Learn How to Prepare for the Fiscal Year 2023 Nonprofit Security Grant Program

Join Us to Learn How to Prepare for the Fiscal Year 2023 Nonprofit Security Grant Program NFORMATIONAL OUTREACH INVITATION Nonprofit Security Grant Program - Webinar Preparing for the Fiscal Year 2023 Nonprofit Security Grant Program The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Grant Programs Directorate, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the DHS Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, jointly invite all interested 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations to a Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) Informational Webinar virtual event to provide a look-back on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 NSGP, and look-ahead for the prospective FY 2023 NSGP. The NSGP provides funding for physical and cyber security enhancements and other security-related activities to nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of a terrorist attack. In addition, the NSGP seeks to integrate nonprofit preparedness activities with broader state and local preparedness efforts. FEMA will host several NSGP virtual webinars to provide lessons learned from the FY 2022 NSGP cycle and, most importantly, share valuable information on what nonprofits should consider now in preparation for the FY 2023 NSGP application submission cycle. Each webinar will contain similar content including an opportunity for nonprofits to provide a platform to share NSGP investment accomplishments, feedback, and ask questions. You Must Register in Advance: When: December 8, 2022 Time: 03:00 PM ET (US and Canada) Register in advance for this meeting: https://fema.connectsolutions.com/ehnjunvdpxep/event/registration.html When: December 13, 2022 Time: 03:00 PM ET (US and Canada) Register in advance for this meeting:  https://fema.connectsolutions.com/e51cutauazfn/event/registration.html After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Adobe Connect meeting. Please check both junk/spam as some email filters may redirect the attendance confirmation email. For any questions regarding these sessions or to request special accommodations, please contact FEMA-NSGP@fema.dhs.gov. About AskCSID AskCSID is an email distribution and inquiry manager service provided by the FEMA Grant Programs Directorate. Broadcast emails sent by AskCSID provide valuable information and updates to internal and external stakeholders. This information includes Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs), Information Bulletins (IB), grant policy changes, and training opportunities. If there are any individuals that would like to receive AskCSID emails, please send an email to AskCSID@fema.dhs.gov with the interested subscribers’ name, email address, and related grant programs. For more information about the FEMA Grant Programs Directorate, please visit our website or follow us on Twitter.  If you have any questions, please contact AskCSID at AskCSID@fema.dhs.gov.   Protect the safety and security of your place of worship or community space. Learn more by listening to the recorded webinars: Building Partnerships that Promote Safety & Security for Places of Worship & Community Spaces  Security Resources for Protecting Places of Worship  Preventing Targeted Violence and Protecting the Safety and Security of Houses of Worship through Faith and Community Based Approaches in the US and in Europe. Many people spend time in churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, gurdwaras or other places of worship and public spaces. People should feel safe when they gather to express their faith or serve their community. This blog identifies five ways your community can get started today.   Learn more: 5 Ways to Improve the Safety and Security of Your Place of Worship or Community Spaces | FEMA.gov The DHS Partnerships Center carries out the policies and program priorities of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, DHS and FEMA for faith and community-based organizations related to all-hazards preparedness, emergency and disaster response and recovery, safety, security, and human trafficking. The DHS Partnerships Center offers a variety of resources to the public at dhs.gov/faith. DHS Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships  Have a comment, question or looking for information? E-mail us at Partnerships@fema.dhs.gov

 

 

EMX staff exchange brings non-federal emergency managers to FEMA. Nominations are open through December 15, 2022

 

FEMA Advisory

Emergency Manager Exchange Nominations Extended to Dec. 15

State, local, tribal, territorial emergency managers, join us! The 2023 Emergency Manager Exchange (EMX) is seeking four dedicated public servants who work in non-federal governmental offices or programs to spend time at FEMA in a 4-6 month paid work exchange. 

Staff Exchange

The EMX staff exchange brings non-federal emergency managers to FEMA to work alongside leadership and staff from FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery or Resilience. State, local, tribal, and territorial emergency managers bring new perspectives and guide FEMA on how to improve our programs.

In an exciting update for 2023, the exchange will be fully reciprocal. As the participating government organization sends their employee to work at FEMA, in return, a full-time FEMA employee will be sent to support that non-federal government office or program.

Reimbursed Costs

For the duration of the assignment, FEMA will reimburse the participant’s home organization for the cost of the participant’s salary up to the federal GS-13 level, plus benefits. The exchange is authorized under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (5 CFR part 34) mobility program. Where consistent with FEMA’s travel policies, this program includes travel costs and per diem in Washington, D.C. 

The visiting FEMA employee is available to address capability gaps identified by the non-federal government organization in their nomination letter. Nominations are open through December 15, 2022.

New Perspectives

This staff exchange provides FEMA and its partners with a new way to collaborate in support of emergency management priorities. This exchange opportunity highlights the “2022-2026 FEMA Strategic Plan” focus on strengthening the emergency management workforce.

This opportunity brings FEMA hand in hand with our emergency management partners and stakeholders as we work together to increase disaster resilience, and ultimately, help people, before, during and after disasters.

Nomination is by Home Organization

Each participant’s non-federal government organization must nominate their applicant to the program. Consistent with Federal ethics obligations and guidance, while at FEMA, non-federal government exchange participants may not work on issues that directly involve their home jurisdiction of employment.

The position descriptions and nomination instructions are available on FEMA.gov at Emergency Manager Exchange | FEMA.gov. Nominations will be accepted through December 15, 2022. The 4–6-month exchange begins in March 2023. Telework opportunities are available.

DEFENDER OF LATINO FARMERS IN THE US, RUDY ARREDONDO

 RUDY ARREDONDO, DEFENDER OF LATINO FARMERS IN THE US

 

March 23, 2018 

by Hernando Ramírez-Santos

Abasto Magazine

 

https://abasto.com/en/news/sweet-potato-a-special-guest-for-the-holidays/

 

If there is anyone who really knows the life of Latinos in the agricultural fields of the United States, it is undoubtedly the Mexican Rudy Arredondo, founder and president of the National Latino Farmers & Ranchers Trade Association.


Working in the harvesting of crops with his parents during his childhood, adolescence and in his adult life, educating and defending the labor rights of immigrants and the work of the small Latino farmers, Arredondo has lived the transformation in the fields and the impact that the growth of immigration has had in the last half century.

Arredondo was born in the Santiago valley in Guanajuato, México. His father, who was a farmer, immigrated to the United States in search of better opportunities in the early 1940s. When he was 3 years old, with his mother, they crossed the border and settled with their father in the Río Grande Valley close to Edinburg, Texas, where they worked in the fields.

“Since we didn’t have money to pay a babysitter, since I was 5 years old, my mother would bring me to work with her in the fields,” Arredondo remembers. During his childhood and adolescence, he traveled around the country with his parents working the harvest seasons.


During that time as day laborer, Arredondo had his first experience working as a volunteer in the early days of the Union of Field Workers, which later achieved a great recognition with his leader César Chávez.

He divided his time between the fields and his study. He graduated from high school, went to college in Edinburg where he studied business administration and did military service.

Due to his experience and knowledge of Latino field workers, around 1974 a law firm in the city of Washington, DC, offered him work as a paralegal in the area of legal aid to farmers.

SECRETARY PERDUE ANNOUNCES USDA’S FARM BILL AND LEGISLATIVE PRINCIPLES FOR 2018

 

THE NUMBER OF HISPANIC FARMERS HAS INCREASED

That’s where he began to explore the political world and the functioning of government agencies. In the Rural Housing Alliance, he served as general director of the area west of the Mississippi to help Latino families to own homes and was an investigator of cases of discrimination against agricultural workers in the Department of Agriculture.

In the late 1990s, Arredondo opened his own consulting office in terms of civil rights and as a member of the board of directors of the Rural Coalition, he noticed the rapid growth of Latino farmers in the country and the lack of an organization to represent them. “I realized that even though the Coalition was multi-ethnic, the voice of Latinos was not strong enough for the needs of this group,” Arredondo said.

According to the 2002 Agricultural Census, the number of Hispanic farmers had increased to 50,592 throughout the country. Given this situation, Arredondo decided to form the National Latino Farmers & Ranchers Trade Association.with a group of Hispanics.

During more than a decade, their association has been dedicated to offering small Latino farmers, whose number has doubled to almost 100,000 according to the 2012 Agricultural Census, technical assistance, information to obtain government resources, translations, help to prepare proposals, access to credit and markets and lobbying the government. Rudy Arredondo became the voice of these farmers who continue to fight for better opportunities to grow and that their products reach more consumers in the US.

$5,000 or $10,000 tier level, apply. 2023 MRC Operational Readiness Award

Applying for an 2023 MRC Operational Readiness Award? Wondering whether to apply for at the $5,000 or $10,000 tier level? Here are some ideas on how you might use an Operational Readiness Award to build or strengthen your unit.

Tier 1 Awards at the $5,000 level are intended to build capabilities to meet local response needs. This may be most applicable to units that are smaller in size, have a specific/targeted need, a newly formed unit, or a unit that is focused on rebuilding their MRC unit if previously inactive or underutilized.

Tier 2 Awards at the $10,000 level are intended to strengthen current capabilities for primary or evolving response missions. This may be most applicable to units that have an established volunteer management structure, have the capacity to further expand their unit response capabilities, have a demonstrated record of supporting public health emergency responses, or have a record of supporting multiple natural disaster response missions. 

Examples of project activities for a Tier 1 ($5,000) Award:

• Develop recruitment strategy for medical professionals using social media and news outlets.
• Develop onboarding process to register volunteers, conduct administrative requirements, and track training requirements of volunteers.
• Identify and track MRC Core Competencies, ICS, and specialized training events to support emergency responses using the MRC Volunteer Tier Levels or other categorization.
• Conduct workshops or meetings with emergency response partners, identify response roles for MRC volunteers, and build and/or strengthen MRC mission sets.
• Conduct training events and exercises that support MRC mission sets.
• Capture lessons learned from exercises or response activities. Update mission sets or response plans as needed.

Examples of project activities for a Tier 2 ($10,000) Award:

• Conduct regularly scheduled unit training events that reinforce volunteer capabilities to support unit mission requirements.
• Identify and implement training opportunities to support unit mission capabilities, such as workshops or exercises.
• Conduct recruitment and training of volunteers for response roles identified for specific unit missions.
• Strengthen awareness and build integration of MRC capabilities with stakeholders through joint training events or exercises.
• Identify and purchase mission set resource requirements and train volunteers on use of equipment/supplies.
• Capture lessons learned from exercises or response activities. Update mission sets, job action sheets, and/or response plans as needed.

Additional information about this funding opportunity is available in the Request for Applications and application resources are available on the NACCHO’s MRC Funding Opportunities webpage.

Applications are open through December 9.

We look forward to your application!

Please email mrc@naccho.org for any further questions.

 

Thank You,

NACCHO Medical Reserve Corps Team

National Association of County & City Health Officials

1201 Eye Street NW, 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005

Webinar: Preparing for the Fiscal Year 2023 Nonprofit Security Grant Program. December 8, 2022 03:00 PM ET

 

December 5, 2022

Nonprofit Security Grant Program - Webinar Informational Outreach Invitation Preparing for the Fiscal Year 2023 Nonprofit Security Grant Program The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Grant Programs Directorate, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the DHS Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, jointly invite all interested 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations to a Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) Informational Webinar virtual event to provide a look-back on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 NSGP, and look-ahead for the prospective FY 2023 NSGP. The NSGP provides funding for physical and cyber security enhancements and other security-related activities to nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of a terrorist attack. In addition, the NSGP seeks to integrate nonprofit preparedness activities with broader state and local preparedness efforts. FEMA will host several NSGP virtual webinars to provide lessons learned from the FY 2022 NSGP cycle and, most importantly, share valuable information on what nonprofits should consider now in preparation for the FY 2023 NSGP application submission cycle. Each webinar will contain similar content including an opportunity for nonprofits to provide a platform to share NSGP investment accomplishments, feedback, and ask questions. You Must Register in Advance: When: December 8, 2022 Time: 03:00 PM ET (US and Canada) Register in advance for this meeting: https://fema.connectsolutions.com/ehnjunvdpxep/event/registration.html  When: December 13, 2022 Time: 03:00 PM ET (US and Canada) https://fema.connectsolutions.com/e51cutauazfn/event/registration.html After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Adobe Connect meeting. Please check both junk/spam as some email filters may redirect the attendance confirmation email. For any questions regarding these sessions or to request special accommodations, please contact FEMA-NSGP@fema.dhs.gov.                              With honor and integrity, we will safeguard                       the American people, our homeland, and our values.