Learn more and register here.

The Whole Kids Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) founded by Whole Foods Market, is dedicated to helping kids eat better and works to support schools and inspire families to improve children’s nutrition and wellness.

In partnership with the Bee Cause Project, the foundation invites applications for its Bee Grants program. The program provides educational beehives and bee programming support to schools and nonprofit organizations so students can observe bees up close and learn about the vital role these pollinators play in our food system. Recipients can apply for a choice of a monetary or equipment grant intended to support schools in bringing live bees to their campus or grow their already existing educational hive program. Recipients will receive grants options of a $1,500 monetary grant, an equipment grant: for an indoor observation hive, or an equipment grant: for a traditional Langstroth hive.

The foundation will host webinars to discuss the grant opportunity on September 14, 2022, and September 29, 2022.

Eligible applicants include K-12 schools or nonprofit organizations serving grades K-12 in the U.S. and Canada.

For complete program guidelines, application instructions, and to register for the application webinars, see the Whole Kids Foundation website.

Deadline: October 15, 2022

The JetBlue Foundation is committed to championing diversity in STEM education and creating career pathways for the next generation in aviation.

To that end, the foundation invites applications to support STEM and aviation-related education. Grants of up to $50,000 will be awarded to support educational institutions and organizations that sponsor educational STEM and/or certification programs in one or more of the following areas: aviation technology, aviation engineering, aviation operations, aviation maintenance, and sustainable and environmental programs in aviation.

Programs must serve one or more communities underrepresented in aviation: veterans aviation education, women in aviation, and underrepresented diverse groups including but not limited to the African American, Hispanic, or Asian American communities.

To be eligible, applicant organizations must be in a city where JetBlue currently flies, including domestic and international cities.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the JetBlue Foundation website.

Deadline: September 30, 2022

The Impact Fund provides grants to advance social justice in the United States.

To that end, grants of up to $50,000 will be awarded to nonprofit legal service providers, private attorneys, and/or small law firms seeking to advance justice in civil rights, human rights, anti-poverty, and environmental justice cases that impact marginalized groups. Most grants are for class actions, but the fund also supports multi-plaintiff and environmental justice cases that aim to significantly affect a larger system or lead to significant law reform.

Impact Fund grants may be used for out-of-pocket litigation expenses such as expert fees and discovery costs but may not be used for attorney’s fees, staff, or other overhead.

Letters of interest must be received no later than October 11, 2022, and selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application due November 8, 2022.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Impact Fund website.

Deadline: October 11, 2022 (Letters of interest)

The MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation is a joint initiative between Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association that supports efforts that focus on improving the caliber, effectiveness, and availability of amateur baseball and softball programs across the United States and internationally.

The foundation will accept applications throughout the year for community-based projects encouraging and empowering youth in underserved communities through baseball and softball—on and off the field.

The foundation considers requests for a variety of purposes, including:

Capital Projects: Field lighting, renovations, and construction.

Baseball and Softball Programs: Players and infrastructure equipment, uniforms, coaches training, umpire fees, player registration fees, facility rental fees, and field maintenance.

Education Initiatives: Programs, exhibits, and other learning opportunities that use baseball and softball as their primary focus to promote interest and engagement in the game.

Schools: Up to $5,000 for players and infrastructure equipment.

Letters of inquiry will be considered on a rolling basis. Applicants will receive a status update within 60 days following their submission, and the foundation may request a phone call to review projects/programs if it has additional questions.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Major League Baseball Players Association website.

Deadline: September 2, 2023 Rolling (Letters of Inquiry)

Jennifer Morton is the Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility.

Jody Agius Vallejo is Associate Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and the author of Barrios to Burbs: The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class.

Laura A. Orrico is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Temple University and a past Research Fellow of the Public Policy Lab.

This hybrid event will be held both in-person and via Zoom. We welcome members of the Temple University community to join us in person on the 10th Floor of Gladfelter Hall. For those wishing to attend via Zoom, please click below to register.

Click here to register.

From September 15th through October 15th, the College of Liberal Arts will team with several other Temple campus partners for a university-wide celebration of Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month. This year’s events will not only honor the history and contributions of the Latinx/Hispanic communities but also recognize its diverse range of cultures.

To learn more about the events and celebrations, visit the College of Liberal Arts’ Hispanic Heritage Month website.

Topic: Supporting Authentic Youth Voice & Grassroots Leadership

Friday, October 14th
9:00AM – 12:00 PM

Location: Temple University Entertainment and Community Education Center
1509 Cecil B. Moore, Philadelphia, PA 19121

The Fall PHENND Meeting is a chance for the entire PHENND Network to get together to share ideas, events, challenges, etc. It is also a time to hear from PHENND staff about their activities and opportunities for partnership in the coming academic year.

Additionally, the event will feature a panel of local leaders working to cultivate and support authentic youth leadership. We will discuss how colleges and universities can partner with grassroots organizations effectively while centering youth and community voice. Confirmed panelists are:

• Jude Husein, PhillyBOLT
• Reuben Jones, Frontline Dads
• Tyrique Glasgow, Young Chances Foundation
• Moderator: Barbara Ferman, Temple University

This event will be a hybrid of in-person and online.  Please register here for both options. 

Learn more at the Environmental Education Grants Program Webinar on September 27, 2022, 12:00-1:30 PM. Register here.

All application details located HERE.

Deadline to apply: December 9, 2022.

Help pack 13,000 literacy bags for Philly’s children!

Reading Promise Week is back October 10-16!

Thanks to the hard work of hundreds of partners, Philly’s annual family literacy festival is bringing 40 free literacy events to neighborhoods citywide. And this year, we’ll be giving away 13,000 literacy bags and children’s books—and we could use a hand (or 100) packing them!

Reading Promise Week is a time for Philly to come together and celebrate literacy for our youth. Its beauty and impact come directly from the power of community.

Join us in protecting our children’s right to read. If you have additional questions or leads on groups of volunteers, please reach out to Clinton at dreesc@freelibrary.org.

SIGN UP FOR A PACKING WEEK SLOT

DATES: Monday, September 19th-23rd & 26th-30th
LOCATION: 6801 N 16th St Philadelphia, PA 19126 (Your Child’s World Learning Center—West Oak Lane)

To learn more about applying, check out our Request for Proposals (RFP) or head to our website’s funding page. The priority deadline to apply is September 15 and funds will be awarded in October. The funding expenditure period runs through December 1, 2022.

Questions? Contact Maddie at maddie@slsvcoalition.org.

Register now! Early bird savings through November 21, 2022.

Learn more and register.

Hosting a VISTA Member: Why Partner with PCCE?

In 20+ years with AmeriCorps*VISTA, Partners for Campus-Community Engagement (PCCE) (formerly CCNYPA) has developed a rigorous screening process to ensure stewardship of federal funds through AmeriCorps. As an organization, we recognize that experienced VISTA host site campuses may have developed better defined projects, but we are committed to fair distribution across New York and Pennsylvania in all regions, settings, and types of projects.

PCCE’s unique approach to project development enables campuses and communities to design their projects based on partnership with local community-based organizations. They then submit their host site applications to PCCE for consideration through a competitive host site application process.

Learn more and apply.

PCCE is accepting host site project applications for new and returning projects now through Tuesday, November  29, 2022 .

ASL interpretation and language interpretation will be provided.

Register.

Learn more about the “Building a Culture of Reparations: A 4-Day Intensive” Course, October 24-27, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM, in-person in Philadelphia, hosted by the Mayor’s Commission on Faith-Based and Interfaith Affairs.

Come to an interest meeting on Zoom, Tuesday, September 20, 2022:

• 12:00-1:00 PM session
• 5:30-6:30 PM session

Registration will begin soon.

Position Description:

Fair Elections Center’s Campus Vote Project seeks an HBCU Coordinator to join our National HBCU Manager in growing our organization’s work to support Historically Black Colleges and Universities to institutionalize civic learning and democratic engagement programs for their campus communities and empower their students to participate in our democracy. The HBCU Coordinator is a key member of our team. They are charged with developing and managing relationships with campus administrators and faculty to carry out our goals. They also supervise “Democracy Fellows,” stipended student positions committed to planning and running democratic engagement programs on their campuses. Democracy Fellows coordinate with administration and faculty, helping organize student voter registration, voter education, and voter turnout activities. The HBCU Coordinator will report directly to the National HBCU Manager.

Goals of the Program:

• Engage campuses at an institutional level to help create nonpartisan democratic engagement programs that promote voter registration, voter education, voter turnout, and foster student leadership across the entire campus community.

• Provide campus administrators, faculty, and student leadership with accurate nonpartisan information on the voting process and elections through trainings, materials, and one-on-one support.

• Ensure campus administrators, faculty, and student leadership conduct comprehensive voter engagement programs and begin institutionalizing and cultivating a long-term culture of democratic engagement on their campuses.

• Implement CVP’s program with approximately 12-15 campus partners and 20-30 Democracy Fellows across AL, D.C./MD, and LA.

• Coordinate with CVP’s coalition partners also conducting nonpartisan civic engagement programs on HBCU campuses.

• Engage with coalition partners, make CVP materials and resources available to partners, and foster greater administrator/institutional-level engagement of these partners’ programs.

• Complete progress reports highlighting sharable best practices and lessons learned for other institutions and conduct an evaluation of all efforts throughout and at the end of each year.

• Collaborate with the National HBCU Manager to develop HBCU-specific trainings, resources, and events to support HBCU campus partners and students across CVP’s work.

This is a full-time remote position, with a salary compensation of $52,500 – $55,000. Fair Elections Center offers generous employer paid health, vision, and dental insurance, 3 weeks vacation, and a 403(B) retirement plan with employer contribution. Fair Elections Center is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages applicants of all backgrounds to apply.

The priority deadline is September 26, 2022, but applications will be considered until the position is filled.

Full job description and application information.

The Eastern Region Campus Consortium is pleased to announce our Fall 2022 Carnegie Community Engagement Classification Fundamentals: Parts 1 & 2 online event via Zoom.

You will be provided instructions to access the digital content for this event upon completion of registration. If you’re registering a team, we ask that you share details with them accordingly. We thank you for your assistance.

*These events are open to all Eastern Region Campus Consortium partners (Campus Compact for New Hampshire, EngageNJ, Maine Campus Compact, Partners for Campus-Community Engagement, and Transform Mid-Atlantic).

Session 1: Carnegie Community Engagement Classification Fundamentals: Constructing a Successful Application and Experience for First-Time and Re-Classification Applicants; October 3, 2022, 12-1:30pm, 1:30-2pm Institutional Meetings.

Session 2: Carnegie Community Engagement Classification Fundamentals: Tracking, Monitoring and Assessment. Constructing practical assessment gameplans. November 1, 2022, 12-1:30pm, 1:30-2pm Institutional Meetings.

Visit our website for more information.

Registration information here.

For any questions, please contact Cammie, Director of Strategic Initiatives at cammie@pcce.org.

Come celebrate the season with us at our annual Fall Farm Party at Neighborhood Foods Farm!

The Office of Public Engagement enhances the City’s community outreach and engagement efforts. We work with residents to make City government accessible to all Philadelphians. We also help make sure everyone’s voice is heard when the City is drafting and implementing policies. The Office of Public Engagement is housed within the Mayor’s Office.

Job Description

The Hope Fellow (Manager) will be responsible for leading the implementation of A Hope That Lights The Way (“Hope”), a 1-year grant-funded project, from the start to the finish line.

More about the Hope project:

The Mayor’s Office of Public Engagement exists to provide a pathway to visibility and well-being for our most vulnerable and dispossessed residents, including youth and young adults, and Black men and boys, women and girls. A Hope That Lights The Way will produce a multi-media documentary that uses ethnographic research and narrative analysis to depict the need and ongoing work of forging and protecting hope for Black men and boys – and the communities that love them – in Philadelphia.

Narrative is a primary meaning-making tool for human beings. In Towards a Poetics of Fiction, Hardy writes, “For we dream in narrative, daydream in narrative, remember, anticipate, hope, despair, believe, doubt, plan, revise, criticize, construct, gossip, learn, hate and love by narrative. In order to really live, we make up stories about ourselves and others, about the personal as well as the social past and future.”

For too long, Black men and boys have been center stage regarding gun violence in Philadelphia and most of our efforts as City government have been reactive and short term.  The Hope project will disrupt this persistent narrative by amplifying, strengthening, and documenting the strategies of hope used by Black men and boys in our City.  By turning a light towards those who do the important work of helping people develop and maintain hope, this project seeks to record relevant data that will help the City make critical decisions about how to engage residents as we tread a path forward.

Further, narratives shape public policy and public actions. Narrative research suggests that by intentionally constructing narratives using methodologies such as the Narrative Policy Framework, we can ensure that the lived experiences of Black men and boys are fully understood, and that policy goals that promote the wellbeing of Black men and boys are met.

Learn more and apply.

Welcoming Week is a national initiative developed in partnership with Welcoming America. By encouraging dialogue and forging relationships between immigrants, refugees, and U.S.-born citizens, this initiative builds common ground in Philadelphia’s communities.

Get the full list of Welcoming Week events.

Starting October 15^th the Zoo offers Zoo-wide trick or treating and Halloween themed activities for all ages – included for free with general admission!

Volunteers are needed to assist with multiple candy and activity stations throughout the Zoo – this is a great way to team build, spend time with family and enjoy your local Zoo! All details and sign up are included in the informational flyer below. Volunteers needed for ALL shifts; most needed on October 15 and 16.

Informational flyer.