The application deadline is January 5th, 2006. Please pass it along to anyone you think would be interested.

Please contact Noni Clemens at 215-685-0753 or noni.clemens@yahoo.com for more information.

Anyone interested in a career working for community change to apply

The Direct Action & Research Training (DART) Center unites community groups together to powerfully address the systems that create and perpetuate injustice. We have built powerful community organizations in Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, Kentucky, and Indiana.

By combining on-the-job experience with classroom instruction, the DART Organizers Institute has become a national leader in developing superior, professional community organizers. Graduates of our program have led sweeping changes across major metropolitan cities on issues such as affordable housing, accessible healthcare, equitable public education policies, and others.

If you are seeking a career in community organizing and possess a passion for service and community change, then we encourage you to apply for the DART Organizers Institute.

To find out more, please visit the ?Become an Organizer? section of our website: <a href="http://www.thedartcenter.org">http://www.thedartcenter.org</a> or call DART at: 785-841-2680.

Summer 2007

Pennsylvania 6-12 grade history or social studies educators are welcome to apply for this four-week research opportunity. Receive $2000 while engaging in hands-on historical research and curriculum development at HSP on one of the following topics:

Japanese Internment
Ethnic Images in Advertising
Philadelphia?s Chinatown
Women?s Suffrage
The Lighthouse (settlement house)

For additional information, go to <a href="http://www.hsp.org">http://www.hsp.org</a> and click on ?Education.? There you will find a detailed description of the fellowship, application process, and background information on the research topics.

*Applications are due by February 1, 2007

Jennifer Coval
Educator
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
1300 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-732-6200 X260

1. The Melody program is designed to provide musical instruments and instrument repairs to existing K-12 school music programs that have no other source of financing to purchase additional musical instruments and materials. If you are applying on behalf of more than one school, separate applications are required for each school.

2. The Mr. Holland?s Opus Foundation accepts grant applications throughout the year.

3. We do not make cash awards. Grants of instruments and instrument repairs range between $500 and $5,000. Awarded instruments may be both new and refurbished.

4. Applicants whose music programs lack institutional financial support and whose students qualify for financial assistance will receive greater consideration. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed or returned. Since MHOF receives funding requests far in excess of our ability to fund, only a small portion of requests can be approved, and MHOF may only partially fund approved requests. A decision not to fund a school program does not necessarily reflect on the merit of the applicant school.

Deadline: None.

<a href="http://www.mhopus.org/melody.htm">http://www.mhopus.org/melody.htm</a>

Ameriquest Offers After-School and Neighborhood Improvement Grant Program
Deadline: January 15, 2007

A program offered by Ameriquest Mortgage Company (<a href="http://www.ameriquestcares.org/">http://www.ameriquestcares.org/</a>) and its affiliate AMC Mortgage Services, Create Your Legacy is a grant program that encourages young people to develop projects to improve their after-school program and their neighborhood.

Each year, the Create Your Legacy program awards up to seventy-five grants of $15,000 each to nonprofit after-school programs to help fund projects to improve their programs and their neighborhoods.

The grant program encourages youth to learn about community service and teamwork while participating in the development of two Legacy Projects: a $10,000 project to improve their after-school program, services, or facility; and a $5,000 project to improve or beautify their neighborhood.

To be eligible for a Create Your Legacy grant, participating after-school programs must submit a short grant application and a video clearly describing the two Legacy Projects they propose. The Create Your Legacy projects must be planned and developed by the after-school program’s youth with the assistance of the program’s staff.

The grant program is open to after-school programs with current 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. Eligible after-school programs should offer youth services that emphasize leadership training, mentoring, community service, academic enrichment, or the arts.

For a detailed program description and/or to download a Create Your Legacy grant application, visit the Ameriquest Cares Web site.

RFP Link: <a href="http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10005292/ameriquestcares">http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10005292/ameriquestcares</a>

For additional RFPs in Children and Youth, visit: <a href="http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_children.jhtml">http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_children.jhtml</a>

Women’s Sports Foundation Invites Applications for GoGirlGo! Ambassador Team Awards
Deadline: February 16, 2007

Teaming up with the GoGirlGo! National Campaign (<a href="http://www.gogirlgo.kintera.org/">http://www.gogirlgo.kintera.org/</a>) that is aiming to get one million inactive girls to participate in physical activity and keep another one million currently active girls from dropping out of physical activity, Gatorade and the Women’s Sports Foundation (<a href="http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/">http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/</a>) are supporting a third year of the GoGirlGo! Ambassador Team Awards.

The GoGirlGo! Ambassador Team Awards are designed to recognize teams that demonstrate leadership in their communities by inspiring girls to get involved in sports and physical activity. Teams must lead their own team project that will get girls in their communities physically active and submit a detailed essay or a VHS, DVD, or CD-ROM explaining their project.

School, amateur, community, and/or nonprofit affiliated teams whose members are female, enrolled in 9th-12th grade, and residents of the United States, its territories, or protectorates are eligible to apply. Grants will be made payable to the school, nonprofit institution, or 501(c)(3)organization. A total of $50,000 in twenty grants of $2,500 each will be awarded. See the Women’s Sports Foundation Web site for complete program materials.

RFP Link: <a href="http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10005291/womenssportsfound">http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10005291/womenssportsfound</a>

For additional RFPs in Athletics/Sports, visit: <a href="http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_athletics.jhtml">http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_athletics.jhtml</a>

American Federation for Aging Research Announces Two New Grant Programs

Deadline: December 15, 2006

The American Federation for Aging Research (<a href="http://www.afar.org/">http://www.afar.org/</a>) has announced two new grant programs:

1) The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Alzheimer’s Disease supports research in areas in which more scientific investigation is needed to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The program also encourages junior investigators in the United States and Israel to pursue research and academic careers in the neurosciences, and Alzheimer’s disease in particular. Up to five one- or two-year awards of $60,000 each will be awarded. The proposed research must be conducted at any type of not-for-profit setting in the United States or Israel.

2) The Fannie E. Rippel Foundation/AFAR New Investigator Awards on Gender Differences in Aging provides two awards of up to $60,000 each to junior faculty committed to pursuing careers in gender-based aging research. The program encourages scientific investigation that leads to a better understanding of normal biological aging as well as mechanisms underlying age-related diseases and disorders as they relate to gender aging. The proposed research must be conducted within a not-for-profit setting in the United States.

Visit the AFAR Web site for complete guidelines and applications for these and other funding programs in aging research.

RFP Link: <a href="http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10005286/afar">http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10005286/afar</a>

For additional RFPs in Aging, visit: <a href="http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_aging.jhtml">http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_aging.jhtml</a>

1. Affordable Housing Development ($6.735 million)
Mandatory Briefing: 10:00 a.m., Monday, December 18, 2006 @ OHCD
Proposal Deadline: 4:00 p.m., Friday, January 19, 2007

2. Homeless Prevention: Rental Assistance for Households Currently in Transitional Housing ($1 million)

Briefing: 2:00 p.m., Thursday, December 14, 2006
Proposal Deadline: 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Below is a brief summary of the two RFPs. A complete copy of the RFPs can be downloaded from the OHCD web site at:

<a href="http://www.phila.gov/ohcd/RFPS.htm">http://www.phila.gov/ohcd/RFPS.htm</a>

1. Affordable Housing Development ($6.735 million)
Mandatory Briefing: 10:00 a.m., Monday, December 18, 2006 @ OHCD
Proposal Deadline: 4:00 p.m., Friday, January 19, 2007

The Office of Housing and Community Development (OHCD) is soliciting proposals to finance the development of rental and homeownership units designed to serve low-, moderate-, and middle-income Philadelphia residents, using funding from the Philadelphia Housing Trust Fund.

A total of $6.735 million in City Fiscal Year 2007 Housing Trust Fund dollars is available through this Request for Proposals:

* $500,000 to support Neighborhood-Based Homeownership
* $2,500,000 to support New Construction Homeownership
* $3,735,000 million to support Neighborhood-Based Rental Housing

Projects seeking assistance from this RFP must meet the legal requirements of the HTF, including:

* Development by a non-profit organization, or a joint venture in which a non-profit organization is the controlling partner, and can demonstrate capacity. No funding will be provided for a project sponsored by a non-profit entity that is controlled by either a for-profit or by a public entity.
* Adherence to the ?Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Requirements and OHCD Policies? set forth in the Year 32 Consolidated Plan.
* Meeting the accessibility and visitability requirements of the HTF as defined in local ordinance and the Mayor?s Executive Order.
* Meeting the requirement that households benefiting from the housing development pay no more than 30% of their income for housing, unless allowed by another federal or state funding source.
* Serving households with a maximum income of 115% of area median income. (Proposals serving households at or below 30% of AMI will be given priority.)

Briefing Session
Interested parties are REQUIRED to attend a briefing session:

Monday, December 18, 2006, 10:00 a.m.
OHCD Board Room
1234 Market St., 17th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Proposal Submission

Proposals must be delivered to OHCD no later than 4:00 p.m. on Friday, January 19, 2007.

2. Homeless Prevention: Rental Assistance for Households Currently in Transitional Housing ($1 million)

Briefing: 2:00 pm, Thursday, December 14, 2006
Proposal Deadline: 4:00 pm, Wednesday, January 17, 2007

The Office of Housing and Community Development (OHCD) is seeking a non-profit Housing Provider to administer a rental assistance program funded with the Housing Trust Fund. The purpose of the program is to provide permanent housing for up to three years to households or families who are currently residing in transitional housing. The selected Housing Provider will contract with OHCD to administer the program.

A total of $1,000,000 is available for rental assistance payments, program delivery costs and administrative costs over three years. With these funds, OHCD expects to provide rental assistance payments to approximately 40 households. Eligible households are those currently living in homeless transitional housing who are able to live independently, but who require a subsidy to afford rental housing. It is anticipated that at the end of three years of rental assistance, these households will be able to pay for their own housing, either by continuing the rental unit for which assistance had been provided, by moving into a unit owned by the Philadelphia Housing Authority, or by securing other housing.

This tenant-based rental assistance is designed to model the Section 8 (Housing Choice) program, which pays to a landlord the difference between fair market rent (including utilities) and 30% of the beneficiary?s monthly income. Tenant-based rental assistance is assigned to a specific person or household, which may then use the assistance to rent an apartment or dwelling unit on his/her own. One source of rental units may be developments built using the Low Income Housing Tax Credit which have vacancies. The responsibility for locating an appropriate unit rests with the client. Clients will continue to receive case management through the Office of Supportive Housing.

Briefing Session

Prospective applicants are encouraged to attend a briefing session:

Thursday, December 14, 2006, 2:00 p.m.
OHCD Board Room
1234 Market St., 17th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Proposal Submission
Proposals are due at OHCD on or before Wednesday, January 17 at 4:00 p.m.

<a href="http://payitforwardfoundation.org/educators/grant.html">http://payitforwardfoundation.org/educators/grant.html</a>

THE FUTURE OF FOOD AND NUTRITION:
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE
RESEARCH CONFERENCE
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

MARCH 10, 2007 BOSTON, MA
Submission Deadline: January 26, 2007

The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University invites you to The Future of Food and Nutrition: A Multidisciplinary Graduate Research Conference. The conference offers graduate students, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, an opportunity to share original research on both domestic and international topics related to food and nutrition.

The conference will include several paper presentation sessions organized around specific research themes and a poster session. The event will conclude with a panel discussion on the recently proposed ?Green Revolution for Africa?, bringing together leading experts from different sectors to discuss this critical issue.

Abstract Submission
We encourage abstract submissions from any relevant field of study, however research should be accessible to a multidisciplinary audience. Submissions may include work generated from:
– thesis research – independent or directed studies
– coursework – capstone projects
– summer internships – participation in other research activities

Please note that authors submitting abstracts must also register in order to participate in the conference. For abstract submission forms and more information visit http://www.FriedmanSRC.com.

Registration
Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Interested students can register online at http://www.FriedmanSRC.com.

Registration Fees: $20 before February 1st 2007 – Early Bird Special!
$25 February 2nd – March 1st 2007

Contact Info
Please direct questions related to submissions to submissions@FriedmanSRC.com. For questions about the conference in general, contact info@FriedmanSRC.com.

Organization: National Low Income Housing Coalition
Where: Washington, DC
Date: February 26-27, 2007

http://www.nlihc.org/template/index.cfm

Registration for the conference includes admission to all conference institutes, workshops, meals and functions through Tuesday afternoon, as well as a copy of the 2007 Advocate?s Guide to Housing and Community Development Policy.

Organization: NeighborWorks
Where: Atlanta, GA
Date: February 19-23, 2007

http://www.nw.org/network/training/Atlanta07.asp

Join us in Atlanta for the highest quality training for community development practitioners and resident leaders in the country. Featured at this training institute:

* A one-day symposium, Changes in the Wind – Manufactured Housing and the Future of Affordable Housing, complemented by related-courses throughout the week.
* Five-day Nonprofit Housing Management Specialist course, which is required to obtain a professional designation from CHAM (Consortium for Housing and Asset Management).
* Green courses sponsored by The Home Depot Foundation
* Two Spanish bilingual homeownership courses
* Twenty-three new and six updated courses – see our complete course grid

Organization: National Alliance to End Homelessness
Where: Oakland, CA
Date: February 8-9, 2007

http://www.endhomelessness.org/content/article/detail/1412

Imagine no more families or children homeless. Better still, don?t imagine?look and see it happening.

For the first time since the rise of homelessness more than 20 years ago, communities can articulate a detailed, practical strategy for ending family homelessness, a strategy that works.

Communities are using proven program models and systemic reforms to ensure that children and their parents no longer have to sleep in shelters, in cars, in abandoned buildings, in storm drains, in mini-storage lockers, in caves, in tents, in the open or on the floors or couches of one acquaintance after another for a few days at a time. Communities are solving this vexing and shameful problem in ways that are cost effective. They are setting skepticism aside and moving forward.

Organization: Families USA
Where: Washington, DC
Date: January 25-27, 2007

http://ga3.org/familiesusa/events/conference2007/details.tcl

Come to Health Action 2007 where you’ll find creative, hard-working advocates like you who are determined to plow ahead on expanded coverage until every one of us has affordable, high quality health care.

All participants will receive certification in professional grant writing from the Institute. For more information call (888) 824 – 4424 or visit The Grant Institute website at http://www.thegrantinstitute.com/.

‘Tis the event of the season and here’s the reason…

PYNL invites you to join us at our 5th Annual Holiday Happy Hour and Toy Drive. Snow or shine, come and join the festivities and please bring a new, unwrapped toy with you. This year’s event will take place Wednesday, December 13th from 5pm to 7pm at Fado Irish Pub located at 15th and Locust Streets. Toys that are collected will be donated to Project Home – helping to make a brighter holiday season for the children in their shelters and residencies. Drink specials will be available. If you’d like more information about doing a toy drive in your office or other ways to get involved, e-mail Steven Fynes at stevenfynes@pccy.org or call 215-563-5848 x 11. Please join us for an exciting evening and a chance to bring a happier holiday to a child in this season of giving.

When: Wednesday, December 13th, 5:00-7:00pm
Where: Fado Irish Pub, 1500 Locust Street, Philadelphia

Mark your calendar for March 25-27, 2008, when Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) celebrates its 20th anniversary with a national conference and networking event in Kansas City, Missouri.

Please plan to join SARE and its many partners in March 2008 at its next national conference to learn the latest about how we are forging an agriculture that is profitable, environmentally sound and good for people and communities.

Celebrate successes experienced by SARE and its partners in the sustainable agriculture community Foster a productive dialog between producers, agricultural educators, and agency representatives Distill, clarify, and communicate SARE’s guiding values and vision

2008 marks SARE’s 20th year of advancing a more sustainable agriculture through a nationwide competitive grants program. SARE stays in touch with the needs of farmers and ranchers through its strong regional programs in the North Central, Northeast, Southern and Western regions. The conference will be the 6th in SARE’s biennial series.

Regards,

Sean McGovern
Sustainable Agriculture Network
1372 Norris Drive
Columbus, Ohio 43224
Phone: 614/306-6422
Fax: 614/268-7544
http://www.sare.org
outreach@sare.org

We are organizing a clean up of the Kingsessing Recreation grounds and need volunteers.

Date: Saturday Dec. 16, 2006 from 9am-12noon

Where: Kingsessing Recreation Center, meet at the building entrance near 50th and Kingsessing

What: Rake leaves, sweep hard surfaces and in general clean the place up for a long winter nap

If you can be a leader or bring a group please call Michelle at 215-243-2270.

If you have tools ? rakes, brooms, shovels ? please bring them. Put your name on any tools you bring.

Thank you.

Michelle Robinson

Email: robinson.architect@verizon.net

Title of internship: Residency Artist Research and Translation Assistant

Start Date: January 16, 2007
End Date: April 30, 2007

Expected number of hours per week: The internship hours will fluctuate based on the research needs and when the artist is in Philadelphia, but will be at least 8 hours per week.

The hours are (or could be): during office hours and weekends (if and when Rachid is in Philadelphia), as needed

Compensation: volunteer or college credit

Description of internship: Artist Rachid Koraichi is interested in creating a site-specific art installation sited in Philadelphia neighborhoods that refer to histories usually passed over. He wishes to employ the writings of Philadelphia authors and poets, most of whom are African American, in groups of seven to provide commentary on the site (either direct or metaphorical), and to translate those writings into Arabic. The intern will provide translation during the artist’s visits to Philadelphia. The Research intern will be expected to collaborate on identifying appropriate writings in collaboration with the artist and guest curator, Salah Hassan. Authors currently under consideration are: WEB DuBois, Sonia Sanchez, Trapeta Mayson, William Penn, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, O.V. Catto, Phyllis Wheatley, Lorene Carey. Rachid Koraichi is an Arabic artist living in Paris, France. His aesthetic is deeply rooted in his multicultural Algerian heritage, and his art demonstrates a tremendous awareness of the most recent currents in the international contemporary art scene. Kora?chi works with many media, including ceramics, textiles, poetry, calligraphy, and paint. Born to a Sufi family in Ain Beida, Algeria, his work is intimately informed by the numerology, signs and ethos of Sufi mysticism. He was recently included in the international touring exhibition ‘Short Century’, and in the 47th and 49th Venice Biennale. Part of his installation, ‘Path of Roses’, comprising embroidered silk textiles, steel sculptures, roses and Turkish ceramics was recently acquired by the British Museum.

Specific skills needed: On-line research skills, familiarity with African American Literature, fluency in Arabic (and/or French).

To apply: Please send your resume and cover letter to info@philagrafika.org. Cover letter should include what position you are applying for, how you heard about Philagrafika and what you hope to gain from an internship here. During the interview process the intern will be asked to submit a translation of a short text chosen by the curator and artist.