Grant Opportunity. 2024 Clif Family Foundation.

Clif Family Fundation

Deadline: March 01 and August 01, 2024

The Clif Family Foundation supports small-to-midsize grassroots groups led by visionaries committed to strengthening the food system, enhancing equitable community health outcomes, and protecting the environment. They provide operational support for daily costs and specific projects. Priority is given to applicants addressing two or more of their funding priorities: strengthening the food system, enhancing equitable community health outcomes, safeguarding the environment and natural resources, demonstrating strong community ties, and operating within viable plans for positive change.

Grant Opportunity. 2024. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Conservation Partners Program

 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Conservation Partners Program

Deadline: February 28, 2024

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) will award competitive grants to accelerate the voluntary adoption of regenerative agriculture principles and conservation practices. The program aims to increase participation in Farm Bill programs and advance principles such as minimizing soil disturbances, enhancing wildlife habitat, maximizing crop diversity, keeping the soil covered, maintaining a living root in the ground, efficiently managing water resources, and integrating livestock into agricultural systems. Eligible applicants include non-profit 501(c) organizations, state government agencies, local governments, municipal governments, tribal governments and organizations, and educational institutions.

Foundation Partners

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Grant Opportunity. 2024. TD Charitable Foundation Housing for Everyone.

 TD Charitable Foundation Housing for Everyone

Deadline: February 13, 2024

The 2024 Competition: The theme for the 18th annual Housing for Everyone competition is affordable housing with services to support independent living for marginalized community members. The 2024 Housing for Everyone competition will award $7 million to support Affordable housing with services to support independent living for marginalized community members. Grants ranging from $150,000−$250,000 will be made available to eligible organizations. The most competitive proposals will be those that best demonstrate positive impact for the most disadvantaged populations.

DEI Effective? Not just in Emergency Management, but across the board.

One Thought.

BEMA International

Diversity offices on college campuses will soon be illegal in ...

Texas Public Radio

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Dec 28, 2023 — Senate Bill 17 — which bans all Diversity, Equity, and inclusion, or DEI, offices at public colleges and universities across Texas

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Exercise Starter Kits for the 2023-2026. Wednesday, Jan. 31, noon to 1:00 p.m. ET and Tuesday, Feb. 13, 9 to 10 a.m. ET

 

FEMA National Exercise Division developed 10 new Exercise Starter Kits for the 2023-2026 National Exercise Program Principals’ Exercise Priorities. The new kits are now available in the Emergency Management Toolkit section of the Preparedness Toolkit. This online portal provides the whole community with tools for implementing the National Preparedness System.

 

Each kit contains a sample exercise facilitator and evaluator guide, sample conduct slides, a sample situation manual and a customizable placemat.

 

These documents are intended to be used by exercise practitioners and emergency managers at all levels of government, the private sector and nonprofit organizations. By providing these materials, FEMA hopes to engage planners who may need more time to develop their own exercises fully.

 

FEMA will host a series of webinars to discuss the new kits. All webinars will offer the same content. There is no registration required to attend one of the webinars. Join during one of the times listed below using this Adobe Connect link.

• Wednesday, Jan. 31, noon to 1:00 p.m. ET.
• Tuesday, Feb. 13, 9 to 10 a.m. ET

If you are unable to attend one of the webinars listed above, a recorded version of the webinar will be available on the Preparedness Toolkit HSEEP Webinars page starting the first week of February.

 

The available exercise starter kits will include the following:

• Climate resilience.
• Climate adaptation.
• Complex incident coordination.
• Large-scale population movement and resettlement.
• Mitigating social isolation and loneliness.
• Community preparedness and response to the opioid crisis.
• Enhancing supply chain resilience.
• Recovery.
• Community profile.
• Reunification.

If you have any questions, email NEP@fema.dhs.gov.

Sincerely,

The National Exercise Program

National Exercise Division | National Exercise Program | NEP@fema.dhs.gov  | www.fema.gov/nep

How to plan and execute a CERT Exercise Competition/Rodeo Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 10:00am to 11:30am pacific, 1:00pm to 2:30pm eastern.

 

How to plan and execute a CERT Exercise Competition/Rodeo

Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 10:00am to 11:30am pacific, 1:00pm to 2:30pm eastern.

The 2023 National CERT Conference included a CERT Exercise Competition, also commonly referred to as a CERT Rodeo.  The planning and execution of one of these events is not an easy one but can be tremendously rewarding for all CERT programs involved and their CERT Volunteers.  During this presentation, the presenters will discuss how to effectively plan and execute this type of event, including lessons learned and best practices. Presented by Kyle Trambley, City of Oakland Fire Department (CA), Captain Brandon Tom, San Francisco City Fire Department (CA), and Vladimir Hidrovo-Alban, Fort Bend County Homeland Security and Emergency management (TX). Click to register for this webinar:  https://fema.connectsolutions.com/certrodeo2024/event/event_info.html Make sure to test your Adobe Connect before the meeting. This event will have Live Captioning.

 

CERT Code of Conduct and what if you need to fire a volunteer? Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 1:00pm to 2:30pm ET; 10:00am to 11:30am PT

 

Webinars

CERT Code of Conduct and what if you need to fire a volunteer?

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 1:00pm to 2:30pm ET; 10:00am to 11:30am PT

Please join the Region 2 National Preparedness Division, in partnership with Cal OES and the National CERT Association, for a webinar on CERT Code of Conduct and What if you need to fire a volunteer? Presented by Captain II Rico Gross, Los Angeles City Fire Department (CA) and Captain Brandon Tom, San Francisco City Fire Department (CA).  CERT Volunteers can be a blessing or a burden.  This presentation will discuss the importance of a Code of Conduct for CERT Volunteers and how to properly manage, discipline, and dismiss a CERT volunteer if necessary. Register now using this link: https://fema.connectsolutions.com/certcodeofconduct/event/event_info.html Make sure to test your Adobe Connect before the meeting. This event will have Live Captioning.

 

Vertical Preparedness: Additional Preparedness Considerations for Multi-level Living Thursday February 1, 2024 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET

 

Vertical Preparedness: Additional Preparedness Considerations for Multi-level Living

Thursday  February 1, 2024 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET

Please join the Region 2 National Preparedness Division for a webinar on what additional steps you can take to be better prepared when living or working in multi-level buildings. This webinar will review some of the key components to consider when planning how you can best protect yourself during a building emergency.  Living and working in buildings with multiple floors with staircases and elevators adds additional complexities on how individuals plan for and respond to a multitude of emergencies. Being able to recognize the characteristics and protocols of the buildings that you live and work are critical to making your own plans whether you are a resident, staff or leadership of the building. Part of this planning should also consider those in your family or building that may find themselves needing additional support.   Who should attend? The whole community, managers and residents of multi-level properties. Registration:   https://fema.connectsolutions.com/verticalpreparedness/event/registration.html Make sure to test your Adobe Connect before the meeting. This event will have Live Captioning.

 

Can or Should Churches be allowed to build affordable housing?

 Montgomery Co. proposal would allow churches to build affordable housing

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"Slaves are made in such ways"

Titles, Estate. and Gold.    "Slaves are made in such ways"

Strokes of EGO, and Greed.

"We must become a Ray of Hope for Gulf Coast Region. As a Black Father in America there is no reason we can't turn this narrative around."

https://www.klfy.com/louisiana/report-louisiana-ranks-among-worst-in-u-s-for-wellbeing-of-black-children/amp/ Report: Louisiana ranks among worst in U.S. for wellbeing of Black children Allison Bruhl BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A new report shows that Louisiana has the third-lowest score in the country for the well-being of Black children.   The Race for Results report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation analyzes the well-being of U.S. children and gives states a composite score by race and ethnicity using 12 indicators representing wellbeing milestones “from cradle to career.”   Data shows that Louisiana scored below the national average for every racial and ethnic group except American Indian and Alaskan Native children.   The report said Louisiana ranked No. 44 out of 46 states in well-being for Black children, No. 39 out of 50 states for Latino children, No. 44 out of 50 states for well-being of white children and No. 43 out of 50 states for well-being for children of two or more races. Recommendations made in the report to create a brighter future for children include: · Expand federal and state tax credits and earned income tax credits for low-income families. · Design programs that help families provide for their child’s future while reducing racial disparities. · Expand Medicaid coverage. Agenda for Children, an organization based in New Orleans, gave more insight into how disparities in education are affecting Louisiana children. The group said young Black and Latino Louisianans are less likely to be proficient readers compared to white peers, adding that the gap was bigger in 2022 than in 2011. However, there are signs of improvement, Agenda for Children said, as fourth-grade reading proficiency improved by 5 percentage points for Black and Latino students and 7 percentage points for white students.

We must become a Ray of Hope for Gulf Coast Region.  As a Black Father in America there is no reason we can't turn this narrative around.

It's an Opportunity to Become United to bring Families closer and we accept the Challenge.

I am ready to leave a New Footprint.

DJB
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