The week of
February 04, 2013
PHENND Events/Activities
Save the Date: Service Leaders Summit 2013
Save the Date Service Leaders Summit 2013 Saturday, April 6, 2013 9:30AM to 4PM Location: Drexel University Presented by PHENND and the Lindy Center for Civic Engagement at Drexel University The 2013...
Call for Presenters: Service Leaders Summit/Social Justice Week
Request for Programs – Drexel University Service Leaders Summit/Social Justice Week Drexel University’s “Social Justice Week” will work in conjunction with the annual...
Other Local Events and Workshops
Innovative Approaches to Improving Health and Food Security in Delaware County
The 5th Annual Hunger Conference and Innovative Approaches to Improving Health and Food Security in Delaware County occurs March 5 from 8:15 at Widener University. Cost is $45. Sponsor is Penn...
Nonprofit Executive Leadership Certificate Open House
Attend An Open House For NELI’s Executive Leadership Certificate Program! The Nonprofit Executive Leadership Certificate is designed to meet the professional needs of executive directors and...
Tutor Institute 2013
Tutor Institute 2013 Explore ~Discover ~Network Saturday, March 2, 2013 9:30 – 3:30 Community College of Philadelphia Center for Business and Industry 18th and Callowhill Streets Join us for...
Book Launch with Judy Wicks
Book Launch with Judy Wicks: Save the Date Thursday, March 14, 2013, 7:00 – 9:00 PM Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, PA Good Morning, Beautiful Business:...
Tree House Books National African American Read-In
Tree House Books Read-In Tree House Books will join organizations across the country in the 24th National African American Read-In (), which encourages the celebration of literacy as part of African...
Overcoming the Impact of Poverty and Violence on Children’s Ability to Learn and Thrive
2013 EDUCATION SUMMIT Before the Test Scores: Overcoming the Impact of Poverty and Violence on Children’s Ability to Learn and Thrive MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2013 The Enterprise Center, Burlington...
Project and Program Funding: Make It Sizzle!
Free Fundraising Workshop Project and Program Funding: Make It Sizzle! Donors love to personally connect with the nonprofit organizations they support, and see direct impacts resulting from their...
How To Obtain 501(c)(3) Tax-Exemption and Keep It
Workshop on applying for tax exemption set A workshop series on obtaining a federal tax exemption for an organization, How To Obtain 501(c)(3) Tax-Exemption and Keep It, will take place at the...
Funding Allocation: A Measured Approach for Nonprofits
Deloitte sets community leadership forum The next Deloitte Community Leadership Forum will meet on the topic, Funding Allocation: A Measured Approach for Nonprofits on Thursday, February 21st from...
Delaware Valley Early Childhood Education Conference
DVAEYC opens registration for April conference The Delaware Valley Association for the Education of Young Children has opened registration for its annual conference at the Pennsylvania Convention...
Connecting Coffee for fundraising staff
Connecting Coffee plans special event for fundraising staff The February Connecting Coffee networking workshop will focus on the fundraising role and is especially designed for development staff. The...
Children with Specific Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, and Reforming Special Education
PILCOP webinar to focus on children with learning disabilities On Tuesday, February 12th from noon to 4pm, the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia will host another session in its year-long...
Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey Reception
PHMC to host release of new community health database findings Public Health Management Corporation will hold a reception to highlight key findings from the 2012 Southeastern Pennsylvania Household...
Young Friends of ACHIEVEability event
Young Friends of ACHIEVEability The Young Friends of ACHIEVEability are hard at work planning their next “Sip, Socialize and Serve” event. The event is scheduled for February 23, 2013 and...
New Resources
Host a Summer of Maps Fellow
Get free GIS spatial analysis done for your organization! Inspired by the Google Summer of Code, Azavea’s Summer of Maps is a program that offers fellowships to student GIS analysts to perform...
Carnegie Community Engagement Classification
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching invites colleges and universities with an institutional focus on community engagement to apply for the elective classification, first developed...
Philadelphia launches 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative
City of Philadelphia & Goldman Sachs Launch: 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative The 10,000 Small Business Initiative is designed to help create jobs and economic growth by providing small...
Nonprofit Intergenerational Working Group
Nonprofit Intergenerational Working Group forms If you are: * a young leader in the nonprofit sector who is ready to “step in” and “step up” to the challenges posed by our...
Out-Of-School Time (OST) System Of Systems Website
City launches new out of school time website The City of Philadelphia has launched a new website detailing its efforts to build an Out-of-School Time “system of systems” with support from the...
Great Philly Schools Directory Available in Paperback
Great Philly Schools publishes paperback version of directory The Urban Affairs Coalition and the Philadelphia School Partnership, which recently launched the Great Philly Schools website with...
Higher Education and CDFIs Working Together
HIGHER EDUCATION AND CDFI PARTNERSHIPS OFN and the Jessie Ball duPont Fund have partnered to publish a new report, Partnerships for Community Impact: Higher Education and CDFIs Working Together, to...
Data Shows Inclusionary Housing Is In Fact Inclusionary
Data Shows Inclusionary Housing Is In Fact Inclusionary By Rick Jacobus Long time advocates of inclusionary housing (often known as “inclusionary zoning”) will be relieved to learn that a...
Free Tax Preparation Services at ACHIEVEability
Free Tax Preparation Services Beginning on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 ACHIEVEability will provide free tax preparation services through the Community Services Office located at 59 N. 60th Street....
FAFSA Completion Campaign
The Philadelphia College Prep Roundtable (PCPR) is reaching out to the broader community (Philadelphia and the surrounding vicinity, including southern New Jersey) in an effort to support FAFSA...
Partnerships for Learning: Community Support for Youth Succes
Partnerships for Learning: Community Support for Youth Success By The Harvard Family Research Project There is strong evidence that, when schools partner with families and community-based...
High School Civic Education Linked to Voting Participation and Political Knowledge
High School Civic Education Linked to Voting Participation and Political Knowledge, No Effect on Partisanship or Candidate Selection A large, national survey of young Americans released today shows...
Partnering in Tough Times: Service-Learning for Economic Vitality
California Campus Compact is pleased to release our latest publication, Partnering in Tough Times: Service-Learning for Economic Vitality, based on the results and lessons of our Social Innovation...
Partnerships Classifieds
Adult ESL Tutors, Providence Center
Seeking Volunteers! Join Our New Adult Tutoring Program Providence Center recently started an English language tutoring program for adult learners of ESL. We are currently looking for volunteer...
mentors needed, Women Care & Young Parent Support Network
The Center Foundation is seeking mentors for their Women Care & Young Parent Support Network Mentoring Programs. Mentor Training begins in February and offers tutors tools to help support the...
Rutgers seeks service opportunities in Philly
I am with Rutgers University located New Brunswick, NJ. I am part of a program called the Bonner Leadership Program- I am looking for Alternative Spring Break opportunities for a group of 16...
Nonprofit tenant sought for N. Phila. building
Nonprofit tenant sought for N. Phila. building To Our Children’s Future With Health is looking for a nonprofit tenant for its building at 1422 W. Venango Street (near Carlisle Street) in North...
volunteers needed, Delaware County Literacy Council
Delco Literacy seeks volunteers The Delaware County Literacy Council is asking adults in Delaware County to make a New Year’s resolution that will keep on giving in 2013 and beyond. Instead of a...
volunteers needed, Hazael Haven
Hazael Haven seeks volunteers Hazael Haven, a start up non-profit, is looking for committed volunteers who will contribute to the mission of the organization to provide a safe place for women and...
volunteers needed, Healthy Philadelphia
Volunteers sought for new health center campaign Healthy Philadelphia, which has been working to get a new health care center to serve people living in lower northeast Philadelphia (especially people...
volunteers needed, Philly 311 Neighborhood Liaison Program
Philly 311 seeking neighborhood liaisons There is a new way to pledge your commitment to quality of life in your neighborhood. A Philly 311 Neighborhood Liaison is a point person to follow up on...
National Conferences & Calls for Proposal
Partnership for Healthier America’s Food Summit
At this conference, the food industry, non-profits, academics, government officials and other leaders from across the nation strategize to improve the health of our nation’s youth. Be one of these...
Financial Aid-Tax-& Scholarship Workshop in DelCo
Attention Delco High School Seniors or Parents/Guardians Take advantage of an evening special Financial Aid-Tax-& Scholarship Workshops at the College Access Center of Delaware County THIS coming...
35th Annual Summer Institute on College Teaching
35th Annual Summer Institute on College Teaching The Virginia Tidewater Consortium’s Summer Institute on College Teaching is in its 35th year of helping faculty at every level and discipline to...
Call for Workshops: 14th Annual HIV Prevention & Outreach Summit
Submit a Workshop 14th Annual Prevention & Outreach Summit Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 8AM-5PM – Pennsylvania Convention Center, 13th & Arch Streets, Philadelphia This Summit provides a...
Fostering Sustainable Behaviour Workshop
Fostering Sustainable Behaviour Workshop About the Workshop The cornerstone of sustainability is behaviour change. If we are to move toward a sustainable future we must encourage individuals and...
Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Educators Conference
Seamus McGraw, dynamic author of The End of Country: Dispatches from the Fracking Zone, shares his memorable memoir about his Pocono neighbors’ experience with fracking at the March 15-16...
Call for Abstracts: Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems
Call for Abstracts/Papers for Special Issue: Innovations and Trends in Sustainable Urban Agriculture (nationally and internationally) Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems Special Issue Editors:...
7th Global Youth Justice Training
7th Global Youth Justice Training Cape Cod, USA – June 11-13, 2013 Global Youth Justice’s 7th Training Institute is primarily designed for adults and teams of 2-5 adults from local...
Grant Opportunities
WIC Nutrition Education Innovations
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children (WIC) provides nutritious foods, education, and referrals to health and other social services to participants. WIC remains...
generationOn grants to address childhood hunger
WHAT WILL YOU BRING TO THE TABLE? To address child hunger in the United States, generationOn is calling on youth to respond to the question, “What Will You Bring to the Table?” Youth can...
CDFI Fund
The CDFI Fund is accepting funding applications for 2013. It expects to award up to $165 million through its CDFI and Native American CDFI Assistance (NACA) Programs, and the Healthy Food Financing...
Let’s Play Land Use grants
Kaboom! Invites Grant Applications to Open Previously Unavailable Playgrounds Deadline: Rolling KaBOOM! is inviting grant applications from communities anywhere in the United States working to...
Impact Fund: Litigation to Advance Social Justice
Impact Fund Offers Support for Litigation to Advance Social Justice Deadline: Quarterly The Impact Fund provides grants to nonprofit legal firms, private attorneys, and/or small law firms working to...
NFL Youth Football Fund Grassroots Program
Local Initiatives Support Consortium Invites Applications for NFL Youth Football Fund Grassroots Program Deadline: March 15, 2013 Sponsored by the National Football League Foundation, the Local...
Avian Welfare Grant Fund
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Announces Avian Welfare Grant Fund Deadline: February 15, 2013 To mark National Bird Day, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty...
PA STEM Girls Collaborative Project Mini-Grant
PA STEM Girls Collaborative Project Mini-Grant Deadline: February 6, 2013 Mini-grants are awarded to girl-serving science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) focused programs to support...
True Hero grants for students
True Hero, Inc. is awarding grants to student service projects in a fun, exciting way that also helps spread the word about their worthwhile work and achievements. Students, schools or organizations...
Job Opportunities/AmeriCorps Opportunities
part-time Grant Writer/Director, Community Accountants
Community Accountants is seeking a part-time Grant Writer/Director The Grant Writer will possess excellent writing and computer skills and database management skills. The candidate will be highly...
Bilingual Family Social Services Manager, Concilio
BILINGUAL FAMILY SOCIAL SERVICES MANAGER (Philadelphia ) Master’s level Manager of Foster Care and Adoptions provides administrative and clinical support and oversight to foster care case...
Lead Organizer, PA Immigration and Citizenship Coalition
PICC is seeking an experienced and talented organizer to lead coalition efforts to support national comprehensive immigration reform and to promote immigrant rights at the state level. The person...
Building Trades Instructor, YouthBuild Philadelphia
Building Trades Instructor, YouthBuild Philadelphia Posted on: January 10, 2013 BACKGROUND: YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School is an education and job-training program for young adults who have...
Assistant Program Director, Families And Schools Together (FAST)
Assistant Program Director – Families And Schools Together (FAST), Turning Points for Children Posted on: January 10, 2013 Summary of Position Responsible for program management, direction, and...
Part-Time Executive Administrative Assistant, Project H.O.M.E.
Part-Time Executive Administrative Assistant, Project Posted on: January 10, 2013 General Position Responsibilities Assist & manage various special projects as needed. Schedule meetings,...
Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator, West Philadelphia Alliance for Children
Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator, West Philadelphia Alliance for Children The West Philadelphia Alliance for Children’s mission is to promote childhood literacy by engaging volunteers in...
Choice Food Party Manager, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
CHOICE FOOD PANTRY MANAGER, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia Posted on: January 11, 2013 Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia is proud to solicit applications for a Site Manager of the...
Coach/Case Manager, Valley Youth House
Coach/Case Manager, Valley Youth House Posted on: January 11, 2013 The Achieving Independence Center (AIC) is a “one-stop center” designed to help young people, ages 16-21, from the...
After School Assistant, Zhang Sah
After School Assistant : 2nd/3rd Grade Group, Zhang Sah Posted on: January 12, 2013 Open Position: After School Assistant Group Leader 530 Bainbridge Street; Phila PA 19147 – QueensVillage...
Membership Services, Zhang Sah
Membership Services, Zhang Sah Posted on: January 12, 2013 Zhang Sah is a community-based organization that combines martial arts and education. the ideal candidate is prompt, outgoing, diligent,...
Director of Development and Communications, Steppingstone Scholars Inc.
Director of Development and Communications, Steppingstone Scholars Inc. Posted on: January 14, 2013 GENERAL DESCRIPTION: The Director of Development and Communications is a senior management level...
Supervisor, Foster Care, Jewish Family & Children’s Service
Supervisor, Foster Care, Jewish Family & Children’s Service Posted on: January 14, 2013 The Supervisor of Foster Care supervises the Foster Care staff and handles assigned administrative...
Construction Site Supervisor, Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County
Construction Site Supervisor, Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County Primary Responsibilities: Coordinate and supervise construction activity at jobsites in Montgomery County, PA · perform work...
SOL Afterschool Academic Instructor, ASPIRA
SOL Afterschool Academic Instructor, ASPIRA, Inc. of Pennsylvania Posted on: January 16, 2013 The SOL Afterschool Academic Instructor will be responsible for core subject tutoring, PSSA skills, youth...
Administrative Assistant, Salvation Army
Administrative Assistant to the Director of Planned Giving, Salvation Army Posted on: January 17, 2013 FUNCTION: This position is a highly responsible administrative and resource development support...
Director, Landscape Management and Training, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Director, Landscape Management and Training, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Posted on: January 17, 2013 ORGANIZATION SUMMARY: Inspire * Transform * Build * Sustain The Pennsylvania Horticultural...
Director of Resource Development, North Penn United Way
Director of Resource Development, North Penn United Way, Kulpsville, PA North Penn United Way Job Description – Director of Resource Development Title: Director of Resource Development Reports...
Miscellaneous
Hungry and Overweight: How is that Possible?
Do you want to know why food insecure families tend to be overweight? Dietitians and Dietetic Technicians, mark down a webinar, “Hungry and Overweight: How is that Possible?” occurring on...
Lend for America micro-finance fellowship
The Lend for America fellowship is a year-long incubation program for Campus MFI start-ups. Lend for America fellows benefit from a classroom introduction to microfinance in the US, a full-time...
Teacher As Hero Awards
On Thursday, March 14, 2013, State Farm will sponsor and host the 2013 Teacher As Hero Awards at the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, PA. Since 2000, State Farm has been a partner with the...
Campus Philly Spring Online Internship Fair
Spring Online Internship Fair: February 25 – March 1, 2013 Our career site is working for you around the clock; but twice a year we shine a special spotlight on our career listings by producing...
Analysis of state budget
Advocates set webinar on new state budget On the day following Governor Corbett’s budget address, the Better Choices for PA coalition will host a webinar to discuss the response of advocates for...
Philly Future Track seeks participants
Philly Future Track offers work experience to young adults The city has announced the launch of a new program called Philly Future Track, which will provide job skills training and real-world work...
Building Employer Partnerships to Foster Skilled Immigrant Success
Webinar builds employer partnerships for immigrant workers IMPRINT will hold an online workshop on Building Employer Partnerships to Foster Skilled Immigrant Success on March 14th from 3-4pm. A vital...
Healthy and Sustainable School Food Journalism Prize
Earth Day Network Seeking Entries for Healthy and Sustainable School Food Journalism Prize Deadline: February 28, 2013 The Earth Day Network is accepting entries for the 2013 Healthy and Sustainable...
Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes
Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes Deadline: April 30 The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes honors outstanding young leaders who have made a significant positive difference to people and our...
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