The Manhattan Borough President’s office is currently accepting applications for Community Board membership.
Community Boards represent their neighborhoods on crucial issues including real estate development & land use, historic preservation and even liquor licenses. Serving as a volunteer Community Board member is an incredible opportunity to be on the front lines of our civic landscape!
If you would like to join your Community Board, please fill out the online application by January 29, 2016 at 5:00pm. After submission, you will be contacted regarding the next steps in the screening and interview process.
The Hillman Prize seeks out top investigative reporting that draws attention to social or economic injustice and hopefully leads to corrective measures.The goal is to recognize discernment of a significant news story, resourcefulness and courage in reporting, skill in relating the story and the impact of the coverage.
The received-by deadline for all submissions will be January 30, 2016. Nominations can be submitted here.
The Sidney Hillman Foundation has sought to illuminate the great issues of the day—from the search for a basis for lasting peace, to the need for better housing, medical care, and employment security for all people, the promotion of civil liberties and the battle against discrimination based on race, nationality, or religion.
The coming years will present exciting challenges for labor and community groups. Unions and community-based organizations will need skilled staff in order to tackle the mounting needs placed before them and their constituents.
The UC Berkeley Labor Center will offer a Lead Organizer Training on January 20-22, 2016, featuring these topics:
Staff/Leadership Development • Wellness/Healthy LifeStyle Exercises • Training/Teaching/Learning Skills • Strategic Campaign Planning • Community-Labor Coalition Building • Lead Organizing Techniques/Tools
This workshop is offered for those union and community activists who hold lead organizing positions within their organizations, or will be assigned the task in the near future. Groups entering contract bargaining, conducting campaigns, or undertaking issue-oriented activities during 2016 should consider sending their lead organizers to this training.
The three-day training will be facilitated by UCB Adjunct Labor Specialist Maria L. Abadesco. It will also feature Sanjay Garla, Organizing Director of SEIU United Service Workers West, and Kuusela Hilo, Organizer with United Nurses Associa- tion of California/Union of Health Care Professionals.
SEIU United Service
Workers West office
3411 East 12th Street, Suite 200 Oakland, CA 94601
Application Deadline: November 16, 2015
Maximum 22 participants
Registration Fee: Unions: $400 CBOs: $275
Cost includes breakfast, lunch, snacks, and printed and online materials. Registrations that are cancelled after Friday, January 15, 2016, 5:00 pm will be charged 10% of tuition.
For more information please contact:
Maria Abadesco
Adjunct Labor Specialist 707-494-2461 MariaLaborCenter@yahoo.com
or
Alicia Flores
Program Coordinator 510-643-0910 alicia.flores@berkeley.edu
The New York State Assembly Intern Committee sponsors the Graduate Internship at the State Capital starting every January.
The GRADUATE INTERNSHIP provides full-time research or policy analysis positions with Assembly leaders, committees and research staffs. An $15,000 stipend is awarded for the January 4, 2016 to June 17, 2016 Internship.
The Assembly Graduate Internship provides research and policy development experiences for up to ten qualified graduate students. Approximately one third of the participants in the Internship have moved into other positions in state government. The Assembly Intern Committee affords graduate students a unique professional learning experience. Graduate Scholars are required to attend Issue Policy Forums and the course provided by the Professor-in-Residence. Graduate Scholars have the opportunity to develop their understanding of the legislative process and New York State government and to apply their ideas and research skills in the legislative process.
More information is available by clicking the link below and visiting the Assembly Internship Program website:
The Occupy Art Show invites you to create your own Occupy Art posters from posters and Occupy Art materials and supplies that will be provided as part of the 14th Annual Newark Open Doors Citywide Arts Festival October 15th -18th, 2015. The event space for the Occupy Art Show will be at 765 Broad Street, 5th Floor, Newark, New Jersey. Occupy Art participants are encouraged to talk about the Occupy artwork they have created through the Occupy Art open mic.
Occupy Art Show is inspired by the Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter movements to discuss, expand scope, perspective and inspiration towards an ongoing series of future culture jams and events around this theme and time.
Check Newark Arts Council’s website for updated details on schedules.
Open Doors is a citywide arts tour and community event that celebrates Newark’s unique and diverse contributions to the arts and to American culture.
Our annual training on Strategic Campaign Research will be held on November 16-18 at the Maritime Institute in Linthicum, Maryland. […]
The training in November is a shorter and more accessible version of the intensive Cornell class that we cosponsor each summer. It is designed for those who are new to strategic research – researcher new hires, organizers who do their own research, and other staff with research duties, along with leaders and members who want to learn more about strategic campaigning. Community allies are welcome to participate. […]
Please note that the course is limited to 28 participants and we encourage early registration.
A conversation about workers, communities and social justice
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