The goal is to have a systematically developed network established to ensure that all sections of Philadelphia have an opportunity to participate in a locally run community meeting. We are seeking individuals to be part of a Core Group of leaders from around the city who would assist in the development of the network. The time commitment should be no more than 5 to 8 hours in a year.

For more information, or to volunteer, contact Sue Edwards at 215-615-0396
Mailing address: c/o Mark Salzer, PhD, Center for Mental Health Policy & Services Research, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market St., Suite 3017, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Grand Central will be distributing your gifts of warmth to children and youth living with their grandparents and other extended family caregivers.

To make a coat donation please call 215-557-1554. Deadline is October 20th.

*Full time position, minimum of Bachelor’s degree, some experience.

The Transition Coordinator is charged with providing re-entry services to a cohort of students who have dropped out or stopped out of high school or college. All of the following responsibilities are part of the Program’s federally funded Talent Search Dropout/Stopout project.

Responsibilities :
Plan and implement a workplan for the Dropout/Stopout Transition project; Work a schedule of hours which includes evenings and weekends and includes time at the College Access Center; Local travel to provide services at community sites and schools; Maintain a current listing of GED, Twilight and adult education programs across the city as well as procedures for reenrolling students into regular high school programs; Advise students and families about college preparation, applications, and financial aid; Maintain good documentation of activities and student contacts; Assume responsibility for program-wide and special projects; Work with College Access colleagues to carry out center and program-wide activities

Qualifications :
Bachelor’s Degree; Student focused; Demonstrated knowledge of and experience in preparing older and adult students for postsecondary education; Good knowledge of college admissions and financial aid issues.

Compensation :
Salary commensurate with experience begins in $30,000 range; benefit package includes health benefits, TIAA-CREF pension, three weeks vacation plus five days at Christmas, life and disability insurance.

Interested candidates should forward resume to:
Janine Wright
Director
College Access Program
7 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
7th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Duties and Responsibilities

–Provide individual and group instruction in all levels of computer operation
–Provide one-to-one assistance to center clients, including helping clients to use the computer to do research, write papers, prepare resumes, work on personal projects, do homework and explore and use the Internet for educational, employment and personal endeavors
–Assist in training and supervising center volunteers, including overseeing mentor relationships

Qualifications
Training and experience in computers, teaching, social services

TO APPLY:
Please e-mail a cover letter and your resum? to glenpratt@yahoo.com

Ford Foundation Invites Nominations for Leadership for a Changing World Program

Deadline: January 7, 2003

Leadership for a Changing World, an initiative of the Ford Foundation (http://www.fordfound.org/ ), in partnership with the Advocacy Institute (http://www.advocacy.org ) and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University ( http://www.nyu.edu/wagner/ ), seeks to recognize, strengthen, and support emerging leaders and to highlight the importance of community leadership in improving lives. The program annually recognizes twenty outstanding leaders or leadership groups not yet broadly known beyond their immediate community or field.

Leaders recognized by are active in a range of areas and fields, including economic and community development, human rights, the arts, education, human development, sexual and reproductive health, religion, media, and the environment. Awardees will receive $100,000 over two years to support their work and will be provided an Independent Learning Account of $30,000 for supporting activities that advance their efforts. The funds will be made available to the nonprofit organization associated with the awardee. (Arrangements can be made for fiscal agents if awardees are not formally associated with a 501(c)(3) organization.)

Over the two-year program, awardees will participate in semi-annual program-wide meetings designed to provide opportunities for shared learning and collaboration among awardees and other leaders. Awardees will work with program officials to help raise public awareness of their efforts and to explore their unique approaches to leadership, and will also contribute to a research effort to deepen under- standing of leadership in communities.

Nominators are invited to identify leaders who demonstrate a range of qualities, including the ability to find effective, systemic solutions to tough social problems. The program is looking for leaders largely unrecognized outside of their field or community as well as leadership that is sustainable beyond any individual effort. Nominees must be U.S. residents working on domestic issues and must have been involved in the work for which they are being nominated for at least four years. A nominator may be anyone who is well acquainted with the nominated leader or the leadership group and can attest to the qualifications of the nominee.

See the Leadership for a Changing World Web site to download the program brochure and nomination guidelines and forms.

RFP Link: http://leadershipforchange.org/

For additional RFPs in Community Improvement/Development, visit:
http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_philanthropy.jhtml

National 4-H Council Offers Grants for Youth-Led Programs to Promote Healthy Lifestyles and Fight Hunger

Deadline: Various

The Strategic Initiatives Team of the National 4-H Council (http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/ ) offers grants for U.S. youth at the community, county, and state levels. These grants are designed to provide opportunities for young people and adults to take action on issues critical to their lives, their families, and their communities. Under the terms of the program, youth are expected to take the lead in the design of the project, the proposal writing process, project implementation, and the evaluation of project outcomes.

Proposals are currently being accepted for the following programs:

Healthy Lifestyles Grant: To help communities create educational programs and public awareness around the growing trend of obesity, the National 4-H Council, with funding from Kraft Foods, Inc., will offer local grants up to $8,000 to develop or expand innovative and fun programs that partner youth between the ages of five and twelve with adults to reverse this trend. Applicants must have demonstrated interest and experience in dealing with the issues of obesity, fitness, nutrition, and healthy lifestyles. (Deadline: November 4, 2002)

Feeding the Hungry Grant: To help communities mobilize young people in the battle against hunger, the National 4-H Council in partnership with Kraft Foods, Inc., offers grants of $500 to $2,500 to teams promoting youth/adult involvement in local food banking, outreach, and public awareness efforts. (Deadline: November 11, 2002)

See the Council’s Web site for complete guidelines and to download application forms.

RFP Link:
http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/programs/main.asp?subid=6&catid=1

For additional RFPs in Community Improvement/Development, visit:
http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_community.jhtml

June 4 – 7, 2003 New Mexico Highlands University Las Vegas, New Mexico

A primary goal of the 9th Biennial Conference of the Society for Community Research and Action is to foster constructive discussion, interaction, and exchange of ideas involving community research and action. The conference provides a forum for presenting exciting new work from professionals and community members in all areas of community research and action, including new contributions to theory, methodology, and practice; implementing and disseminating innovative programs; and public policy.

Conference registration includes admission to all sessions, lunch on full conference days, continental breakfast, and a dinner/social event. Participants will have the option of staying in one of several local hotels and motels, most of which are a short walk from the NMHU campus, or rooms in the NMHU dormitories. Further details about conference registration, including travel arrangements, lodging, and information about conference accessibility, are available on the website. Persons or organizations wishing to exhibit materials at the conference should contact Jean Hill (jlhill@nmhu.edu).

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Proposals are invited for sessions on a wide range of topics that address the conference themes. Rather than emphasizing paper presentations, the conference encourages innovative programs that provoke discussion and exchange. The deadline for application of proposals is November 17, 2002. For additional information, and to submit a proposal online, please visit the conference website.
http://www.nmhu.edu/scrabiennial

Jean Hill, Planning Committee Co-chair 505-454-3562
jlhill@nmhu.edu
Mel Wilson, Planning Committee Co-chair 434-924-0673
mnw@viginia.edu

Friday, November 22 – Saturday, November 23
Holiday Inn on the Hill, Washington, D.C.

For more information, go to: http://nelp.org/uiconference/

Due to the overwhelming response, registrations will no longer be accepted for the White House Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Regional Conference in Atlanta on October 10, 2002 . Please be aware that the next Conference will be held in Philadelphia, PA on December 12, 2002. More information about that Conference will be posted in the next few weeks.

For more information, visit http://www.ed.gov/faithandcommunity/index.html

Stay tuned by visiting http://www.cool2serve.org over the next few months to learn more about registration fees and deadlines, workshop proposals, speakers and other exiciting news!!

Tim Mosehauer
Director of Outreach
Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL)
37 Temple Place, Suite 401
Boston, Massachusetts 02111
617-695-2665 [phone]
617-695-0022 [fax]
http://www.cool2serve.org

There are morning, afternoon and evening classes. All of these classes are held at the Central Branch YMCA. Testing & Registration: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday from 8am-12 noon. Takes about 2 hours.

Contact Debbie Kaminski at 215-557-0082 ext. 5025.

Taking Service Learning to a Higher Level of Achievement Through Building

The Campus Compact/AAHE Consulting Corps is a group of distinguished faculty members from a variety of disciplines who provide on-campus technical assistance and professional development for interested institutions and faculty members. If this resource would be of use or interest to you, please go to the following link to find out more.

http://www.compact.org/faculty/aahe.html

If you have any questions about the Corps or other Campus Compact resources, please feel free to contact me directly at sjones@compact.org.

Steve

Please take a look at http://www.uic.edu/educ/nsse

NSSE is very grateful to Kristi Grunsten, a junior at Walter Payton College Prep High School in Chicago, for her very hard work over the last three months getting the site ready to go. She will continue to serve as consultant for the site.

We are interested in hearing your suggestions and comments regarding how to make the site even more helpful.

We hope to hear from you.

Debra Miretzky, Ph.D.
National Society for the Study of Education
University of Illinois College of Education M/C 147
1040 W. Harrison St.
Chicago, Il. 60607
v-mail 312-996-4529

Community service is the most popular sentencing option in most youth courts. Giving Back-A Community Service-Learning Manual for Youth Courts-helps youth courts plan and implement meaningful community service sentencing options by applying school-based, service-learning methods to community service.

Download a FREE copy of Giving Back from the CRF web site:
http://www.crf-usa.org/YouthCourt/GivingBack_home.

Giving Back was designed and written by Constitutional Rights Foundation (CRF) and Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago (CRFC) and is made available through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and the National Youth Court Center (NYCC).

Visit the National Youth Court Center at http://www.youthcourt.net/.