Time/Date/Location
6:30pm to 9:30pm, Thursday, March 29, 2012, Houston Hall, Campus of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Sponsors
Alumni Council, School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2), University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with National School Climate Center, Center for Public Health Initiatives, and the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network.

Symposium Objective
To more fully understand the faces of bullying across the life span as a foundation for developing strategies and approaches to eliminate and reduce bullying behavior

Symposium Summary
In honor of Social Work Month, the SP2 Alumni Council is convening a three-hour symposium on “Bullying Across the Lifespan: Targeting the Bully.” The symposium will facilitate a conversation on bullying among: (1) school-age youth, (2) workforce adults, and (3) dependent elderly. In addition, participants will learn about the topic from the perspective of the bully, victim of bullying and the change agent. Finally, participants will engage in a dialogue about creating strategies for making a difference.

Agenda & Presenters
Part I: Setting the Context Dr. Charles Williams, Ms. Allison Taite, Dr. Paula Rodriguez Rust, Dr. Tracy Whitaker, Ms. Karen Chenoweth
Part II: Deepening Our Understanding Ms. Lara McDavit, Ms. Lydia Hernandez Velez
Part III: Strategies for Making a Difference

For More Information
Santo D. Marabella; 215-477-5717; SP2AlumniCouncil@gmail.com
School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania
3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104

We are especially pleased to announce that our keynote speaker will be Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF). Mrs. Edelman has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. Under her leadership, CDF has become the nation’s strongest voice for children and families. The Children’s Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. She has received over a hundred honorary degrees and many awards including the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize, the Heinz Award, and a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship. In 2000, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Other Featured speakers include:

·         Dr. Dan Butin, Founding Dean and Associate Professor, School of Education, Merrimack College

·         Dr. Andrew Furco, Associate Vice President for Public Engagement and Associate Professor, Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development at the University of Minnesota

·         Dr. Carol Ma, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Policy and the Assistant Director in the Office of Service-Learning (OSL) at Lingnan, University of Hong Kong

·         Maria Nieves Tapia, Founder and director of the Latin American Center for Service Learning (CLAYSS), and advisor to the National Solidarity Education Program of the Ministry of Education of Argentina

·         Dr. Nadine Peterson, Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Pre-conference sessions include:

·         Service Learning: Engaging, Relevant, Real with Cathryn Berger Kaye

·         The Power of Dialogue in Teaching and Learning with Karen G. Ridout

·         Critical Reflection in Service-Learning with Patti Clayton

For more information about the conference schedule, pre-conference sessions, hotel and local information, please visit the Center’s website at http://www.icslte.org or contact Kathy Sikes, ICSLTE Executive Administrative Director at Kathy.Sikes@duke.edu or 919.660.3075.

Get Healthy Philly is co-convening the next meeting of the Greater Philadelphia Food System Stakeholder Committee.  We’ll be looking at food marketing from numerous perspectives, including marketing targeted at children, changing the supermarket food environment, food packaging, and public health messaging campaigns. The meeting will be held at the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (http://www.dvrpc.org/directions). A draft agenda is available here: http://www.dvrpc.org/food/StakeholderCommittee.htm. To RSVP, please contact Emily Lehman, DVRPC’s food system planning associate, at elehman@dvrpc.org by 3/26.

Click here for online registration!
http://register.bestrace.com/search/event.aspx?event=373917df-cc19-4a2d-ad07-9e2e26067cb8.aspx

Physicians for Social Responsibility’s annual 5K Run/Walk, Legs Against Arms, is all about strengthening our legs as we oppose illegal arms (handguns) in Philadelphia.  Violence is a major public health problem in our country, and Philadelphia is no exception.  At the close of 2011, Philadelphia once again topped the list of major U.S. cities for its murder rate – 324 victims.

According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, “during the length of the U.S. combat operations in the Iraq war, 3,517 American troops were killed in action – and 3,113 people were killed in Philadelphia”.  The vast majority of violent crimes are committed with a firearm.

Help PSR STOP THE VIOLENCE in our city by raising funds to support PSR’s violence prevention programs for youth and families.

http://www.ACFEonline.org

Customize Your Learning Experience

For the first time in its history, the Annual Conference on Financial Education will feature three concurrent session tracks that will allow attendees the opportunity to customize their learning experience. More than 30 speakers from around the world will be on hand to address collaborative efforts in financial literacy education. Tracks include:

Investing in Our Future – Preparing children and young adults to achieve financial well-being.

Serving Those Who Serve – Providing financial education to public servants and members of the armed services.

The Road to Financial Recovery – Assisting financially distressed adults in building a better and more secure future.

The Annual Conference is a showcase for financial education success stories, offering attendees proven strategies, tips and techniques to achieve intended outcomes, funding goals and program sustainability.

A complete conference schedule, with links to session descriptions and speaker biographies, can be found by clicking here.

http://acfeonline.org/agenda/schedule/

Registration

Register before March 26 to save $100 off the Conference registration rate. Simply complete an Attendee Registration form and return it via fax at (207) 221-3681 or mail:

Institute for Financial Literacy
Attn: ACFE Conference Registration
260 Western Ave., Suite 1
South Portland, ME 04106

Federal Reserve Bank of New York
33 Liberty Street, New York, New York

Highlights of our premier event for two- and four-year college professors include:

Up-to-date presentations by senior Bank staff on current issues in U.S. Monetary Policy
A full-day discussion on the Fed’s evolving role in Financial Stability Policy
Lunch and a reception attended by staff from Research and around the Bank
Webcast by Chairman Ben S. Bernanke on  “Why do we have a Central Bank”

Participants are welcome either or both days.  For more details and to register, go to
http://www.newyorkfed.org/education/fed21century.html

Note: There is a registration fee of $35 per day, and seating is limited. Continental breakfast, lunch, and a cocktail reception (March 19) are included.

Please forward this email invitation to any two- and four-year professors who might be interested in attending.

For more information, contact Fiona.riviere@ny.frb.org

The Graduation Pledge of Social and Environmental Responsibility:

“I pledge to explore and take into account the social and environmental consequences of any job I consider
and will try to improve these aspects of any organizations for which I work.”

2012 marks the 25th anniversary of the Pledge! Please help us spread the word in order to make 2012 the best year ever for the Pledge. We’re celebrating by doing the following:

All students who take the Pledge this year will have the opportunity to be featured on the 25th Anniversary Celebration page of the GPA’s website:

http://www.graduationpledge.org/25thAnniversaryCelebration

In addition, we’re challenging campus organizers to submit their best “Pledgucation” events held as part of their Pledge programming during the Spring of 2012 as well as their best “Spread the Pledge” promotion ideas to get more schools involved in their region. Winners will have their events and ideas featured in GPA press releases, magazine articles, social media postings and more!

Students define for themselves what it means to be socially and environmentally responsible. Students at a hundred colleges and universities  (and some high schools) are using the pledge at some level. The schools involved include liberal arts colleges (e.g. Bates and Grinnell); state universities (such as Colorado and Florida); private research universities (including Stanford and George Washington University); and schools outside the U.S. (e.g., Taiwan and Canada). The Pledge has also been at professional and high schools.

Graduates who voluntarily signed the pledge have sought out employment reflecting their values and visions, turned down jobs with which they did not feel comfortable, and worked to make changes once on the job. For example, they have promoted recycling at their organization, removed racist language from a training manual, worked for gender parity in high school athletics, and helped to convince an employer to refuse a chemical weapons-related contract.

The Pledge was initiated at Humboldt State University in California. Manchester College in Indiana coordinated the campaign effort for ten years, and Bentley University near Boston took over the reins during 2007-2008. The project has taken different forms at different institutions. For example, at Manchester, students sign and keep a wallet-size card stating the pledge, the pledge is printed in the formal commencement program, and students and supportive faculty wear green ribbons at commencement. (At a few schools, a different color ribbon is used.).  At Bentley University the pledge is a “capstone” of  its four-year Civic Leadership Program and at Humboldt State, student government funds a student pledge coordinator internship.

In a sense, the Pledge operates at three levels: students and graduates making choices about their employment; schools educating about values and citizenship rather than only knowledge and skills; and the workplace and society being concerned about more than just the bottom line. The impact is immense  if only a significant minority of the millions of college graduates each year sign and live out the Pledge.

The Graduation Pledge Alliance has a web site for campus organizers and pledge signers (http://www.graduationpledge.org ). PLEASE KEEP US INFORMED OF ANY PLEDGE EFFORTS YOU ARE EVEN CONSIDERING TO UNDERTAKE, AS WE TRY TO MONITOR WHAT IS HAPPENING, AND PROVIDE PERIODIC UPDATES ON THE NATIONAL EFFORT (INCLUDING HINTS ON HAVING A SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN). Contact  GPA@Bentley.edu  for further information, questions, or comments.

The Graduation Pledge is a project of the Bentley Alliance for Ethics and Social Responsibility, Bentley University.

The D5 Coalition, a five-year effort to increase and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of philanthropy, has announced a Request for Proposals for qualitative data projects on the role of organizational culture and characteristics in fostering diversity in philanthropy.

One of D5’s strategic priorities involves advancing research efforts on diversity and philanthropy that will help illuminate best practices, key challenges, and critical outcomes. The coalition seeks to fund research projects designed to deepen the understanding of the role that organizational culture and characteristics play in promoting diversity within philanthropy.

Although research shows that organizational culture plays a vitally important role in how diversity can be leveraged for greater effectiveness, to date there are relatively few studies that document the particular strategies and practicesphilanthropic organizations use. Through this RFP, D5 seeks to provide a wider breadth of research and resources to foundations that can ultimately inform organizational practices related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Projects may include but are not limited to issues related to the recruitment and retention of diverse foundation leaders and staff, foundation policies and practices that promote or hinder inclusion, and outcomes of foundation diversity.

All interested parties, including advanced graduate students, early career academics, consultants, and other researchers are encouraged to apply. All types of methodological approaches are welcome, including case studies, survey research, focus group research, and analysis of archival data. Applicants should demonstrate familiarity with the literature on diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as a working knowledge of relevant efforts that have been undertaken in the nonprofit, corporate, and government sectors.

Award amounts generally will range from $5,000 to a maximum of $50,000 for projects of up to two years in duration.

For further information and the complete RFP, contact the D5 Coalition.

http://www.diversityinphilanthropy.org/

The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey has launched Phase 2 of its Health Center Initiative to support 501(c)(3) nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Centers, free/volunteer clinics, and independent clinics in New Jersey that expand access to healthcare for the state’s uninsured and underserved residents.

The $2 million, two-year grant initiative will provide funding to applicants whose proposed initiatives facilitate individuals’ access to primary and specialty care that helps prevent and manage health concerns and promotes overall well-being.

The Phase 2 Request for Proposals has been structured to complement the federal healthcare reform law. For example, special consideration will be given to health center applicants that seek funding to implement the law’s Patient-Centered Medical Home model. Special consideration will also be accorded to proposals that incorporate a nurse-managed health center model.

HCI 2 grants will provide funding of up to $125,000 annually for up to two years ($250,000 maximum). Grant projects of any duration, from one month to two years, will be considered. There will be one funding round only, so applicants should request funding for the full term of their project.

The complete RFP and the online application form are available at the Horizon Foundation Web site.

http://www.horizonblue.com/foundation/hci

The William T. Grant Foundation seeks to fund high-quality empirical research with the goal of improving the lives of youth between the ages of 8 and 25 in the United States. To that end, the foundation has released its fourth Request for Proposals on Understanding the Acquisition, Interpretation, and Use of Research Evidence in Policy and Practice.

The purpose of the RFP is to help increase the understanding of how research evidence is acquired, interpreted, and used in policy and practice that affect youth.

In 2012, the foundation plans to support research projects with awards ranging from $100,000 to $600,000 for direct and indirect costs over two to three years.

The foundation will consider applications for newly initiated studies as well as add-on studies to existing projects. Add-on studies must address research questions not covered by prior funding from the W. T. Grant Foundation or other funders, although they may cover secondary analyses of existing data or collection and analyses of new data.

The foundation encourages interdisciplinary projects, and welcomes applications from researchers in various fields and disciplines such as anthropology, communications, economics, education, family studies, human development, organizational studies, political science, prevention research, psychology, public administration, public policy, public health, social work, and sociology.

To be eligible for consideration, applicants must be employed at a nonprofit institution, either in the U.S. or abroad.

Applicants have two opportunities to submit Letters of Inquiry: by April 3 and by August 1, 2012.

Visit the Grant Foundation Web site for the complete Request for Proposals and application procedures.

http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/funding_opportunities/how_to_apply/rfp_for_the_use_of_research_evidence

This powerful collection from the groundbreaking Rethinking Schools magazine takes high-stakes standardized tests to task.

Through articles that provide thoughtful and passionate critiques from the frontlines of education, Pencils Down exposes the damage that standardized tests wreak on our education system and the people that populate it. Better yet, it offers visionary forms of assessment that are not only more authentic, but also more democratic, fair, and accurate.

“Here, in one place, is a collection that looks at standardized testing and its alternatives in exactly the ways useful to teachers, parents, and teachers of teachers! What an enormous contribution to us all. It can change what you do at your school—tomorrow.”
—DEBBIE MEIER, author of The Power of Their Ideas and Save Our Schools steering committee member

“No questions asked, Pencils Down is one of the most comprehensive, scholarly (and yet eminently readable) take-downs of the nation’s testing craze ever produced. Combining a just-right mix of quantitative analysis, with the compelling personal narratives of educators trying to reach children in ways a test can never measure, this volume is a must read for teachers, administrators, parents and policy makers.”
—TIM WISE, author, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, and Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority

http://www.rethinkingschools.org/ProdDetails.asp?ID=9780942961515

http://www.campusvoteproject.org/

Campus Vote Project is an FELN campaign to help college students, campus administrators, and election officials increase student participation in elections. We are working on the project with higher education groups such as the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the National Association For Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, and others. Our CVP launch was recently featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

I am trying to connect with service learning coordinators and other administrators who are interested in implementing service learning projects that relate to making college campuses more voter-friendly. In addition, we would love to share your success stories on the “best practices” section of the CVP website and invite you to contribute to our blog to describe efforts on your campus

FELN has developed a set of best practices, which we describe in the CVP toolkit, to make college campuses more voter-friendly and reduce barriers to voting that disproportionately affect students. A few of these projects include providing students with a voter ID, establishing a student poll worker program, and getting students transportation to the polls. FELN will work with campus partners who are interested in implementing a CVP project by providing research assistance, technical advice, training, webinars, conference calls, communications collaboration, and other assistance partners request during the organizing process.

http://www.campusvoteproject.org/toolkit

Please contact me by email or at 202-331-0114 if you would like CVP to spotlight your work to increase student voting on campus or if you would like more information about the project.

Take care,
Dan

—
Dan Vicuna
Campus Vote Project Coordinator, Staff Attorney
dvicuna@campusvoteproject.org

Join DVRPC and our partner organizations for a series of free events related to land use and planning. DVRPC has purchased a series of American Planning Association (APA) audio/web conferences. Each event provides 1.5 CM credits for AICP members. For a full description of the topics, click on the links below.
To sign up, visit: http://dvrpc.ticketleap.com/

Urban Agriculture and Food Systems Planning
March 14, 2012; 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. ET; CM |1.5
Location: Collingswood Scottish Rite Theatre, Collingswood, NJ

Monetizing Sustainability
May 2, 2012; 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. ET; CM |1.5
Location: Montgomery County Planning Commission, Norristown, PA

Maintaining Neighborhood Character
May 16, 2012; 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. ET; CM |1.0
Location: Grundy Museum, Bristol, PA

Adapting Cities to Climate Change
June 6, 2012; 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. ET; CM |1.5
Location: DVRPC, Philadelphia, PA

2012 Planning Law Review
June 27, 2012; 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. ET; CM |1.5 (Law Credit)
Location: Chester County Planning Commission, West Chester, PA

Free Eye Check.  Free Glasses.  PCCY’s day of free vision screenings takes place on Saturday, April 14, 2012 @ 8:00am to 4:00pm @ Wills Eye Institute, 9th & Walnut Street. No appointments necessary – just show up!  Children who need glasses after their eye check will pick out frames and get their FREE glasses at a later date.  Click here for more information.

https://www.pccy.org/index.php?page=SightDay__128

If you want to participate in a program that attracts other highly talented and committed leaders who are eager to take their organizations to the next level of effectiveness, then the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Certificate is the choice for you!

Offered by the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute (NELI) of Bryn Mawr College, this cohort-based program challenges seasoned and new executives to strengthen their leadership capacity and improve their organization’s performance.  Fellows participate in a rigorous 10-day curriculum and executive coaching which helps them successfully manage their organizations in times of change.

Register here to attend an Open House on February 15th, 21st, or 28th to learn more about our program.

https://brynmawr.wufoo.com/forms/open-house-registration/

Or visit: http://www.brynmawr.edu/neli/executive_leadership/index.html, or contact Margie DuBrow, Director, at mdubrow@brynmawr.edu or at 610/520-2650.  The application deadline is March 23rd March 30th.

PHENND is pleased to announce the publication of a preliminary report, commissioned as part of a multi-step evaluation of the Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania program. The report, which is an analysis of interviews of community partners affiliated with the program, highlights the critical role that college an university student volunteers play in many nonprofit organizations across Pennsylvania.

In 2011, 35 institutions of higher education received a total of 244 AmeriCorps Education Awards, worth $286,113 in scholarship funding for PA students. SISPA volunteers recruited a total of 10,012 additional volunteers, and the state benefitted from 144,395 total hours of volunteer service.

Read the full report here: https://phennd.org/downloads/SISPA_finalreport_FINAL3-13.pdf

Farm Education Summer Internships, Longview Center for Agriculture – Collegeville, PA

Internship Overview: Greener Partners’ Farm Education Internships provide college‐level students opportunities to gain hands‐on experience on a community farm, and in planning and implementing farm‐based programming. The internship integrates experiential learning, teaching, and summer camp program development over the course of two to three months in the summer.

Farm Education Interns at Greener Partners’ farm hubs participate in the following activities:

Summer Camp Support – During the summer, Farm Education Interns’ primary responsibility will be to assist the lead Educator with farm‐based programs and activities during the summer camp. This includes acting as a camp counselor during camp hours, assisting with and occasionally leading camp activities, and ensuring safety of all campers.

Farm Education Curriculum Development – In addition to working directly with the summer camp, Interns will have the opportunity to research and plan educational activities unique to the site they are working on. This could include developing a program about how watersheds affect crops, a series of activities that involve young people in creating a compost bin, or another topic of interest. Interns will work under the supervision and support of Greener Partners’ education staff to develop the topic area, create the activity plan, and ultimately lead the activity with campers.

Administrative Support – Support advancement of the summer camp and farm education program by assisting with data entry and project evaluation, researching best practices, and other projects as assigned. Hours and Compensation Internship period: June 27 – August 1

Hours: Camp hours run from 9 am – 12 pm during the weeks of July 2 – July 27. Interns must be available 22 hours per week during those times and additional hours as specified. Stipends are available for college level interns. In addition to the stipends, Farm Education Summer Interns with Greener Partners may be able to earn college credit through their university or college.

About Greener Partners Greener Partners (http://www.greenerpartners.org) is a non-profit organization dedicated to building community through sustainable farming projects and farm-based education. It is our mission to inspire individuals and communities to support and eat locally grown, seasonal food. Greener Partners operates several community farms that serve as resources for local food and food-based education. For more information and to apply, email resume to sarah.groat@greenerpartners.org.

Farm Education Summer Internships Hillside Farm

Media, PA

Internship Overview
Greener Partners’ Farm Education Internships provide college-‐level students opportunities to gain hands-on experience on a community farm, and in planning and implementing farm-­based programming. The
internship integrates experiential learning, teaching, and summer camp program development over the course of two to three months in the summer.

Farm Education Interns at Greener Partners’ farm hubs participate in the following activities:
Summer Camp Support – During the summer, Farm Education Interns’ primary responsibility will be to assist
the lead Educator with farm-­based programs and activities during the summer camp.  This includes acting as a camp counselor during camp hours, assisting with and occasionally leading camp activities, and ensuring safety of all campers.

Farm Education Curriculum Development – In addition to working directly with the summer camp, Interns will have the opportunity to research and plan educational activities unique to the site they are working on.
This could include developing a program about how watersheds affect crops, a series of activities that
involve young people in creating a compost bin, or another topic of interest. Interns will work under the
supervision and support of Greener Partners’ education staff to develop the topic area, create the activity plan, and ultimately lead the activity with campers.

Administrative Support -­ Support advancement of the summer camp and farm education program by assisting with data entry and project evaluation, researching best practices, and other projects as assigned.

Hours and Compensation

Internship Period: June 13 – August 14
Hours:

Camp hours run from 9 am – 2 pm during the weeks of June 18 – August 10. Interns must be available 32 hours per week during those times and additional hours as specified. Stipends are available for college level interns.

In addition to the stipends, Farm Education Summer Interns with Greener Partners may be able to earn college credit through their university or college.

About Greener Partners

Greener Partners (http://www.greenerpartners.org) is a non-­profit organization dedicated to building community through sustainable farming projects and farm-­based education. It is our mission to inspire individuals and communities to support and eat locally grown, seasonal food. Greener Partners operates several community farms that serve as resources for local food and food-­‐based education.

For more information and to apply, email resume to erin.decou@greenerpartners.org.

If you are a college senior or recent grad with a fire for organizing and social change:  Apply now for our 2012-2013 Field Organizer Fellowship.

Through the fellowship program you will sharpen your leadership skills, lead region-wide field organizing projects and work with an incredible team of young food justice changemakers.  The 14-month program features a participatory-action curriculum designed to provide hands-on learning experiences, foster community and explore critical food systems issue.

Fellows gain real work experience, new professional/movement networks and a toolbox of non-profit, food justice and grassroots organizing skills.  At the same time, Fellows support important student-led efforts to shift millions of university dollars away from industrial agriculture and toward a just, sustainable food system.

Here’s what one current fellow has to say:

The Real Food Challenge is an incredibly dedicated, nurturing, and inspirational group of people, and I’ve learned so much in my time as an RFO.  This work is really important and challenging, and I would highly recommend it for an aspiring organizer who wants to sink their teeth into a strategic, relationship-based, national campaign for food justice.
– Jon Berger, Mid-Atlantic Field Organizer, Class of 2012

This summer and fall you can also intern with the Real Food Challenge.  Our 3-month internships are available in a variety of fields, including: Communications and Media; Real Food Calculator Research, and Curriculum Development.  Check out our website for more details.

http://realfoodchallenge.org/internships

**Note: The early selection deadline for Field Organizer Fellows and Intern applications is March 16 so apply today!