4/30/2020: Children are agents of change in their families

THE PRAXIS PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENTS Episode 5 featuring YMCA East Bay's Healthy Me!  New video for our Healthy Investments series YMCA of the East Bay recognizes children as agents of change for healthy eating within their family. They know the lessons don't just stay in the classroom. Learn how they do it with their Healthy Me! program in our Healthy Investment series, uplifting all the community-led work funded in part by Berkeley's soda taxes. → Watch Episode 5 on our site to learn more! Join us next week for our webinar highlighting the work of our Learning Circle Collective featured in our released brief! Featuring Anahkwet (Guy Reiter) Executive Director at Menikahnaehkem and Tere Almaguer Environmental Justice Organizer at PODER SF. Communities of color have championed through organizing equity-led policy change & programs as necessary for health justice and racial equity. How can health professionals invest in base building community organizing into their advocacy & programs? In our upcoming interactive webinar, we are proud to provide the context for our recently-released brief “Community Centered Health Justice and Racial Equity: Organic Efforts Towards Health Equity-Driven Policy and Practice,” which highlights the vast efforts to improve community health and wellness led by our partners that are organizing across the United States. The purpose of the report and this webinar is to inform public health practice efforts in engaging community organizers to advance policy change. → Register here to join us on our webinar on May 7th → Check out our released brief: Organic Efforts Towards Health Equity-Driven Policy and Practice POLICY NEWS & ACTION Demand COVID-19 Demographic Data  Join efforts by The Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum and Trust for America's Health Background: The Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum and Trust for America's Health are circulating two letters, one to Congressional Leadership and one to Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Azar, asking for action on collecting, analyzing and reporting detailed demographic data about COVID-19 patients.  → Have your organization sign on to the Letter to Congress & HHS on COVID-19 Demographic Data by May 1st. From today, to Friday's May Day and beyond: Contact your representatives for Health Justice & Racial Equity-led COVID-19 relief for workers! Visit our site for actions & key demands to demand your representative. This coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is lifting the veil on the injustices and oppression communities of color have always known to affect their health and safety. From protecting our civil rights in the midst of shelter in place orders, demanding safe & affordable housing and other basic needs including access to care, to protecting our youth's right to education, the right to health and safety for front line workers, and our right to vote in the midst of a pandemic, all while ensuring there is no discrimination to limit care for people with disabilities, fat people, elders, and people with AIDS or other illnesses. → Visit our site for a list of demands and guides to contact your representatives to ensure Health Justice & Racial Equity in COVID-19 relief. POLICY NEWS & ACTION: ON OUR RADAR New COVID-19 Relief Bill Lacks Funds for Food Aid, Rent Relief, Postal Service, Election Protection Hundreds Of Thousands Of Workers Will Strike May 1 Feds Urged To Prevent COVID-19 Disability Discrimination How to Protect the 2020 Vote from the Coronavirus with the Brennan Center RESOURCES & OPPORTUNITIES RESOURCES WE ACT Introduces Free Online Learning Modules to Teach Children About Environmental Justice  Native American Communities And COVID-19: How Foundations Can Help Webinar: From Pandemic to Power Building during COVID-19 with Cooperation Jackson Watch Recording Webinar: Care Not Cages: Fighting for Our Incarcerated Youth During This Crisis hosted by Black Futures Lab's Principal, Alicia Garza, along with Ernest Johnson of Ubuntu Village, Gina Womack of Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children, and Rev. Manning of Justice & Beyond Register Webinar: A Conversation with Movement Leaders on COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities hosted by Building Movement Project & Solidarity Is with Detroit Peoples Platform, Asian Law Caucus, Native Organizer's Alliance, and Enlace Communitario Watch Recording In case you missed it, visit our site for our compiled list of resources & other opportunities from our last community power monthly digest. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES The Internet Society Foundation (ISF) has announced an emergency response grants of $250,000 to $500,000 USD will be awarded for projects lasting up to 12 months for organizations that use the internet to improve the lives of others during an emergency. Deadline May 17, 2020. Learn More>> The Disability Inclusion Fund, in partnership with the Presidents’ Council on Disability Inclusion in Philanthropy, has launched a $10M, 5-year Fund that supports U.S. groups run by and for disabled people to lead transformational change. Applicants may request up to $15,000. More information on how to apply for ongoing support from the DIF will be announced in the summer. Deadline May 6, 2020. Learn more>> A new International Arts Movement grant will offer artists relief during the coronavirus pandemic. Named the Hilary Teachout Grants, they honor the memory of the wife of theatre critic Terry Teachout; she passed away during the COVID-19 crisis due to an illness that required a double lung transplant. Currently, the grants are limited to one-time $500 payments. Learn more>> Find more funds for coronavirus relief specific to your area from Candid. Learn More>> Global Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response Funds List compiled by Council on Foundations. Learn More>> JOB OPPORTUNITIES Khmer Girls in Action in Long Beach, CA is hiring a Development Associate to join their team. Apply by Fri. May 15. Texas Housers is hiring a Community Equity Analyst in San Antonio, Texas.  Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG) is hiring a part-time Summer Intern in Berkeley, CA. HEAL (Health, Environment, Agriculture, Labor) Food Alliance, based in Oakland, CA is hiring an Operations and Events Manager. Apply by May 5th. SHARE YOUR OPPORTUNITIES Do you have any resources or opportunities to share with our network? Reply to this email and tell us about it! The Praxis Project is a values-driven national nonprofit organization that seeks to improve health justice through partnerships to build community power. Our Community Power Digest - Monthly Newsletter features updates and news from The Praxis Project and our basebuilding network. If you'd like to stop receiving these emails, simply click here to unsubscribe.