Check out this new resource: "Connecticut's Path to Equity: A Guide to State Policy for Health Equity." This roadmap of policy priorities across sectors that would promote health equity was created in partnership with organizations across the state. To date, over 50 organizations have signed on to demonstrate their commitment to advancing these policies.

The guide calls on us to advance:

• Anti-racist structures
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Access
• Affordability
• Economic stability
• Opportunities to be healthy

Each section includes an introductory explanation of what the terms mean and why they are important to advancing health equity. Policy recommendations follow these introductions and link to evidence and Connecticut organizations working on these policies.

To learn more http://ow.ly/x1SJ50KkWbt #HealthEquity

Download a copy in PDF format here.

The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven (“The Foundation”) is inviting proposals from qualified individuals or firms (a “Consultant”) to work with the Neighborhood Leadership Program (NLP) Facilitators and our Director of Community engagement to conduct an evaluation of the NLP.

The goals are as follows:

• to document the impact of the NLP on participants and their respective communities over the past 10 years.
• to understand how The Foundation might add additional value for the participants and their community.
• To provide insight on strengths and challenges of the existing program format to inform potential modifications.
• To address issues of recruitment and sustaining engagement of program alums
• to understand how The Foundation might change the NLP to increase participant diversity and be more inclusive.
• to understand how The Foundation might further learn from the “lived experience” knowledge of NLP participants so that we might better serve the communities in our geographic area and the people who live in them.

Background

The Foundation was established in 1928. Its mission is to inspire, support, inform, listen to, and collaborate with the people and organizations of Greater New Haven to build an ever more connected, inclusive, equitable and philanthropic community. The Foundation is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the country with total assets of approximately $870 million.

The Neighborhood Leadership Program is a networking, skill building and grant program for resident community leaders of New Haven, Hamden, East Haven, and West Haven. The program evolved over several decades from the Neighborhood Small Grants Program to the Neighborhood Leadership Grants Program to the current, Neighborhood Leadership Program. The current iteration of the program was initiated in 2008. Through this program we support self-identified community leaders in their efforts to build and sustain community while bringing them to the attention of the broader community. Although the facilitators conducted feedback interviews with alum 4 years into the current program configuration and participant evaluations are conducted during program participation every year, no external evaluation of the current program has been conducted to date.

Scope of Work

The selected Consultant will:

• Work with the NLP facilitation team to develop a survey process including in-person interview questions and an online survey that will be administered to NLP alumni, community members they recommend and Foundation staff and leadership, total of approximately 100 interviews.
• Review written facilitator reports of the past 8 years.
• Write up initial draft and final draft of interviews and questionnaire findings; including interviews conducted by the NLP facilitators.
• Prepare a final report and PPT presentation with the evaluation findings that will be shared with Foundation staff and NLP facilitation and design team and interested alumni.
• Develop a list of findings and related recommendations for The Community Foundation based on the stated goals for conducting the evaluation.

Your Response to this Request for Proposal:

The Consultant should respond to this request with substantive content in the following areas.

1. In addition to a general overview, please describe your experience conducting program evaluation and provide demonstrations of experience evaluating community leadership programs and/or adult education programs.
2. Provide examples of experience working with programs that prioritize people of color, gender diversity and other-abled people working in community.
3. Outline of your approach and process for delivering on your proposal.
4. The submission should include a list of three references including contact names, email addresses and telephone numbers.

Professional Fees and Services:

The response to this RFP should include a proposed fee for the services outlined in the Scope of Work.

Timeline and Submission:

Consultant submission should be delivered no later than October 6, 2022 at 5:00pm (EST). It is expected that this project be completed no later than March 31, 2023.

Respondents should send their submissions to:

Lee Cruz,

Director of Community Outreach

LCruz@cfgnh.org

Please include: “CFGNH NLP RFP submission” in the subject line of your response.

The Greater New Haven Community Chorus is excited to announce that we have hired Alysoun (Aly) Kegel as Artistic Director for the 2022-2023 season. Kegel is the first woman Artistic Director the chorus has had in its 59 years. She will be leading GNHCC in Open Rehearsals on Sept. 8, 15, and 22 at 7 pm at the First Presbyterian Church, 704 Whitney Avenue, New Haven. For more information about joining the chorus for our Fall 2022 semester, see our website: www.gnhcc.org.

She says, “I am thrilled to be joining the singers at GNHCC in their mission to ‘Build Community One Note at a Time’ and their goal of reflecting the full diversity of greater New Haven. I am excited to work with this amazing team as we commit to embodying values of inclusive community through song.”

An accomplished conductor, music teacher, and soprano, Alysoun Kegel has been working as the choir director and K-4 music instructor at Worthington Hooker since 2019. 

Kegel began singing as an 8-yr-old treble in the St. Luke’s Girls Choir of Evanston, Illinois, under the direction of Richard Webster. Kegel began conducting as an undergraduate at Yale University, She has conducted ensemble tours of Japan, South Korea, China, Sweden, Norway, Italy, France, and the UK. Additionally, she has prepared young people to sing under the batons of Sir Colin Davis, Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, David Hoose, and Bernard Haitink, in collaborations with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera, and Boston Early Music Festival. 

She completed her MM in conducting at Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied with Maestro Robert Page. She earned an earlier MM in Dalcroze Studies from the Longy School of Music. Kegel has led choral workshops throughout the US, as well as in South Korea, Ghana, and Somaliland. In addition to serving as the Artistic Director of the Greater New Haven Community Chorus, Kegel currently teaches music for the New Haven Public Schools and through Yale’s Music in the Schools Initiative.

Joy Bush’s photographs tell a story…without telling a story. City Gallery visitors will find themselves, like the photographer, WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN at Bush’s upcoming exhibit, on view September 2 - October 2, with an Opening Reception on Friday, September 9 from 4PM - 8PM.

“I am always waiting,” say Bush. “Waiting for something to happen. Waiting to piece together what just happened. Waiting to figure out what could have happened. My photos tell a story within its frame. While you might see a photograph of a coffee cup on a table, I see the narrative of someone who waited for a friend who never showed up.”

Bush is drawn to places that feel the echo of human presence — places that reveal nothing clearly, or something out of reach. Sometimes her photographs evoke a feeling of discomfort or distance. Others are ironic or amusing. Some provoke a sense of curiosity about what could be or could have been. Others just offer a place to rest with thoughts and imagination.

“I tell a story. My story. Maybe your story,” she says. And that’s the beauty of the work in this show — the fill-in-the-blank opportunity for the viewer to create her or his own meaning. “The work exists as an alternative future… maybe an alternative past. You decide.”

Bush’s work was recently featured in Unbeatable Women at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum (2022), and HOME VIEWS at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts. (2021). Her photographs have appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times, Connecticut Review, and many other publications. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibits, nationally and internationally, including shows at the International Center for Photography (NYC), Mattatuck Museum, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Copley Society (Boston, MA), Drawing Rooms (NJ), Garrison Art Center (NY), Umbrella Arts (NYC), the Westport Arts Center, and Artspace (New Haven, CT). Bush is represented in the permanent collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Monetfiore Hospital (Bronx, NY), the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Yale Medical Group Art Place, and many private collections. She is a member of City Gallery, and lives and works in the Greater New Haven area.

WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN is free and open to the public and runs September 2 - October 2, with an Opening Reception on Friday, September 9 from 4PM - 8PM. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. City Gallery follows New Haven City’s mask mandate policy. For further information please contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.

Floods in City Point. Heat waves in tree-sparse, lot-heavy Newhallville. More storms that require evacuation. More periods of drought.

As climate change progresses, those conditions will become the new normal for New Haven, especially for the heat- and flood-vulnerable neighborhood of Fair Haven, reported officials tracking the trends.

An environmental transformation is already in motion. But, the officials said, the city can adapt its current infrastructure and prevent carbon emissions from making the problem worse...

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/how_climate_change_will_affect_your_neighborhood

Do you enjoy working with numbers and data?  Are you the type of person who takes pride in getting the details right and is excited to support programs that help families thrive in greater New Haven? Are you enthusiastic about using your organizational talents as a force for good in our community?

United Way is seeking a part-time Finance Assistant who is passionate and organized to support our finance department with Accounts Payable and other finance functions.

This is a part-time, 20 hour/week, hourly position.  The pay range is $20 - $22/hour.

What You Will Do

• Process Accounts Payable invoices and disbursements; input into MIP Abila accounting system utilizing proper coding for departments and grants
• Record daily cash receipts
• Assist with reconciling cash receipts
• Review expense submissions from grant sub recipients
• Assist with data entry into accounting software
• General Accounting Support tasks
• Other duties as assigned

What You Need

• Associates Degree in Business, Finance or Accounting preferred
• Knowledge of basic bookkeeping principles
• Numerical ability
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word
• Ability to multi-task and ability to prioritize, plan and coordinate responsibilities
• Demonstrate good communication and interpersonal skills

In accordance with organizational policies, this position requires a criminal background check as a condition of employment.    

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 grounded in racial and social justice. We tackle issues that cannot be solved by any one group working alone. We operate according to these organizational values.

Initially this position will be on location in our offices in New Haven.   Possible remote possibilities in the future.  20 hours/week during regular office hours with some flexibility regarding scheduled hours.

United Way is an Equal Opportunity Employer.