Grant Opportunities: February and March Technical Assistance Webinar Series

FEMA Presents: Fiscal Year 2022 Nonprofit Security Grant Program Technical Assistance Webinar Series February 18 and 22,  |   March 4, 10, 16, 25,    |  April 1    each session will begin at 3pm ET

Please join Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Grant Programs Directorate (GPD), in partnership with the DHS Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), for a series of webinars about the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP). The NSGP provides funding support through a competitive process for facility hardening and other security enhancements to nonprofit organizations at high risk of a terrorist attack and promotes emergency preparedness coordination and collaboration between public and private community representatives, as well as state, local, tribal, and territorial governments. For your information this grant program will be available in New Jersey, New York, and the USVI, but is not currently available to applicants in Puerto Rico. Who should attend? Faith-based, community, and nonprofit organizations.

 

Register using the links below Dates and Time Registration Link 02/18/22  3pm https://fema.zoomgov.com/j/1614373005  02/22/22  3pm https://fema.zoomgov.com/j/1616518053 03/04/22  3pm https://fema.zoomgov.com/j/1614042372 03/10/22  3pm https://fema.zoomgov.com/j/1602354220 03/16/22  3pm https://fema.zoomgov.com/j/1619667216 03/25/22  3pm https://fema.zoomgov.com/j/1612960254 04/01/22  3pm https://fema.zoomgov.com/j/1610707162

Does the network still exist in all aspects and systems of EM? February 2022

 Does the network still exist in all aspects and systems of EM?

Top-Down (Fed level), and Bottom-up (township, city).

Change is slow,.

old-boy net·work
/ōld boi ˈnetˌwərk/
noun

an informal system of support and friendship through which men use their positions of influence to help others who went to the same school or college as they did or who share a similar social background.
"many managers were chosen by the old boy network"

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2021/08/08/report-good-old-boy-network-has-flourished-in-the-vermont-national-guard

Black History Month. Recovery: First Nations in Recovery. New Mexico PBS--NLFRTA stands on the shoulders February 2022

 A message, a narrative, a story

 

We are One.

 

Recovery-You may normally think of recovery in relation to an individual or a community suffering from a crisis event.  Recovery can also occur within a nation, a culture of peoples devastated by some event that has uprooted their heritage, or their culture out of their normal practice that has persisted for generations.

 

Black History Month is not just about the ‘Negro’, the Colored, and African American, the Black experience for equity, justice, housing, jobs, medical & health care.  But a month for all (Black, Latino, communities of color) that have experienced and are recovering from unjust and immoral practices.

 

We are ONE  (Do not get it twisted.  We are ONE), the Rural Coalition, the National Latino Farmers and Ranchers Trade Association, and BEMA International

 

Una Lucha Por Mi Pueblo | New Mexico PBS Nov 30, 2009 http://www.newmexicopbs.org - Corridos are ballads, often referred to as windows that look into the soul of a people. They are the songs of the time, supplementing recorded documents as historical artifacts that describe the popular consciousness at the time in which they were written. This week, we experience the songs of corridistas, Antonio Martinez, Roberto Martinez, and Chuy Martinez. These land grant activists wrote about the centuries old struggle. Their feelings have been kept alive in song. The story they tell surrounds the Flores family's struggle to retain a portion of the Tierra Amarilla Land Grant, due for development by an Arizona consortium. This case is only a small part of the larger struggle of indigenous people displaced from their land. The legal issue of the occupation of land by activists has recently been settled out of court, but the larger issue of the dispossession of land remains. COLORES | Una Luncha Por Mi Pueblo | New Mexico PBS www.knme.org - Corridos are ballads, often referred to as windows that look into the soul of a people. They are the songs of the time, supplementing recorded documents as historical artifacts that describe the popular consciousness at the time in which they were written. This week, we experience the songs of corridistas, Antonio Martinez, Roberto Martinez, and Chuy Martinez. These land grant activists wrote about the centuries old struggle. Their feelings have been kept alive in song. The story they tell surrounds the Flores family's struggle to retain a portion of the Tierra Amarilla Land Grant, due for development by an Arizona consortium. This case is only a small part of the larger struggle of indigenous people displaced from their land. The legal issue of the occupation of land by activists has recently been settled out of court, but the larger issue of the dispossession of land remains.   WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYiTB7eUzVk OWN: www.flickr.com/photos/knme/sets/72157622621025519/bit.ly

 

 

 

 

 

Black Emergency Managers Association International Washington, D.C.

bEMA International Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement, and  Partnering (C5&P)   A 501 (c) 3 organization "It is my belief that the best results in business come from a creative process, from the ability to see things differently from everyone else, and from finding answers to problems that are not bound by the phrase 'we have always done it this way.' "  Wayne Rogers

BLACK FARMER TAKES ACTION IN FIGHTOVER STALLED $4 BILLION RELIEF FUNDING February 2022

Food Insecurity

https://whoswhoinblack.com/black-farmer-takes-action-in-fight-over-stalled-4-billion-relief-funding/

 

BLACK FARMER TAKES ACTION IN FIGHTOVER STALLED $4 BILLION RELIEF FUNDING By Zuri Anderson   February 9, 2022 A Black farmer is speaking out amidst the legal battle over $4 billion in federal aid meant to help minority farmers.  Dr. John Boyd Jr., a fourth-generation farmer in Virginia and the president of the National Black Farmers Association, told The Hill he’s been pressuring lawmakers and the Biden administration to help Black farmers in need. President Joe Biden signed off on a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package almost a year ago, and part of that money was meant to assist minority farmers facing serious debt during a crippling global pandemic. However, white farmers alleging discrimination have contested the aid in courts across the country, meaning the money cannot be paid out to those who need it. “It’s a do-or-die for a guy who owes a couple hundred thousand dollars to the government,” Boyd says, adding that he’s been trying to get a meeting with the president over the stalled money. “They’re saying they can’t interfere with the courts is what they’re telling me … and I’m saying that it’s got to be something that can be done.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture told The Hill in a statement that it “continues to work closely with the Department of Justice to vigorously defend” the allocated funding. The agency also found that Black farmers own less than 2% of the nation’s farms while white farmers own over 96%, citing rampant discrimination over the nation’s history. Boyd himself described the racial epithets and disparity he’s experienced ever since he started farming at 18. The Virginia farmer was also the subject of a public battle with then-USDA agent James Barnett, alleging discrimination when Boyd was denied a loan. “He was only seeing Black farmers on Wednesday, and he carried on with the discrimination like this is what he does every day,” Boyd recalls. His civil rights advocacy also extends to eye-catching demonstrations, such as riding his mule to Washington D.C., and reaching out to lawmakers. “We can’t just be consumers as Blacks. We got to be at the table and a part of these companies making sure that we get our part here, too,” according to Boyd. You can read more about this situation here.

 

Black Emergency Managers Association International   Washington, D.C.  20020 bEMA International   Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement, and  Partnering (C5&P)   A 501 (c) 3 organization “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there issuch a thing as being too late.  Procrastination is still the thief of time.  Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity.  This may well be mankind’s last chance to choose between chaos or community.”   Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Where Are We Going From Here:  Chaos or Community’.

 

 

Upcoming Events for Veterans. February 2022

 

Upcoming Events

Feb 15, 3-4 p.m. - Stress Solutions
Feb 15, 5:30-6:30 p.m. - Creating Calm In Stressful Times
Feb 16, 12-1 p.m. - Wellness Wednesday Financial Education: Student Loans
Feb 16, 1-2 p.m. - Artificial Intelligence: How Algorithms Improve Veterans Lives
Feb 16, 1-2 p.m. - National Cemetery Administration: Pre-Eligibility and Burial Benefits
Feb 16, 2-3 p.m. - Veteran Get Hired Workshop
Feb 16, 3-4 p.m. - Wellness Wednesday Financial Education: Student Loans