Grants to Benefit Local Colleges and Nonprofits

Philadelphia, PA – The Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development (PHENND) recently announced 19 grants totaling $157,755 to local colleges and universities to meet community needs related to the economic crisis.

The grants will support student leadership connected to community service and student internships at nonprofit organizations working on economic recovery. Some colleges were also funded to offer skill-building workshops to nonprofits as well. For a complete list of grants, see: https://phennd.org/index.php/initiatives/initiatives/credit_path/

“Last year we kicked off a new initiative to focus area colleges’ outreach efforts on economic recovery. After a good first year, we are really excited to expand the program to more campuses and communities,” said PHENND Director Hillary Kane.

The grants to higher education institutions are part of a larger grant PHENND received last year from the Corporation for National Service’s Learn and Serve America Higher Education program. Learn and Serve funds service-learning programs at K-12 schools as well as colleges and universities.

PHENND also continued to over $150,000 in grants to local nonprofits that will engage students in additional service activities related to economic recovery. Students will be working with the Food Stamp Enrollment Campaign, volunteer income tax assistance programs, financial education programs, and micro-entrepreneurship training.

“Since partnership is a two-way street, we felt it was important to fund both the community organizations and the colleges working to make these programs happen,” said Kane.

Drexel University is the lead institution for this project and will handle the contracts and awards to the other participating colleges.

PHENND is a consortium of 36 colleges and universities in the greater Philadelphia area. PHENND works to build the capacity of its member institutions to develop mutually beneficial, sustained, and democratic community-based service-learning partnerships. The consortium actively seeks to revitalize local communities and schools and foster civic responsibility among the region’s colleges and universities.

A new documentary by Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater about one mother’s fight for asylum in the U.S. to protect her daughter from female genital mutilation.

Shot in Philadelphia and Mali, this one-hour film explores the complex cultural and health issues involved, as well as the intricacies and frustrations of the legal process to gain asylum.

WHEN: September 22, 2010, at 6:30pm

WHERE: Nationalities Service Center
1216 Arch St. 4th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107

After the screening, stay for a Q&A session with the film director, associate producer, immigration law attorneys, and asylum law expert Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales of Temple University School of Law.

For more information, please contact:

Nationalities Service Center
1216 Arch St., 4th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 893-8400, ext. 1542

Event Agenda—Thursday, September 23, 2010
11:00am Registration Opens
12:00-12:30pm Lunch & Welcome
12:30-1:15pm Presentation: Where Did ABCD Come From and What Is It?
Break
1:15-2:30pm Plenary: The Gifts of Individuals
Individuals combine their gifts through their involvement in local associations, which can then harness these individual capacities to produce healthy, secure, prosperous and creative communities. Every person has gifts. Every community is a place of hospitality. We will ex-plore practical action steps to building a bridge from the edge into the center of community life: from client to citizen. How do you invite the hospitality and welcome of local communities? How do you create and support a strong citizens’ initiative to bring labeled people from the community edge to the community center?

2:30-2:45pm Break
2:45-4:00pm Plenary: The Power of Associations

4:00-4:15pm Break
4:15-5:45pm Plenary: The Contributions & Limitations of Major Institutions or Leading by Stepping Back

Many of our major institutions –schools & universities, hospitals, police departments, criminal justice systems, etc. –are discovering that they are more effective when they join together with mobilized communities as “co-producers” of positive outcomes rather than seeing them simply as recipients of services.

5:45-6:15pm Roving Listening: A Practical Application of ABCD

6:45-7:30pm
Roving In Chicago – Join De’Amon Harges in the art of listening and building relationships by roving through a Millennium Park in Chi-cago encountering the residents and visitors to listen for their gifts and talents and see what connections arise.

7:30-9:00pm
After you’ve experienced Roving Listening first hand, come meet us at Rhapsody restaurant for cocktails and appetizers, or explore the world famous Art Institute, which is FREE to the public on Thursday evenings. This is a change to relax, unwind and get to know each other
Completed Registration Forms can be faxed to 847-467-4140 or emailed to daciajean@gmail.com
You can also register online at: https://www.regonline.com/from_scarcity_to_abundance

From: Howell Baum <hbaum@exch.mail.umd.edu>

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the publication of Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism. The book tells the history of Baltimore school desegregation and argues that school officials’  liberalism limited their ability to understand race and act effectively to end segregation. The analysis has implications for contemporary difficulties dealing with race.

The book’s story is this: A liberal school board voted right after Brown to end segregation. However, they chose open enrollment, or freedom of choice, as their strategy. The policy made desegregation voluntary, and it explicitly disregarded students’ race: all students would be seen as raceless individuals free to choose any school in the city. School officials said they did not care what racial makeup resulted, so long as students had the freedom to choose. Significantly, black leaders urged the board to adopt this policy, took credit for the board’s actions, and continued to endorse the policy for two decades. No civil rights group
ever sued the school board to do anything more.

The analysis interprets school officials’ actions as a good-faith expression of their explicit liberalism. They saw society as made up of individuals, emphasized a procedural right to choose over any specific outcome, and believed government should not intervene in individual decisions. Free choice embodied these culturally normal American principles. The book argues that the Baltimore desegregation case shows the weaknesses of liberalism in grasping race conceptually and in developing deep strategies for redressing racial inequities.

Regards to all,
Howell Baum

Below is a description of the book from Cornell University Press and a link to the Press:

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5639

In the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal called the “American Dilemma.” Immediately after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the city’s liberal school board voted to desegregate and adopted a free choice policy that made integration voluntary. Baltimore’s school desegregation proceeded peacefully, without the resistance or violence that occurred elsewhere. However, few whites chose to attend school with blacks, and after a few years of modest desegregation, schools resegregated and became increasingly segregated. The school board never changed its policy. Black leaders had urged the board to adopt free choice and, despite the limited desegregation, continued to support the policy and never sued the board to do anything else.

Baum finds that American liberalism is the key to explaining how this happened. Myrdal observed that many whites believed in equality in the abstract but considered blacks inferior and treated them unequally. School officials were classical liberals who saw the world in terms of individuals, not races. They adopted a desegregation policy that explicitly ignored students’ race and asserted that all students were equal in freedom to choose schools, while their policy let whites who disliked blacks avoid integration. School officials’ liberal thinking hindered them from understanding or talking about the city’s history of racial segregation, continuing barriers to desegregation, and realistic change strategies. From the classroom to city hall, Baum examines how Baltimore’s distinct identity as a border city between North and South shaped local conversations about the national conflict over race and equality. The city’s history of wrestling with the legacy of Brown reveals Americans’ preferred way of dealing with racial issues: not talking about race. This avoidance, Baum concludes, allows segregation to continue.

Reviews
“As a major city just below the Mason-Dixon line, Baltimore won approval when it became one of the first cities in the country to comply with the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision. Unlike their
southern neighbors, white officials in Baltimore led the effort that resulted in the relatively peaceful desegregation of its public schools. Yet, in this wonderful book, Howell S. Baum digs deep into Baltimore’s
history of school desegregation to uncover how the city’s ‘liberalism’ actually led to a pattern of political and civic abandonment. Baum illustrates how ‘liberalism’ muffled racial conflict and consequently weakened the city’s capacity to address issues of race and equality in its public schools. Brown in Baltimore is a genuine tour de force.”—Marion Orr, Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions and the Fred Lippitt Professor of Public Policy, Political Science and Urban Studies at Brown University, author of Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore

“In this sensitive, readable, and well-researched book, Howell S. Baum shows how Baltimore officials tried and failed to integrate the city schools. Baltimore City officials honored freedom of choice in the abstract, but that notion proved inadequate to produce schools in which whites and blacks studied together. Baum writes with particular insight about the working-class ethnic whites of East Baltimore, and he shows a fundamental understanding of the workings of federal regulatory agencies and the peculiar pace at which the courts manage social conflict. The result is a wonderful combination of social science and history that illuminates one of America’s key social concerns.”—Edward D. Berkowitz, George Washington University, author of Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies

“Howell S. Baum carefully traces the long arc of struggle over school desegregation in a distinctive American city. With a storyteller’s sense of narrative and a scholar’s attention to detail, he adroitly assays the limits of classic liberal solutions to the nation’s long-standing dilemma of race and sociospatial inequity in urban education.”—John L. Rury, University of Kansas, author of Education and Social Change: Contours in the History of American Schooling

About the Author
Howell S. Baum is Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Maryland. He is the author most recently of Community Action for School Reform and The Organization of Hope: Communities  Planning Themselves.

Center for Youth Development & Philadelphia OST PD Project
Fall 2010 Training Schedule

Trainings are free. Space is Limited. To register please visit: http://www.uwsepa.org/training

For more information about trainings, please contact the Community Impact Training Institute at:
citi@uwsepa.org or 215-665-2660

United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania’s Center for Youth Development (CYD) coordinates and delivers trainings to improve the quality, and build the capacity, of youth programs throughout the region. Trainings are open to all Out-of-School Time (OST) staff, youth program professionals and volunteers in southeastern Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia Out-of-School Time Professional Development (OST PD) Project is funded by the Philadelphia Department of Human Services and overseen by the Public Health Management Corporation. The project provides a diverse, coordinated, research-based system of OST PD through which OST staff can advance their skills in working with youth. The project is administered by CYD and the Out-of-School Time Resource Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

We look forward to seeing you at trainings!

Community Impact Training Institute (CITI)
United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania
citi@uwsepa.org
215-665-2660

A philanthropic initiative of the United States Tennis Association, USTA Serves – Foundation for Academics. Character. Excellence (formerly the USTA Tennis & Education Foundation) awards grants to not-for-profit organizations that support efforts in tennis and education to help disadvantaged, at-risk youth and people with disabilities.

Special consideration is given to National Junior Tennis and Learning programs and those following the “Aces for Kids” program model. The “Aces for Kids” program seeks to promote healthy lifestyles and combat childhood/adult obesity by providing disadvantaged, at-risk children the opportunity to learn to play tennis and improve their academic skills in a structured format.

All programs requesting USTA Serves support must offer the components of tennis and education. “Education” is defined as structured activities promoting academic achievement, such as tutoring, homework assistance, computer technology, reading clubs, and mentoring. Also included as components of the education requirement are life-skills programs that focus on individual character development and the development of social skills, individual goal setting, physical fitness, and self-discipline.

Applicants must be 501(c)(3) organizations that demonstrate a commitment to the mission of “changing lives through tennis and education.”

Visit the USTA Web site for complete program information.

http://www.usta.com/About_Us/USTA_Serves/News/52321_USTA_Tennis__Education_Foundation_Grant_Guidelines/

Food for Thought: The Issues and Challenges of Food Security

http://www.phsa.ca/HealthProfessionals/Population-Public-Health/Food-Security/default.htm

* Chapter 1: Food Security, Economic Well-being and Health
* Chapter 2: Climate Change and Food Security in British Columbia: Primary and Secondary Impacts
* Chapter 3: Climate Change, Food Imports and Food Security in British Columbia
* Chapter 4: The Impact of BC Agriculture on Global Warming
* Chapter 5: Food Miles and Climate Change
* Chapter 6: The Built Environment, Local Government and Food Security
* Chapter 7: School Food Environments and Food Security

Cathryn Wellner, Content Editor
BC Food Security Gateway

http://bcfoodsecuritygateway.ca/

2010 Women in Sustainable Agriculture Conference
November 1-3, 2010
Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, VT

Bringing together farmers, ranchers, educators, agricultural service providers and activists to:

*  build production and business skills
*  share educational and organizational strategies
*  forge new connections that support farm women in the Northeast.

Featuring:

* Farm-based workshops and tours
* Intensive skill building sessions
* Engaging speakers and practical workshops
* Small-group, roundtable discussions with other farmers
* Locally grown food that showcases the bounty of the season.

Join us in celebrating farm women’s accomplishments and help us set the stage for further success.

Registration opens September 7. Fees will range between $100 and $150, depending on the conference options you select. Early registration discounts are available through September 30.

Sign up to receive email updates about the conference at http://www.uvm.edu/wagn/?Page=conference/updates.html&SM=conference/sub-menu.html.

Visit http://www.uvm.edu/wagn and click on “2010 Women in Sustainable Agriculture Conference” in the green “Quick Links” box for more information.

Questions: Please email wagn@uvm.edu.

The conference planning team includes representatives from:
Women’s Agricultural Network chapters in Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania;  Land for Good; University of Pennsylvania; University of Vermont Extension; University of Connecticut; Communities Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA); and University of Maryland.

Supported by the Northeast Center for Risk Management Education and the USDA Farm Services Agency.

If you will require accommodations to participate in this event, please contact Beth Holtzman (beth.holtzman@uvm.edu or 802-223-2389) by October 15 so we may assist you.

Register Here: http://www.phlpnet.org/healthy-planning

Corner store advocates around the country are exploring how policy approaches could incentivize and sustain healthy changes in small stores. The authority of local governments to regulate land use and economic development and levy taxes lends itself to a number of promising policy interventions. Healthy corner store advocates across the country are currently developing a number of promising policy approaches. In some communities, new policies are being developed; in others, existing resources are being redirected to support healthy corner store work.

First, we will provide a basic overview of how land use and economic development tools could be leveraged to require or incentivize healthy food offerings.  Then advocates and planners from Seattle, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia will share their innovative policy approaches to healthy corner stores work.

Planning for Healthy Places works to engage public health advocates and practitioners in the land-use and economic development decision-making process throughout California. We develop tools for training advocates in the relationship between the built environment and public health, and provide technical assistance for creating and implementing land use policies that support healthier communities.

http://www.phlpnet.org/healthy-planning

Striving for Food Democracy: The Potential of Campus-Community Partnerships

Applied social scientists have taken an active role in re-envisioning more just and democratic food systems through building dynamic campus-community partnerships and innovative research practices. These projects have highlighted the race and class-based patterns of unequal food access, the processes and limitations of food system localization, and the health-related consequences of diet and food-based disparities. This session explores the opportunities for applied social science methodologies in researching food injustices in the urban United States and the possibilities for transformation.

If you are interested in submitting a paper abstract for this session, please contact Teresa Mares teresamares@gmail.com or Megan Carney megcarney@gmail.com.

Job posting:
Farm to School Coordinator
The Food Trust
Philadelphia, PA

The Food Trust, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that works to ensure everyone has access to nutritious affordable food, seeks to hire a Farm to School Coordinator. The Food Trust’s Farm to School Program works to improve children’s health and strengthen family farms through increasing access to locally grown, healthy food in schools, along with providing nutrition and agricultural education. The Food Trust serves as the Mid-Atlantic Regional Lead Agency for the National Farm to School Network.

The Farm to School Coordinator will work with our program team to provide training and technical assistance, communications and outreach services, and an advocacy voice to promote and expand the farm to school movement in the six-state Mid-Atlantic region (Virginia, West Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania). The coordinator also will collaboratively support The Food Trust’s farm to school programs in the Philadelphia area.

Please see attached job description for further details about this position. To apply, please forward a cover letter and resume to:   Jean Wallace, MPH, The Food Trust. Email: jwallace@thefoodtrust.org. Mailing address: The Food Trust, 1617 John F. Kennedy Blvd, Suite 900, Philadelphia, PA 19103.

Please register today to attend the nation’s premier event for community development banking institutions. The National Community Investment Fund (NCIF) Annual Development Banking Conference is approaching quickly and will once again provide two days of best practices and actionable strategies for bringing financial empowerment and economic development to low-income communities.

During these difficult economic times, it is important to gather together a multitude of knowledgeable and invested speakers who will bring you much needed perspectives on important topics relevant to the community development banking community.

This conference is for professionals and organizations who are stakeholders in financing the economic development of disadvantaged communities, including:

* Officers, directors and senior managers of banks, thrifts and credit unions
* Investors, investment bankers and managers
* Foundation and non-profit executives
* Regulators
* Consultants and technology suppliers
* Academics and researchers

See the web version of this message: http://bit.ly/ncifcdfi

Register today! Discounted early registration is underway.
http://www.ncif.org/index.php/comms/conference-registration/

Visit our secure website to register now

Accommodations:
NCIF has secured a block of rooms at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, 151 East Wacker Drive. Call the hotel at 800.233.1234 and mention the National Community Investment Fund room block when making your reservation to receive our special discounted room rate.

For questions or additional information, please contact Joe Schmidt of NCIF at 312.881.5817 or via email at jschmidt@ncif.org. We look forward to seeing you in Chicago.

http://www.ncif.org

A number of policy makers, medical practitioners, academics, and community development finance experts participated in the conference including the Director of the President’s Domestic Policy Council Melody Barnes, University of Chicago professor and Nobel Laureate James Heckman, President of the Institute of Medicine Harvey Fineberg, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Deputy Secretary Ron Sims, and U.S. Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Howard Koh.

Conference videos, transcripts, speaker bios and presentations, a conference blog, and a number of related publications are now available on our Healthy Communities website.

http://www.frbsf.org/cdinvestments/conferences/hc

Reducing the negative social determinants of health is a community development and public health imperative and we welcome your ideas and perspectives about how to improve the health outcomes of low-income communities on our conference blog.  Please contact me if you would like to submit a blog post.

The study looks at over 500 counties around the country, exploring the national impact of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) on small business lending (CRA motivates banks to make loans to small businesses by examining the extent to which banks are making loans to small businesses). The study can be downloaded at: http://bit.ly/9iYAqC.

Study Findings

The study shows a positive correlation between small business lending and employment. The study also reveals troubling racial inequalities in small business lending. In fact, our analysis finds that counties with greater percentages of minorities had lower rates of small business lending and employment.

The NCRC study looked at 2006 lending data for dozens of counties around the country. Some of the specific findings in NCRC’s study include:

* There is a positive correlation between small business lending and employment; the more small business lending in a county, the higher the employment rate.
* Almost 55 percent of the small businesses studied received loans in counties with less than 20 percent African Americans. This ratio declined to 48 percent in counties with 30 percent or more African Americans, on average.
* Employment rates are lower in counties with higher percentages of minorities and African Americans. The average employment rate is 2 percentage points higher for counties with less than 20 percent African Americans than in counties with more than 30 percent African Americans.

If you have any questions about the study, please feel free to contact , Josh Silver, NCRC Vice President of Research, at 202-628-8866.

FORECLOSED
High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America’s Mortgage Market
by Dan Immergluck

Cornell University Press
$29.95 cloth
2009
ISBN: 978-0-8014-4772-3

Publisher site (available now): http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5385

Amazon (pre-order as of today)
http://www.amazon.com/Foreclosed-High-risk-Deregulation-Undermining-Americas/dp/0801447720

Barnes and Noble (pre-order as of today)
http://www.amazon.com/Foreclosed-High-risk-Deregulation-Undermining-Americas/dp/0801447720

Over the last two years, the United States has observed, with some horror, the explosion and collapse of entire segments of the housing market, especially those driven by subprime and alternative or “exotic” home mortgage lending. The unfortunately timely Foreclosed explains the rise of high-risk lending and why these newer types of loans-and their associated regulatory infrastructure-failed in substantial ways. Dan Immergluck narrates the boom in subprime and exotic loans, recounting how financial innovations and deregulation facilitated excessive risk-taking, and how these loans have harmed different populations and communities.

Immergluck, who has been working, researching, and writing on issues tied to housing finance and neighborhood change for almost twenty years, has an intimate knowledge of the promotion of homeownership and the history of mortgages in the United States. The changes to the mortgage market over the past fifteen years-including the securitization of mortgages and the failure of regulators to maintain control over a much riskier array of mortgage products led, he finds, inexorably to the current crisis.

After describing the development of generally stable and risk-limiting mortgage markets throughout much of the twentieth century, Foreclosed details how federal policy-makers failed to regulate the new high-risk lending markets that arose in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The book also examines federal, state, and local efforts to deal with the mortgage and foreclosure crisis of 2007 and 2008. Immergluck draws upon his wealth of experience to provide an overarching set of principles and a detailed set of policy recommendations for “righting the ship” of U.S. housing finance in ways that will promote affordable yet sustainable homeownership as an option for a broad set of households and communities.

Reviews

“Foreclosed is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how the mortgage market really works and the sources of the current mortgage market meltdown.”

-Susan M. Wachter, Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management, Professor of Real Estate and Finance, and Co-Director, Institute for Urban Research, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

“Foreclosed will elicit a chorus of thank-yous to Dan Immergluck. In this clear and compelling analysis, the
roots of the subprime crisis are untangled with precision and sophistication. This timely effort is sure to become a key resource to those who wonder what happened and why, and what needs to be done to prevent future catastrophes.”

-Rachel Bratt, Tufts University

“Foreclosed is a well-documented and engaging account of how the United States built and then, by dismantling safeguards and ignoring the consequences of unbridled complexity, destroyed one of the world’s most effective and democratic housing systems. The Obama administration should carefully consider Dan Immergluck’s suggestions for getting that system back on track and for bringing back the neighborhoods destroyed by misguided policies and practices of the past several decades.”

-Ellen Seidman, Senior Fellow in the Asset Building Program of the New America Foundation

“Foreclosed is accessible, comprehensive, informative, and insightful. It provides a critical but balanced analysis of the current mortgage crisis, its origins, consequences, and solutions. It is very well written and will appeal to a broad audience including policymakers, policy analysts, bankers, and lawyers. Dan Immergluck’s recommendations couldn’t be more timely.”

-Alex Schwartz, Milano The New School for Management, author of Housing Policy in the United States

About the Author

Dan Immergluck is Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Institute of Technology. Immergluck has testified before the U.S. Congress, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, federal agencies, and state and local legislative bodies.

Last day to apply: November 1, 2010

Description:
Philadelphia Futures has an exciting position open for an individual committed to the academic success of low-income, first-generation-to-college students. The Sponsor-A-Scholar Coordinator assists in the implementation of a comprehensive college preparation program for promising high school students attending Philadelphia’s neighborhood high schools with a goal of supporting college readiness and success. Responsibilities include promoting academic progress among students; fostering positive communication and relationships among students, volunteer mentors, parents and schools; providing year-round college guidance and awareness activities; and visiting high schools on a regular basis. Education, college guidance, or social work background helpful; bilingual skills (English/Spanish) desired. Experience with/committment to the needs of high school boys a plus. Master’s degree preferred. This is a full-time position that reports to the Director of the Sponsor-A-Scholar Program

How to Apply:
Send cover letter, resume and salary requirements to:
Human Resources, Philadelphia Futures, 230 South Broad Street, Philadelphia PA 19102 or via email to:
HR@philadelphiafutures.org (please indicate “SAS Coordinator” in the subject line).

http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/396986-161/c

Last day to apply: November 1, 2010

NOTICE OF POSITION VACANCY
FULL-TIME CALENDAR YEAR POSITION

POSITION: Senior Program Specialist

DEPARTMENT: Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative

Full-time Senior Program Specialist needed to serve the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, a premier grant-making Initiative housed at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (http://www.pcah.us).

You’ll facilitate the work of the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative (PEI) Director by providing critical day-to-day oversight and administrative/logistical support of program operations. As a subject matter expert, work closely with the Director in maintaining the Program’s relationships with multiple external parties by representing, interpreting and explaining the Program to applicants, grantees and other constituents, elevating all major issues, final constituent decisions and precedent-setting requests to the Director. Make site visits and proactive telephone calls, conduct informational and/or initial meetings with applicants/constituents, maintaining ongoing communication with grantees. Work with Director on researching and identifying program consultants and panelists, as necessary. Work closely with Director on conceptualization and realization of professional development activities including multiple curatorial roundtables, workshops, consultations and fieldtrips per year, as well as publications. Review and confer with Director as appropriate, on discretionary grants. Prepare summaries of progress by grantees and communicate concerns and updates to the Director. Conceptualize content and compose articles and descriptive copy for the Program’s website and print/online publications.

You’ll work in collaboration with the Senior Program Associate and other Center personnel on projects where efforts naturally overlap, and as needed, ensuring smooth and efficient day-to-day operations.

And, you’ll work closely with the Director, Senior Program Associate and other Center staff in all phases of PEI program implementation including: contract preparation for grantees and consultants; external communication involving the program’s website; print and electronic correspondence and large mailings; tracking and processing incoming applications; monitoring/reporting of grants (both interim and final reports); program evaluation; preparation of yearly paper and electronic panel materials (designing and creating prototypes for reproduction); conception and planning of annual Peer Review Panels and other public events including professional development symposia, curatorial roundtables & gatherings, seminars, lectures, consultancies, and trips; maintaining financial records and processing invoices and check requests; managing database updates; and, creation and distribution of annual program guidelines.

You’ll need to remain aware of the big picture of what is happening in the forefront of your primary field of artistic and/or arts management expertise and constantly bring that knowledge to bear on the work of the Program, actively sharing perceived trends and other information with the Director and other staff.

To be selected, you’ll need a Master’s Degree in Curatorial Studies, Contemporary Arts History, Visual Arts and/or related fields or equivalent experience, with a minimum of five years of experience serving the visual arts community, with a broad knowledge of contemporary visual arts within a local, national, and international context.

Knowledge of general office practices and procedures is essential.

You’ll need strong organizational skills and an aptitude for program development and administration. The job requires deep knowledge of, and commitment to the field of curatorial practice in the visual arts. You’ll need to have intellectual curiosity and an interest in cross-disciplinary practices and activities. We require excellent written and oral communication skills, including accurate message-taking, professional composition, proofreading and editing skills, grammatical correctness, style appropriateness, formatting consistency and attention to overall completeness of documents and web content. You’ll need effective interpersonal skills to successfully interact with a variety of people, including colleagues in the University of the Arts, The Pew Charitable Trusts, the cultural community, consultants, grant recipients, applicants, and the general public with diverse cultures and backgrounds. You must be skilled in analyzing information, situations, practices or procedures to define the problem or objective, identify relevant factors, formulate logical and objective conclusions, and recognize alternatives and their implications.

You must be familiar with non-profit and university administrative functions and with the nature and operations of arts organizations’ and individual artists’ endeavors. Fluency is required in the Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint). Fluency in Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop and Apple iTunes are desirable. Experience and proficiency with Microsoft Access and knowledge of basic HTML are helpful as are good word processing skills (50+ w.p.m.) and knowledge of standard accounting practices and fluency with accounting software. You must be comfortable assembling and operating basic A/V equipment.
Working knowledge of Adobe graphic design packages such as Illustrator and InDesign and HTML software such as GoLive desirable. Fluency in ExpressionEngine or other web content management systems is also desirable.

Valid driver’s license and ability to drive preferred. You must be able to attend meetings and events which are after standard business hours or on weekends

For complete requirements, visit http://www.uarts.edu/about/jobs.html.

Website: http://www.pcah.us/exhibitions

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

How to Apply: TO APPLY: Interested, qualified applicants should submit letters of application and resumes to the Office of Personnel Services, Rm 140, Hamilton Hall, 320 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102 or send your application via email to personnel@uarts.edu.

http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/396957-185/c

Salary: $15-20/hr
Last day to apply: November 1, 2010

Description:
NUMEROUS POSITIONS AVAILABLE WITHIN EXPANDING ACADEMIC AND ENRICHMENT PROGRAM!

ASPIRA, Inc. of PA has been serving Puerto Rican and other minority youth of northern Philadelphia for over 40 years. In partnership with over 15 local schools, ASPIRA’s Youth Development Unit provides Academic Enrichment, Leadership Development, College and Career Exploration, and Cultural Activities to hundreds of at-risk 6th-12th graders.

We are currently preparing to expand, hoping to serve twice as many youth within the next year. We have several vacant positions that need to be filled immediately!

Afterschool Instructors/Tutors*

Description:
Assist with homework help, core subject tutoring, PSSA skills, youth projects, and/or ESOL support during our afterschool program.

Details:
School-year position (36 weeks)
Monday through Thursday from 3 to 7 pm (16 hours per week)
(Some additional evening and weekend hours will be available.)

Compensation: $15-$20/hour

Eligibility:
Bachelors Degree in Education or related field and prior experience working with youth are required. Teaching certification is preferred. Bilingual Spanish/English is a plus.

Adult Education Instructors*

Description:
Teach either GED Preparation or Computer Basics (please specify which one you are applying for) to a cohort of 20 adults in the evening. These are parents of the youth enrolled in our afterschool and summer programs. Courses are 12 weeks long, with 4 cohorts throughout the year (48 weeks).

Details:
Monday through Thursday from 5 to 9 pm (16 hours per week)
(Saturday programs may also develop, with a potential of 4-6 hours per week of additional work available.)

Compensation: $15-$20/hour

Eligibility:
Associates Degree in Education or related field, prior experience teaching or tutoring, and bilingual Spanish/English are required. Bachelors Degree in Adult Education or experience teaching or tutoring adults is preferred.

Youth Enrichment Instructors*

Description:
Teach Dance, Yoga, Physical Fitness/Sports, Culinary Arts, Film, Photography, or Entrepreneurship (please specify which one you are applying for) to middle and high school students in our afterschool program.

Details:
School-year position (40 weeks)
2-4 days per week from 3 – 7 pm (up to 16 hours per week)
(Saturday programs are likely to develop, with a potential of 4-6 hours per week of additional work available.)

Compensation: $15/hour

Eligibility:
High school diploma, proven mastery in the field you are applying to teach, and experience working with youth are required. College experience or degree is preferred. Bilingual Spanish/English is a plus.

*Note: These are brief descriptions of each open position. They are by no means a complete or comprehensive listing of the job descriptions or requirements.

ASPIRA, Inc is an EEO employer.
Additional Qualifications:
Bilingual English/Spanish a plus!

How to Apply:
If interested, please email your credentials to the Director of Human Resources, Marisol Morales at mmorales@aspirapa.org with the position you are applying for in the subject line. You may apply for more than one position, such as both a school-year and summer positions.

http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/397012-69/c

Salary: $9.00-$15.00 per hour

Last day to apply: October 26, 2010

Description: Take on and fight multi-national corporations in the service sector by building worker-led committee’s. Organize people to stand up for their rights and maintain their motivation in the long struggle for social justice.

Additional Qualifications: The most important qualification is a strong committment to social justice and the willingness to struggle.

How to Apply: please send resume to: John Murphy at unionjohn76@yahoo.com

http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/396355-116/c

Last day to apply: September 26, 2010

Description:
OPEN POSITION: GRANTS ASSOCIATE

Primary responsibilities include research, data compilation and writing of grant applications to foundations and corporations for general operating and program support for a well-established Philadelphia based family and children’s social services private agency. Additionally, the candidate must also track and write stewardship reports to grantors, as well as occasional writing and editing of other development projects. Preferred is some grant experience in research and writing of federal grants.

Additional Qualifications:
This position requires at least 2 years previous experience as grant writer, and minimum of a bachelor’s degree.

Reports to Director of Development and Communications. Salary is commensurate with experience

How to Apply:
E-mail resume with cover letter to: Jack Luke, Director, Office of Development & Communications jluke@turningpointsforchildren.org

http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/396172-62/c