July 6, 2021 – PHENND

Grants for Family Members of Frontline Healthcare Workers Who Died of COVID-19 – Dec 31

hillarya — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 02:55:13 +0000

Brave of Heart Fund® Invites Applications From Family Members of Frontline Healthcare Workers Who Lost Their Lives Due to COVID-19

The Brave of Heart Fund® was established in partnership with the foundations of New York Life and Cigna to provide grants to eligible family members of frontline healthcare workers and healthcare volunteers who lost their lives because of COVID-19.

The grants will provide basic and continuing financial support for common needs, such as funeral costs, medical care, counseling, food, educational expenses of children and other dependents currently in school, mortgage or rent payments, and immediate living expenses, as these family members manage the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and begin to move forward.

Two forms of grants are available. Applicants may be eligible for an initial grant of $15,000 to alleviate the cost of immediate needs related to funeral costs and other essential household expenses. A second grant of up to $60,000 may also be available for continuing needs and longer-term expenses for up to six months, subject to income eligibility and documentation of financial need. This second grant is intended to help defray costs such as housing, utilities, educational expenses of dependents currently in school, childcare, clothing, food, transportation, counseling, and medical expenses. The exact amount of grants will depend on various factors, including, without limitation, the applicant’s demonstration of financial need and availability of funds. The final determination of grant eligibility and amounts will be made by E4E Relief. Grants and grant amounts are not guaranteed and are subject to the availability of funds remaining within the fund.

In addition, through the program, Cigna behavioral health will provide emotional support and services, which are available to anyone facing challenges related to COVID-19 and include advice for coping with stress, fear, and anxiety, living with grief and loss, building resiliency, self-care, and relaxation techniques, as well as finding childcare and financial best practices in uncertain times. Special topics and on-demand webinars are created especially for healthcare workers.

Potential applicants should begin the grant process by verifying eligibility on the Brave of Heart Fund website. This verification portal is available to family members of healthcare workers and healthcare volunteers who lost their lives because of COVID-19 to submit information to verify eligibility to apply for a Brave of Heart Fund grant. Once verified, the eligible family member will be invited to apply directly to E4E Relief for available grants.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Brave of Heart Fund website.

Deadline: December 31, 2021

Wellness for All program – Aug 13

hillarya — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 02:49:27 +0000

Women’s Sports Foundation Invites Applications for Wellness and Fitness Programs

The Women’s Sports Foundation was established in 1974 and works to advance the lives of women and girls through sports and physical activity.

To that end, the foundation invites applications for its Wellness for All, a Power of She Fund grant program.

Grants of $10,000 will be awarded in support of women of color entrepreneurs and organizations committed to making wellness and fitness more accessible and inclusive to female BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color) communities. Funds may be used for, but are not limited to, the purchase of new software, hardware, website, and email tools to implement their project vision; leasing of physical space for events, program operations, community gatherings; and marketing, communications, public relations, operational, and business expenses.

The Women’s Sports Foundation and Athleta partnership will award $100,000 in total grants for Wellness for All funding in 2021.

To be eligible, applicants must be a nonprofit or for-profit business located in the United States or U.S. Territories

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Women’s Sports Foundation website.

Deadline: August 13, 2021

Pt-time Math Teacher, One Bright Ray Community High School

hillarya — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 02:43:22 +0000

The mission of One Bright Ray Community High School, an independent, accelerated high school, is to provide quality education to Philadelphia’s adult learners in search of a positive school experience while earning their diploma. We provide a supportive environment free of negative labels that challenges each student to explore his or her personal and academic potential. We provide a second chance, sometimes a last chance, for our adults in their pursuit of a high school diploma.

The Mathematics Teacher is responsible for:

Planning and presenting lessons to facilitate students’ understanding and application of mathematical concepts.
Preparing and distributing learning material such as notes, assignments, and quizzes.
Sourcing the resources and supplies needed for lessons.
Ensuring that the classroom remains safe and conducive to learning.
Grading assignments and quizzes in a timely manner.
Documenting and reporting on students’ progress.
Attending meetings with students and staff

Aspiring community members are those who are…

Certified Teachers
Passionate about urban education
Creative and flexible in creating cognitively engaging instruction that connects to real-world opportunities
Patient with students who need additional support
Open to developing their reflective practices and to continue their professional growth
Willing and able to collaborate with others

Schedule: Two Evenings/Wk (4:00-8:30)

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $40.00 – $45.00 per hour

Benefits: Paid time off

Schedule: Night shift

Education: Bachelor’s (Required)

Experience: Teaching: 1 year (Required)

License/Certification: PA Mathematics 7-12 Certification (Required)

Work Location: One location

Company’s website: https://www.onebrightraycommunity.org/employment-opportunities/

Bus 101 Side Hustler Summer Boot Camp

hillarya — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 02:33:24 +0000

The Bus 101 Side Hustler Summer Boot Camp is a program geared for youth and fledging adult entrepreneurs. Youth (ages 14-18) who complete the program are eligible to receive $200 start-up funds for their own side hustle or passion project.

Young folks and Not-So-Young Folks will get step-by-step support for planning, registering, starting, and/or scaling up your own business or side hustle? During these intimate sessions, participants will:

Learn how to get your Business EIN number, Register your company, and Open Business Bank Account.
Learn what business structure is best for you LLC, Sole Proprietorship, Non-Profit For-Profit, S Corp, etc.
Learn how to monetize your passion and talent.
Learn how to research and package your product or service
Learn how to develop your business plan
Learn how to budget, monitor, and track your income and expenses.
Learn how to apply for grants, loans, and crowdfunding campaigns.
Get unlimited access to online resources after your coaching session
Learn how you brand your products and services.
Get access to tax and accounting professional services
Get all your business start-up questions answered on the spot
and more!

High school students participate in the program free of charge.

Visit the TicketLeap site which includes sponsorship opportunities, paid tickets for adults, or free tickets for high school students.

Various seasonal jobs, Philadelphia Zoo

hillarya — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 02:31:07 +0000

What makes the Zoo a unique place to work?

Whether you are involved with caring for animals, educating our visitors or working in a behind-the-scenes position in administration, maintenance or garden services, all of our positions share our institutional mission, purpose, and our core values.

Browse the full-time, part-time, and seasonal opportunities here

Director of Community & Content, ImpactPHL

hillarya — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 02:20:57 +0000

ImpactPHL is dedicated to growing the Greater Philadelphia region’s impact economy. Through community building, advocacy, content, and events, ImpactPHL aims to create a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient regional economy. ImpactPHL, while only 5 years old, has already been nationally recognized as a pioneering model for advancing place-based impact investing. ImpactPHL is seeking a passionate and collaborative individual to join our small (but mighty!) and versatile team. The Director of Community and Content is a new, full-time position focused on leveraging a foundation of community and content-related activities to design a strategic business unit that advances ImpactPHL’s mission, generates earned revenue, and produces impact outcomes for the region. Due to the place-based focus of our mission and work, we’re seeking someone who is based in the Philadelphia region. Our team works remotely, with local travel as necessary for meetings and events within the region. This role reports to ImpactPHL’s Executive Director, and does not have any direct reports. We offer a salary commensurate with experience and benefits. The anticipated start date is early September.

Learn more and apply

Executive Director, Life Science Cares Philadelphia

hillarya — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 02:14:21 +0000

Life Science Cares is a collective effort of the life sciences industry to reduce the impact of poverty on our neighbors. With over 350,000 Philadelphia residents living below the poverty line, Life Science Cares Philadelphia (LSC PHL) is committed to uniting the life science community and providing human and financial resources to nonprofit organizations that support survival, education and sustainability. LSC PHL has a particular focus on combatting generational poverty through training and education, connecting youth and college students with science- and technology-based experiences such as classroom discussions, workshops, mentorships, career guidance, and paid internships. LSC PHL puts the true good that local life science companies represent into action — not just for human health, but for human potential.

During the first year of operations in 2020, LSC PHL:

established a strong board and board of advisors
created opportunities to “care actively”
raised and granted $300,000 for emergency COVID relief
selected 14 nonprofit partners and granted $270,000

In addition to the founding site in Boston and our local Philadelphia organization, Life Science Cares now has sites in San Diego and the Bay Area in California.

See full job posting on LinkedIn

Wellness and Fitness Programs – Aug 13

hillarya — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 17:45:08 +0000

The Women’s Sports Foundation was established in 1974 and works to advance the lives of women and girls through sports and physical activity.

To that end, the foundation invites applications for its Wellness for All, a Power of She Fund grant program.

Learn more and apply.

Deadline to apply: August 12, 2021

Art and Change Grants, Leeway Foundation – Aug 1

hillarya — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 17:39:54 +0000

The Leeway Foundation believes that art is a vital tool for community building, self-expression, and individual and collective transformation and can bridge differences, center those who have been on the margins, and challenge and connect communities and individuals so they peacefully coexist. The foundation works to promote artistic expression that amplifies the voices of those on the margins, promotes sustainable and healthy communities, and helps advance movements for economic and social justice.

To that end, the foundation is accepting applications for its Art and Change Grant program, which will award grants of up to $2,500 to women and trans artists in the greater Philadelphia area in support of art for social change projects. Creating social change must be integral to the ideas, beliefs, and goals woven throughout the applicants’ art and process of creating and sharing art.

The foundation is encouraging applications from those with art for social change projects or opportunities that affect a large group, audience, or community and that have a financial need and limited or no access to other financial resources. The Art and Change Grant is open to individual artists and cultural producers working in any medium, including traditional and nontraditional as well as multimedia and experimental forms.

Learn more and apply.

Deadline to apply: August 1, 2021

CEA Learning Series: Community Meeting Management – Aug 18

hillarya — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 17:31:32 +0000

The Civic Engagement Academy (CEA) is about inspiring local community change through training and skills development.

Learn how to host a successful meeting and manage conflict.

Date and Time: Wednesday, August 18, 2021, 6:00-7:00 PM

Race in America: History Matters with Author Clint Smith – Jul 8

hillarya — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 17:27:22 +0000

Clint Smith traveled to nine locations from Monticello in Virginia to the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana to examine how slavery is remembered. In the new book, “How The Word is Passed,” Smith writes about his visits to those places, “those telling the truth, those running from it, and those doing something in between – in order to understand this reckoning.”

On Thursday, July 8 at 1:30pm ET, the best-selling author joins opinions columnist Michele Norris to share what he has learned.

Webinar: Vaccines & Variants – Jul 7

hillarya — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 17:23:25 +0000

The number of coronavirus infections is rising again as the delta variant becomes more dominant in the United States. The World Health Organization is advising fully vaccinated people to wear masks indoors and socially distance from others, but the CDC is leaving it up to states to set the guidelines.

Ashish K. Jha, dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University, and Céline Gounder, clinical assistant professor of medicine and infectious diseases at New York University and CEO of Just Human Productions, join Washington Post Live to discuss the latest on the pandemic – from vaccines to variants – and assess the path forward amid stagnating national vaccines rates.

Join the conversation on Wednesday, July 7 at 2:00pm ET.

New Article: How the Pandemic Widened the Education Gap for Boys of Color

hillarya — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 13:14:31 +0000

Chalkbeat looks at the pandemic’s impact on three Black Chicago teenage boys. “In Chicago and across the country, there is growing evidence that this year has hit Black and Latino boys — young men like Derrick, Nathaniel, and Leonel — harder than other students. Amid rising gun violence, a national reckoning over race, bitter school reopening battles, and a deadly virus that took the heaviest toll on Black and Latino communities, the year has tested not only these teens, but also the school systems that have historically failed many of them. It has severed precarious ties to school, derailed college plans, and pried gaping academic disparities even wider. But in this moment of upheaval, educators and advocates also see a chance to rethink how schools serve boys of color. With billions in federal stimulus funds on the way, the crisis is fueling a patchwork of efforts to bring diversity to the teaching cadre, support college-bound teens, and more, though a bolder, wholesale overhaul is yet to emerge. The stakes are high. Even before pandemic disruption set in, boys of color were most likely to drop out, skip college, and end up unemployed. ‘This is a critical moment of opportunity to help young men of color,’ said Adrian Huerta, a faculty member in the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California, who studies the educational experiences of boys and young men of color. ‘It’s a national issue, and it will take a national investment.’”

Health Report: Women Working in Health Care – Jul 8

hillarya — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 13:06:54 +0000

From lab technicians and cardiac surgeons to respiratory therapists and trauma nurses, health care workers have faced challenges, triumph, tragedy and flat-out exhaustion during the COVID-19 pandemic. For reasons both professional and personal, women in the health care workforce often face a unique set of circumstances that have some looking to make changes both for themselves and for their colleagues.

On our next Inquirer LIVE: Health Report, Inquirer health editor Charlotte Sutton talks with a group of women who work in health care to discuss the lessons of the pandemic and how they intend to use them in order to improve life for their patients, their peers and themselves.

Date and Time: Thursday, July 8, 2021, 4:15-5:15 PM

Learn more and register.

Philadelphia’s New Youth Poet Laureate

hillarya — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 16:55:16 +0000

The Free Library of Philadelphia is delighted to announce that Andre’a Rhoads, a rising junior at Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls and a North Philadelphia resident, is the 2021–22 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate. A committee of poets, educators, and arts-organization professionals selected Andre’a from a competitive pool of applicants for the year-long role. The Youth Poet Laureate represents Philadelphia’s young poets through public events, readings, and a community project.

Learn more.

PA Schools Work Resources for Public School Advocacy

hillarya — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 16:48:51 +0000

Here are some resources that we hope will be helpful for advocating for public schools:

Webinar: What’s Next in the Fight for Adequate and Equitable Funding for PA Public Schools? – Jul 21

hillarya — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 16:46:06 +0000

The PA budget is signed, so now what?

Join the PA Schools Work campaign at our next Lunch & Learn webinar on Wednesday, July 21 at noon to talk about what the budget means for public schools and the next steps for public education advocates looking forward to a new school year in the fall.

You can register for the webinar here.

Digital Divide Persists Even as Americans with Lower Incomes Make Gains in Tech Adoption

hillarya — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 16:38:25 +0000

An analysis from Pew Research Center explores the differences between low- and high-income adults and use of technology and digital access. Roughly a quarter of adults with household incomes below $30,000 a year say they do not own a smartphone, and about four in ten adults with lower incomes do not have home broadband services (43 percent) or a desktop or laptop computer (41 percent). By comparison, roughly six in ten adults living in households earning $100,000 or more a year (63 percent) report having home broadband services, a smartphone, a desktop or laptop computer and a tablet, compared with 23 percent of those living in lower-income households. As of early 2021, 27 percent of adults living in households earning less than $30,000 a year were smartphone-only internet users – meaning they own a smartphone but do not have broadband internet at home. Research suggests that this reliance on smartphones means that the less affluent are more likely to use them for tasks traditionally reserved for larger screens such as seeking out and applying for jobs.

Video: Opportunities to Cut Child Poverty: Understanding the Data and Evidence

hillarya — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 16:35:37 +0000

Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity and the American Academy of Political and Social Science co-hosted a webinar to discuss the American Rescue Plan and what years of rigorous research and analysis tell us about the policies and investments that contribute to the goal of reducing child poverty. The webinar panelists included: Rucker Johnson, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley; Elaine Maag, Principal Research Associate, Urban Institute; Robert Moffitt, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University; and Michael Strain, Director, Economic Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute. The conversation was moderated by Ramesh Ponnuru, Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute.

The event video is now available to view on Spotlight’s website.

LIFTing Families From Generational Cycles of Poverty

hillarya — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 16:31:43 +0000

Michelle Rhone-Collins, CEO of LIFT, describes the organization’s experience during the pandemic and her “skeptical optimism” that the country as a whole has learned more about how to help families find more opportunity and prosperity. LIFT is a 20-year-old national organization with nearly one thousand members and a mission to partner with parents and invest in them to break generational cycles of poverty. LIFT matches parents with trained coaches who support setting educational, financial, and employment goals and developing action plans to meet those goals. Rhone-Collins says that when the pandemic hit, families expressed the need for cash to help make ends meet, resulting in LIFT raising and distributing over $1 million. She believes the pandemic showed that bold action is possible and stresses the need to dig deeper to combat systemic disparities as the country begins to recover. “We need to center our focus on those who have been most marginalized, structurally and historically, and know starting there is going to benefit everyone,” Rhone-Collins says. “We need to constantly keep these lessons front of mind now, as we’re in this moment of ‘building back better.’”