Funding
Call for Applications: Soros Justice Fellowships
Date: July 23, 2009
The Soros Justice Fellowships fund outstanding individuals to implement innovative projects that advance the Open Society Institute’s efforts to reform the U.S. criminal justice system. OSI’s strategy takes aim at two overarching ills: the over-reliance on incarceration and harsh punishment, and the lack of equal justice—especially for people of color and the poor.
Fellows receive funding through the following two programs:
Advocacy
Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowships fund outstanding individuals—including lawyers, advocates, grassroots organizers, activist academics, and others with important perspectives—to initiate innovative policy advocacy projects at the local, state, and national levels that will have a measurable impact on one or more of OSI’s U.S. criminal justice priorities.
View the Advocacy Fellowship guidelines.
Open Society Institute Awards $5 Million to Support Sundance Institute and Documentary Films
Press Release
NEW YORK—The Sundance Institute will receive a $5 million grant for its Documentary Film Program to help raise awareness on human rights, the Open Society Institute announced today.
"Films can play a powerful role in inspiring action on human rights, justice, accountability, and other open society issues,” said Aryeh Neier, president of the Open Society Institute. "The Sundance Institute’s work helps filmmakers shed light on the most pressing challenges of our time."
Funding - Applications Invited for Arts Presenters/MetLife Arts Access Award
The Association of Performing Arts Presenters is accepting applications for the 2010 Arts Presenters/MetLife Arts Access Awards.
The awards honor organizations that have either been exemplary in their dedication and approach to helping individuals with disabilities experience and value the performing arts, or in engaging underserved individuals and communities that lack access to the performing arts and cultural life in the community.
The Arts Presenters/MetLife Arts Access Award: Engaging Individuals With Disabilities will award $10,000 each to two organizations working to help individuals with disabilities experience and value the performing arts. This may be accomplished through programs and strategies that integrate new technologies, respond to recent demographic shifts, and/or establish an ongoing dialogue focused on individuals with sensory, cognitive, learning, developmental, and/or physical disabilities.
Immediate Job Opening: Instructor for video production after-school & summer programs at G.W. Carver Academy Middle School.
Immediate Job Opening with Center for Multicultural Cooperation:
Arne Nixon Center Call for Donations
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Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:12 am (PDT)
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Authors & Illustrators
The Arne Nixon Center collects the papers of published authors and
illustrators. Materials are intended to document the creation of
children¬Ãs literature. These could include, but are not limited to:
Manuscripts
Original art
Photographs
Promotional materials
Awards
Correspondence
Fan mail
Unpublished materials
Wish List
The Center would like to add the following materials to the
collection. If you would like to donate any of the titles listed
below, please contact the Center's staff.
The Ark by Margot Benary-Isbert. Harcourt, 1953.
The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means. Walker Books, 1993.
The All-White World of Children¬Ãs Books and African-American
Literature edited by Osayimwense Osa. Africa World Press, 2006.
The Rooster Crows by Maud and Miska Petersham. 1964 edition.
St Nicholas bound journals, v. 56, part 1 and 2, v. 57, part 2
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, collector's edition by J.K. Rowling.
Children's High Level Group, 2008.
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~ A message from Marcie Morrison,
Looking for Part-time work
MS. RANDY M. DOUGHTY
5542 W. Everett Avenue, Fresno, California 93722 / 559.246.1566 RMDoughty@comcast.net
OBJECTIVE: A New Opportunity¬â€
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Robert L. Kolbert, ChFC – Princor Registered Representative (June 2008 – July 2009)
•   Established business systems and procedures for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll and Human Resources.
•   Created, processed and organized several new client services and events from team participation in MDP Advisor Program
•   Client services and hospitality
MDN Financial Services – Branch Operations Manager (November 2005 – June 2008)
•   Supervise the daily operations of an LPL/OSJ Branch.
•   Complete the final actions in processing business, including all related compliance requirements, form completion and tracking.
NEA Funding - American Masterpieces: Presenting - Due 9/27/09
Document Type:Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:2009NEA01AMP
Opportunity Category:Discretionary
Posted Date:Jun 30, 2009
Creation Date:Jun 30, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Sep 24, 2009   Application Deadline: Organizations are required to submit their applications electronically through Grants.gov, the federal government’s online application system. The Grants.gov system must receive your application no later than 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on September 24, 2009.
Current Closing Date for Applications:Sep 24, 2009
America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants - Due 8/26/09
The synopsis for this grant opportunity is detailed below, following this paragraph. This synopsis contains all of the updates to this document that have been posted as of 06/22/2009 . If updates have been made to the opportunity synopsis, update information is provided below the synopsis.
If you would like to receive notifications of changes to the grant opportunity click send me change notification emails . The only thing you need to provide for this service is your email address. No other information is requested.
Any inconsistency between the original printed document and the disk or electronic document shall be resolved by giving precedence to the printed document.
Document Type:Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:20090826-GI
Opportunity Category:Discretionary
Posted Date: Jun 22, 2009
Creation Date: Jun 22, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications: Aug 26, 2009¬†¬â€
Investing in Artists Grants Program - Round IV - Due July 15, 2009
The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) is pleased to announce that the Guidelines and Application Form for Round IV of the Investing in Artists grants program are now available for download at www.cciarts.org/funding.
Round IV is designated for Performing and Media Arts applicants only, and the deadline for submission of online applications is July 15, 2009.
The Investing in Artists program now provides grants in two categories, for: 1) Artistic Equipment and Tools; and 2) Artistic Innovation. Beginning with Round IV, the grants program contains significant guideline changes, including a new Artistic Innovation grants category, the rotation of application deadlines according to discipline-specific groupings, and the requirement of online application submissions only.¬â€
Jazz.NEXT — Funding Op
Guidelines
Jazz.NEXT is a national jazz initiative designed to encourage the application of technology in substantive and innovative approaches to broaden and deepen relationships with new and existing audiences, promote enhanced communications with the public, more effectively market and distribute the work of jazz artists, and build links that create a more informed and cohesive jazz community better equipped to meet the challenges of a fast-changing marketplace. The program is intended to foster creative thinking that can result in the development of new models to help shape future operating practice for jazz artists, organizations, and presenters across the United States. ¬â€
Job - Community Foundation for Monterey County President/CEO
President/CEO
Community Foundation for Monterey County
Monterey, California
As the steward of nearly 300 funds and total assets of $103 million (at the end of 2008), the Community Foundation is the largest grantmaking foundation on the Central Coast. It has awarded at least 50% of its grants to agencies serving the Salinas Valley with the remainder going to the rest of Monterey County. The Foundation has offered a comprehensive Management Assistance Program, including affordable workshops, library resources, and consultant referrals for agencies seeking to strengthen their management. CFMCO has been raising between $7 and $10 million a year for the past several years and is on track to do so again in 2009.
Job - Environmental Health Assistant Director with Fresno Metro Ministry
Fresno Metro Ministry, an ecumenical social justice non-profit organization that works to create a more respectful, compassionate and inclusive community that promotes social, economic and environmental justice, has an immediate opening for an Environmental Health Assistant Director (EHAD) to work in coordination with the Environmental Health Director in conducting trainings in the community on air quality issues, advocating for clean air policies at the local, regional, and state regulatory and legislative levels, participating in activities with the Central Valley Air Quality Coalition, as well as program development activities, including fundraising and strategic planning. The EHAD is also responsible for administrative and operations support duties such as coordination of meetings and events, program activity tracking and grant reporting.
Job - Fresno Design Alliance - job section on their website
Check out the cool new jobs section on FDA website. It lists Fresno-area design jobs that have been pulled from multiple RSS feeds. The aggregated feed is also featured on the homepage in the left sidebar under "Latest
Activity".
http://fresnodesignalliance.ning.com/page/graphic-design-jobs
