The week of
January 22, 2019
PHENND Events/Activities
PHENND Seeks Community Partnerships Coordinator VISTA members
PHENND
Join a cohort that works to strengthen communication, collaboration and community in local Philadelphia schools. PHENND seeks 21 full-time AmeriCorps VISTAs: 16 serve as Community Partnership...
Other Local Events and Workshops
New Writing Programs at Mighty Rec Centers
Mighty Writers
MW Penrose (11th & Susquehanna) & MW Rivera (5th & Allegheny) Game ON! (ages 7-17) Thursdays, 6:00-7:30 PM Jan 3 to Feb 28, 2019 Come join in for a night of fun and games. We’ll...
2019 Diversity & Inclusion Conference – Mar 25
Global Philadelphia Association
The 2019 Diversity & Inclusion Conference is an education summit designed for CEOs, corporate leaders, chief diversity officers, and government officials to exchange insights and concepts about...
TEACHER CAFÉ: Dynamic Classroom Resources for Black History Month – Jan 23
Free Library of Philadelphia
Date and Time: Wednesday, January 23, 2019, 4:00-5:30 PM Location: Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 K-12 teachers and other educators across Philadelphia are invited...
Food Fight: Equality, Opportunity and the Pursuit of Independence – Feb 12
Jefferson University
Date and Time: Tuesday, February 12, 12-1 PM Location: Connelly Auditorium, Hamilton Building, 1001 Locust Street, Phila., PA The Jefferson Humanities Forum is pleased to present visiting speaker...
What Faith-Based Charities Need to know about Unique Legal & Regulatory Considerations – Mar 19
La Salle University
Whether you are a church, synagogue, mosque or ashram, there are legal requirements and considerations that impact your activities and operations in the community. To help you better understand these...
Literacy Lab for young readers
Friends of the Free Library of Philadelphia
Literacy Lab Returns! Literacy Lab provides small group literacy instruction for students in 1st to 3rd grade who struggle to read on grade level. The Literacy Lab program will consist of Read Aloud,...
Expungement Screening Event – Mar 9
Rutgers Law School
Date and Time: Saturday, March 9, 2019, 2-4 PM Location: South Jersey Legal Services, 745 Market Street, Camden NJ ***Pre-registration Required*** If you have been arrested or convicted of a crime in...
Making the Case for Making a Case… in Writing! – Feb 7
Philadelphia Education Fund
The Philadelphia Education Fund presents the Education First Compact Monthly Speaker Series, “Making the Case for Making a Case … in Writing!”. Join us for breakfast and discussion....
OnTrack’s Free College and Career Readiness Workshop Series
Uncommon Individual Foundation
The Uncommon Individual Foundation offers the following post-secondary education workshops this spring: Navigating High School Goal Setting & Planning Social Media Usage Essay Writing for the...
Movie Screening: Backpack Full of Cash, Sunday, January 27
Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools
The Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools Invites you to a screening of Backpack Full of Cash on Sunday January 27 at 2 pm at the Unitarian Society of Germantown (6511 Lincoln Drive 19119). Ample...
Black Lives Matter Week of Action, February 2-10
Black Lives Matter
Join the Caucus of Working Educators and other organizations for powerful racial justice organizing – happening this year in more than 30 cities across the country – that will connect...
New Resources
An Evaluation of the Impact of Restorative Practices in a Mid-Sized Urban School District
Rand Corporation
Can Restorative Practices Improve School Climate and Curb Suspensions? Across the country, school districts, their stakeholders, and policymakers have become increasingly concerned about suspensions,...
New Report: Principal Mobility in Philadelphia Schools
Philadelphia Education Research Consortium
When a principal leaves a school, research suggests that students tend to suffer. And a new study of K-12 schools in Pennsylvania shows that principals are more mobile in big, urban districts. In a...
Updated State Policy Toolkit for College Access and Success
National College Access Network
NCAN Releases Updated State Policy Toolkit NCAN has released the second version of its State Policy Toolkit. The updated Toolkit includes reports, legislation, and data from the past year, and...
Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement – Newest Issue
Joural of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
The Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement recently published its latest issue, Volume 22, No. 4 (December 2018). We invite you to review the enclosed Table of Contents and visit our...
Partnerships Classifieds
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:...
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....
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