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Get a mail-in ballot here: https://www.votespa.com/Voting-in-PA/Pages/Mail-and-Absentee-Ballot.aspx

The Department of State would greatly appreciate your help spreading the word about these important changes to our elections. We also want voters to know they can turn to the Department of State with their questions and concerns about upcoming elections. To that end, attached please find an updated voter education outreach toolkit. Please feel free download and share the graphics and information about the new primary date, the new registration deadline, and the option to vote by mail-in ballot.

Download the toolkit here: https://www.votespa.com/readytovote/Pages/ReadytoVoteToolkit.aspx

Summer is right around the corner and we need your help to invite the college students that you work with to be a part of the Let’s Get Ready family!

College students play a critical role in making our programs a success. This is a great opportunity for students to explore a career in teaching, mentoring, youth development, and build their resume.

Find all of our available positions, paid and volunteer, below.

College Access Coach (Volunteer)
As a College Access Coach, you are on the frontlines of educational equity as a tutor, role model, and mentor. Volunteer as an SAT coach to a small group of high school students in your community and guide them as they begin the college application process. College Access Coaches can specialize in either the math or verbal sections of the SAT.

This is a volunteer, three-month position that must be done in-person starting June.

Submit your application here!
https://www.tfaforms.com/4805749

College Access Site Director (Paid)
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 10-15-hour per week commitment. College Access Site Directors gain hands-on management experience while helping high school students achieve their college goals.

This is a paid, four-month position that must be done in-person starting May.

Submit your application here!
https://www.tfaforms.com/4805751

Transition Coach (Paid)
A Transition Coach works to provide virtual support by text, phone, and email to a cohort of current high school seniors as they apply to college and make the important decision about where to attend school. Our near-peer Transition Coaches build relationships with their students and provide mentorship, encouragement, targeted resources, and help staying on track with the many steps in the college application process.

This is a paid, year-long position that can be done virtually starting August.

Submit your application here!
https://www.tfaforms.com/4805757

Success Coach (Paid)
Success Coaches are dynamic and motivated undergraduate students who provide mentoring and support to 1st and 2nd year college students at one of our campus-based programs or virtually. Success Coaches work directly with students and provide 1:1 peer mentoring to a cohort of students by working to increase access to campus resources and building support for students.

This is a paid, year-long position that can be done virtually starting September.

Submit your application here!
https://www.tfaforms.com/4805757

Colocation America is inviting applications to its STEM Innovation Grant program.

Through the program, grants of up to $7,500 will be awarded in support of programs that inspire and encourage K-12 students to pursue their interest and curiosity in STEM. Eligible programs and projects include those that offer students an innovative approach to learning STEM; developmentally appropriate STEM curriculum and/or resources; and activities that support real-life application of STEM knowledge. Both innovative pilot programs as well as long-proven STEM programs across the United State will be considered.

Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations as defined by section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and public-school districts, private/public elementary, and/or secondary schools with STEM-specific programming.

See the Colocation America website for complete program guidelines and application instructions.

Deadline: May 1, 2020

Learn more and apply: https://www.colocationamerica.com/stem-grant

An initiative of the Roddenderry Foundation, the Roddenberry Prize seeks to highlight extraordinary organizations and support their efforts to achieve greater impact as well as creative, innovative approaches to urgent problems confronting the global community.

Through the program, four awards of $250,000 will be granted to organizations working in the areas of education, environment, science, or humanity. In addition to the four $250,000 awardees, up to five organizations in each field will be recognized publicly as prize finalists.

Criteria for the prize are innovativeness, potential for impact, vision, and track record.

The foundation welcomes prize applications from individuals, nonprofits, social enterprises, and B-corps who meet the following criteria: are organization or an individual (18 years of age or older) whose primary work is either education, science, environment, or humanity; are able to submit an application in English and include completed responses to all required application questions; and are legally able to receive grant funding.

Applications for round one grants must be submitted by April 10, 5:00 PM PDT. The team at the Roddenberry Foundation will review submissions to ensure they comply with prize eligibility and rules, and a panel of vetters will evaluate applications using a scoring rubric.

A select number of applications will be invited to submit application for round two of the prize starting May 11. Only those who are invited to resubmit for round two will remain in consideration for the prize. Invited applicants will have four weeks to submit their round two applications.

The 2020 Roddenderry Prize awardees will be announced on the Roddenderry Prize website in August.

For additional information and an FAQ, see the Roddenderry Prize website.

Deadline: April 10, 2020

Learn more and apply: https://roddenberryfoundation.org/our-work/roddenberry-prize/about/

The Elevate Prize Foundation has announced the launch of the inaugural Elevate Prize, a prize competition created by business leader, philanthropist and author Joseph Deitch to empower and celebrate people around the world who can spark movements, mobilize people, and catalyze positive, transformational change. That includes solutions that can help communities around the world prepare for, detect, and respond to emerging pandemics and health security threats, including coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

To that end, the foundation has engaged with MIT Solve, an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and will leverage its award-winning open innovation platform, methodology, and global network of entrepreneurs and social impact leaders. Through the prize competition, the foundation will award up to $5 million annually to a cohort of ten “global Heroes,” as well as other resources for up to two years after a “hero” is selected.

Through the prize competition, the foundation is seeking a radically diverse cohort of “heroes” to present with a minimum prize of $300,000 spread over two years, with potential for additional monetary support; management and development services, mentoring and counseling, educational training, and capacity building; and connections to a global fanbase that can help amplify and scale their work.

While the competition is open to global heroes who are addressing any challenge, the foundation is using the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals as a general guide for entrepreneurs.

In addition, MIT Solve, in response to the COVID-19 crisis, has launched a Health Security & Pandemics Challenge of its own to which the Elevate Prize will commit one of its ten prizes to a “Solver” team selected through the challenge.

The deadline to submit a solution is June 29, 2020. Finalists will be selected in August and invited to present their work before an Elevate Prize panel of judges and a live audience in New York City during the United Nations General Assembly in September.

For more information and/or to nominate a hero or submit an application, see the Elevate prize website.

Deadline: June 29, 2020

Learn more and apply: https://elevateprize.org/

The AARP Foundation works to end senior poverty by helping vulnerable older adults build economic opportunity and social connectedness. As AARP’s charitable affiliate, the foundation makes grants to organizations working to advance evidence-based projects that can become sustainable and practical solutions to the challenges facing low-income older adults.

The foundation’s goals for serving low-income people age 50 and older (LI50+) include increasing earnings, savings, and Social Security benefits for the LI50+ population reducing housing, health care, food, and transportation expenditures.

Under this Request for Application, the foundation welcomes proposals for direct-service projects that can show that low-income older adults who participate in the proposed project experience an increase in economic opportunity (increased income or reduced expenditures). Other types of projects that advance economic opportunity in low-income older adults on a systemic level also will be considered.

(Note: there are two separate funding opportunities: one for Direct Service projects and one for Education, Outreach or Field-Building projects. Application requirements and funding levels vary based on the type of project.)

Grants ranging up to a maximum of $150,000 over three years will be awarded in support of both types of projects.

Applications are due April 22 by 5:00 p.m. Winning applicants will be notified of their awards in June, with the grant period scheduled to start July 1.

For the complete RFA (for both opportunities) and additional information, see the AARP Foundation website.

Deadline: April 22, 2020

Learn more and apply: https://www.aarp.org/aarp-foundation/grants/info-2019/advancing-effective-solutions.html

With these goals in mind, Klein College of Media & Communication students and staff created two COVID19 media and news outlets: 

• Temple University student media organizations joined together to build an inclusive reporting collaborative for the first time in the university’s history. There has also been a dedicated effort to translate the articles and media into Spanish by our bi-lingual students. Find all this collaborative information and reporting on COVID19 from The Temple News, WHIP Radio, Temple Update, TUTV, and Lo Ultimo here at COVID19TU.com.

• Klein College has been dedicated to covering stories from streets and sidewalks throughout Philadelphia’s diverse neighborhoods through our undergraduate and graduate courses, including the Philadelphia Neighborhoods Senior Capstone. This work is expanding to include not only Philadelphia neighborhoods and suburbs, but to share stories from across the country, wherever our students are located right now. This site is new, but stay up to date and even contact the editor to submit your own story here at ReportingOnCOVID19.com.

Please feel free to take a moment to support our students by checking out these two sites and feel free to share them with any residents, community members, and partners that you work with. We’d love to hear feedback about the sites and even find ways to elevate their voices through new stories. Contact Kalie Wertz at tul52279@temple.edu.

]]> https://phennd.org/update/education-related-resources-for-covid-19/ Mon, 06 Apr 2020 21:57:40 +0000 https://phennd.org/?post_type=update&p=67191 An Update from the PA Schools Work Campaign

We hope you all are staying safe and healthy in this very difficult time. Last week, as you are well aware, Governor Wolf extended Pennsylvania school closure indefinitely, while also expanding the stay-at-home order to the entire state. As many schools continue—or begin—distance learning, we want to remind you that the Pennsylvania Department of Education has made a wide range of COVID-19 resources available on their homepage, including information about meal distributions in districts across the state and links to help parents whose children are adapting to distance learning.

View resources here: https://www.education.pa.gov/Schools/safeschools/emergencyplanning/COVID-19/Pages/default.aspx

We’ve also created a page on the PA Schools Work website that offers links to various COVID-19 resource pages from PA Schools Work partners: http://paschoolswork.org/covid-19-resources/

Feeling distressed? Disrupted? Cheated? Weary of quarantine and ready for some authentic conversation? Talk with other students about dealing with the pandemic and figuring out the future. Moderated dialogue, with tips you can use in class, at home, online and at work.

Join the virtual CAN WE TALK? regional student dialogue. Thursday, April 16, 7 PM on Zoom. Pre-registration required. Limited to 50. Sign up here: https://surveys.connectthedots.ie/canwetalk/

Although the City is strongly encouraging people to stay home and maintain strict social distancing guidelines, work or care-giving duties may require some residents to come in close contact with others.  These people may want to use barrier protections (face masks and face shields) at these times on the assumption that any contact with others presents some risk.

Learn more about alternative face masks and shields, and how to make your own here: https://www.phila.gov/2020-04-03-how-to-use-alternative-face-masks-and-shields-for-protection-when-other-ppe-is-unavailable/?mc_cid=c7c9d8875b&mc_eid=1e9ebdcee0

• Get COVID-19 updates sent to your phone. Text COVIDPHL to 888-777 to receive free text alerts with info and updates from @PHLPublicHealth.
• Residents with questions about the COVID-19 coronavirus can use the 24/7 helpline to talk to a medical professional. Call 800-722-7112
• For the latest updates and information on COVID-19 in Philadelphia please visit the Phila.gov webpage: https://www.phila.gov/programs/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/?mc_cid=c7c9d8875b&mc_eid=1e9ebdcee0
• View Daily Virtual Press Conferences on COVID-19 Updates, 1 pm every weekday: https://twitter.com/phlpublichealth, PHLgovTV, Comcast channels 64 and 1164, Verizon channels 40 and 41

• Donate to the PHL COVID-19 Fund
• Donate personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Volunteer

Find out how you can support your community during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic here: https://www.phila.gov/programs/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/how-you-can-help/?mc_cid=c7c9d8875b&mc_eid=1e9ebdcee0

COVID-19 is taking the lives of Americans and disrupting the fabric of work, education, and daily living for the entire nation. As critical sectors, employers, educators, policymakers, and communities rise to meet this challenge and map the path forward, reliable insights into the needs and expectations of the American people are more important than ever.

Join us Wednesday, April 8, for a briefing with Strada Center for Consumer Insights researchers Dave Clayton, Andrew Hanson, and Nichole Torpey-Saboe. The center has launched Public Viewpoint, a new weekly survey that tracks consumer sentiment during these weeks and months, and new results will be released weekly. In the first webinar in this new series, we will share what we’re learning from the data so far.

We also have compiled informative resources from across the Strada network and other groups we admire in a new online resource center and hope these materials provide useful guidance during this time of uncertainty.

Register for webinar here.

There continues to be a lot of concern about the spread of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, in Pennsylvania and across the country.  I’m reaching out to share some resources to help you, your family and your community navigate the challenges of these extraordinary times.

In a situation changing as quickly as this one, when people are scared and looking for strong leadership, Governor Wolf, Secretary Levine and local officials throughout the Commonwealth continue to take decisive action to protect the health and well-being of Pennsylvanians.  Throughout this pandemic, I have been working with my colleagues in Washington to provide direct assistance for the people who need it most: families, workers and small businesses.  As our Nation faces this unprecedented public health and economic crisis, I will continue fighting to ensure communities across the Commonwealth get the support they need as quickly as possible.

View the resources here: https://www.casey.senate.gov/coronavirus

www.CommunityResourceConnects.org is a searchable online resource database to help individuals, families and providers find local community resources by zip code and key categories, such as food, financial support and more. The site is updated daily with COVID-19 updates, which you can also find and easily print from the site. You can easily translate the site into other languages, and text/email a resource to others.

• All courts and related offices in Philadelphia will remain closed until April 30th. Given this, there will be be no legal evictions through April 30th.
• Nonessential businesses that have been ordered to close are not required to pay the Philadelphia Use & Occupancy (U&O) Tax during the shutdown.
• The 2020 Primary Election has been rescheduled from April 28^th to June 2^nd. The deadline to register to vote is May 18^th. The deadline to request an absentee or vote by mail ballot is Tuesday, May 26^th
• The PA Office of the Attorney General launched Pennsylvania’s consumer relief initiative.

View our Resource Directory here: http://pacdc.org/covid-19/resource-directory/

To receive the most up-to-date information in this rapidly changing environment, please visit Philadelphia’s COVID-19 site. You can also sign up to receive text alerts by texting COVID19-PHL to 888777. To speak to a healthcare professional 24/7, dial 800-722-7112.

PPP provides eight weeks of cash-flow assistance  to small businesses and nonprofits with up to 500 employees through 100 percent federally guaranteed loans. SBA will forgive loans if all employees are kept on the payroll for eight weeks and the money is used for payroll, rent, mortgage interest, or utilities.

• The application for small businesses and sole proprietorships opens TODAY.
• Business owners can find a lender here: https://www.sba.gov/paycheckprotection/find
• The Philadelphia Inquirer responds to a list of FAQs. Read here: https://www.inquirer.com/business/small-business/sba-coronavirus-payroll-protection-program-20200403.html

Learn more here: https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/coronavirus-relief-options/paycheck-protection-program-ppp

This series will help organizations face the strenuous systemic, operational, and strategic challenges that lie ahead. Recent additions include:

• After the Pandemic: Tracy Palandjian and Paul Brest on using pay for success (PFS) to help transform short-term emergency efforts into sustainable systems change.
• Guide to Resilient Leadership: A list of SSIR articles to help social change leaders during the tumult.
• Click Here: The inaugural weekly roundup of links from SSIR‘s editors explores civil society’s response to the crisis.

Read more here: https://ssir.org/rethinking_social_change_in_the_face_of_coronavirus?utm_source=Enews&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SSIR_Now&utm_content=Title#

Learn more here: https://www.lisc.org/our-stories/story/verizon-and-lisc-fire-25-million-small-business-covid-19-recovery-fund