9/29/2021: Summer Blog Series, Movement Building Fiscal Sponsorship, and LIFT the BAR Act

 
- PRAXIS ANNOUNCEMENTS -
2021 Summer Blog Series
 
Check out the blogs of our incredible 2021 Health Justice Interns. Uma Nagarajan-Swenson writes about 'Collective Grief and Community Care in a State Fueled Crisis' and Ileana López Martínez explores 'Reproductive Justice: A Holistic Approach to Reproductive Freedom' featuring an interview with Black Women for Wellness to discuss practical applications of reproductive justice values in organizing.
 
 
Have you been curious about our fiscal sponsorship work? Our fiscal sponsorship program is one way that we are supporting capacity and power building within movement work by enabling community power building organizers and organizations to focus on and prioritize their resources into addressing pressing priorities on health, justice, and racial equity. Check out our refreshed pages on our Movement Building Fiscal Sponsorship program to learn how we practice fiscal sponsorship that is sustainable and mutually supportive.
 
- POLICY NEWS & ACTION -
Support and Pass the LIFT the BAR Act
 
Protect Immigrant Families: The LIFT the BAR Act restores access to public programs like Medicaid, CHIP, and SNAP, by removing the five-year bar and other that deny critical care and aid to people who are lawfully present and their families 
 
TAKE ACTION
- RESOURCES & OPPORTUNITIES -
RESOURCES
  • Toolkit: Your Vote Is Your Voice: A Toolkit for Youth Justice and Electoral Advocacy
  • Conference: The 14th annual Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference. This online event is happening Oct. 23rd, 2021. Register
  • Webinar: Join RWJF on September 30, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. ET for our Reimagined in America: What the World Can Teach Us About Building a Culture of Health. Register 
  • Toolkit: The Asian American Foundation Rapid Response Toolkit was created for our AANHPI communities and allies to mobilize. 
  • Webinar: Abolition, Cultural Freedom, Liberation. Register
  • Toolkit: Whose Security Is It Anyway? A toolkit to address institutional violence in Nonprofit organization. This toolkit is a wonderful teaching document for those who are working with future medical professionals, social workers, educators and youth workers. 
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
  • RWJF's Evidence for Action: Investigator-Initiated Research to Build a Culture of Health call for proposals is open on a rolling basis. The program funds research that expands the evidence needed to build a Culture of Health, which is broadly defined as one in which good health and well-being flourish across geographic, demographic, and social sectors; public and private decision making is guided by the goal of fostering equitable communities; and everyone has the opportunity to make choices that lead to healthy lifestyles. Proposals are accepted on a rolling basis.
  • Girls for Gender Equity is accepting applications for Sisters in Strength (SIS) and the Young Women’s Advisory Council (YWAC). SIS participants engage in healing practices and healing justice work, as well as learn community organizing skills to combat sexual and gender-based violence. YWAC participants work together to identify important issues impacting young people of color and their communities, while gaining core skills to enact transformational change.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
  • APEN is seeking a Co-Director based in San Francisco Bay Area or Greater Los Angeles, CA. Apply by Oct. 1st, 2021 
 


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