9/30/2020: Beyond the Ballot Box, THRIVE Agenda, Community Safety, & Equitable Procurement

THE PRAXIS PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENTS Civic Participation for All (CP4All): Organizing Beyond the Ballot Box New CCPH Brief & Upcoming Webinar With the increased visibility of inequities that Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) communities regularly experience by COVID-19, elevated discussions of the need to advance racial justice, and a pending election being threatened with voter suppression, we need robust, accessible, and authentic civic participation more than ever.   Our newest brief highlights how basebuilding community organizers promote civic and community-centered engagement to enact change for justice and equity. As we approach the 2020 election, join The Praxis Project and LUPE in a webinar on Wednesday, October 7 to discuss meaningful strategies for civic engagement; the role of organizers, public health and philanthropy; and our principles for health, justice, and racial equity.   Check out the Brief →                     Register for the Webinar → Transforming Community Safety: Looking Beyond Reforms New Blog Post In her new blog post, Praxis Health Justice Comms intern, Kourtney Nham, discusses the need to look beyond band-aid solutions to police violence and incarceration and instead uplift transformative, abolitionist visions with highlights from Black Organizing Project.   Read the Blog → School Nutrition, Food Procurement, and Equitable Community Development New Resource   Check out our newest brief by our Health Justice Intern, Roxana Rodriguez. This brief highlight how nutrition policy and procurement in K-12 institutions can advance health, justice, sustainability, equity, and community power.   View the Brief → POLICY NEWS & ACTION THRIVE Agenda Policy Highlight   People across the country recognize that we must demand access to public health resources; investment in Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities; a move to clean renewable energy; and secure jobs with healthcare benefits as we rebuild our economy.   Action: Tell your Representative to Support THRIVE Agenda POLICY NEWS & ACTION: ON OUR RADAR Take Action: We will still fight for Breonna Take Action: Text ENOUGH to 55156 #JusticefForBre SisterSong Sign-on: Speaking up and Speaking out against ICE violence against BIPOC and Immigrant Women  Take Action: Hold ICE accountable for forced sterilizations  Tell Comcast: Free the Internet!  Tell Congress: End Police Militarization and over-policing in our communities now  Take Action: Demand Free Internet for All Low-Income Families During COVID-19 #InternetForAll  Take Action: Free Them ALL: Your Actions Saves Lives RESOURCES & OPPORTUNITIES RESOURCES Information Resources 2020 Janine Soleil Abolitionist Institute Resources and Session Materials The Praxis Project's Get Out the Vote resource hub. Check it out and share your resources. Social Media Technologies is providing GOTV Coaching for unions and organizing groups (at a cost) Fiscal Strength for Nonprofits PPP Forgiveness Racial Equity Initiative (PPP FREI) provides customized advisory support for nonprofits led by BIPOC-identified leadership as well as organizations in which BIPOC-identified individuals are managing the PPP process. Interrupting Criminalization Initiative's #DefundPolice Toolkit Divest-Invest Participatory Budgeting Toolkit Webinar/Virtual Trainings ReFrame's Strategic Communications Training Series for organizers Nonprofit Tech for Good's 5 Powerful Strategies for Your 2021 Annual Fundraising Plan Institute for Development of Human Arts webinar series on Healing Systems: Models, Tools, and Strategies to Transform Mental Health Practice Systems Thinking: Deconstructing the Landscape of Social Services Oct 24 Participatory Approaches to Healing: Adaptations of Open Dialogue Nov 21 Embodied Transformation: Somatics and Internal Family Systems Dec 12 Center for Empowering Refugees & Immigrants' Wellness in Action Events for Fall 2020:  Introduction to Dreamwork as Spiritual & Healing Practice for (BI)POC with Indigo Som on Oct 16, 3-6pm Stories of Home Screening with StoryCenter on Oct 30, 6-8pm Memories, Migrations and Movements: Situating Womxn of Color Voices in the Diaspora with Leah Kabigting Sicat on Oct 27 and Nov 3, 6-7:30pm Singing Body with Dohee Lee on Nov 13, 1-4pm Healing Shame: Understanding, Transforming, and Reducing Shame with Sheila Rubin on Oct 26, Nov 2, Nov 9, and Nov 16, 10am-1:30pm Ms. Foundation for Women and Brooklyn Historical Society for a panel discussion on Women + Power: PEOPLE POWER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES COVID-related bail-pretrial justice grant: Spark Justice has launched a call for rapid response proposals. Applications due October 20. Learn more Black-Led Movement Fund Rapid Response: Apply for funding up to $10,000. Learn more or access the application Circle for Justice Innovations' Strategic Opportunities Support Rapid Response Fund for organizations responding to changing political landscapes and working to  build collective power at critical junctures. Grants between $2,500 to $5,000. Learn more Collective Fund for Trans Communities: The COVID-19 Collective Fund for Trans Communities provides financial resources to trans-led organizations and transgender, gender nonconforming, and non-binary communities who are organizing in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Learn more Emergent Fund provide funding for efforts that support emergent strategies that help communities respond to rapidly changing conditions and seeking long-term social justice and economic justice in a political and social climate that seeks to dismantle such efforts. Learn more First Nations Development Institute's Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship: This fellowship honors and supports a cohort of fellows as they work to further Indigenous knowledge creation, dissemination, and perpetuation in Indigenous communities. Applications are due by October 22. Learn more Jewish Organizing Institute & Network: The Access to Power Fellowship is a deep investment in the leadership of emerging Jewish organizers with disabilities. Applications are due by November 6. Learn more Adobe Creative Cloud Donation program: Taking It Global is offering an Adobe Creative Cloud Donation program to creative youth organizations. Final call for the program is October 15th. Learn more JOB OPPORTUNITIES CURYJ is looking for a Digital Organizer and Development Associate S.O.U.L Sisters Leadership Collective is searching for a NYC Programs Director and NYC Teaching Artist National Low Income Housing Coalition is searching for a Housing Advocacy Organizer Al Otro Lado is hiring a bilingual Staff Attorney Young Women's Freedom Center is hiring several positions including a Program Manager and Self Determination Life Coaches SisterLove is searching for a Bilingual Research Coordinator Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice is searching for a Policy & Research Specialist and Community Organizer UnidosUS is hiring for multiple positions, including a Digital Marketing Coordinator, Director and Mangers, Policy Advisors, and more Social Movement Technologies is hiring for multiple positions, including Digital Campaigners, admin support, U.S. Racial Justice Movement Support Coordinator, and more Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum is hiring for multiple positions, including a Digital Media Production Manager, Program Director, and Monitoring and Evaluation Specialists SHARE YOUR OPPORTUNITIES Do you have any resources or opportunities to share with our network? 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