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is available from the respective posting agency. Thank you!
CONFERENCES/EVENTS:
(1) Training
FUNDING/GRANTS:
(2) Grants from the Teammates for Kids Foundation (: http://www.teammates4kids.com)
(3) American Eagle Outfitter Foundation (www.ae.com)
(4) Public Welfare
Foundation (www.publicwelfare.org)
INTERNSHIP/FELLOWSHIP:
(5) New Voices Fellowship (http://newvoices.aed.org/home.html)
(6) Leadership for a
Changing World Fellowship (info@leadershipforchange.org)
(7) Echoing Green
Fellowship (info@echoinggreen.org )
(8)
Internship at NAVASA (www.navasa.org)
NEWS/PRESS RELEASES:
(9) Asian Pacific Islander American Vote &
APALA Vote Mobilize Asian American Voters Like Never
Before
JOB POSTINGS:
(10) Program Coordinator & Assistant Manager
(VNCOC-CA)
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(1) TRAINING
FOR REFUGEE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING"
PRESENTED BY:
Marta
TIME & DATE:
Saturday,
LOCATION:
"Oasis Room," Hamilton Crowne Plaza Hotel;
14th & K Streets, NW;
Street
DESCRIPTION:
The Office of Refugee Resettlement's new initiative, "Points of Wellness ~
Partnering for Refugee Health and Well-Being" is
aimed at increasing the
long-term health and well-being of refugee populations in the
States
reduce health disparities and support disease prevention programs. To
accomplish these goals, Points of Wellness focuses on building the capacity
of community-based organizations to promote health and disease prevention
activities for refugees, expanding the field of organizations and groups
involved in refugee health programs, and building local and national
partnerships. For example, ethnic Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) are
encouraged to work with health agencies and others to build local refugee
health networks and partnerships.
Points of Wellness will
offer:
* The Points of Wellness Toolkit which will walk community-based
organizations through understanding health promotion, how to assess the
needs of their community and how to start developing a program (Toolkit
is
now under development - projected for availability in Fall 2004);
* On-line access to an expanding network of organizations across the
country who can be local and national partners, mentors and resources; and
* Technical assistance in the development and implementation of health
programs to assist refugees.
The Refugee
Health Promotion/Disease Prevention Initiative is a
collaborative effort of The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services'
Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA)/Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
and the Office of Global Health Affairs (OGHA).
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(2)
Grants from the Teammates for Kids Foundation
The
Teammates for Kids Foundation accepts proposals for grants from nonprofit
organizations that specialize in working with children. Grants from the
Foundation support the on-going work of operating organizations that help needy
children in the areas of health, education and inner-city services.
Who Qualifies
To qualify for a grant from the Teammates for Kids Foundation, an organization
must:
·
Be a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt
nonprofit organization in good standing with the Internal Revenue Service
·
Have a record of outstanding service
in effectively and efficiently delivering programs and services that improve
the lives of needy children
·
Serve children's needs in the areas
of Health, Education or providing Inner-city services
·
Deliver services which impact the
lives of children, both short and long-term
·
Ensure that 100% of grant monies
received from the Teammates for Kids Foundation are used for the exclusive
benefit of children
For more information
and how to apply: http://www.teammates4kids.com/apply_for_grant/apply_grant.htm
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(3) American Eagle
Outfitter Foundation
Each year, the AE
Foundation allocates a limited amount of money to nonprofit, public charities
with tax exempt status
under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
Code. Before an organization is considered for a donation, it must fulfill the
following criteria:
The
organization and/or its programs must fall within the scope of the
AE Foundation's mission statement
The
organization must creatively involve AE business unit and/or
employees in projects
The
organization must provide regular reports of financial and program activities
The
organization must direct at least 70% of the money raised toward beneficiaries
The
organization must be willing to provide documentation to AE verifying
financial donations
The
organization or its program must be in a community where
AE operates business
Grant
request should fall within $1,000 - $25,000 range
The
program/goal of the financial donation must significantly affect the
surrounding community
The
organization must be inclusive in policies and practices involving all
genders, races, ages, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or creed
For more
information and how to apply: http://www.ae.com/corp/foundation2.htm
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(4)
Public Welfare Foundation
General Funding Policy
The Public Welfare Foundation supports organizations that address
human needs in disadvantaged communities, with strong emphasis on organizations
that include service, advocacy and empowerment in their approach: service that
remedies specific problems; advocacy that addresses those problems in a
systemic way through changes in public policy; and strategies to empower people
in need to play leading roles in achieving those policy changes and in
remedying specific problems.
We also look for organizations that link their community and local
work to other efforts to effect broader public policy change.
The Foundation provides both general support and project-specific
grants. Although most grants cover a period of one year, the Foundation accepts
requests for funding renewals and also makes multi-year grants. Grants for
one-time purposes are also considered.
The Foundation makes a conscious effort to remain flexible so that
it can respond to requests that address new, unusual, and immediate problems as
they arise.
The Foundation does not accept requests to fund scholarships,
graduate work, individuals, government projects, academic research or foreign
study. Only when there is a close connection with our current work do we fund
conferences, seminars or workshops, publications, video or media production
projects, endowments, capital grants and equipment requests.
2004 Grant Approval Level
The grant approval levels for the fiscal year 2004 are as follows:
|
Community
Development |
|
$2,500,000 |
|
Criminal
Justice |
|
1,000,000 |
|
Environment |
|
2,500,000 |
|
Health |
|
3,000,000 |
|
Human
Rights/Global Security |
|
2,500,000 |
|
Reproductive
and Sexual Health |
|
2,500,000 |
|
Special
|
|
900,000 |
|
Welfare
Reform Fund |
|
500,000 |
|
Youth |
|
2,000,000 |
|
Annual
Contributions |
|
100,000 |
|
Total |
|
$17,500,000 |
For more detailed information
please visit: http://www.publicwelfare.org/news/news/fund_2004.asp
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(5) New Voices
Fellowship
AED/New Voices
Telephone: 202-884-8051
E-Mail: newvoice@aed.org
http://newvoices.aed.org/home.html
New Voices, inaugurated
in 1999, is a national leadership development program that helps nonprofit
organizations recruit or retain innovative, new talent. It awards
salary-support grants to small nonprofits demonstrating a commitment to
cultivating and strengthening the leadership potential of creative and diverse
"new voices" in the field.
Eligible
organizations are US-based, and address key issues in fields related to
justice and peace.
·
HIV/AIDS
·
International Human Rights
·
Migrant and Refugee Rights
·
Racial Justice/Civil Rights
·
Reproductive Rights
·
Women's Rights
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(6) Leadership for a Changing World
Fellowship
Advocacy Institute
phone: 202.777.7560
fax: 202.777.7577
Questions About Nomination Process
nominations@leadershipforchange.org
Leadership for a
Changing World seeks to recognize, strengthen and support leaders and to
highlight the importance of community leadership in improving people’s lives.
The program seeks to confirm that resourceful leaders are bringing about
positive change in virtually every community. Together with these leaders, Leadership
for a Changing World hopes to facilitate a new dialogue about community leadership, one that encourages others to appreciate that
leadership comes in many forms and from many different communities.
Each year,
Leadership for a Changing World recognizes 17-20 leaders and leadership groups
not broadly known beyond their immediate community or field. Nominated
community leaders may work in fields that include: economic development;
community development; environment and environmental justice; human rights;
citizen participation and government accountability; human development; sexual
and reproductive health; education reform; youth development; religion and
social change; arts and social action; and access to media, including new
technologies.
Leadership for
a Changing World seeks to recognize and support leaders in the following ways:
·
Provide shared learning and networking opportunities: Over the
course of the two-year program, awardees will participate in four program-wide
meetings designed to provide opportunities for shared learning, and
collaboration among awardees. Leaders may use these sessions to consider their
leadership and program challenges and explore new opportunities to develop
their programs, and deepen our understanding of community leadership.
·
Provide financial support and other assistance for their work:
Awardees receive $100,000 over two years to support their programs or new work
that is related to the initiatives for which they are being recognized.
Awardees will also receive $15,000 to explore new learning opportunities that
will support their work. Funds will be made available to the awardees’
nonprofit charitable organizations with 501(c)(3)
status or to their fiscal agents.
·
Explore, through research, how leadership is perceived, created,
and sustained: awardees will collaborate with the research team to develop new
insights and understanding about leadership for social change, both through
working with fellow awardees and through telling their own story.
·
Contribute to current public discourse on leadership: In an effort
to facilitate a new conversation about community leadership, awardees will be
part of a media effort to communicate the stories of their efforts and to
explore unique approaches to leadership.
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(7) Echoing Green Fellowship
Echoing Green
Phone: 212-689-1165
Fax: 212-689-9010
Echoing Green awards
two-year fellowships to emerging social innovators. Annually, we award
Fellowships to individuals with innovative ideas for creating new models for
tackling seemingly unsolvable social challenges. These Fellowships offer them
the opportunity to develop and test their ideas.
This is not a
scholarship program. Our Fellows do not develop their ideas in an academic
setting. Our Fellows work in the community. They launch, manage and grow
organizations that implement and continually expand their ideas for creating
lasting social change.
Individual Fellowships:
$30,000 per year for two years for a total of $60,000 paid in four equal
installments of $15,000. Partnership Fellowships: $45,000 per year (per
project, not per individual) for two years for a total of $90,000 paid in four
equal installments of $22,500.
Fellowship stipends are
paid twice a year. In addition to the two-year stipend, Echoing Green also
offers a monthly stipend for health insurance. Echoing Green provides our
fellows a range of support through a variety of media including the Internet,
conferences, site visits and phone contact.
Echoing Green also
offers guidance in strategic and financial planning, staff and board
development, fundraising, legal and accounting practices and many other aspects
of starting and building a non-profit organization. During the two year
Fellowship period, Echoing Green will host three Fellowship conferences. At the
conference we also offer educational workshops and access to Echoing Green
Fellows, program alumni and other experts in the field. The fellows develop
ambitious and measurable first year objectives. Throughout their fellowship,
they provide regular reports to the foundation and track their progress against
their objectives, refining their objectives as appropriate.
Thank you,
Shoatsehaye Belehu
Tel: (703) 685 – 0510,
ext., 219
Doua Thor – HND
Tel: (202) 463 – 2118
TC Duong – SEARAC
Tel: (202) 667 - 4690
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(8)
Internship
NAVASA actively seeks
undergraduate and graduate students with interests in working for the
Vietnamese American community. In working with NAVASA, the interns will
dynamically contribute to the growth and development of NAVASA's
annual programs and projects
NAVASA Internship
Program offers a diverse and competitive working environment. You will have the
opportunities to meet, network, and work with distinguished leaders, who have
extensive experiences working with the Vietnamese American community across the
NAVASA Internship is a
year-round program. Academic credits are available upon request.
For more information,
please contact Ms. Karen Willard at (301) 587-2781 or email to karen.willard@navasa.org. Visit our
website: www.navasa.org
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(9)
ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VOTE & APALA VOTE MOBILIZE ASIAN AMERICAN
VOTERS LIKE NEVER BEFORE: New national poll on Asian American
voters shows large undecideds, record interest
For Immediate
Release
Contacts: Janelle Hu (APIAVOTE), 202-223-5500
Caroline Fan, 202-974-8051 (APALA)
National Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) leaders were quick to respond
to a new national, multilingual poll on
Christine Chen, Executive Director of the Organization of Chinese Americans,
remarked, “The poll’s findings about record APIA interest in the 2004 elections
demonstrates APIAVote’s success in engaging Asian
Americans across the country. We have outreached to all sectors of our
community – seniors, youth, workers, and women - through our educational
materials in multiple languages on issues like employment, education,
immigration, and health care.”
Gloria Caoile,
Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), said,
“It is no wonder that the number one APIA issue is jobs and the economy –
according to an APALA study, Asian Pacific Islander American unemployment is at
6.0% and the average duration of unemployment for APIAs
is 23.9 weeks – longer than any other racial or ethnic group. We need a
president who responds to and prioritizes the needs of
Janelle Hu, National Coordinator of APIAVote, added, “To ensure that candidates pay attention
to APIA issues, we have formed grassroots coalitions that have been conducting
intense voter registration, education and mobilization efforts in Nevada,
Washington, Oregon and Minnesota, and nationwide. Later this
week we will release a treasure trove of information about key states like
these with large Asian American voting populations. It is easy to see
that our community is a crucial step in the race to the White House.”
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(10) Program Coordinator &
Assistant Manager
Vietnamese Community of Orange
County, Inc.
VNCOC –
Position I:
Program Coordinator for a teen pregnancy prevention/intervention project,
Bilingual, Bachelor Degree in Human Services or related fields.
Salary:
$30,000 - $34,000/ year plus fringe benefits
Position II:
Assistant Manager for the VNCOC –
Salary:
$27,600 - $30,000/ year plus fringe benefits
For further
information, please contact Ms. Karen Nguyen at (714) 418-2040, or visit us at www.vncoc.org, send or fax resume and cover
letter to
Board of Directors
Vietnamese Community of Orange County, Inc.
Fax:
(714) 418-2045
** VNCOC IS
AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
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