The week of
May 5, 2020
Other Local Events and Workshops
Save the Date: HIV Prevention and Education Virtual Conference – June 1-30
Philadelphia FIGHT
The Community Health Training Alliance presents HIV Prevention and Education Virtual Conference, Continuing the Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic, June 1-30, 2020 Philadelphia FIGHT’s 1st...
PACDA Webinar: Ten Steps to a Federal Job featuring Kathryn Troutman – May 15
Pennsylvania Career Development Association
Please join us for this upcoming virtual event: Ten Steps to a Federal Job featuring Kathryn Troutman, Federal Career Coach When: Friday, May 15, 2020, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (EDT) Where: Online...
Town Hall on pardons as an economic investment strategy – May 8
Economy League
Individuals who encounter the criminal justice system are, in many ways, permanently bound to and even defined by their criminal records. The formal and informal barriers created by a criminal record...
Virtual Session: Raising Philanthropic Capital in Uncertain Times – May 7
Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia
Join us for the first virtual session in our Nonprofits & COVID-19 series focused on how to utilize high-level strategies to raise philanthropic capital during uncertain times. The uncertainty...
New Resources
New Podcast on Service-Research from Mercer University
Mercer University
Mercer University’s Research that Reaches Out office has launched a new podcast that tells the stories of how faculty and staff are working with students to deepen learning and address...
Final Edition of Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement
North Carolina Campus Compact
Read the latest and final edition of Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, North Carolina Campus Compact’s peer-reviewed, online journal, hosted by the University of...
Podcast: The Class Ceiling: How Privilege Shapes British Careers
Andrea Mictchell Center
REVERBERATIONS OF INEQUALITY Interviewer: MATTHEW BERKMAN. Even in the United Kingdom, with its longstanding reputation for rigid class distinctions, the common presumption in the twenty-first...
MOVING FORWARD: The Post Covid-19 Resiliency Series
LaSalle Nonprofit Center
Some people would say that the measure of a crisis is how you come out the other side. The Nonprofit Center wants to make sure you meet that other side strong and head high. That’s why we created...
Free COVID-19 Courses – CDC Guideline for Schools, Day Camps, Businesses & Child Care Centers
CyberWorx
CypherWorx () has created FOUR mini courses filled with useful information based on CDC guidelines as well as downloadable PDFs (check lists for cleaning, posters with information about how to...
Virtual Resources Now Available for All Philadelphia Career Seekers
Philadelphia Works
As Pennsylvania prepares to return to some sense of normalcy under Governor Wolf’s phased reopening plan, Philadelphia Works (PhilaWorks), the state’s largest workforce development board, has...
Professor addresses student, faculty difficulties amid COVID-19
The University of Illinois
Toni Marie Burkhalter, senior instructor in Food Science and Human Nutrition and advisor in human nutrition, recently made a video titled “COVID-19 What Your Students Are Not Telling You.” As a...
The Neighborhoods Most Affected by Job Losses Related to COVID-19 – Philadelphia Fed
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
COVID-19-related business shutdowns have caused more than 26 million Americans to file for jobless benefits in just four weeks’ time. Our new research examines where these unemployed workers live...
Webinar Series – Communities in Partnership: Ensuring Equity in the Time of COVID19
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)
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...
Promising Practices in Youth Civic and Political Engagement
Brandeis University
Civic engagement is at the heart of what The Segal Program, our Fellows, and our larger Network are about as citizen leaders. We emphasize the importance of civic engagement in our curriculum and our...
PA Guidance and Resources for School Communities
PA Department of Education
Mitigation efforts related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Pennsylvania have required everyone to work within rapidly changing, complex circumstances which create a variety of unique situations and...
STEM Resources for Teachers
Philadelphia Education Fund
The Philadelphia Education Fund is providing this resource list as a continuation of our ongoing STEM programs for students, teachers, and professionals who volunteer in schools. For more...
PhillyGoes2College – COVID-19 Resource Guide
Philadelphia Education Fund
In 2017, the Philadelphia Education Fund launched PhillyGoes2College to serve as a resource for students and families interested in learning more the process of applying, financing, and enrolling in...
Health Insurance Coverage in Southeastern PA
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey
Even before COVID-19, number of uninsured up in PA The number of Southeastern Pennsylvania (SEPA) adults without health insurance increased from in 2015 to 11% in 2018. Approximately 277,500 adults...
Free Library of Philadelphia – Virtual Programming Page
Free Library of Philadelphia
We miss being with our library customers for in-person visits, but until our neighborhood libraries open again, we’re excited to bring you some of your favorite offerings online! That’s right:...
Food and Housing Insecurity Among Philadelphia College Students: A #RealCollegePHL Report
The Hope Center
We wanted to share our new report released this morning: Food and Housing Insecurity Among Philadelphia College Students: A #RealCollegePHL Report. The report is based on survey research conducted...
Partnerships Classifieds
Volunteers Needed for SEAMAAC Food Distribution and Delivery during COVID-19
SEAMAAC
SEAMAAC needs volunteers at their new food distribution system, through which they are supporting tons of immigrant families all over South Philadelphia. They run a city food site, the best one in...
Call for Volunteers: Serve in Support Roles for Behavioral Health Services – Coping First Aid
Penn Medicine
Due to a heightened need for mental health support among healthcare workers and hospital staff, we are seeking volunteers to serve as mental health first-responders in the Penn hospital system....
Host a Free Summer Intern
Philadelphia Education Fund
The national conversation on the COVID-19 pandemic is slowly shifting from self-quarantine to a possible re-opening of the economy. And, for the students we serve at the Philadelphia Education Fund,...
Grant Opportunities
Helping Hands Grants Program for med students – May 31
American Psychiatric Association Foundation
American Psychiatric Association Foundation Invites Applications for Helping Hands Grants Program The American Psychiatric Association Foundation is inviting applications for its Helping Hands Grants...
Small Grants Program for healthy food, environment, communities – June 1
Clif Bar Family Foundation
Clif Bar Family Foundation Invites Applications for Small Grants The Clif Bar Family Foundation was established in 2006 to support grassroots groups with inspiring ideas and limited funds. To that...
Valentine Foundation for women and girls – June 30
Valentine Foundation
The Valentine Foundation has opened its grant application process for 2020. You can read about the foundation process and timeline by going to our website The Valentine Foundation has advocated for...
Philadelphia Emergency Fund for Stabilization of Early Education
Reinvestment Fund
Reinvestment Fund offers grant funds to ECE programs The Philadelphia Emergency Fund for Stabilization of Early Education (PEFSEE) aims to ensure that Philadelphia’s early learning sector can...
Job Opportunities/AmeriCorps Opportunities
Visiting Lecturer Diversity Fellowship Program, Community College of Philadelphia
Community College of Philadelphia
Community College of Philadelphia is offering Visiting Lecturer Diversity Fellowship Opportunities for Biology, Nursing, Early Childhood Education, Accounting, and Marketing degree holders. We offer...
Full-Time Tutor & Mentor, City Year AmeriCorps Member
City Year Greater Philadelphia
WHAT YOU’LL DO Your service will focus on helping students get and/or remain on track to graduate by providing academic support, delivering behavior and attendance coaching and encouraging student...
College Counseling/Seminar Teacher, KIPP Philadelphia Schools
KIPP Philadelphia Charter Schools
Reporting to the Managing Director of KIPP Through College and the School Leader of KIPP DuBois Collegiate Academy, the College Counselor/Seminar Teacher is part of the college counseling team at...
Program Director, Chester Upland Youth Soccer
Chester Upland Youth Soccer
Chester Upland Youth Soccer provides after-school and weekend soccer programming, mentorship and nutrition education for nearly 500 at-risk children in suburban Philadelphia. We are hiring a Program...
Miscellaneous
Webinar: Public Viewpoint Survey: COVID-19 Impact by Job Field – May 6
Strada Education Network
The COVID-19 crisis has left millions of Americans without work. As workers struggle to adapt, millions will be looking to reskill, change jobs—or even change careers. The Public Viewpoint survey...
Webinar: Flattening the the COVID-19 “infodemic” curve – May 7
Knight Foundation
VISION continues our multi-episode deep dive into the dark and disturbing world of COVID-19 misinformation. In Episode 3, UCLA’s Safiya Umoja Noble joins us to discuss flattening the infodemic...
Webinar: Potential solutions to the crisis in local news – May 6
Aspen Institute
Local news, in crisis before the pandemic, is now facing a cataclysm. Advertising has plummeted. Print has no market. And consolidation has driven record cuts. At stake is not just jobs, but the...
Webinar: Rebuilding Public Life after COVID-19 – May 5
Knight Foundation
Coast to Coast, a new weekly Knight show, will take a deep dive into cities and explore ideas and insights on building engaging communities in a time of rapid change. Each week, we’ll interview...
Virtual Discussion: First Amendment disrupted? The state of free expression in the U.S. – May 5
Knight Foundation
As the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way institutions across society operate, free expression is as important as ever. Join Knight Foundation and Gallup for First Amendment Disrupted? The State...
Webinar: Pandemic Call and Response: Black Queer & Trans Communities – May 6
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)
Join us May 6th for the next edition of our Webinar Series: Pandemic Call and Response: Black Queer & Trans Communities Join us as this week’s speakers share from their lived and learned...
Webinars: Inspired to Serve – Impact on K-12 Education or Higher Education with Service-Learning Focus
National Commission on Military National and Public Service
The National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service () is the first entity in American history charged with conducting a comprehensive and holistic review of all forms of service to the...
Applications Open for Virtual Access Program – Free SAT Prep, College Admissions Support & More
Let's Get Ready
Let’s Get Ready is committed to helping your students to and through college. Join us this summer for our Virtual Access Program to receive free SAT prep, college admissions support, and...
New Webinar Series – Coast to Coast: Episode 1: Public Life Has Disappeared – May 5
The Knight Foundation
COVID-19 is rapidly changing the way we think about communities and forcing us to think about new ways to build engaging places where people want to live. Innovations and new approaches are popping...
Financial Aid Webinars – May 7, 14 or 21
PHEAA
PHEAA continues to receive great interest in Financial Aid Webinars – as a result, we will be offering additional webinars in May on the following dates from 6-7 pm: May 7, 14 and 21. Please...
Webinar: Local School District Revenue and COVID-19 – May 6
PA Schools Work
The COVID-19 pandemic has created new challenges for school districts, with distance learning being the most obvious. But COVID-19 will also create financial difficulties for all school districts....
Decision Education Fellowship for Teachers – May 24
Alliance for Decision Education
Alliance for Decision Education is offering a fellowship to teachers. We are seeking teachers who are interested in designing critical thinking and decision making lessons that can be incorporated...
Freedom Summer 2020 – Summer Course and Voter Engagement Outreach
UC Berkley Public Service Center
In a time of global pandemic, the 2020 election – the most historic election of our lives – is in peril. Students can and must help protect our democracy this year. Freedom Summer 2020...
Democratic Engagement
Freedom Summer 2020 – Summer Course and Voter Engagement Outreach
UC Berkley Public Service Center
In a time of global pandemic, the 2020 election – the most historic election of our lives – is in peril. Students can and must help protect our democracy this year. Freedom Summer 2020...
College Success Network
Applications Open for Virtual Access Program – Free SAT Prep, College Admissions Support & More
Let's Get Ready
Let’s Get Ready is committed to helping your students to and through college. Join us this summer for our Virtual Access Program to receive free SAT prep, college admissions support, and...
Financial Aid Webinars – May 7, 14 or 21
PHEAA
PHEAA continues to receive great interest in Financial Aid Webinars – as a result, we will be offering additional webinars in May on the following dates from 6-7 pm: May 7, 14 and 21. Please...
PhillyGoes2College – COVID-19 Resource Guide
Philadelphia Education Fund
In 2017, the Philadelphia Education Fund launched PhillyGoes2College to serve as a resource for students and families interested in learning more the process of applying, financing, and enrolling in...
Faculty Updates
New Podcast on Service-Research from Mercer University
Mercer University
Mercer University’s Research that Reaches Out office has launched a new podcast that tells the stories of how faculty and staff are working with students to deepen learning and address...
Final Edition of Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement
North Carolina Campus Compact
Read the latest and final edition of Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, North Carolina Campus Compact’s peer-reviewed, online journal, hosted by the University of...
Webinars: Inspired to Serve – Impact on K-12 Education or Higher Education with Service-Learning Focus
National Commission on Military National and Public Service
The National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service () is the first entity in American history charged with conducting a comprehensive and holistic review of all forms of service to the...
Professor addresses student, faculty difficulties amid COVID-19
The University of Illinois
Toni Marie Burkhalter, senior instructor in Food Science and Human Nutrition and advisor in human nutrition, recently made a video titled “COVID-19 What Your Students Are Not Telling You.” As a...
Promising Practices in Youth Civic and Political Engagement
Brandeis University
Civic engagement is at the heart of what The Segal Program, our Fellows, and our larger Network are about as citizen leaders. We emphasize the importance of civic engagement in our curriculum and our...
Freedom Summer 2020 – Summer Course and Voter Engagement Outreach
UC Berkley Public Service Center
In a time of global pandemic, the 2020 election – the most historic election of our lives – is in peril. Students can and must help protect our democracy this year. Freedom Summer 2020...
Food and Housing Insecurity Among Philadelphia College Students: A #RealCollegePHL Report
The Hope Center
We wanted to share our new report released this morning: Food and Housing Insecurity Among Philadelphia College Students: A #RealCollegePHL Report. The report is based on survey research conducted...
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