The week of
December 11, 2018
PHENND Events/Activities
K-16 Partnerships Network Meeting: STEM Partners
PHENND
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from 2:30pm to 4:00pm School District of Philadelphia, 440 North Broad St. Room 1080 At this meeting we will discuss partnerships with institutions of higher education and...
Other Local Events and Workshops
Philadelphia College Prep Roundtable Network Meeting – Dec 13
Philadelphia College Prep Roundtable
Thursday, December 13, 2018, 9-11 AM Our next meeting of the 2018-2019 school year will take place on Thursday, December 13, 2018, at Chestnut Hill College, Main Campus from 9:00 – 11:00 (See...
Cash Rules Everything Around Me: Philly Town Hall on Student Debt – Jan 16
Temple University
Hosted by Sara Goldrick-Rab and Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 6 PM – 8 PM Temple Performing Arts Center 1837 N. Broad Street Worried about student...
Broken Bridges Launch Event – Dec 19
Juvenile Law Center
Date and Time: Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST Location: South Philly Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, 1700 S. Broad Street, Phila., PA 191456 Juveniles for Justice...
Free Workshop! Fundraising Beyond Grants – Jan 14
Vision Driven Consulting
Date: Monday, January 14, 2019 at 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST Location: The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 Learn about six different categories of fundraising (including, but...
New Resources
Broken Bridges: How Juvenile Placements Cut off Youth from Communities and Successful Futures
Juvenile Law Center
Juveniles for Justice, an advocacy program at Juvenile Law Center for youth with experience in the justice system, has released Broken Bridges. This publication highlights the youths’...
Bring Theory to Practice Biweekly Newsletter
Bringing Theory to Practice
Bringing Theory to Practice shares Bringing It #5 – the fifth biweekly letter to the BTtoP community. Is BTtoP new to you? Do you wonder what they are about? “Bringing Theory to Practice is...
Community-Based Research – Campus Examples
Bonner Foundation
Looking into creating a center for community based research? The Bonner Foundation has compiled some CBR-Center campus examples here on the Bonner Resource Wiki.
Inclusion in Early Childhood Education Settings in Philadelphia
Early Childhood Action Collective
The Early Childhood Action Collective (ECAC) is pleased to share with you the latest brief intended to inform the implementation and improvement of early childhood programs in Philadelphia. Written...
Partnerships Classifieds
Lawyers group seeks nonprofit partners for pardon push
Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity
In October 2018, Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity (PLSE) launched a new initiative to help low-income Philadelphians clean up their criminal records. Called the Pardon Project, it seeks to...
Volunteer as a College Access Coach – Temple, Upper Darby, Chester
Let's Get Ready
Volunteer Coaches in Let’s Get Ready’s College Access Program teach the math, verbal, or both sections of the SAT and mentor students through the college application process. Coaches commit to:...
Volunteers Needed for TechGirlz Events
TechGirlz
January 10th, 4:00-7:00 PM, Artifical Intelligence: How Computers Learn (view lesson plan) Volunteers Needed: Teaching Assistants Location: PSTV, 440 North Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19130...
National Conferences & Calls for Proposal
Raising Our Voices: Reclaiming the Narrative on the Value of Higher Education
American Association of Colleges and Universities
The 105th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC & U) will he held January 23, 2019 to January 26, 2019 in Atlanta, GA 30303. Click here for a Preliminary...
2019 Engage for Change Conference
Siena College
The Regional Council for Community Engagement is pleased to launch the 2019 Engage for Change Conference. Mark your calendars for May 22nd and 23rd at Siena College. This year we have some exciting...
3rd Annual Sowing Change Conference – Call for Proposals
Susquehanna University
The Sowing Change committee welcomes workshop and session proposals from community organizations, gardeners and higher education faculty, staff and students for its 2019 Sowing Change conference...
Grants for Middle School Out-of-School Time Programs
New York Life Foundation
The New York Life Foundation is seeking applicants for its Aim High local grant program to support afterschool, summer, or expanded learning programs serving middle schoolers. A total of 26 grant...
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Civil Society and Social Responsibility in Higher Education
International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Civil Society and Social Responsibility in Higher Education: . An edited volume by Dr. Enakshi Sengupta, Dr. Patrick Blessinger, and Dr. Craig Mahoney. Emerald Group...
Registration Opens for National Service-Learning Conference
National Youth Leadership Council
Location: New Foundations Charter School, Philadelphia, PA Dates: April 14-16, 2019 Join us in celebrating 30 years of growing youth as leaders! The National Service-Learning Conference highlights...
Indiana Campus Compact 9th Annual Service Engagement Summit – February 25-26, 2019
Indiana Campus Compact
This year’s conference theme, Listen. Talk. Transform., is part of a year-long look into the many forms of dialogue as a tool for crossing differences and improving lives in our communities....
Grant Opportunities
Call for Pre-K providers for PHLpreK expansion – Dec 14
Mayor’s Office of Education
PHLpreK is accepting applications for new locations! The Mayor’s Office of Education plans to expand to 3,300 PHLpreK seats in September 2019. To apply for PHLpreK funding and seat, interested...
Next Generation Initiative – Jan 15
Kresge Foundation
Kresge Foundation Accepting Applications for Next Generation Initiative The Human Services Program at the Kresge Foundation has announced a new funding and learning opportunity as part of its Next...
Optics-Related Education Projects – Jan 31
International Society for Optics and Photonics
SPIE Invites Applications for Optics-Related Education Projects SPIE is an international society that works to advance an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light. As part...
Active Learning Center Grants – Feb 1
Steelcase Education
Steelcase Education Invites Applications for Active Learning Center Grants Steelcase Education seeks to understand how teaching and learning best takes place and how smarter, active learning spaces...
Fire Prevention Grant Program – Mar 31
FM Global
FM Global is accepting applications for its Fire Prevention Grant Program Grants will be awarded to fire departments and brigades, as well as national, state, regional, local, and community...
Youth Bereavement Support Services Grants
A Little Hope
A Little HOPE Offering Youth Bereavement Support Services Grants A Little HOPE supports organizations that provide bereavement support services and grief counseling to children and teens who have...
Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes – Apr 15
Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes
Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes Accepting Applications The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes celebrates inspiring, public-spirited young people from diverse backgrounds all across North...
Make a Splash Program for youth swimming – Jan 15
USA Swimming Foundation
USA Swimming Foundation Accepting Applications to ‘Make a Splash’ Program The USA Swimming Foundation serves as the philanthropic arm of USA Swimming. Established in 2004, the foundation...
Reimagine It Grants for artists
Artfully Reimagined
Artfully Reimagined Invites Submissions for ‘Reimagine It’ Grants Five percent of eco-friendly online retailer Artfully Reimagined’s profits go to artists devoted to creating works...
Host a Quaker Voluntary Service Fellow – Feb 1
Quaker Voluntary Service
Our site placement application is now open with a deadline of February 1st, 2019. We invite your organization to consider serving as one of the service placements for Quaker Voluntary Service (QVS),...
Community Projects in Philadelphia – Jan 31
Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development
Slot machine license fees support community projects The Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) has established the Local Share Account (LSA) – Philadelphia program to distribute a...
Grants for Middle School Out-of-School Time Programs
New York Life Foundation
The New York Life Foundation is seeking applicants for its Aim High local grant program to support afterschool, summer, or expanded learning programs serving middle schoolers. A total of 26 grant...
Job Opportunities/AmeriCorps Opportunities
Field Liaison/Data Management Coordinator – Center for Professional Development in Career and Technical Education
Temple University
The Center for Professional Development in Career and Technical Education in the College of Education is a grant- funded program charged with delivering field-based teacher education programming in a...
Certification Advisor – Center for Professional Development in Career and Technical Education
Temple University
The Center for Professional Development in Career and Technical Education in the College of Education is a grant funded program charged with delivering field-based teacher education programming in a...
Director of Curriculum – Center for Professional Development in Career and Technical Education
Temple University
The Center for Professional Development in Career and Technical Education in the College of Education at Temple University is a grant funded program charged with delivering field-based teacher...
Career Training Manager – Youth Build Philly Charter School
Youth Build Philadelphia Charter School
This Career Training Manager position [click here for the posting] focuses on managing our partnership with Gap Inc.’s This Way Ahead internship program. The top skill needed is an interest,...
Paid College Internship – College Access Site Director, Chester, PA
Let's Get Ready
As a College Access Site Director, you will recruit and manage volunteer college students who provide SAT preparation and college admissions guidance to high school students. This is a 15-hour per...
Content Creator – ASPIRA
ASPIRA
ASPIRA is seeking a creative online marketer to join the long term effort to transform North Philadelphia neighborhoods through quality education. Thousands of local residents look to ASPIRA schools...
Miscellaneous
Chester Education Foundation to open Marie and Cynthia Jetter College and Career Center
Chester Education Foundation
Chester Education Foundation to open Marie and Cynthia Jetter College and Career Center Chester, PA, December 4, 2018, The Chester Education Foundation (CEF) is excited to announce the opening of the...
Webinar: The Poverty Stoplight: A New, Poverty Metric & Coaching Methodology
Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal
In this Webinar Dr. Burt explains how technology today allows the poor to easily self-diagnose their level of poverty and develop a plan to overcome poverty permanently. Instead of relying only on...
Webinar: Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture
Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal
Happening Wednesday December 12th, 2PM EST This webinar will review Equity in the Center’s Race Equity Cycle framework, share critical learnings from its “Awake to Woke to Work: Building a...
The Family Friends Program Named A U.S. Benchmark of Excellence
Intergenerational Center at Temple University
The Family Friends Program (Intergenerational Center at Temple University-College of Education) Awarded as a Program of Distinction Family Friends, a program of the Intergenerational Center, is one...
Temple University Pre-College Programs for High School Students
Temple University
Temple University has several pre-college programs for high school students designed to prepare them for college, give them experience on a college campus, and even earn college credit and...
College Success Network
Chester Education Foundation to open Marie and Cynthia Jetter College and Career Center
Chester Education Foundation
Chester Education Foundation to open Marie and Cynthia Jetter College and Career Center Chester, PA, December 4, 2018, The Chester Education Foundation (CEF) is excited to announce the opening of the...
Reaching Out: A Guide to Increasing College Transfer and Completion with a Community-Based Partner, On Point for College
On Point for College
In September 2014, the Department of Education made its first round of awards under the First in the World (FITW) grant program. According to the Department of Education, the intent of the program...
Helping Students SOAR: Quizfolio Tips to Engage First-Generation, Under-Represented Minority Undergraduates in Scientific Inquiry
The American Biology Teacher
Engaging and gauging (engauging) first-generation, under-represented minority undergraduate general biology students through processes of inquiry, critical thinking, and affective learning is vital...
Listening to Our Low-Income Students
Yes We Must Coalition
While there is a growing effort to better understand how to best support low-income students in higher education, too often listening to the students themselves has not been part of the inquiry. When...
High Impact Practices and Low-Income Student Success: What Works?
Yes We Must Coalition
This document brings together representative examples of recent evidence-based literature regarding practices and policies that support the success of low income students....
Committing to Equity and Inclusive Excellence: A Campus Guide for Self-Study and Planning
American Association of Colleges and Universities
Committing to Equity and Inclusive Excellence: A Campus Guide for Self-Study and Planning provides a framework for needed dialogue, assessment, and action to address inequities in higher education...
Faculty Updates
Chester Education Foundation to open Marie and Cynthia Jetter College and Career Center
Chester Education Foundation
Chester Education Foundation to open Marie and Cynthia Jetter College and Career Center Chester, PA, December 4, 2018, The Chester Education Foundation (CEF) is excited to announce the opening of the...
Raising Our Voices: Reclaiming the Narrative on the Value of Higher Education
American Association of Colleges and Universities
The 105th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC & U) will he held January 23, 2019 to January 26, 2019 in Atlanta, GA 30303. Click here for a Preliminary...
2019 Engage for Change Conference
Siena College
The Regional Council for Community Engagement is pleased to launch the 2019 Engage for Change Conference. Mark your calendars for May 22nd and 23rd at Siena College. This year we have some exciting...
3rd Annual Sowing Change Conference – Call for Proposals
Susquehanna University
The Sowing Change committee welcomes workshop and session proposals from community organizations, gardeners and higher education faculty, staff and students for its 2019 Sowing Change conference...
Community-Based Research – Campus Examples
Bonner Foundation
Looking into creating a center for community based research? The Bonner Foundation has compiled some CBR-Center campus examples here on the Bonner Resource Wiki.
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Civil Society and Social Responsibility in Higher Education
International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Civil Society and Social Responsibility in Higher Education: . An edited volume by Dr. Enakshi Sengupta, Dr. Patrick Blessinger, and Dr. Craig Mahoney. Emerald Group...
Registration Opens for National Service-Learning Conference
National Youth Leadership Council
Location: New Foundations Charter School, Philadelphia, PA Dates: April 14-16, 2019 Join us in celebrating 30 years of growing youth as leaders! The National Service-Learning Conference highlights...
Indiana Campus Compact 9th Annual Service Engagement Summit – February 25-26, 2019
Indiana Campus Compact
This year’s conference theme, Listen. Talk. Transform., is part of a year-long look into the many forms of dialogue as a tool for crossing differences and improving lives in our communities....
Stay Current in Philly's Higher Education and Nonprofit Sector
We compile a weekly email with local events, resources, national conferences, calls for proposals, grant, volunteer and job opportunities in the higher education and nonprofit sectors.
Subscribe