The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has issued a call for proposals for Evidence for Action: Innovative Research to Advance Racial Equity.

Evidence for Action (E4A), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, funds research that expands the evidence needed to build a Culture of Health, emphasizing advancing racial equity. According to RWJF, achieving racial equity is impossible without focusing on the foundational and structural drivers of health, often referred to as the social determinants of health (e.g., housing, education, built environment, economic opportunity, law enforcement, and others). Therefore, the fund partners with researchers, practitioners, community leaders, advocates, and policy makers to develop evidence about what works to dismantle or remedy unjust systems and practices and produce more equitable outcomes for people and communities of color.

Evidence for Action prioritizes research to evaluate specific interventions (e.g., policies, programs, practices) that have the potential to counteract the harms of structural and systemic racism and improve health, well-being, and equity outcomes. The foundation is concerned both with the direct impacts of structural racism on the health and well-being of people and communities of color (e.g., Black, Latina/o/x, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander people, and other races and ethnicities)—as well as how racism intersects with other forms of marginalization, such as having low income, being an immigrant, having a disability, or identifying as LGBTQ+ or a gender minority.

This funding is focused on studies about upstream causes of health inequities, such as the systems, structures, laws, policies, norms, and practices that determine the distribution of resources and opportunities, which in turn influence individuals’ options and behaviors. Research should center on the needs and experiences of communities exhibiting the greatest health burdens and be motivated by real-world priorities. It should be able to inform a specific course of action and/or establish beneficial practices, not stop characterizing or documenting a problem’s extent.

E4A seeks grantees who are deeply committed to conducting rigorous and equitable research and ensuring that their findings are actionable in the real world. In addition to research funding, RWJF also supports grantees with stakeholder engagement, dissemination of findings, and other activities that can enhance their projects’ potential to “move the needle” on health and racial equity.

Applicants’ organizations must be based in the United States or territories to be eligible. Submissions from teams that include both U.S. and international members are eligible, but the lead applicant must be based in the United States. Preference will be given to applicant organizations that are either institute of higher education, public entities, or nonprofits that are tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations or Type III supporting organizations. Other types of nonprofit and for-profit organizations are also eligible to apply. RWJF may require additional documentation.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website.

Deadline: November 5, 2023 Rolling

The WITH Foundation was created to provide financial support to organizations that promote comprehensive health care for adults with developmental disabilities.

To that end, grants of between $30,000 and $50,000 will be awarded in support of programs that improve the delivery of health care to adults with developmental disabilities and include at least one aspect of improving health practitioner competency through education and/or training programs; addressing the current inadequate reimbursement systems, advancing innovations in formal care coordination, enhancing advocacy regarding the inadequacies of developmentally disabled care to advance systemic change; increasing understanding of supported decision making in healthcare settings; promoting national efforts in digital health that support designers and developers to include the perspectives/experiences of the IDD community within the design process, to create better technology for all; social policy research; and identifying and overcoming barriers to high-quality healthcare access.

Applicants must have tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status as defined by the Internal Revenue Service. While applications from the San Francisco Bay Area may be given preferential consideration, applications from other areas in the United States are not excluded.

Letters of intent are due December 9, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. PT, and selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal on January 30, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. PT.

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

Deadline: December 9, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. PT (Letters of Intent)

The GriffinHarte Foundation works to promote conversations, research, and teaching that help us live and work together with civility. The mission of the foundation is to provide people with the support they need to learn, teach, and explore how civility works in today’s complex world.

To that end, the foundation welcomes applications from individuals, agencies, and the like that are exploring civility and the ways their efforts and research promote and contribute to our understanding of civility, civil discourses, and civil practices. Small grants will be awarded for two types of projects: 1) conversations, research, and scholarship that are grounded in questions and practices of civility and feminism; informed by a desire to define, explore, and advocate for social, political, and economic justice in our professional and personal lives; and centered in an explicit recognition of the ways our lives and communication are influenced by our identities—our gender and sex, race and ethnicity, age and physical abilities, and education and economic standing; and 2) educational practices and research that are focused on how we teach as well as what we teach, grounded in a commitment to alternative pedagogies and educational practices, and informed by an explicit recognition of the ways identities, genders and sex, feminisms, civility, and civic engagement efforts related to social, political, and economic justice.

Eligible applicants include individuals, agencies, and others.

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

Deadline: December 15, 2022

Boston-based Resist redistributes resources back to frontline communities at the forefront of change while amplifying their stories of building a better world.

Groups aligned with Resist will have their work located within an ecology of social justice organizations, know how their work fits into a greater whole, and reflect a clear understanding of purpose and function within movements for social change. They have an intersectional / cross-issue analysis and work actively against white and Christian supremacy, capitalism, gender and sexual oppression, and all forms of patriarchy, and are led by those most affected by structural oppression. Two types of grants will be awarded at this deadline:

General Support: Grants of up to $4,000 will be awarded to support groups building movements for justice and liberation and resisting systemic oppression through grassroots/cultural organizing, artmaking, and resilience building.

Accessibility: Grants of up to $4,000 will be awarded to fund the additional costs of making projects or events more accessible to community members with specific accessibility needs.

Applicants must have an organizational budget under $150,000 per year, be based in the United States, be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) according to the Internal Revenue Code or be a federally recognized American Indian tribal government or agency or be sponsored by a previously listed entity.

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

Deadline: December 2, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. ET

Grants

Philadelphia’s homeless service system has made significant progress. We’ve reduced street homelessness by investing in evidence-based supportive housing, added daytime services, and expanded homelessness prevention. We provide 24-hour-a-day outreach, and lowered barriers to entry into the homeless and treatment systems. Recently, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded Philadelphia nearly $9 Million to help end youth homelessness.

While we have accomplishments to celebrate, too many people continue to go without housing or food. In Philadelphia, about 21 percent of our neighbors go to bed hungry or face food insecurity.  Find out what we can do.

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CIRCLE estimates that 27% of youth (ages 18-29) cast a ballot, making this the midterm election with the second-highest youth voter turnout in almost three decades. They also estimate that youth turnout was even higher in some battleground states.

While the votes are still being counted across the country and control of the U.S. House and Senate remain undecided, it’s clear that young people had a major impact on the 2022 midterms. Explore all our data including our exclusive day-after estimate of youth voter turnout.

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Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation Youth Grants of $250 or $500 will support youth leaders ages 5-25 across the U.S. to turn their ideas into action for Global Youth Service Day 2023 and make an impact towards ending childhood hunger in America.

Learn more about this program and tell us how you plan to help end childhood hunger.

Applications are due by January 16, 2023.

$250 grantees will be required to engage at least 25 other youth as volunteers while $500 grantees have a 50 youth volunteer requirement. Fundraising grants are also available where a portion of awarded funds may be used toward project supplies while the remaining funds are to be used as a matching donation.

Join us on Wednesday, December 7 at 8:00 PM Eastern for a webinar as we walk through the application, explore hunger-related activities, and answer your questions.

Please join this webinar to connect with colleagues and explore how our institutions can learn from and respond to the communities in which they are situated. Together, we will discuss what data to collect, how to deploy it, and how to better tell the story of your institution.

Date and Time: Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 2:00-3:00 PM

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In an effort to offer continued learning to ABC’s Designing Leadership alumni, the Arts + Business Council (ABC) is offering additional individual workshops that dive deeper into leadership themes and topics. These workshops are FREE to Designing Leadership alumni and open to the public at a sliding scale rate.

During the open Community Outreach and Education Fund term, trusted community organizations will partner with OWP to raise awareness about Philadelphia’s labor laws, such as the city’s wage theft and paid sick leave laws. As the number of workplace protection laws have grown, the Office has been expanding  its outreach programs.

More information about the Community Outreach and Education application process is available online.

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Participants are encouraged to attend in teams of 2 to 5 from each faith community in order to become an organizing team within your congregation.

Dates and Times: January 9-12, 2023, 1:00 AM to 5:00 PM each day

Location: Philadelphia, venue to be determined

Refreshments: Lunch provided

If you missed our info session, watch the recording!

Questions? Email us at FaithPHL@phila.gov.

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Food and Resource Giveaway: AHARI Community Day at the Belfield Rec Center, 2109 W. Chew Avenue, Phila. PA on November 16, 2022, 3:00-6:00 PM.

Turkey and Trimmings, Coats, Hats, Gloves and More: 4000 Spruce Street, Phila. PA, November 22, 2022, 1:00 PM until…

AHARI’s MOBILE HUNGER RELIEF programs continue to distribute over 3, 500 meals a month along with clothing, PPE, and household items to veterans, their families, and community members in need in the Greater Philadelphia region. Our work is focused on two primary objectives: increasing food access and reducing food insecurity.

About the Organization

North10, Philadelphia works to improve the life outcomes for community members in the Hunting Park-East Tioga neighborhoods of North Philadelphia. North10 facilitates economic growth, increases housing options, enhances learning opportunities, and promotes physical and emotional wellness to enable current residents and future generations to live happy, healthy, and civically engaged lives.

North10 was formed in 2018 as the parent organization of the Lenfest Center, a beautiful, privately operated community/recreation/learning facility that opened in 2007. The Lenfest Center provides neighborhood youth with a welcoming, safe, and enriching refuge from systemic neighborhood violence, poverty, and a myriad of other trauma-inducing challenges. The Lenfest Center facility still serves as the cornerstone of North10’s innovative and inclusive efforts to revitalize this neighborhood. North10’s goal is community development without displacement: to improve the neighborhood with the people of this neighborhood.

Candidate Profile:

Highly favorable candidates for this position will have an ardent passion for social justice, deep knowledge of and diverse connections across the City of Philadelphia, and an unwavering belief in the power of healthy neighborhoods to collectively raise and create a brighter future for children. They will be able to inspire collaborative action at scale among residents, community organizations, volunteers and donors. They will have the enterprising mindset and skills needed to conceptualize and implement an integrated marketing, communications and revenue strategy. Their direct experience and/or transferable skills will enable them to sustainably generate the revenue necessary to support the organization’s current operations and growth aspirations.

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We are an organization that is working to apply a trauma informed lens to the work we do, and we are working to dismantle, and to avoid perpetrating white-supremacist culture. We are welcoming to people who are formerly incarcerated.

Position Summary:

Fab Youth Philly is seeking to hire a Part-Time, Administrative Assistant to work 20 hours per week (Tuesday to Friday) with the Executive Director and other staff to support the operational and administrative tasks necessary to run the organization. The Administrative Assistant will be responsible for onboarding and offboarding up to 50 (seasonal) employees per year, maintaining staff files, equipment and supply inventories, processing mail and other correspondence with various partners, funders, staff and community members, tracking employee hours and processing biweekly payroll, supporting recruitment efforts including job posting, distributing postcards and flyers, participating in interview processes, and other day-to-day management of office activities.

Fab Youth Philly is an organization that is undergoing an exciting growth phase. Applicants who will excel at Fab Youth Philly will be people who enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, are comfortable with progress over perfection, get excited trying new things and making improvements in real time, testing new ideas; and who view wearing many hats as an opportunity to learn and contribute to their own, as well as the organization’s growth.

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Position Summary:

Fab Youth Philly is seeking to hire up to two, fulltime, exceptional Youth Development Professionals who will work as Group Leaders to support, oversee and grow our youth programming. The Group Leader will be responsible for supervision and facilitation of our Play Captains and Safety Captains Out-of-School Time (OST) youth programs, as well as other afterschool, summer and weekend programing such as Skills for a Fab Life, Youth Advisory Board and more. The core responsibilities of this position include but are not limited to: curriculum development and facilitation of workshops and training for teens ages 11-19, with a primary focus on youth ages 15-19; youth recruitment and engagement; partnership development; and contributions to reports and data collection.

Fab Youth Philly is an organization that is undergoing an exciting growth phase. Applicants who will excel at Fab Youth Philly will be those who enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, are comfortable with progress over perfection, find excitement in trying new things and making improvements in real time, testing new ideas; and who view wearing many hats as an opportunity to learn and contribute to their own, as well as the organization’s growth.

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Date and Time: November 16, 2022, 12:00-1:00 PM

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The second annual THRIVE Conference at Haverford College will be held on Saturday, January 21st, 2023. This year, the theme is: Reclaiming Our Stories. THRIVE is a campus-wide initiative centered around Truth, Healing, Resiliency, Inclusion, and Equity. Our goal is to bring together people from Haverford, the local Ardmore community, and beyond to lift up voices of groups and individuals who have been marginalized and oppressed, helping us to better understand one another, and ourselves.

We’re currently accepting proposals for workshop sessions, and encourage you to submit if you are interested in facilitating a workshop focusing on ideas of storytelling, healing and transformation, race-based education, and other topics that fit within the THRIVE framework. We encourage collaborative sessions with presenters from different areas.

Call for programs for our 2023 conference is now open! This includes everyone – students, Haverford community members, and beyond (and we of course welcome collaborative presentations). Here is the submission form. Proposals are due by Monday, November 28.

Save the date if you’re interested in attending. You can also read more about the inaugural THRIVE conference here.

Advocacy and organizing for racially equitable housing policies is a cornerstone of building a just housing system in the United States.

Since 2017, Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO), a funder collaborative that believes a stable, affordable home is the foundation for health, opportunity, and justice, has directed about a third of its $17 million in grants to policy advocacy and organizing. This strand of FHO’s work has advanced 103 housing policies (with 52 enacted) and although FHO funds aren’t used for lobbying, helped to preserve and leverage more than $124 billion in public investments.

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