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  • CASES – Training and Placement Coordinator

    Reports to: Director of Youth Employment Services Overview: The Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services CASES’ youth programs aim to help New York City’s justice-involved young people, ranging in age from 13-24, to lead productive, crime-free lives. Our approach is distinguished by individualized case management, evidence-based programming, and group activities that build positive peer…

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  • 3 Positions at Seedco

    1) Director of Program Development Location: NYC Reporting to the SVP for Development and External Affairs, the Director of Program Development oversees and manages the identification of opportunities, the development of program concepts, and the preparation of Federal, State and other government, and private, grant applications, funder reports and renewals. The Director of Program Development…

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  • A Back Room Deal for the 1%: The Trans-Pacific Partnership

    The Murphy Institute is known for its public programming, bringing thinkers, leaders and policymakers together to discuss the issues vital to making change in our city and our world.  Watch Celeste Drake, Trade and Globalization Specialist, AFL-CIO discussing the Obama administration and the Trans-Pacific Partnership at “A Back-Room Deal for the 1%: The Trans-Pacific Partnership.” [youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfCGqZrjwIg&feature=youtu.be]

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  • Film Screening to Raise Funds for Diversity Scholarship

    Film Screening to Raise Funds for Diversity Scholarship

    On May 22nd, connect with both global labor history and the ongoing fight for worker justice in this country when the Murphy Institute hosts a screening of Blood Fruit, the award-winning film documentary about the historic 1984 South African anti-apartheid labor strike. Director Sinead O’Brien and subjects from the film who staged the historic strike will be…

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