perfect chance for City Gallery to showcase its eclectic mix of visual artists in a month-long group show, on view from October 1 - October 31. The show, OPEN SOURCE @ CITY, will feature work by 17 member artists and includes Open Source Festival Receptions on Saturday, October 23, and Sunday, October 24, from 1PM to 5PM.

City Gallery is a member-run gallery featuring contemporary work in a wide range of visual media: painting, sculpture, photography, papermaking, printmaking, and mixed media. Current members include:

Judy Atlas, painting, monotype & collage
Meg Bloom, sculpture
Joy Bush, photography
Phyllis Crowley, photography
Jennifer Davies, fiber art, monotype
Roberta Friedman, painting & collage
William Frucht, photography
Joyce Greenfield, painting
Rita Hannafin, fiber art
Barbara Harder, printmaking
Jane Harris, printmaking/monotype
Sheila Kaczmarek, sculpture & mixed media
Kathy Kane, painting
Susan Newbold, painting and printmaking
Tom Peterson, photography
Ruth Sack, painting & sculpture
Michael Zack, painting, printmaking

City Gallery’s exhibits rotate on a monthly schedule. In addition to regular shows of members’ work, the gallery occasionally exhibits work by guest artists and helps make New Haven a vibrant regional center for the arts. Recent special exhibits have included A Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Legacy & Rupture, Forbidden Memory, and the current show, September Pop Up.

The Gallery is distinguished by a modern yet intimate setting that’s ideal for solo exhibitions, and a mutually supportive culture that includes monthly members-only critiques in order to help its fellow artists develop their work and test out new ideas.

Members are carefully selected for their accomplishments as artists, their ability to commit to maintaining a successful member-run gallery, and their fit with the group. All City Gallery artists have distinguished resumes and have exhibited widely, and many also teach in the New Haven artistic community. While the membership is deliberately kept small, the gallery is always looking for opportunities to attract diverse artists from the community as either guest exhibitors or members.

Open Source 2021 Festival (formerly City-Wide Open Studios) is New Haven-based Artspace’s annual visual arts showcase, happening on Friday, October 15 through Sunday, October 24. This expanded virtual and in-person showcase features painters, sculptors, filmmakers, and photographers from New Haven and across the State of Connecticut. For more information about the festival, visit: artspacenewhaven.org.

OPEN SOURCE @ CITY is free and open to the public, and runs October 1 - October 31, 2021. Open Source Festival Receptions will be held on Saturday, October 23 and Sunday, October 24, from 1PM - 5PM. Refreshments may be served, but City Gallery is committed to following whatever COVID restrictions are in place at the time of the event. All visitors are required to wear masks and observe social distancing. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Modified gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 1pm - 4 pm, or by appointment. For further information please contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) is pleased to announce three upcoming urban forestry grant opportunities. Award amounts, types of projects funded, and deadlines vary; see Urban Forestry Grant Opportunities (ct.gov) for a full overview.

• The Urban Forestry Climate Change Grant Program awards grants from $10,000-$37,000. These grants can be used to initiate, grow, support, and expand activities by municipalities and non-profits that use urban forestry to address issues of environmental justice and combat the impacts of climate change. Visit Urban Forestry Climate Change Grants Program – Connecticut Urban Forest Council for additional details and information.
• The Urban Forestry Equity through Capacity Building Grant Program is designed to assist municipalities and non-profits interested in pursuing urban forestry projects while also building capacity within their organization. Awards range from $5,000-$10,000 and can fund projects that will address issues of environmental justice and combat the impacts of climate change. See Urban Forestry Equity through Capacity building Grant Program – CT DEEP/University of Connecticut for additional details and information.
• The America the Beautiful Grant Program offers $1,000-$20,000 in funding for municipalities and non-profits to pursue planning projects in urban forestry. See America the Beautiful Grant Program – CT DEEP for additional details and information.

BECOME A COMMUNITY RESEARCH FELLOW

In this 9-month program, Community Research Fellows will collaborate with Yale Investigators and be trained In community engaged and patient-centered research to Inform health studies and impact New Haven residents.

PARTICIPANTS

Greater New Haven and surrounding area residents are encouraged to apply. Residents from the following neighborhoods will be prioritized.

Dixwell
Dwight
Fair Haven
The Hill
Newhallville
West Hills
West River
West Rock
Whalley-Edgewood Beaver Hills
(WEB)

STIPEND
Participants will receive a total stipend of $2,700.

PROGRAM DETAILS
Participants are required to participate in monthly meetings. Due to COVID-19, meetings will be held via video conference until it is safe to meet in person. If in-person meetings commence, meals and childcare
will be provided for Health Leaders.

STIPEND
Participants will receive a total stipend
of$2,700.

APPLY
This program is only for people 18+. Monthly sessions will be held during the week between5pm- 7pm. This program beings in January 2022 and runs through September 2022.

Apply by Friday, October 15th
https://www.carenhv.org/crf-application-2022

Become a New Haven Health Leader!

ABOUT

In this 9-month training program, New Haven Health Leaders will learn about health disparities and solutions to create health equity at the neighborhood level. We will co-learn from each other about New Haven's neighborhoods, community engagement, and leadership development, with a focus on improving health in New Haven.

PARTICIPANTS

Greater New Haven and surrounding area residents are encouraged to apply. Residents from the following neighborhoods will be prioritized:

Dixwell
Dwight
Fair Haven
The Hill
Newhallville
West Hills
West River
West Rock
Whalley-EdgewoodBeaver Hills (WEB)

STIPEND

Participants will receive a total stipend of $2,700.

APPLY

This program is only for people 18+. Monthly sessions will be held during the week between 5pm- 7pm. This program begins in January 2022 and runs through September 2022. Apply by Friday, October 15th, https://www.carenhv.org/new-haven-health-leaders-application.

PROGRAM DETAILS

Participants are required to develop and implement a program or project in their neighborhood. Due to COVID-19, meetings will be held via video conference until it is safe to meet in person. If in-person meetings commence, meals and childcare will be provided for Health Leaders.

QUESTIONS

Contact Marquita Taylor, taylorm40@southernct.edu

As they come to resemble corporations, universities increasingly wield the kind of power and influence that were hallmarks of ruthless employers in isolated company towns. Historian Davarian Baldwin calls this ominous trend the “rise of the UniverCity.”

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/09/university-cities-urban-development-gentrification

The worst problems are in the neighborhoods that aren’t gentrifying.

“Was anyone really asking for a gentrified Gone Girl?” reads a one-line, half-star review of Promising Young Woman.

“Graphic Novels Are Comic Books, But Gentrified” one headline to a Jacobin article proclaims.

Gentrification appends so many words these days — “graffiti,” “rock music,” “font,” “thrifting” — that it bears scant similarity to its original definition. In 1964, sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification. As Steven Thomson explained for Curbed, Glass was describing a “class phenomenon … by adapting the British-ism ‘gentry’” to describe the process of “middle class liberal arts intelligentsia” moving into her primarily working-class London neighborhood...

https://www.vox.com/22629826/gentrification-definition-housing-racism-segregation-cities

In the seventh grade, Sara¹ remembers joining her classmates to write letters. In a letter that began “Dear Sponsor,” they’d thank the person paying for their education, who they’d likely never meet. Sara would share her career ambitions, hoping to inspire the sponsor enough to keep supporting her. She’d ask questions, inviting a response. Finally, before she signed and mailed her letter, she’d draw. When she was younger, this might be a picture of herself or her family; when she got older, she added intricate and colorful borders, carefully executing each stroke so a mistake wouldn’t force her to start over. Then, she’d turn the letter in to her teacher, and she’d wait...

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

Be part of something good and volunteer for Continuum's Holiday Bazaar (November 13).Volunteers receive 10 Free Raffle Tickets. Click here to volunteer: https://www.continuumct.org/bazaar-volunteer.

New Haven, CT (August 31, 2021) The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven (The Foundation) is excited to announce the members of the first BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color) Cohort for Nonprofit Leadership program. The new career development program was conceived in early 2021 as part of The Foundation’s Stepping Forward commitment to help the Greater New Haven community recover from the impact of COVID-19 and to advance racial equity throughout the region.

“Recognizing that current nonprofit executive leaders are retiring, we saw an opportunity to help create a pipeline for new, more diverse leadership. This program intentionally focuses on building leadership and practical skills of people of color who are already part of the local nonprofit workforce and aspire to senior positions,” says Jackie Downing, Director of Grantmaking and Nonprofit Support at The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.

The program framework was designed by co-leads: Dr. David Garvey, Director of the University of Connecticut (UConn) Department of Public Policy’s Nonprofit Leadership Program and Management Consultant Cynthia Rojas, along with adjunct instructor topic experts and seasoned practitioners. CONTINUE READING

Five Frogs, the organization building a powerful movement of diverse, representative leaders working together for an equitable Connecticut, invites BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) leaders to participate in a five-part series designed to support a cross-sector cohort in diving deeper into their personal liberation work while exploring how their experiences intersect with theories of identity, power, intersectionality, structural racism and oppression, and shame resilience.

Through facilitated conversations, resources, and self-directed activities Five Frogs will build internal capacity for rest, self-care, and creative problem solving for those who find themselves working to disrupt cycles of harm while growing the conditions needed for a more equitable and just world. In between sessions, participants will complete guided practice assignments.

Dates:

*Oct 6 @ 9-10am

*Oct 13 @  9-11am

*Oct 27  @ 9-11am

*Nov 10 @ 9-11am

*Nov 17 @  9-11am

Participants must be able to commit to the five dates.

Applications are due by September 20. Notification of participation will be sent by September 27. Registration fee ($395) is due by October 4. Learn more & share with your networks!

https://fivefrogsct.org/event/peer-learning-groups-2/