Another fantastic position in the exhibitions department at the Peabody- https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partnerid=25053&siteid=5248&PageType=JobDetails&jobid=1538897

This person will facilitate community-based interpretive collaborations, supervise digital content creation, and coordinate activities related to storytelling for diverse audiences. 

What’s your child’s experience playing sports? We want to hear from you.

Youth sports look much different than 10 and 20 years ago. With increasing costs and limited spots, fewer children are playing sports, and many aren’t getting enough physical activity.

Today, we explore who gets the privilege to play on a team.

https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/2022-06-16/who-gets-the-privilege-of-playing-sports

The Community Foundation is seeking RFP applications from organizations that  support inclusive career pathways in local economic growth sectors that provide quality jobs -- jobs that pay a living wage, offer meaningful benefits, predictable schedules, stable income, and worker engagement. The Foundation has a specific focus on supporting organizations that work with the following populations:

• BIPOC Populations (Black, Indigenous, and people of color)
• Women
• Returning Citizens
• Immigrants
• Other underserved populations

RFP Priority Focus Areas:

The Foundation will accept grant proposals that focus on one or more of the following areas:

1. Wraparound Supports – Funding to provide wrap around supports for low-income workers and job seekers that are needed for them to successfully participate in and complete skills based training/short-term vocational training programs for careers in industry growth sectors, and obtain and maintain quality jobs.
2. Bioscience/Biomedical Careers – Occupations in bioscience/biomedical careers currently require a minimum of a four-year college degree and experiential learning beyond traditional classroom and laboratory environment. The Foundation will consider funding requests for programs supporting underrepresented students in STEM fields to enter bioscience/biomedical careers.

APPLICATIONS ARE DUE AUG. 4, 2022.

For more information and to apply, CLICK HERE.

https://bit.ly/YaleCareers-74129BR

Now hiring someone to support the EVOLUTIONS youth leadership program at the Peabody Museum. This person will manage the Sci.CORPS  youth employment program on weekends, supervise summer lab internships, and support special events and classes for New Haven high school students. This is a full time position- weekends and evenings required.While the galleries are closed, youth employees are producing media and outdoor activities. When we reopen in 2024, youth will staff the galleries every weekend. 

Individual artists who are interested in creating projects and initiatives that directly impact the communities where they live can apply to be part of the first ever Artist Corps for Greater New Haven.

The Artist Corps in not just about receiving funding, it's about building non-cash resources (such as connecting people across networks, identifying pipeline opportunities, and meeting more residents through the arts) in order to create a solid foundation for artists to be operationally sound and successful in seeing their art at the forefront of the community.

Therefore, selected artists will gather + work together as a cohort with support from our facilitators: IfeMichelle Gardin, Frank Brady, and Annie Lin. The cohort will meet 3 times with many opportunities throughout the year to engage in small group workshops and collaborations to be in community with each other. 

12 artists will be selected for this pilot year of the Artist Corps and will be awarded a stipend of $10,000.

Deadline 11:59pm July 15

APPLY NOW | APLICA YA

Gracias a la financiación de la subvención del Plan de Rescate Estadounidense del Fondo Nacional para las Artes (NEA) para ayudar al sector de las artes y la cultura a recuperarse de la pandemia, el Arts Council (Consejo de las Artes) está lanzando nuestro Arts Corps (Cuerpo de Artistas) para artistas individuales en Greater New Haven.

Los artistas individuales que estén interesados ​​en crear proyectos e iniciativas que tengan un impacto directo en las comunidades donde viven pueden postularse para ser parte del primer Artist Corps para Greater New Haven ( es decir para New Haven y las cuidades alrededor).

Artist Corps no se trata solo de recibir fondos, se trata de crear recursos no monetarios (como conectar a las personas a través de las redes, identificar oportunidades de canalización y conocer a más residentes a través de las artes) para crear una base sólida para que los artistas sean operativamente sólidos y exitosos en ver su arte a la vanguardia de la comunidad. Por lo tanto, los artistas seleccionados se reunirán y trabajarán juntos como un grupo con el apoyo de nuestro equipo de facilitadores, incluidos: IfeMichelle Gardin, Frank Brady y Annie Lin. El grupo se reunirá 3 veces como grupo completo con muchas oportunidades durante todo el año para participar en talleres de grupos pequeños y colaboraciones para estar en comunidad entre sí.

Se seleccionarán 12 artistas para este año piloto del Artist Corps y se les otorgará un estipendio de $10,000. Se recomienda encarecidamente a los artistas que utilicen una parte de este estipendio para pagar los honorarios de los artistas, tanto para ellos mismos como para cualquier otro artista que forme parte de su proyecto propuesto.

There is hot, and then there is hot! Extreme heat is a period of high heat and humidity with temperatures above 90 degrees for at least two to three days. In extreme heat your body works extra hard to maintain a normal temperature, which can lead to death. Extreme heat is responsible for the highest number of annual deaths among all weather-related hazards... https://www.ready.gov/heat

In the 1970s, globalization began. Factories and mills, the economic engines for many American cities and towns, soon went into decline. ECHOES OF SILENCE, a photography exhibit by Tom Peterson, chronicles the final stages of this downturn. His work will be on view at City Gallery from June 3 - June 26, with an Opening Reception on Saturday, June 11 from 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
 
Each of the images in the show represent the ghostly remnants of a not-so-distant yet seemingly irrevocable past. “Most of the photographs were taken in deteriorating sections of Connecticut cities where manufacturing had been prominent, like River Street in New Haven, and also Waterbury, Ansonia, Bridgeport, Meriden, and New Britain,” explains Peterson.
 
“Manufacturing began going out of business in the early seventies. Good paying jobs disappeared. The neighborhoods around the factories deteriorated, leaving empty shells of factories buildings…and neighborhoods. This all represented to me the disappearing of much of the middle class, and how we got to be such a divided country.”
 
Peterson is a documentary and abstract fine arts photographer from Hamden, Connecticut. His work features documentation of urban Connecticut and New York City, while also exploring and creating abstract architectural images of intense color. He has received numerous awards, including twice winning First Honors at Shoreline Arts Alliance. Tom has been a member of City Gallery since 2009.
 
ECHOES OF SILENCE is free and open to the public, and runs June 3 - June 26, 2022. 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 (203-248-3175). 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.

ACT NOW! You may be eligible for a cash benefit of up to a maximum of $750 ($250 per child up to three children) from the child tax rebate.

You must apply between June 1 and July 31! 

• Are you a Connecticut resident with one or more children ages 18 or under?  
• Did you claim your children when you filed your federal tax return for 2021?  

 If you answered both questions with “YES,” you might be eligible for a cash benefit from the Connecticut Child Tax Rebate! 

 The state will mail parents or guardians of children up to $250 per child (up to three children) if they apply with the Department of Revenue Services between June 1 and July 31, 2022.  

 It is easy to apply—you can use your computer, your tablet, or your phone.  

Go to CT.GOV/DRS to learn more and to apply. If you have questions, call 211.

Please spread the word! 

 Download and share the Connecticut Child Tax Rebate flyer.

Long Wharf Theatre is seeking a consultant or consulting firm to help organize a year of community conversations throughout the Greater New Haven region. Beginning in 2023, our company will leave its building of 57 years and begin to intentionally produce live theatre in New Haven neighborhoods. These community conversations--in multiple neighborhoods and with multiple constituencies in their native languages--are in service to ensuring Long Wharf Theatre's daily work benefits and strengthens the vibrancy of the New Haven community. The outcomes of these gatherings will help inform Long Wharf Theatre's future, including where we produce, who we partner with, and how we can be most relevant to our hometown.

Attached is the full request for proposal. We hope you will consider applying or share it with peers and colleagues who you feel would be a good match for this opportunity. Proposals are due to rfp@longwharf.org by Wednesday, June 15 at 11:59 PM Connecticut time

LWT_Community_Conversations_RFP.pdf

Photo courtesy of New Haven Independent

A community center springs to life through the work of neighborhood volunteers.

Sitting abandoned for nearly two decades, the community center affectionately known as the “Shack” is once again a haven for young people and families in New Haven’s West Hills neighborhood. The reopening is the result of neighbors of all ages coming together to fundraise and volunteer their time to renovate and staff the center.

“It is a beautiful success,” said West Hills Alder Honda Smith, who led organizing efforts to reopen the center and is now a daily presence as a volunteer. “The game room is up and running and kids are utilizing the space tremendously. We have over 500 residents come through a month.”

The community-driven project began with neighborhood meetings and a fundraising campaign for the nonprofit created to run the Shack - 333 Valley Street Center, An Intergenerational Organization. The Community Foundation provided the project’s first grant, $30,000 made available from Stepping Forward, the $26 Million initiative to advance equity and address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The City of New Haven committed $135,000 to upgrading the building’s HVAC system and the state of Connecticut contributed a $550,000 grant to build a music production and recording studio in an abandoned storage room. Continue reading here.

by Ginny Monk May 19, 2022

Connecticut schools will soon be required to teach climate change as a part of the science curriculum, a move state legislators and advocates say will mean changes at a small percentage of schools that aren’t yet bringing the subject to the classroom...

https://ctmirror.org/2022/05/19/ct-schools-will-soon-be-required-to-teach-climate-change/

Organized philanthropy, like most things, looks different on the inside than it does from the outside. “Philanthropy” comes from the Greek for “love of humanity,” and public perceptions of it have usually centered on donors and how humanity-loving they really are. The good guys are generous rich people who give to causes we all approve of, like combatting climate change; the bad guys give in order to launder their reputations (like the opioid-promoting Sackler family) or to advance unsavory goals (like the anti-environmentalist Kochs). Either way, the salient questions about philanthropy, for most people, have to do with the size and the quality of a donor’s heart and soul...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/30/would-the-world-be-better-off-without-philanthropists-paul-vallely-emma-saunders-hastings

May 12, 2022

You want to help Ukrainians in need. Should you donate to UNICEF, UNHCR, Red Cross, World Vision, Caritas, Save the Children or some other charitable organisation?

There are so many charities, and charitable causes, to choose from...

https://theconversation.com/we-all-lose-when-charities-compete-with-each-other-they-should-join-forces-182754

We need your help! Earlier this year, we published Connecticut’s Path to Equity – a draft framework of state-level policy changes to promote health equity in Connecticut. While this draft included feedback from partners and a survey, HES wants to be sure the next version reflects even more Connecticut residents’ priorities for achieving health equity.

Why did HES create this framework? Health equity is complex AND achievable. The Path to Equity lays out the concrete, feasible steps our state can take to achieve equity. This will allow us (advocates, residents, policymakers…everyone!) to work together towards a set of shared goals.

How can you get involved?

• SHARE your ideas and experiences about what is required to get to health equity
• LEARN from other participants about their goals and experiences
• CO-CREATE a shared framework for advocacy

Please register below for the date and time that works best for you:

• Monday, June 6th, 2022 at 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM
• Wednesday, June 8th, 2022 at 5:30 PM – 6:45 PM
• Thursday June 9th 2022 at 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Workshops will last approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes long and are open to community members and partner organizations. Each session will have a maximum of 20 people. Community members attending on their own time will be thanked with a $20 gift card.

Ways to stay engaged:

• Would you like to share this opportunity with others? Please find the flyer here!
• Follow the hashtag #Path2Equity & follow us on social media! Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram
• Can’t attend or know someone who is interested but unable to attend? Fill out this survey and share your thoughts and ideas.

Stay tuned for more opportunities to get engaged in health equity work! A series of community conversations is coming soon.

For more information or to arrange a conversation with your organization, please contact hwebley@hesct.org

HES is a non-profit organization located in Connecticut. Our mission is to promote policies, programs, and practices that result in equitable access to health care, increased quality in the delivery of health care, and improved health outcomes for Connecticut residents. Our mission is motivated by the vision that every Connecticut resident will obtain optimal health regardless of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status. Our work is fueled by the belief that increasing health equity requires leadership, advocacy, and collaboration to advance systems-level policy change to transform the lives of those most affected by health disparities in Connecticut. This translates to work focused on policy change driven by the needs of the uninsured, persons of color, and economically disadvantaged individuals in the state. HES does its work with a three-pronged focus to educate, agitate, and advocate.

We often have volunteer, intern, and employment opportunities available. Currently, we are seeking:

• Fund Development Director
• Policy & Advocacy Manager
• Training and Outreach Intern
• Training and Outreach Program Manager

A Note to Potential Candidates:

Studies have shown that women, BIPOC, and other people from marginalized groups are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet all the qualifications described in the job description. If you believe that you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply. HES is committed to building a diverse and inclusive organization and considering a broad array of candidates, including those with diverse work experiences and backgrounds. You may use your cover letter to express your interest in the role and what you hope to bring to this role.

The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven is seeking a qualified candidate for the position of Investment Associate. The application deadline is May 27, 2022. 

For more information and to apply, click here.