Hesperian Health Guides launching its first iPhone app, Safe Pregnancy and Birth

This free, comprehensive app on pregnancy and birth contains a wealth of information on:

• how to stay healthy during pregnancy
• how to recognize danger signs during pregnancy, birth, and after birth
• what to do when a danger sign arises
• when to refer a woman to emergency care
• instructions for community health workers with step-by-step explanations such as “How to take blood pressure,” “How to treat someone in shock,” “How to stop bleeding.”

Hesperian is currently working on making this app available for the Android platform.

The launch of this app comes as Hesperian also announces a Digital Commons, an extensive suite of digital resources and tools: books for free download in 26 languages, thousands of images in a searchable online library, an interactive HealthWiki, and more. This does not mean the end of print books for Hesperian, but the new Digital Commons will ensure that lifesaving, empowering health information reaches more people around the world. All tools are available through Hesperian’s website: www.hesperian.org/digital-commons, and the Safe Pregnancy and Birth app can be downloaded for free from the iTunes Store

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MetLife Foundation Community-Police Partnership Awards

MetLife Foundation and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) are partnering for the eleventh year to recognize, sustain and share the work of innovative partnerships between community groups and police to promote
neighborhood safety and revitalization.

Further information and a link to the full RFP is available at:
http://www.lisc.org/metlife<http://csi.cmail4.com/t/r/l/ihiklrk/zktiljky/i/

Preliminary Application Deadline: March 11, 2012 (11:59 p.m. EST)

Awardees will receive monetary grants ranging from $15,000 to $30,000.

Case studies about award-winning partnerships will be disseminated throughout the community development and law enforcement industries.

Cash grants will be awarded in the following two categories:

Neighborhood Revitalization Awards (Five at $20,000-30,000): These awards celebrate exemplary collaboration between community groups and police that yields crime reduction as well as economic development outcomes, such as
real estate development, business attraction and job growth.

Special Strategy Awards (Five at $15,000): Community and police partners who have achieved significant accomplishments in one of the following areas will receive awards:

  *   Applied Technology
  *   Aesthetics and Greenspace Improvement
  *   Diversity Inclusion & Integration
  *   Drug Market Disruption
  *   Gang Prevention & Youth Safety
  *   Seniors & Safety

Find out more at: www.lisc.org/metlife<http://csi.cmail4.com/t/r/l/ihiklrk/zktiljky/d/

On Monday, April 23rd, you are invited to the 15^th Annual Connecticut Immigrant Day, hosted by the Connecticut Immigrant & Refugee Coalition (CIRC).  The event will be held on from 1pm-3pm in the Old Judiciary Room, featuring remarks by Secretary of State Merrill and a keynote address from Dominican-born President Daisy Cocco De Philippis of Naugatuck Valley Community College.

As always, CIRC will be recognizing 15-20 new Americans who have made significant contributions to their profession or community as well as two high school or college students who have excelled academically and extracurricularly.  Please consider nominating an individual who has exemplified these characteristics.  Nominees must meet the following eligibility requirements to be considered:

- Connecticut resident.

- Naturalized citizen.  (Note that citizenship is NOT a requirement for the student awards.)

- Contributed to their profession or community.

Details about the event, and a nomination form for awards, are attached.

Immigrant Day Nomination 2012.pdf

If you have any questions or concerns concerning Immigrant Day or the nomination form, please feel free to contact CIRC President Robert Fishman at jfact@mcmgmt.com.  We look forward to seeing you!

Anyone know of a working farm/greenhouse in the Greater New Haven area? That is open to have Easter Seals Goodwill Clients working part time.
Chuck 203-777-2000 x260

The TKF Foundation announces the final phase of the Open Spaces Sacred Places (OSSP) National Awards Program.  The program was enacted in 2 phases, a Planning Grant Phase, now closed, and an open call for proposals. Final Awards will fund development of significant new sacred public green spaces in urban settings that demonstrate a combination of high quality design-build and rigorous research about user impacts. The total remaining funding pool is $4 million. Funding will be provided to cross-disciplinary teams that are able to 1) conceptualize, plan, design and implement an open and sacred green space, 2) conduct associated research study(ies), and 3) communicate scientific findings.  TKF seeks to identify projects replicable in their intent.  Projects should also be generalizable in the challenges they address to serve as potential archetypes for urban areas across the U.S.

Fair Haven, CT - “Soylent green is people!” So screams the blustering bloviator of 1970 b-film maxims, Charlton Heston [I mean, who can forget this gem,It’s a Madhouse! from that ape flick] at the end of the same titled film when he discovers that Soylent Green is not just a natural food product created to feed the starving mass of NYC in 2022, after global warming has destroyed all of Earth’s natural resources, but is actually a cannibalistic nightmare. [Catch the film and see for yourself, the New Haven Bioregional Group/Transition Greater New Haven is having a screening of this fine flick on Thursday, February 16 at 5:30 pm at the New Haven Main Library.]

I have to say that scenario doesn’t sound soooo far fetched. I mean, global climate chaos is already here and then there’s Monsanto attempting to patent our food supply…sometimes ‘70s films get it right [see Network for Paddy Chayefsky’s prescient, darkly fabulous take on the television industry.] So here’s my elevator pitch for my own movie about food security called SOILent Green. It’s about growing food for ourselves in urban areas where fresh, healthy food is now scarce and only available in out of the way and overpriced grocery bins in football field-size supermarkets. What if we spin Chuckie’s blather around and say instead that SOILent Green is made FOR people? That food security is at hand if we all put our minds, hearts and hands to work? Then this particular film could potentially have a satisfying and maybe even happy ending. And in Fair Haven, Connecticut, my sense is that we are on our way to having that happy ending right here.

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Opens this Saturday at 10am-4pm

Games, crafts, healthy food and much more for children and families.

Admission:

Children 3 & up- $5

Adults- $9

http://peabody.yale.edu/exhibits/big-food-health-culture-and-evolution-eating

IRIS- Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services is expecting over 20 new refugees to arrive in New Haven over the next two weeks.  We urgently need beds for them, especially twin size beds– mattresses, box springs, and frames.

We also need dressers and chests of drawers.

If you would like to donate any of these items – in good condition, please  -- and you live in or close to New Haven, please contact Chris George at cgeorge@irisct.org, or (203) 562-2095.  If you cannot deliver, we will arrange to pick them up this week.

Please also share this message with friends, family and colleagues-- anyone who might be able to help.

Thank you for your continued commitment to serving New Haven's refugee community!

Yale University is seeking someone to join their client support team in Human Resources. Qualified individuals will have a B.A. and 6 years related HR experience. They are looking for someone with progressive HR experience in some of the following areas:  recruiting, employee relations, talent management, organizational development, training, HRIS, labor relations, etc. If you are qualified and interested then please submit your application here: http://bit.ly/15258BR

Link to Powerpoint presentation: Making America Healthier for All: What Each of Us Can Do

Professor David R. Williams, PhD, MPH        “The U.S. ranks near the bottom of industrialized countries on health, and we are losing ground.  In 1980, we were ranked 11th on Life Expectancy.  In 2006, we were 33rd , tied with Slovenia.  The U.S. ranked behind Cyprus, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Costa Rica and Portugal.  And it is not just the minorities doing badly!  In 2006, White America would be ranked 30^th; Black America would be ranked 58^th………………”

Link to all the presentations at the 1/19/12 New England Community Action Partnership's (NECAP's)  inaugural Issues Forum.

WWW.Courant.com

Governor Malloy Launches "City Canvas" Project for CT Cities

Mayors invited to submit plans to spur urban centers with art

By FRANK RIZZO

Hartford Courant

7:20 PM EST, January 23, 2012

Copyright © 2012, The Hartford Courant

The NOAA Liaison to the Long Island Sound Study position has been 
announced. See _http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/307516800_

The individual selected for this position will:

- Serve as a liaison to the EPA Long Island Sound Study (LISS).
- Work on a variety of science advisory and coordination activities with 
a special focus on the living marine resources for which the National 
Marine Fisheries Service is responsible.
- Provide scientific expertise and perspective to the LISS process, 
especially coordinating the research effort supported by the program.
- Translate research results into program actions.
- Assisting in the communication of scientific and management advances 
implemented by the LISS.
- Accomplish work group organization and reporting, research grant 
administration, and general science coordination and provide results to 
the LISS and NEFSC leadership.

This position will be co-located in the National Marine Fisheries 
Service (NMFS), Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), Aquaculture 
& Enhancement Division, located in Milford, CT, and the EPA Long Island 
Sound Office in Stamford, CT. It is a term appointment for two years, 
with possible extension for an additional two year. *Please note that 
the closing date to apply for the position is Friday, January 27.***

Contact if you have any questions.
Mark A. Tedesco, Director
EPA Long Island Sound Office
Government Center, Suite 9-11
888 Washington Blvd.
Stamford, CT 06904-2152
Phone: 203-977-1541
Fax: 203-977-1546
email: tedesco.mark@epa.gov
URL: www.longislandsoundstudy.net

Dear nonprofit leader:

In our continued effort to gather information on the state of the nonprofit sector in our region we are encouraging you to participate in the Nonprofit Finance Fund’s (NFF) annual survey. The Nonprofit Finance Fund has agreed to provide The Foundation with the aggregate data on our twenty-town region. This data will continue to help us understand the economic climate and its impact on the sector in our region and nationally. It is important that as many nonprofits as possible respond to the survey so we can get meaningful results. The results of the survey will help us determine what some of the most critical areas of need are in this region, both now and for the long-term

Please click on the link below to take the 10-15 minute survey:

Thanks in advance for your contribution to this effort. Your participation will ensure a strong and inclusive sampling of the sector.

http://app.fluidsurveys.com/s/nonprofitsurvey/

Be a role model for youth who want to enter your career field! By taking part in New Haven Academy's Student Internship Program, you are improving the quality of high school education in the greater New Haven area. Your participation is sincerely appreciated.

The Internship Program is designed to allow students to intern full-time, Monday through Thursday, for three weeks (May 14th- May 31st). Each student is placed with a host organization based on their personal interest. By working with people who share similar interest, and who have professional experience in a given filed, the students have the opportunity to experience learning in a meaningful way.

Each potential host will have a chance to interview the potential student intern beforehand. This will give both the host and student a chance to get to know each other and help with the matching process.

Students will arrive at the host organization prepared with question and ideas about what they'll be learning during the internship. If you've never hosted a student before, you may find the following suggestions to be helpful guidelines:

• Provide a tour of your workplace and describe the main purpose of what goes on there.

• Share the personal side of how you developed your interest, or why you chose the work you do, and why it is important to you.

• Demonstrate as much of your work as you can, rather than just talk about it.

• Share what it is you do to stay current in your filed (professional development).

• If you're in an organization with more people, let the student know how your work fits in with others in your organization, what role it plays in the organization and what other roles are needed to make your work successful.

• Don’t be afraid to show them the fun side- laughing together is a greater equalizer.

We are grateful for your willingness to host an intern. We hope that the experience will be mutually rewarding for the student and for you.

If interested in hosting a New Haven Academy student Intern please contact Internship coordinators:

Karen O'Donnell @ 203-710-1877 or kmjodonnell@gmail.com

Nydia Roman @ 203-444-1776 or nydiapact@gmail.com

RICHARD CORNUELLE AWARD FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Each year since 2001, the Institute, in conjunction with a committee of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and foundation leaders, selects up to five individuals who have originated and effectively implemented a nonprofit organization providing direct services to those in need. Nominations for the $25,000 awards are solicited not from the organizations or individuals themselves but from donors—who have already demonstrated their own belief in the organizations they nominate. In keeping with the social entrepreneurship program's emphasis on the vitality of American civil society, the award is directed toward those with original ideas brought to fruition with predominantly private support, rather than in response to government grant programs.

Learn about award winners >>

Learn about nomination criteria >>

DEADLINE: The nomination period for the 2012 awards closes on February 24.

PLEASE DIRECT ANY QUESTIONS TO:

Matthew Hennessey

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

52 Vanderbilt Avenue

New York, NY 10017

(212) 599-7000

Help Common Ground win $10,000 for a new teaching kitchen from IKEA New Haven!  This kitchen will be designed to teach children, high school students and the community about healthy cooking with locally grown food. The impact? Healthier kids who love real food. Young people headed into culinary careers and launching entrepreneurial ventures. Cooking classes for adults and families. Join us!

Text LIFE35 to 62345 to vote for this project. You can vote once a day from January 6th to January 20th. THANK YOU for your support!