Borealis Philanthropy is inviting applications to its Immigration Litigation Fund (ILF).

ILF is a national funder collaborative with a goal to ensure that the nation’s immigration enforcement system is fair, humane, and prioritizes the civil and human rights of those vulnerable to deportation. ILF believes that litigation is an essential tool in achieving public policy and social change on immigration issues.

Historically, ILF has provided time-limited project support to litigation-specific projects. Due to the current economic and health crises related to COVID-19, grants awarded in this funding cycle will be general operating grants rather than project grants. Grants of up to $75,000 will be awarded for impact litigation efforts that challenge immigration enforcement issues that include but are not limited to COVID-19’s impact on immigration enforcement; customs and Border Protection accountability; FOIA litigation; exclusions to entry based on religion, region, or other factors; efforts that limit or restrict refugee admissions; efforts to expand the use of expedited removal; immigration detention, including conditions of confinement; ICE raids in workplaces or other locations; local and state law enforcement cooperation with ICE or Border Patrol; use of state and local government databases to identify deportable immigrants; prosecution for “illegal” entry or re-entry; access to counsel; withholding of state or federal funding to cities, campuses, or other locations that fail to cooperate with deportation efforts; limits on asylum or other programs that provide protection from persecution, violence, torture, or disasters, including but not limited to Withholding of Removal, CAT, and TPS; and challenges to criminal convictions as grounds for deportation or removal.

ILF will provide funding for needs related to impact litigation focused on immigration enforcement issues; convenings meant to advance coordination and strategy on an issue related to impact litigation efforts; and organizing and communications efforts that are related to impact litigation efforts.

To be considered for funding, applicants must first speak with a Borealis staff person to discuss their project. If Borealis staff determine that the project fits within ILF guidelines, the applicant will be instructed to use the online grant portal to submit their application for funding.

See the Borealis Philanthropy website for complete program guidelines and application instructions.

Deadline: June 1, 2020

Learn more and apply: https://borealisphilanthropy.org/grantmaking/immigration-legal-strategy-support-fund/

Cities around the world are taking meaningful action to advance health equity by designing solutions that benefit the health of people and our planet.

Through a new $3 million funding opportunity, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seeks to bring the most impactful ideas from across the globe to U.S. cities to address the intertwined issues of health, equity, and climate change.

The foundation seeks proposals that foster learning and stimulate action in U.S. cities around effective approaches from abroad that mitigate the unequal health risks posed by climate change. Specifically, it is seeking proposals that explore changes in city planning, policies, and programs that address buildings and energy; land use and urban planning; transportation; waste; food systems and food security; and air quality.

The foundation seeks applicants who represent organizations from a wide range of fields and disciplines — both within and outside the health/public health sector — and encourages proposals from both U.S.-based applicants interested in adopting or adapting a successful approach from outside the United States, and from non-U.S.-based applicants with a successful approach that could work in the United States. The foundation encourages proposals from teams that include both U.S.-based and non-U.S.-based members and seeks to attract diversity of thought, professional background, race, ethnicity, life experience, and cultural perspective in the applicant pool.

Proposals must be based on a successful approach from a non-U.S. city(ies), region, or global city network. Applicants need not have an existing relationship with the non-U.S. city(ies), region, or network in which the approach has been implemented. However, applicants must have an established relationship with the U.S. city(ies) in which the proposed project will take place and be the prime recipient of funds. The project director should be affiliated with the applicant organization, although an individual from a collaborating organization (e.g., community organization, research partner) may serve as the co-project director.

Applicants may be based almost anywhere in the world; however, the foundation will only fund proposals that demonstrate clear applicability to the United States and propose work in a U.S. city(ies).

Awards will be made to organizations, not individuals. Preference will be given to applicants that are either public entities (e.g., city department of health, city planning department), public charities, or nongovernmental organizations. Applicants not representing city government will be required to submit a letter of support from the head of the U.S. city department with whom the applicant will most closely work.

Up to $3 million will be available through this funding opportunity. The funding period will be thirty months in duration (2.5 years) and will include a brief planning period, implementation, and dissemination/communication activities, as well as active participation in a learning network. The proposed budget should be appropriate to the scope of work, but no more than $600,000 for the project period. RWJF is interested in supporting a portfolio of projects that, together, represent an array of action areas and a range of budgets commensurate with grantees’ expected activities.

For additional information, including eligibility, selection criteria, and key dates, see the Robert Johnson Foundation website.

Deadline: May 28, 2020

Learn more and apply: https://www.rwjf.org/content/rwjf/en/library/funding-opportunities/2020/global-ideas-for-us-solutions-cities-taking-action-to-address-health-equity-and-climate-change.html

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation was established in 1993 in honor of Dollar General’s co-founder, J.L. Turner, who was functionally illiterate and had only a third-grade education. He was a farmer’s son who dropped out of school when his father was killed in an accident, but with determination and hard work he began what has now become a successful company.

The foundation currently is accepting applications for its Youth Literacy Grants program. Through the program, grants of up to $4,000 will be awarded to schools, public libraries, and nonprofit organizations to help students who are reading below grade level or experiencing difficulty reading.

The program supports the implementation or expansion of new or existing literacy programs; the purchase of new technology or equipment to support literacy initiatives; and/or the purchase of books, materials, or software for literacy programs.

See the Dollar General Literacy Foundation website for complete program guidelines, a list of 2019 grant recipients, and application instructions.

Deadline: May 21, 2020

Learn more and apply: https://www.dgliteracy.org/#youth-literacy-grants

One of the oldest American foundations, the Russell Sage Foundation was established by Mrs. Margaret Olivia Sage in 1907 for “the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States.” In pursuit of this mission, the foundation now dedicates itself to strengthening the methods, data, knowledge, and theoretical core of the social sciences as a means of diagnosing social problems and improving social policies.

Due to the effects of COVID-19 on all facets of American life, the foundation is changing its immediate priorities for Letters of Inquiry for its upcoming deadline. Under the new priority, the foundation will only consider LOIs that satisfy the following criteria: research so timely and time-sensitive that the project must start before April 1, 2021; or research that analyzes social, political, economic, or psychological disruptions resulting from the coronavirus crisis affecting social and living conditions in the United States.

All LOIs must focus on issues related to the foundation’s core program areas and special initiatives, which include:

Behavioral Economics — Research that uses insights and methods from psychology, economics, sociology, political science, and other social sciences to examine and improve social and living conditions.

Decision-Making and Human Behavior in Context — Research on decision making across the social sciences that examines causes, consequences, processes, or context from a behavioral or alternative perspective.

Future of Work — Projects that examine a wide range of causal factors that may have depressed wages of low-education workers, from foreign outsourcing and immigration to the decline of unions and technological change.

Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration — Research investigating multidisciplinary perspectives on questions stemming from the significant changes in the racial, ethnic, and immigrant-origin composition of the U.S. population.

Social, Political, and Economic Inequality — Research examining the factors that contribute to existing inequities; the extent to which these inequalities affect social, political, and economic institutions and outcomes; and how they influence the lives of individuals and families, including equality of access and opportunity, social mobility, and civic mobilization and representation, as well as how advantage and disadvantage are transmitted within and across generations.

Letters of Inquiry are due May 21. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal by August 17, 2020.

For complete program guidelines, application instructions, information about previous grant recipients, and an FAQ, see the Russell Sage Foundation website.

Deadline: May 21, 2020 (Letters of Inquiry)

Learn more and apply here: https://www.russellsage.org/how-to-apply

The Leeway Foundation believes that art is a vital tool for community building, self-expression, and individual and collective transformation and can bridge difference, center those who have been on the margins, and challenge and connect communities and individuals to live in peaceful coexistence. To that end, the foundation works to promote artistic expression that amplifies the voices of those on the margins, promotes sustainable and healthy communities, and works in the service of movements for economic and social justice.

To advance this mission, the foundation is currently accepting applications for its annual Transformation Award program, which provides unrestricted annual grants of $15,000 to women and trans artists and cultural producers living in the greater Philadelphia area who create art for social change and over the last five years or more have demonstrated a commitment to social change work.

Applying for the award is a two-stage process, with stage-one applications due May 15, 2020. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a stage-two application.

As noted by the foundation, Leeway is a trans-affirming organization committed to gender self-determination and uses the term “trans” in its most inclusive sense to encompass transsexual, transgender, genderqueer, Two-Spirit people, and anyone whose gender identity or gender expression is non-conforming and/or different from their gender assigned at birth.

To be eligible, candidates must be a woman and/or trans person who is at least 18 years of age and has lived for the past two years or more in Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Philadelphia County.

See the Leeway Foundation website for compete program guidelines and application instructions.

Deadline: May 15, 2020 (Stage-One Applications)

Learn more and apply: https://www.leeway.org/grants/leeway_transformation_award/

This site was developed by area college students in a collaborative effort with the Philadelphia Organization for Health Professional Students (POHPS). The COVID-Response site https://www.covid-response.info/ allows for healthcare workers, city residents and students to easily access information on where/how to volunteer, get help or donate in light of the COVID-19 crisis. This is a student-led initiative that was born out of a want to help during the COVID-19 pandemic. This site is dedicated to all the students, healthcare workers, and city residents who have come together to help during this time of need.

Read the article here: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20200413152542750

In recognition of over 1.3 billion students from more than 100 countries currently out of school and doing their best to learn remotely, Dr. Paik’s class has decided to create a YouTube channel to share their experiences of living, learning and supporting one another through the COVID-19 pandemic. They hope to add new content each week until the end of the semester.

Jae H. Paik, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology at San Francisco State University is very proud of her students for showing their strengths as well as their vulnerabilities, keeping things real yet positive. They are constant reminders of what education truly is about—students, faculty and the communities all learning together, even during the devastating pandemics.

Dr. Paik invites you to join her in supporting students across the globe impacted by the COVID-19.  Please enjoy and share this YouTube channel widely, spreading all the greatness and hope our student population represents.  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7cRA13frP5a9A0gB8xykTA

In this hour we’ll use E-mentoring best practices as a base for a discussion on considerations for programs interested in making this transition.

Intended audience: mentoring program staff, board members, and stakeholders.

Date and Time: April 30, 2020, 1-2 PM

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-the-transition-to-virtual-mentoring-registration-102982605746

DESCRIPTION of April 22 session: The importance of partnerships in crisis is front and center as we confront the global COVID-19 pandemic. Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and the Center for Health Equity Research at the University of North Carolina have partnered to launch the webinar series, Communities in Partnership: Ensuring Equity in the Time of COVID19.

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd69ZVc5NC7HxdNEo3C3WDAibwpRtA7D01tatC-dzm6OinhzA/viewform?mc_cid=2573035412&mc_eid=db5e1adac3

Each session will allow us to highlight the disparate impact of the disease in the most vulnerable communities in our nation. This webinar series is meant to connect you with leaders across the U.S. and internationally that are working to address systemic inequities during a time of global crisis. Each webinar will feature community-institutional partnerships that serve diverse communities.

We are still releasing the report because it serves as a benchmark as Philadelphia plans its recovery and as a reminder of both our strong fundamentals and the lingering challenges we will need to address.

The State of Center City 2020 provides detailed profiles of the diverse sectors that drove 10 straight years of employment growth as we entered 2020. It includes information on housing and transportation trends, and serves as a report on CCD operations and their impact.

Read the report here: https://www.centercityphila.org/research-reports/socc-2020?utm_source=publications_reports&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=socc

Read the commentary essay by Paul R. Levy on why Philadelphia will prevail: https://centercityphila.org/news/ready-to-rebound?utm_source=publications_reports&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=socc

The PAT program is an evidence based home visiting model designed to ensure young children are healthy, safe and ready to learn. The goals of the program are to provide parents with child development knowledge and parenting support, provide early detection of developmental delays and health issues, prevent child abuse and neglect, and increase children’s school readiness. The PAT model includes one-on-one home visits, monthly group meetings, developmental screenings, and a resource network for families. Parent educators conduct the home visits using structured visit plans and guided planning tools.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Summary of Job Responsibilities: A certified parent educator implements the PAT model, emphasizing parent-child interaction, development-centered parenting and family well-being in their work with families. Utilizing the PAT Foundational Curriculum in culturally sensitive ways, the parent educator partners, facilitates and reflects with families. The parent educator implements the curriculum in the home through ongoing home visits to ensure the healthy development of children.

Essential Functions (organizations may have additional organization specific responsibilities):
• Engage in recruitment activities (as applicable)
• Manages a caseload of up to 8 – 10 families
• Works in partnership with the Director to complete an initial and annual family-centered assessment with each family withing 90 days of enrollment
• Develop, monitor and review goals with each family
• Plan, provide and document personal visits focused on parent-child interaction, development-centered parenting and family well-being. Will work toward a goal of delivering 24 personal visits, with a minimum of 9 personal visits, to each family annually. Parent Educator could deliver a minimum of 16 visits each month, and will likely deliver
more as needed.
• Use the PAT Foundational curriculum to share research based information with families
• Provide group connections to give families an opportunity to build social connections with each other, engage in parent-child interaction activities, and increase their knowledge of ways to support children’s development. Must deliver a minimum of 12 group connections annually.
• Complete at least an initial and annual developmental screening and health review for each enrolled child within 90 days of enrollment or birth, then annually thereafter.
• Connect families to resources that help them reach their goals and address their needs, ensuring that a minimum of 60% of the caseload receiveds at least one community resource annually.
• Help parents and children transition to other services as needed, to preschool, or to kindergarten.
• Maintain and submit in a timely way all required family and program documentation
• Organize and inventory supplies/materials, etc.
• Participate in at least 2 hours of reflective supervision monthly and at least 2 hours of staff meetings monthly. Should address role, ethics, boundaries, and consider one’s own wellbeing.
• Obtain competency-based professional development and renew parent educator certification annually

Required Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree preferred in child development, psychology, nursing, human services, or related field preferred. A minimum of an Associate’s degree required.
• Experience working with ethnically diverse families with young children under the age of six years.
• Experience working in the home and community sites, or shelters.
• Cultural competence, respect and sensitivity; ability to speak a second language (Spanish, other), highly valued.
• Strong commitment to the vision, mission, and goals of Parents as Teachers.
• Highly organized, self-motivated, flexible, (including willingness to work non-traditional hours), and able to work as part of a team.
• Familiarity with community services and supports, highly valued
• Must have a reliable vehicle and appropriate Pennsylvania driver’s license and insurance

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:
• Must be able to attend fully required PAT trainings, obtain competency-based professional development, and renew certification annually.
• Knowledge of trauma-informed care work
• Some experience working with families who experience homelessness
• Receives training in reporting abuse and neglect

Work Environment:
The Parent Educator’s weekly schedule will vary and include, but not be limited to working from a PEC office, home, the client’s home, or public space.

Physical Demands:
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk, use hands and fingers to feel, handle, or operate objects or controls; and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.

PEC is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, and veteran or disability status.

Send resumes to resumebell@pec-cares.org

Time: April 23, 2020 4:00 PM

Register here: https://temple.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Npm7urx-QwqqHawJ36w-QA

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Philadelphia VIP, the hub of pro bono in Philadelphia, recruits, trains, and supports volunteer attorneys who provide free legal services to low-income clients.

Position Summary:

VIP seeks highly motivated, second- or third-year law students to serve as legal interns during the fall semester supporting VIP’s work in the many areas where our clients face critical legal needs, including: family law (custody, support, divorce, adoption), homeownership/tangled title (probate, quiet title, and deed transfers), debt collection, guardianship, tort defense, and estate planning. Our legal interns function as valued members of the VIP team. With attentive attorney supervision and training, interns gain valuable skills that will help them launch careers in any sector of the legal profession or in non-profit leadership.

Key Qualifications:

• Passion for access to justice for underserved communities and commitment to VIP’s volunteer-based service model; experience with low-income populations is a plus
• Prior volunteer work
• Strong oral and written communication skills and attention to detail; Spanish fluency a plus (not required)

Learn more and apply: https://www.phillyvip.org/about-us/careers/legal-internship/ (scroll down for frequently asked questions)

E-mail cover letter and resume to Joe Durkin, Program Coordinator, jdurkin@phillyvip.org. No calls, please. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with a priority deadline of June 26, 2020.

What to include in your cover letter: We invite you to include a statement about how your unique background and/or experiences might contribute to the diversity, cultural vitality, and perspective of VIP’s staff team and legal practice.

Our conference site houses video collections from our poster presenters, workshop session leaders, community organizations, and professional panels. Explore these videos, and submit questions now to win prizes, and tune in live on May 2nd as our presenters answer your questions, as well as discuss, with their co-presenters, how they may answer those questions across the disciplines and how we could work together towards solutions.

This is an open, free virtual experience that requires no log in, registration, or information to be able to participate.

*Anyone who submits a question will automatically be entered into our raffle to win prizes, that we will mail.

Check out our virtual conference here: https://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/galileo/

So many exciting and wonderful experiences to explore! For example:

Student Panel “Our Most Pressing Challenges,” This panel has representatives from different degree programs from Arcadia University’s graduate programs, coming together to discuss what they see as the largest issue facing their profession in today’s world today and what other groups they may need to work with for success to occur.

“Professional/Alumni Panel “”The Surprising Places to Find Partnerships”” This panel highlights where professionals in the field and our alumni have found valuable and maybe surprising places of collaboration within and outside of their discipline and the lessons we can take from these partnerships.

The global COVID-19 pandemic hit campuses across the country in the blink of an eye. In rapid succession, campuses closed, courses moved online, and our lives—personally and professionally—were permanently altered. Campus Sonar started tracking public online conversations from current and admitted college students in early March. We analyzed over 5 million conversations in six weeks, including over 100,000 first-person mentions from current, prospective, and admitted students. In this webinar, Liz Gross and Steve App share takeaways from this research. You’ll learn what students have been talking about and how you can find these conversations yourself. We’ll examine how the conversation shifted since the arrival of the coronavirus, and what admissions professionals can do right now to support students enrolled in your institution and those who will be in the future.

Date: April 30, 2020
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Register here: https://www.sreb.org/workshops-webinars

The sudden onset and rapid spread of the coronavirus has caused many sudden changes to student and family finances. At the same time, students may not have the same level access to counselors and advisers that they did prior to social distancing. Yet research shows that students and their families know very little about their right to appeal financial aid awards as well as the process for doing so. This webinar will provide an overview of the new SwiftStudent digital tool, a free resource designed to hep college students through the formal process of requesting additional financial aid when their economic circumstances have changed. SwiftStudent was created by the Seldin/Haring-Smith Foundation in partnership with 18 higher education organizations. SwiftStudent is available to all students receiving federal student aid, free to use, and does not share or sell personal data. The tool guides users through the appeal process focusing on numerous special circumstances that may warrant a student requesting an adjustment to their financial aid, such as recent job loss of a parent, a medical crisis, and loss of childcare or housing. SwiftStudent offers templates that address over 14 types of appeals, accompanied by an extensive resource guide.

Date: April 23, 2020
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Register here: https://www.sreb.org/workshops-webinars