The fellowships run from one to three years. Fellows spend the bulk of their time in small teams, equipped with MSC’s movement building tool box supporting MSC’s current partners and clients in their alliance building and movement building work.
Their remaining time is spent initiating new projects and partnerships and researching areas for thought leadership, documenting past leadership experiences and lessons learned.
In 2010, MSC will be looking for Senior Fellows who as a cohort bring the following capacities and interests to strengthen what is currently on the team:
* Alliance building facilitation or leadership background with social justice organizing groups.
* Curriculum development and training expertise.
* Capacity building and coaching with organizations and alliances, particularly in the areas of strategy, collaboration and sustainability.
* Deep experience in one or more of the following racial justice movements: education justice, environmental justice, gender and reproductive justice, LGBT movement building, immigrant rights, media justice, land justice (housing, gentrification, development), worker justice, criminal justice.
If you or someone you know is a candidate for the MSC Senior Fellowship, please email rachel@movementstrategy.org
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While participation is mandatory, a number of populations – such as persons with limited English proficiency, new immigrant communities, the elderly; those with disabilities, the homeless, disconnected youth, and neighborhoods/buildings with high concentrations of low-income residents — traditionally have been undercounted, often due to isolation and concerns about privacy. As a result, the jurisdictions they live in often don’t receive the full benefit of federal representation and funding available to them.
Recently, The Community Foundation awarded a $35,000 grant to the Census Project, which supports outreach and public awareness activities that will help ensure a complete and thorough census count across the Washington, DC metropolitan region. The Project awards “mini grants” ranging in size from $1,500 to $3,000 to nonprofit organizations that will work in timely and culturally sensitive ways to make sure that “hard to count” residents complete and return their Census forms.
For more information, contact Angela Jones Hackley, Vice President, Community Investment, at (202) 263-4766 or ajoneshackley@cfncr.org.
The search committee is very interested in receiving nominations and applications. The committee is also seeking input from all members of the university community about the challenges facing the next president, and the essential qualities and qualifications that would be desirable in the university’s next president. This input will be particularly critical to the search committee because considerations of candidate confidentiality will preclude extensive community participation in the latter stages of the search process. Our goal is to create multiple opportunities for all members of the community to share their ideas.
For those of you who live in the area, UMD has scheduled a listening session so that they may hear directly from all of you who wish to contribute to the process. The session for the entire community will be held on Wednesday, April 7, 2010, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m., in the Atrium, first floor, Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland.
The classes will be held on Wednesdays from 4-6 at their academy (636 Florida Ave NW). The program begins March 3 and ends May 12.
If your interested, please e-mail Jen Lee
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Leveraging Investments in Creativity, in collaboration with MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and supported by a funding partnership of the MetLife Foundation and the Ford Foundation, announces an open call for entries to the 2010 MetLife Foundation Innovative Space Awards, a grant-making program of Space for Change: Building Community through Innovative Spaces. ABOUT THE AWARDS
Launched in 2009, the MetLife Foundation Innovative Space Awards is a competitive national funding program that recognizes outstanding efforts in the design and development of affordable space for artists. The program emphasizes the benefits artist spaces yield for both artists and their communities. In the Awards’ concluding round of grantmaking leading artist spaces will be selected from across the country to receive unrestricted awards ranging from $10,000 – $50,000 along with access to technical assistance and a learning community of peer institutions.
All application materials must be received by April 23, 2010 at 5pm EST.
Applications may be submitted by non-profit organizations, individual artists, public agencies, or a combination of the three, for artist space projects that:
• Provide affordable space for artists to work, or to live and work
• Are designed for multi-use or share space with a variety of tenants
• Have been in place for a minimum of one year
• Demonstrate a positive contribution (social, economic, cultural) to the community in which it exists
• Promote ownership or significantly favorable lease terms for artists
Click here to apply
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DC’s Earned Income Tax Campaign helps low-income families prepare and file their taxes for free. That’s right, free. Families that earned less than $42,000 and individuals that earned less than $22,000 last year can go to any of the Campaign’s five tax prep sites to get their taxes done and filed for free by IRS-certified preparers. Last year, the campaign helped low-income families file 6,000 returns and receive $9 million in credits and refunds.
Tax time can be very critical for many low-income working families. That’s because many earn so little —despite working full-time, year-round—that they are eligible for tax credits. Tax credits can provide a significant boost to a family’s income by lowering the taxes they have to pay or by providing a refund. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is one of the most important tax benefits for low-income working families. The EITC is available as a federal tax credit and also as a state tax credit in DC and 24 states. DC’s EITC, which is 40 percent of the federal EITC, is the highest state-level EITCs in the nation.
Because the tax returns families are filing now are based on last year’s income, the EITC can provide tax refunds to unemployed families that worked at some point last year but lost their jobs. In that way, filing a tax return may help families weather the recession.
And while the campaign helped so many low-income families file their taxes last year, there are still many families who are eligible for the credit and who are not claiming it. In fact, DCFPI estimated that between 7,000 and 11,000 people were eligible for the federal EITC—which must be claimed in order to claim DC’s EITC—but did not claim it. This means that outreach to low-income communities is crucial. So please, pass the word about the free tax preparation services for DC’s low-income families. More information about DC’s Earned Income Tax Credit Campaign, and how you can be involved, can be found http://dceitc.org/
