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The Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) can provide funding support to nonprofit organizations, including houses of worship, that are at high risk of terrorist attack. This funding can help your organization implement physical security enhancements and activities.
 PREPAREDNESS AND CLIMATE CHANGE FAIR RESCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 14 The Emergency Preparedness Task Force of the Southwest Neighborhood Assembly, (SWNA) known as SW Strong! is hosting “All Hands on Deck – A Climate Action & Disaster Prevention Festival.” Although previously scheduled for September, the event was postponed due to Tropical Storm Ophelia and will now take place October 14 adjacent to the Southwest Farmer’s Market. The fair receives generous support from Friends of Southwest, as well as other organizations such as Serve DC, the SW BID, Ward 7 Resilience Hub, HealthBest Services, Inc., DC Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, and We the People Community Health Workers Corps. The fair will feature over 30
organizations and include booths and a program of speakers. For instance, the
Matriarch of the Piscataway-Conoy Indian Nation will do the Land
Acknowledgment at 9:00 a.m. The full program and list of participants is at https://swna.org/swna/task-forces/emergency-preparedness/. For more information, contact Ben Curran at benimon@hotmail.com and Beth Hall at hall.beth@gmail.com. Agenda: ALL HANDS-ON DECK ~~ A CLIMATE ACTION & DISASTER
PREPAREDNESS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FAIR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14TH
- 9AM – 1PM ALONG SIDE THE SW FARMERS MARKET ON THE GRASSY LOT AT THE CORNER OF 4TH
AND M STREETS SW The
following organization will be participating in this community engagement
event sharing program
information, engaging with the public, discussing their environmental and/or
disaster preparedness
and response roles, and sharing information about how the public can get
further involved. Please visit the organizations in these numbered canopies:
Citizens
Climate Lobby
i. CORE Response ii. DC Baptist Convention iii. American Radio League iv. Churches of Scientology
The Faunteroy Center Ward
7 Resilience Hub
Greater
Washington
SAMU
Response Extinction
Rebellion
MAIN STAGE PROGRAM
KICKOFF Welcome
Donna Purchase, SWNA President Welcome & Background Ben
Curran,
SW Strong!
Dennis
Chestnut, Ward 7 Resilience Hub Land
Acknowledgement
Julie Tayac Yates Matriarch
of the Piscataway Indian Nation & Chief
Jesse James Swain Rhonda Hamilton ANC
Commissioner Charles Allen
Ward 6 Councilman Uwe Brandes
DC Climate Commission Melissa Deas
DC Chief Resilience Officer
CLIMATE CHANGE 101 Jim
Dougherty
DC
Climate Change Commission Chesapeake
Climate Action Network Erin
Garnaas-Holmes
DOEE Connor
Rattey
DOEE Mark
Rodeffer
Sierra Club DC LaTricea
Adams
Black Millennials 4 Flint Max
Broad
DC Veg Week DC
Citizens Climate Lobby Henry
Perillo
SW Resident
Dennis Chestnut Ward 7 Resilience Hub Keith
Jones, Jr.
Ward 8 Woods Tom
Shetty
Public Service Commission Climate
James
Barbour DC Baptist
Convention Alejandra
Reyes
EcoLatinos Lourdes
Robinson
DC Youth Mayor Circuit
TBD SW
BID
Erwin
Stierle
American Red Cross Frances
Whalen Serve DC Jeffrey Richardson
We the People Community Health Workers (Narcan demo) Willie
McElroy
HealthBest Services, Inc. (CPR
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CERTCON 2023- Community Ready: Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Join us for CERTCON 2023, a one-of-a-kind event dedicated to building a strong and resilient community! This in-person gathering will take place at the University of the District of Columbia in Washington D.C. on 4200 Connecticut Ave NW. Get ready to be inspired and equipped with the knowledge and skills to become a true community hero!
There will be a Friday night social event held at : Flavor Garden, 4400 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008
Saturday’s programming will feature topics for everyone who wants to be prepared to handle emergencies and disasters.
CERTCON will also offer more specialized training for volunteers in emergency preparedness and response, including Medical Reserve Corps, Red Cross, Team Rubicon, Community Animal Response Teams, etc.
Exercise Participation
And on Sunday afternoon, we invite you to take part in a drill for a mass casualty incident.
You can be part of a response team or be a victim-actor!
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Visit our Grand Challenges website gcgh.grandchallenges.org  Grand Challenges in
Global Health launched in 2003. Our aim was to
encourage the world's best scientists to focus on the biggest problems
standing in the way of the health and well-being of billions of people in
low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In the two decades since, other
partners have started their own Grand Challenges programs, and together we've
created a global network of funders and innovators dedicated to equity in
global health and development. After all these
years, our mission and values - innovation and equity - have not changed. But
as we continue our search for innovative solutions to the world's most urgent
global health and development problems, we've learned we can get further,
faster when innovators from around the world work in partnership with one
another. Grant
Opportunities from the Gates Foundation and Grand Challenges Partners
At GCAM, we
announced several new requests for proposals (RFPs). We urge you to consider
submitting proposals in response to one or more of these requests, and we
hope you will share these links with your colleagues. Please check the
website at the links below for the application deadlines and more
information. Catalyzing Equitable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use to
Improve Global Health, launched jointly by several Grand Challenges
partners, will enable LMICs to take the lead on designing AI solutions for
improving community health and well-being. Strengthening Health and Disease Modeling for Public Health
Decision Making in Africa, launched jointly between Wellcome and Gates
Foundation will support and grow the ecosystem of public health modelers
across the continent. Opportunities to Advance Women's Health Innovation will
kickstart work to address persistent gaps in women's health R&D
worldwide. Strengthening Childcare Models that Advance Women's Economic
Power will test, compare, and support care models that improve work
opportunities and pathways to leadership for women in South Asia and Africa. Strengthening African National Regulatory Agencies Data
Systems to Enhance and Track Performance will boost emerging African
regulatory ecosystems by facilitating the harmonization of technical
standards and processes, data generation, and Key Performance Indicator measurement. Grantees
Selected for 2022 RFPs
Meanwhile, the
innovators who received grants in 2022 are hard at work pushing the frontiers
of science and innovation. For instance, as
part of the cohort from the 2022 Grand Challenges Annual Meeting Call-to-Action, an
African Postdoctoral Training Initiative fellow returning to Kenya is leading
a malaria study using CRISPR to solve the mystery of how resistance to common
malaria drugs develops, helping us protect these drugs' usefulness in the
fight against malaria. Likewise, Strengthening Modeling and Analytics Capacity and Ecosystem
for Women's Health helped launch a data modeling collaboration among
Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South
Africa, and Tanzania that will empower mostly female modelers to explore the
development of interactive simulation software to inform future strategies
for HIV and HPV control, including HPV vaccination. We invite you to
read summaries of the grants awarded to date through Grand
Challenges initiatives with the Gates Foundation as funder or co-funder. 2023
Grand Challenges Annual Meeting
Browse videos from the 2023 Grand Challenges Annual Meeting and
read the press release. The
Next 20 Years
Two decades of Grand
Challenges have made it clear: building diverse and connected communities
gets us better answers to persistent questions in global health. Along with
our partners, we look forward to announcing many more RFPs and awards in the
coming months and years that will keep on broadening our perspective, finding
expertise everywhere and bringing the world closer to solving the most
challenging problems we face. Please be on the
lookout for more emails announcing funding opportunities and share them with
your network-and thank you so much for your interest and support. Sincerely,
The Global Partnerships & Grand Challenges team |
