When Herb Block died in October 2001, he left $50 million and instructions to create a foundation that would encourage the art of editorial cartooning and support charitable and educational programs aimed at promoting the causes he championed during his seventy-two years of cartooning. As such, the Herb Block Foundation is committed to defending basic freedoms, combating all forms of discrimination and prejudice, and improving the condition of the poor and underprivileged. The foundation also seeks to provide educational opportunities through scholarships and to promote editorial cartooning through continuing research.

As part of this mission, the foundation, through its Encouraging Citizen Involvement program, will award grants of up to $25,000 in support of projects related to citizen education and greater voter participation in the electoral process. All projects must be nonpartisan and may not involve lobbying for specific legislation or candidates.

To be eligible, applicants must be a nonprofit organization classified as a 501(c)(3) by the Internal Revenue Service.

Letters of Inquiry must be received no later than June 7. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal by August 8, 2017.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Herb Block Foundation.

DEADLINE: JUNE 7, 2017 (LETTERS OF INQUIRY)

https://www.herbblockfoundation.org/grant-programs/encouraging-citizen-involvement

The Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations is accepting proposals from non-Unitarian Universalist groups in the U.S. and Canada for community organizing campaigns aimed at creating systemic change in the economic, social, and political structures that affect the lives of those who have been excluded from resources, power, and the right to determination.

Through the Fund for a Just Society, UUAC supports projects that are less likely to receive conventional funding because of the innovative or challenging nature of the work or the economic and social status of the constituency.

UUAC does not fund social services, educational programs, or advocacy projects, or for re-granting, equipment purchases, capital campaigns, politically partisan efforts, educational institutions, medical or scientific research, or cultural programs. The organization will consider funding for films, publications, or curricula if they are an integral part of a strategy of collective action for social change. UUAC does not fund individuals.

The maximum grant award is $15,000, and most grants will range between $6,000 and $8,000.

See the UUAC website for program guidelines and application instructions.

DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

http://www.uua.org/giving/funding/102186.shtml

The National Endowment for the Arts has published guidelines and the application for the next funding round of Our Town, the agency’s primary creative placemaking grants program.

The Our Town grant program supports creative placemaking projects that help to transform communities into lively, beautiful, and resilient places with the arts at their core. This funding supports local efforts to enhance quality of life and opportunity for existing residents, increase creative activity, and create a distinct sense of place.

Subject to the availability of funding, the endowment will provide a limited number of grants for creative placemaking. Our Town requires partnerships between arts organizations and government, other nonprofit organizations, and private entities to achieve livability goals for communities.

The program offers support for projects in two areas:

1) Arts Engagement, Cultural Planning, and Design Projects: Projects in this category should represent the distinct character and quality of their communities. They also must involve a partnership between a nonprofit organization and a local government entity, with one of the partners being a cultural organization. Matching grants will range from $25,000 to $200,000.

2) Projects that Build Knowledge (about creative placemaking): Grants in this category are available to arts and design service organizations and industry or university organizations that provide technical assistance to those doing place-based work. Matching grants will range from $25,000 to $100,000.

Complete program guidelines, an FAQ, and information on previously funded projects are available at the NEA website.

DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

https://www.arts.gov/grants-organizations/our-town/introduction

Core Support for Arts and Cultural Organizations

Introduction

As a long-time funder of arts and cultural organizations, the William Penn Foundation’s Board of Directors regularly assesses its funding approach to assure funding alignment with the overall goals of the Foundation as well as to assure that its funding is responsive to the needs of arts and cultural organizations of varying sizes, types, and disciplines throughout the region. At the same time, the Board seeks to assure that, when funding is awarded, it is being awarded to arts and cultural organizations that are not only of the highest artistic caliber but financially healthy, effectively managed, and well-positioned to withstand the ever-changing environment in which they operate.

After more than ten years of awarding core support funding through an iterative, negotiated manner between the applicant organization and Foundation staff, beginning in 2014, the Foundation Board spent nearly one year evaluating the arts and culture portfolio, researching best practices for funding, and discussing the Foundation’s desired role as an arts funder. The Board wanted a funding process that was equitable for all applicants, recognized strong financial management as well as high-quality programs, and lessened the potential for organizations to become dependent on William Penn Foundation funding. As a result, in 2015, the current approach to awarding core support to arts and cultural organizations was determined.

The Foundation believes that its current core support funding approach, launched June 2015, makes transparent for applicants the review process, the funding possibilities, and the timeline for application review. In addition, in response to some grantee concerns expressed in the survey conducted in 2016 by the Center for Effective Philanthropy, more detailed information about the application review process has been added to the guidelines.

Nonetheless, as always, if after carefully reviewing the guidelines you have further questions, do not hesitate to contact someone on the Creative Communities staff.

Pre-proposal due July 7, 2017

http://www.williampennfoundation.org/how-we-fund-creative-communities

APPLY: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MESASC2017

Looking for fun summer camp options? Join us designing robots, rockets, apps, food, clothes and games to survive in outer space.

Grades 5-12!
Session I: June 26 – July 7, 9a-2p Session II: July 10 – July 21, 9a-2
Grades 9-12 – Unity Game Design Studio Grades 9-12 – Makerz Robotics
Grades 5-8 – Coding in Outer Space Grades 5-8 – “Little Bits” Studio

Students are guided exploring, planning, Fun programming and engineering, and creating using Scratch, Sphero robots, to build remote robots, fly kiddy drones, Little Bits electronics, & cool science kits. rockets and design a farm on Mars. Teamwork w Communications w Invention w Creativity w Real Skills w Field Trips w Mentoring

For more information call Abeera at 215-204-7889

Summer Camp Applications due June 9, 2017

Where: Temple University
College of Engineering
When: 9:00a-2:00p
Cost: $250 per session
Lunch, t-shirts & math tutoring included.

Program #1: EL Civics & Citizenship (Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced)

Program #2: Vocational ESL (Intermediate ESL)

(See flyer attached)

EL Civics Students will:

• Improve Reading & Writing Skills

• Study U.S. Government and History

• Set Workforce and Career Goals

• Volunteer for Community Service

• Prepare for Naturalization Test and Interview — Become a U.S. Citizen!

EL Civics Schedule:

• Beginning: Tuesdays & Thursdays: 9:00am–12:00pm

• Intermediate PM: Tuesdays & Thursdays: 5:30pm–8:30pm

• Advanced AM: Mondays & Wednesdays: 9:00am–12:00pm

• Advanced PM: Tuesdays & Thursdays: 5:30pm–8:30pm

Vocational ESL Students will:

• Improve Reading & Writing Skills

• Practice Interviews and Write a Resume

• Prepare for the U.S. workplace

• Increase Citizenship and Civics knowledge

• Set Workforce and Career Goals

• Volunteer for Community Service

VESL Schedule:

• Intermediate: Mondays and Wednesdays: 9:00am–12:00pm

Please print and distribute the attached flyers at your locations and share with your email contacts, clients, and students. Applicants can apply by email at afreed@1199ctraining.org, or by phone at 215-568-2580 [NO TEXT MESSAGES].

PennSERVE seeks a professional with a passion for service and volunteerism and expertise in grant-making, grantee support and monitoring, and program development.

PennSERVE: The Governor’s Office of Citizen Service encourages, develops, and facilitates volunteer and citizen community service, which builds upon the talents, strengths, opportunities and challenges of people and communities in ways which enhance the quality of life for all citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Working cooperatively with PennSERVE and Commonwealth staff, the Assistant Director provides administrative and technical leadership for Pennsylvania’s portfolio of AmeriCorps State programs; manages the overall grant-making process; serves as a liaison to the federal government on AmeriCorps/national service applications in the state; and works with staff and sub-grantees to promote compliance with national service regulations and requirements. The Assistant Director may also develop, lead, and/or support new volunteering and service initiatives as opportunities arise. A list of key responsibilities is below.

AmeriCorps Alums and individuals with experience managing or supporting national service programs are strongly encouraged to apply.

Applications are due by June 8, 2017. For more information and to apply, please click here: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/pabureau/jobs/1750514/assistant-director-pennserve?sort=PostingDate%7CDescending&pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs

Note: This position is in Harrisburg.

The position is for 25 hours per week at $12.00 per hour with flexible weekday scheduling. The position is offered through June 30, 2018.

Organization and Program Description
N5SRP is a program of the Korean Community Development Services Center (KCDSC). KCDSC is a social services and community development corporation that has served Philadelphia’s Olney neighborhood since 1984. Its community economic development program, N5SRP, enhances the quality of life for the merchants and residents in and around Olney’s North 5th Street commercial district by 1) improving and maintaining the streetscape; 2) increasing public safety; 3) supporting existing small businesses and attracting new, viable economic uses; and 4) fostering community connectedness.

For a better sense of N5SRP’s activities and approach to community and economic development, visit http://facebook.com/northfifth or http://ShopNorth5th.com

Duties and Responsibilities
Reporting to the Co-Directors, the Assistant will work with the N5SRP team to implement N5SRP’s corridor revitalization plan. Specific responsibilities include:

 Assisting with door to door merchant outreach
 Assisting with N5SRP’s Police Log Program
 Updating/Maintain N5SRP’s new website ShopNorth5th.com
 Updating N5SRP’s commercial property listings and merchant assistance log
 Helping to administer the Storefront Improvement and Business Security Camera programs
 Reporting issues to Philly 311 using the Philly 311 tablet app
 Formatting email announcements using Constant Contact
 Updating N5SRP’S social media
 Assisting with summer cleanups and other community events and activities
 Assisting in preparing quarterly reports to funders
 General office maintenance and administrative tasks
 Performing other duties as assigned

Qualifications
The ideal candidate will possess:

 A strong interest and some education or experience in community development, economic development, urban planning, social work, business or a related field.
 Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
 Attention to detail and strong time management and organizational skills.
 Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
 Ability to work well with diverse groups of people and the public, including non-English speakers.
 Energy, flexibility, creativity, and initiative
 Basic proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel
 Basic proficiency with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Hootsuite
 Experience with WordPress a plus
 Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, French or Spanish language skills a plus

Timeframe and Hours
The position entails working 25 hours per week starting July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018 during normal N5SRP business hours (10am-6pm Mon-Fri). The position may be extended beyond June 2018 contingent upon available funds and staffing needs. Weekly work schedule is flexible and may require limited evening and weekend hours.

Compensation
$12.00 per hour with no benefits.

To Apply
Send a brief cover letter and resume to Stephanie Michel at Stephanie@shopnorth5th.com with ‘Assistant’ in the subject line by Friday, June 9th at 6pm.

The Korean Community Development Services Center is an Equal Opportunity employer who does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion or disability status.

This training is aimed to answer these questions.

• What is community organizing?
• How do you organize?
• How do you start, maintain, and sustain movements?

Our facilitators have a wide range of valuable community organizing experiences that they can share with you. At this training, you will receive information about the art and science of community organizing, and have the opportunity to apply what you’ve learned by developing your own organizing plan during the course of this training.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mwulyp-community-organizing-training-tickets-34795975700

Data from the 2016-2017 reports is now available on CNCS Open Data, the agency’s new public data-sharing platform! Dynamic, clickable maps can be found on every state’s State Profiles page. Or if you want to slice and dice the data by organization, grant type, other geographies, and more, jump straight to the data here.

All of the data is downloadable in easy-to-use formats like Excel, and all of the maps can be embedded right on your own webpages. We encourage you to poke around the platform, play with the data, and of course, share!

For any questions regarding the data or platform, contact us at OpenData@cns.gov.

Location:
Locus Partners Office at Industrious
230 S. Broad Street 17th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19102

Registration:
Registration is required

Event Cost:
$15

Drinks and snacks provided

Register Now
What does it take to build an equitable city for all? How can residents work together to create diverse, healthy neighborhoods that all Philadelphians can enjoy?

Locus Partners and The Philadelphia Citizen invite you to a discussion about Creating Equitable Places and Good Practices with panelists from Philly Girls Do Good, including:

• Jill Roberts, Executive Director, Healthy Rowhouse Project;
• Carmen Febo San Miguel, Executive Director, Taller Puertorriqueño;
• Donna Carney, Director, Citizens Planning Institute; and
• Danielle DiLeo Kim, Co-Founder, Locus Partners and Philly Girls Do Good

Moderated by Roxanne Patel Shepelavy, Executive Editor, The Philadelphia Citizen

This is our third annual open conversation with PGDG panelists. All are invited!
6:00 – 6:30 Refreshments and Networking
6:30 – 7:30 Panel Discussion
7:30 – 8:00 Networking Continues

Philly Girls Do Good (PGDG) is an initiative of Locus Partners that promotes and engages women leaders in community development and design through networking events, public conversations, and our PGDG blog. Representing a diversity of organizations, these women are committed to improving the public realm, advancing social and environmental justice, and facilitating the success of local communities and businesses. They devote their professional and personal time toward a better urban experience for all.

We encourage rising stars, silent partners, and longtime leaders to join the group. If you would like to nominate a colleague (or yourself!) to belong to Philly Girls Do Good, please fill out a PGDG nomination form on our website http://www.phillygirlsdogood.org.

The Philadelphia Citizen, a non-profit, non-partisan media organization has a dual mission: To provide deeply reported journalism that emphasizes solutions that can move our region forward, and to actively reignite citizenship in and around Philadelphia. Learn more at http://www.thephiladelphiacitizen.org.

For more information, please contact:
Locus Partners
Danielle DiLeo Kim
215-644-7604
ddileokim@locus-partners.com

Please join us on July 6, 2017 from 9:30 – 12:00 to learn about the County Health Rankings and PHMC’s Southeastern Pennsylvania Health Survey AND to CREATE solutions for the region and become part of the growing network of health innovative solution focused leaders.

This symposium titled: SOCIAL INNOVATIONS TOWARD BUILDING A CULTURE OF HEALTH, in partnership with Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC) and the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium, hopes to raise awareness and serve as a call to action using health data to drive innovation.

BACKGROUND

“Health and human serving system leaders are discarding the old ways of doing business in favor of new approaches that are innovative, efficient, effective, and responsive to the needs and demands of a dynamic and rapidly changing society. We are shifting from a reactive and crisis-oriented services delivery model to one that focuses “upstream” and better enables all of us to live to our full potential and to more effectively identify and address root causes when we do encounter roadblocks along the way”[1]. Ultimately, regional health and human services agencies, collectively, are shaping a new ecosystem across sectors and systems that will align services, integrate data systems, leverage technologies and create system transformation.

The County Health Rankings (CHR), a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute (UWPHI), compare counties within each state on more than 30 factors that impact health, including such social determinants as education, jobs, housing, exercise, commuting times, and more. The rankings raise awareness about the many factors that influence health and that health varies from place to place.

The CHDB’s Southeastern Pennsylvania (SEPA) Household Health Survey provides timely information on more than 13,000 residents—children and adults—living in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. One of the longest running regional Household Health Survey in the country, the survey was conducted in 1983, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015 and will be conducted in 2018! The Household Health Survey has expanded beyond the SEPA region to collect information about the health and well-being of adults in Berks, Lancaster and Schuylkill Counties, Center County, Mercer County, NJ, and across the state of Delaware to collect information about the health and well-being of children. The survey targets key information about health status, personal health behaviors and access to and utilization of area health services. These data are available at the regional and county levels, but also at much smaller geographies, including clusters of ZIP codes or clusters of census tracts that represent neighborhoods or service areas.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/social-innovations-toward-building-a-culture-of-health-tickets-35054205071

February 15–17, 2018
Philadelphia, PA

Call for Proposals Due July 14

The Call for Proposals is now open for AAC&U’s 2018 Network for Academic Renewal General Education and Assessment conference. The deadline for proposals is Friday, July 14, 2017.

This year’s meeting, Foundations for Democracy, will examine the democratic ideals and values upon which general education is built and challenge participants to envision and take steps toward generating a coherent, seamless undergraduate experience that champions evidence, values integrity, embraces diversity, requires collaboration, and ensures equity in practice and results—an experience where students understand that the value and purposes of general education, the major, and learning outside of the classroom are one and the same.

AAC&U seeks proposals that reflect evidence-based work led by experienced practitioners from a full range of two- and four-year institutions that will engage participants through a design thinking approach to address pressing questions:

• How can institutions bridge the curricular and co-curricular components of student and faculty assets and interests to realize general education’s potential depth in learning outcomes and social impact?
• How are campus sectors collaborating to advance student learning outcomes such as critical and creative thinking, teamwork and problem solving, intercultural competence, ethical reasoning and action, and synthesis of knowledge across general education and specialized studies?

AAC&U invites proposals for substantive and interactive sessions that balance conceptual frameworks with concrete examples; that highlight the mechanics of a practice, strategy, or model; that showcase mature evidence-based programs; and that can be adapted in a wide range of institutional settings. Proposals that address issues of transfer and students attending multiple institutions are encouraged. We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia and welcome your proposals.

For more information, please call (202) 387-3760, or write to Karen Kalla at network@aacu.org.

The Greater Philadelphia Trauma Training Conference

A unique conference that provides intensive, discipline-specific trauma training, exposure to innovative practice models, and opportunities for cross-sector, interprofessional case discussion and treatment planning to grow and strengthen the Greater Philadelphia region’s trauma-informed workforce and ultimately to improve health and educational outcomes for children.

July 18-21, 2017

Presented by:

The Community and Trauma Counseling Program of Philadelphia University

in association with:

Children’s Crisis Treatment Center
Lakeside Global Institute
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education
Philadelphia DBHIDS

http://wordpress.philau.edu/philatraumaconference/

Join the Stoneleigh Foundation, Juvenile Law Center, and Philly Homes 4 Youth on Wednesday, June 14 for the Philadelphia premiere of The Homestretch, a documentary that follows three teenagers experiencing homelessness as they fight to stay in school, graduate, and build a future. Each of their stories highlights how housing instability complicates the transition to successful adulthood. Following the film, hear from local leaders about Philadelphia’s efforts to address housing challenges for youth. Register today: https://goo.gl/vlVeqz

The U.S. population is becoming increasingly diverse, particularly with respect to the rapidly growing number of multicultural, multi-lingual low-income children and families. Changes in the diversity of communities across the country have prompted a call to action for many service providers, as well as funders of such programs, to reduce disparities in the access and utilization of services.

Given the rapidly changing demographics among high-poverty communities in the United States, it is of the utmost importance that organizations recognize the particular needs of the culturally and linguistically diverse populations they serve through programmatic services, and that applications for funding announcements appropriately reflect this responsiveness to increasingly diverse populations. Social service programs are finding that in order to keep pace with the demand, community-based organizations (CBOs) must deliver more culturally responsive services. Cultural competency is an important way that CBOs can become more responsive to the needs of the increasingly diverse
populations they serve.

This resource guide, Supporting the Development of Culturally Responsive Approaches to Serving Diverse Populations, is designed to help CBOs serve the needs of their diverse populations.

http://www.hispanicresearchcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Cultural-Competence-Guide.pdf

This year’s speakers and presenters will share valuable experiences and insights about how to develop, implement and sustain successful 21st CCLC programs. The Institute offers a wide variety of interactive breakout sessions. Attendees will get innovative ideas for activities, technical assistance for managing programs, and programming strategies and data to take back to their programs for immediate use to benefit America’s children.

July 25-27, 2017
Philadelphia

http://21stcclc.leedmci.com/

LOCATION:
The School District of Philadelphia
440 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Meeting Room: 1075

Join us for the final Peer Networking Meeting this year and engage with our talented panel about the facts behind summer learning loss and the educational opportunities available in summer learning programming.

Peer Networking Meetings are held every month from September to June and feature panel discussions on a range of OST-related topics. For more information and to register click the button below.

Register Here

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/june17pnm

In order for it to run smoothly, I am working to recruit volunteers that can support this process including parking assistance, registration, and meal set up. We would need about 10 volunteers each day.

The summer Institute is on Monday, June 26th to Friday, June 30th. It will take place at Fels High School, 5500 Langdon St., Philadelphia, PA 19124. Each day starts at 7AM and will go until 4PM. Every volunteer will need to arrive at 6:45 in order to get acclimated to role. If a volunteer is not able to stay the whole day, there is a morning shift (7-12) and an afternoon shift (12-4).

To volunteer, email Terah at StiversT@freelibrary.org.

June 1st marks the beginning of Immigrant Heritage Month. We are excited to kick off the celebration by presenting to you our brand new website!

We redesigned our website to make our content easier to access for immigrants who may have limited English proficiency (our website is easily translated by selecting the language on the top right of the menu!) or who may only be able to access our website on mobile devices (our website is mobile friendly!).

Happy browsing!

http://welcomingcenter.org/