2/28/2020: Our climate crisis is a public health crisis. Defend NEPA!

Join our upcoming webinar launching our Centering Community in Public Health training & technical assistance series! In this webinar, we introduce our Working Principles for Health Justice and Racial Equity as our guiding frame to launch our Centering Community in Public Health training & technical assistance initiative. This webinar provides guidance in authentically centering community interests in the design, promotion, and implementation of policies and initiatives that support justice and equity for everyone. Read more about the webinar series. Date/Time: March 25th, 11-12pm PST Registration: Free Register to the webinar Defend Environmental Protections! Comment on the proposed changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)! {{ FirstName | default: 'Friend' }}, submit your public comment against the proposed changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) before Tuesday, March 10th:  Background: The administration has proposed a new changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that would ultimately undermine its purpose in attempts to speed up development on our public lands and waters. The proposed changes would exempt many federal actions such as projects affecting our public lands and waters to no longer be review and analyzed for environmental impacts under the law, while also restricting the public’s ability to provide input on federal decision making. Most troubling is the proposed change to allow agencies to no longer review their climate change impacts of their proposed actions.  Our climate crisis is a public health crisis. Submit your comment today against this proposal. Submit My Public Comment Know your rights: DHS Public Charge rule is in effect staring Feb. 24th {{ FirstName | default: 'Friend' }}, the DHS public charge rule has gone into effect nationwide starting Feb. 24th, except in Illinois where it is blocked by a statewide injunction. The Illinois order could still be appealed and overruled. Help us spread the facts so immigrants in our communities can be best prepared if and how this rule may affect them–see our resources below for more: Know Your Rights: For People Working with Immigrant Families by Protect Immigrant Families Illinois's Public Charge Info Centers & resource organizations Public Charge FAQ by Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights On our radar: What Trump's proposed NEPA rollback could mean for the climate from Yale Climate Connections. Boston Mayor releases Executive Order requesting Racial Equity Training for all City Employees  Moms4Housing is a model of how to center tenants on the path to housing justice from Texas Housers. CA Senator Monning Introduces Bill To Provide Proactive Solutions To Small Water Systems At Risk Of Failing To Provide Safe Drinking Water from Leadership Counsel Resources: Are you ready for your state's primary elections? Check out your state's Voter Guide for progressives. Put together by Courage California, Fuse Washington, Progress Virginia.  Guides: Downloadable Video Guide to Completing the 2020 Census (More languages coming soon!): English, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Arabic, Korean, Tagalog, Russian Toolkit: We Count! A Guide for Community Organizations on Census Engagement Toolkit: Census Community Outreach Toolkit Toolkit: ProtectFamilies Feb 245th Teach-In Toolkit, ICYMI from Protecting Immigrant Families Toolkit: "Navigating Public Charge: Best Practices in Community Based Organizations to Mitigate the Harm for the Immigrant Community" from Protecting Immigrant Families Free workshop (SF Bay Area): Anti-Harassment Training for Nonprofit Supervisors/Managers/Board Members by The Community Organization Representation Project (CORP). To Register email Nick Reddy, CORP Paralegal, at nreddy@sfbar.org. In your registration include the name of your organization, each registrant’s name, job title, and email address. Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 2:00-4:00pm The Bar Association of San Francisco 301 Battery St., 3rd Floor, San Francisco Presenters: Chantelle Egan, Seyfarth Shaw LLP & Pamela Vartabedian, Seyfarth Shaw LLP Register Funding Opportunities: FCYO is currently accepting Request for Proposals for their Moment to Movement Fund to provide one-year grants to youth organizing groups responding to the current moment in ways that build long-term power for young people of color and gender oppressed young people living in low-income communities. Application are due on March 13, 2020. Read more>> Watch their Informational Webinar The Ms. Foundation is launching the Activist Collaboration Fund to strengthen collaboration in and across social justice movements for women and girls of color, trans women and girls of color, and indigenous women and girls. Ms. has allocated $250,000 to be granted in Spring of 2020. Average grant amounts will range from $15,000-$25,000. Read more>> Resist is centered on supporting people's movements for justice and liberation. Their next round of General Support, Accessibility, and Multiyear applications each for up to $4,000 are due on March 6th, 2020. Read More>>  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) program is to produce diverse interdisciplinary leaders who conduct and apply high-quality, community-engaged, action-oriented, equity-focused health research in order to drive improvements in the health of communities. Both fellowship and research funds available. Apply by March 11, 2020. Read more>> Job & Other Opportunities:  Join us! We are accepting applications for our Health Justice summer internships! In advance of the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau is recruiting hundreds of thousands of people for temporary jobs across the United States and Puerto Rico. Apply today. Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN) is looking for phone bankers and phone bank leads for the upcoming primary election in their Fresno and San Jose offices, as well as other openings: Associate Director/ Director of Legal Services (Central Valley) Civic Engagement Manager (Central Valley) Community Organizers (Bay Area & Central Valley) Community Outreach Manager (Bay Area or Central Valley) Development and Communications Associate (Bay Area) Director of Development (Bay Area) Director of Community Organizing (Bay Area) Policy Associate (Bay Area) Staff Attorney (Bay Area) Staff Attorney (Central Valley) Media Mobilizing Project Criminal Justice Organizer Story Director People's Algorithmic Power Project National Organizer Texas Civil Rights Project Senior Criminal Justice Reform Attorney (Houston, TX) Press Intern (Austin, TX) Do you have any resources or opportunities to share with our network? Reply to this email!