The week of
May 28, 2024
PHENND Events/Activities
Trauma-Informed Teaching Series – Fall cohort
PHENND
In Fall 2024, PHENND will once again offer a three-part series for educators in the Philadelphia region, to collectively learn about trauma, how it manifests itself in classroom settings, and how to...
Other Local Events and Workshops
PCPR Spring Symposium: Finding Our Way: Navigating Higher Ed Challenges Together – Jun 20
Philadelphia College Prep Roundtable (PCPR)
Join us for an enlightening and engaging event focused on the current landscape of higher education and the challenges and opportunities it presents. Sessions will cover issues impacting higher...
2024 HIV Education Summit – Jun 27
Philadelphia FIGHT
Registration is now open for the 2024 HIV Education Summit on Thursday, June 27, 2024, 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. The...
EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES – For Employment and Small Businesses – Jun 15
Street Knowledge
STREET KNOWLEDGE is excited to announce the following free event, EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES – For Employment and Small Businesses, on June 15, 2024 from 9:00 am – 12:30 pm. Schedule to date:...
Visualizing Solidarity Relationships: Lessons for Philadelphia Journalists – Jun 4
Perspectives
How does inter-community solidarity work in practice? What can local journalism learn from the ways community groups come together, and how can journalists use solidarity reporting to improve the...
New Resources
Ideas for Summer of Service 2024, Youth Service America
Youth Service America
Summer months bring long days, warm weather, school vacations – and great opportunities for kids to serve and families, camps, and youth groups to plan projects together. We’ve compiled our...
Notre Dame Launches New Poverty Initiative
Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity
In this Spotlight Exclusive we speak with Jim Sullivan, economics professor at the University of Notre Dame, about the university’s new Poverty Initiative. Sparked by a $100 million gift from...
A Summary of Effective Gender Equitable Teaching Practices in Informal STEM Education Spaces
Journal of STEM Outreach
Women and girls, particularly women and girls of color, remain underrepresented in STEM disciplines. This underrepresentation begins as early as late elementary school age. Educators, particularly...
Asian American Scientists in STEM Classrooms: Increasing Inclusion and Visibility
NOVA PBS
Learn about Asian and Pacific Islander American scientists who have helped change the world, and the call for greater inclusion of their work in curriculum and textbooks. As we continue to celebrate...
New Book: Transforming School Food Politics around the World
MIT Press
School food programs are about more than just feeding kids. They are a form of community care and a policy tool for advancing education, health, justice, food sovereignty, and sustainability....
Webinar on Demand: Talking About Youth Mental Health
Pulitzer Center
How can we open up a dialogue on mental health with the young people in our lives? What steps can we collectively take to address the rise in youth suicide rates? This Mental Health Awareness...
New Brief: Meeting the Chronic Absenteeism Challenge – What Do We Know?
National Partnership for Student Success
What does a doubling of the number of students who are missing a month or more of schooling in the school year mean? What do the numbers tell us about the challenges our schools and communities face,...
Every Day Counts Summit: Addressing Chronic Absenteeism and Increasing Student Engagement
National Partnership for Student Success
On May 15, 2024 the White House hosted the “Every Day Counts Summit: Addressing Chronic Absenteeism and Increasing Student Engagement.” Communities all across our nation are experiencing high...
Digital Backpack – Resources to Address Chronic Absence in Your Community
National Partnership for Student Success
In the 2020-2021 school year—the most recent year for which federal data is available— million students nationwide were chronically absent, nearly doubling prepandemic rates. Encouragingly, we...
Activating Place-based Partnerships for Equitable Economic Development: A Playbook for Anchor Collaboratives
Healthcare Anchor Network
Activating Place-based Partnerships for Equitable Economic Development: A Playbook for Anchor Collaboratives, was released on May 16, 2024 at the 2024 Anchor Economy Conference, an event co-hosted by...
National Conferences & Calls for Proposal
Call for Proposals: 2024 AAC&U Transforming STEM in Higher Education Conference – Jun 11
American Association of Colleges and Universities
Submit your proposal for the 2024 AAC&U Transforming STEM Higher Education Conference now and engage with a diverse community of STEM faculty, principal investigators, project directors, and...
Call for Submissions: Journal of Catholic Higher Education – Aug 31
Journal of Catholic Higher Education
The Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU) and their Community-Engaged Scholar-Practitioner Network (CESPN) have developed a call for Call for Submissions for the special issue of...
Grant Opportunities
Native Voices Rising – Jun 28
Native Americans in Philanthropy
Native Voices Rising invites applications for 2024 grant cycle Common Counsel Foundation and Native Americans in Philanthropy invite applications to the Native Voices Rising 2024 grant cycle. Since...
lululemon Centre for Social Impact – Jun 28
lululemon
lululemon invites applications for 2025 Here to Be Grant The lululemon Centre for Social Impact aims to disrupt inequity in well-being through movement, mindfulness, and advocacy. Applications are...
investigator-initiated health services research grants – Jun 28
National Institute for Health Care Management
NIHCM Foundation invites letters of inquiry for investigator-initiated health services research grants The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan...
childhood obesity and health inequities – Jun 27
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation invites proposals addressing childhood obesity and health inequities For over 20 years, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has been a national leader in...
2025 Young Scholars Program – Jun 3 (LOI)
Foundation for Child Development
Foundation for Child Development issues RFP for 2025 Young Scholars Program The mission of the Foundation for Child Development (FCD) is to harness the power of research to ensure that all young...
Media Artist + Activist Residency – Jun 24
Leeway Foundation
Leeway Foundation invites applications for Media Artist + Activist Residency The Philadelphia-based Leeway Foundation supports women and trans artists and cultural producers working in communities at...
Holberg Prize for outstanding research – Jun 15
Holberg Prize
Holberg Prize invites nominations for outstanding researchers The Holberg board welcomes nominations for the annual Holberg Prize. Established by the Norwegian parliament in 2003, the approximately...
We Serve to Remember 9/11 Day of Service Grants
Youth Service America
With support from AmeriCorps, Youth Service America (YSA) will award 100 grants of $1,000 each to schools, organizations, and youth between the ages of 5 and 25 for youth-led service projects on or...
Job Opportunities/AmeriCorps Opportunities
Coaches and Coach Mentors, Safe-Hub
Safe-Hub Philadelphia
Founded in South Africa, Safe-Hub programs use the power of sport to teach transferable life skills. As a Safe-Hub coach, you will learn industry-leading approaches to youth development, help build a...
Program Specialist, ‘Healthy Bodies’ (AmeriCorps, Part-Time), Safe-Hub
Safe-Hub Philadelphia
Safe-Hub’s mission is to create safe spaces that combine the power of sport and education to empower youth and change lives. As a place-based organization, we leverage existing community...
‘Healthy Futures’ Program Specialist (AmeriCorps, Part-Time), Safe-Hub
Safe-Hub Philadelphia
Safe-Hub’s mission is to create safe spaces that combine the power of sport and education to empower youth and change lives. As a place-based organization, we leverage existing community...
Director of Marketing and PR, Young Audiences Arts for Learning
Young Audiences Arts for Learning
Young Audiences Arts for Learning New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania’s (YA) mission is to inspire young people and expand their learning through the arts. Since its founding in 1973, YA has...
Build Project Administrator, Habitat for Humanity – Jul 26
Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia
At Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia (HFHP), we are builders who work alongside, not for, others. We are driven by accountability and defined by our stick-to-itiveness. The Build Department improves...
Miscellaneous
Webinar: Redesigning Democracy – Jul 30
American Association of Colleges and Universities
We know our democracy doesn’t work for everyone. National frustration with the US political system and with each other is causing people to turn away. Young people especially are disillusioned and...
1619 Education Impact Grantee from School District of Philadelphia
Pulitzer Center
The Pulitzer Center is excited to introduce the nine recipients of our newest 1619 Education Program, the 1619 Education Impact Grant. These grantees were selected from 75 applicants across the...
Webinar: Identifying and Filling Data Gaps to Tell Your Full Story – Aug 19
Nonprofit Learning Lab
Have you ever felt like your data tells only part of your story, or you have lots of disparate data points and are struggling to put them all together? This session will give you A Plan To Plan: you...
Democratic Engagement
Webinar: Redesigning Democracy – Jul 30
American Association of Colleges and Universities
We know our democracy doesn’t work for everyone. National frustration with the US political system and with each other is causing people to turn away. Young people especially are disillusioned and...
Faculty Updates
Webinar: Redesigning Democracy – Jul 30
American Association of Colleges and Universities
We know our democracy doesn’t work for everyone. National frustration with the US political system and with each other is causing people to turn away. Young people especially are disillusioned and...
Temple furthers its commitment to North Philadelphia with new Community Gateway
Temple University
The Temple Community Gateway is a one-stop resource that connects individuals and families to job training and placement, youth engagement, academic enrichment, adult education, and more. Temple...
Center for Urban Research and Education’s “Community First” Initiative Takes Root
Rutgers Camden
Rutgers University–Camden’s Center for Urban Research and Education (CURE) has entered a new chapter with an initiative designed to leverage its world-class research and resources much closer...
Webinar Recording: MUJ Dialogue Series: Public Scholarship for Innovative Practice
Metropolitan Universities journal
Guest editors and authors of Metropolitan Universities journal, Vol. 35 No. 1 (2024): Productive Tensions and Uncomfortable Conversations recently joined Editor Patrick M. Green for a conversation...
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