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CUNY Days at DC37: Worker Education at the Murphy Institute’s New College Access Initiative
By Becky Firesheets When adults are interested in returning to school, they’re often faced with multiple challenges — jobs, children, bills, aging parents — yet are expected to navigate this process alone. In contrast, high school students, who typically experience fewer barriers than adult learners, receive built-in guidance from trained counselors present in their schools.
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West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. Seeks Bilingual Spanish/English Community Organizer and Outreach Coordinator
West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (a/k/a WE ACT for Environmental Justice) (WE ACT) is a 501 (C)(3) community-based environmental justice organization. Our mission is to build healthy communities by assuring that people of color and/or low-income participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices. We are dedicated
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Yaffed Seeks Director of Community Engagement and Organizing (NYC)
Yaffed is seeking to hire a Community Organizing and Engagement Director who will spearhead our efforts to educate and engage parents, yeshiva graduates, and community leaders around the importance of secular education in Yeshivas. Yaffed was founded to advocate on behalf of students denied basic general education in many ultra-Orthodox schools. Our mission is to
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Hunger Free America Seeks Director of Policy and Research (NYC)
Hunger Free America (founded in 1983 as the New York City Coalition Against Hunger) is a dynamic and highly effective national progressive anti-hunger advocacy and direct service organization that is based in New York City but works in all 50 states. The Nation has written that the organization has grown into “one of the leading direct service
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