Monday, August 10, 2020

August 2020. African Diaspora Network. Job Opportunity: Program Manager, Nonprofit Organization Management

 

African Diaspora Network is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization. Our mission is to harness and engage the intellectual, financial, philanthropic and entrepreneurial capacity of Africans and friends of Africa in support of economic and social development across Africa.


Position: Program Manager, Nonprofit Organization Management 

Seniority Level: Mid-level 

Job Description: African Diaspora Network seeks a Program Manager to handle the day-to-day operations of a growing nonprofit organization. In this full-time role you will develop projects and design processes to support and implement ADN’s strategic priorities. You will interface with key stakeholders and community partners, including entrepreneurs, investors, innovators, and leaders that are based locally and globally. 

Essential and primary responsibilities include: 

  • Assist the Executive Director with developing, implementing and evaluating program policies, procedures, and standards 
  • Assist the Executive Director with monitoring the program budget, board relationships, and funders 
  • Update, analyze, and monitor ADN’s website and the MemberClicks platform
  • Coordinate and monitor member outreach and retention 
  • Plan, coordinate, and monitor Impact & Innovation Speaker Series, African Diaspora Investment Symposium, Builders of Africa’s Future, and African leadership, entrepreneurship & mentoring for African immigrants and African Americans in Silicon Valley
  • Participate and represent ADN in local partner meetings and events as requested and as needed
  • Compose and draft documents and correspondence for presentations, conferences, seminars, and reports; create, maintain, modify, and ensure accuracy of content
  • Provide complex administrative and operational support with minimal supervision
  • Develop weekly/bi-weekly newsletters and social media postings
  • Track expenditures for donor-directed funds and program, monitor day-to-day operating expenses and vendor invoices, and report to CFO for reconciliation 

 

Below requirements are representative of the knowledge, skill, and ability required to be successful in this position: 

  • Bachelor’s Degree in business, policy, government, or humanities-related fields 
  • Preferred two to five years of experience in the public, nonprofit, or corporate settings 
  • Experience working with diverse communities
  • Understanding of nonprofit organizations management
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to prioritize tasks with strong organizational skills
  • Ability to utilize tools or design systems and processes to track data and monitor progress
  • Demonstrates the necessary attitudes, knowledge, and skills to deliver culturally-competent services and work effectively in cross-cultural situations
  • Understanding of mandatory reporting/compliance requirements for nonprofits 

Send resume to: info@africandiasporanetwork.org 

South Los Angeles. CRSSLA. Engaging Students in At-Home Learning. August 2020

 

About Us

The Coronavirus Community Response System of South Los Angeles (CRSSLA) is a collaborative effort of key community-based organizations, churches, educational institutions and other stakeholders in South Los Angeles. We provide collaborative aid and crisis management for our community.

 

Our goal is to identify resources for emergency operations centers, medical triage, distribution centers, and command centers that coordinate with various government agencies responsible for deploying information and resources in our area in case of a pandemic or other crises.

Additionally, CRSSLA is developing an immediate deployment strategy to respond and assist where needed.

 

CRSSLA is a project of Community Build, Inc.

South Los Angeles. CRSSLA Meeting Wednesday, August 12, 2020 9:30 - 10:30 AM PT

 

You're Invited!

CRSSLA GENERAL MEETING

BIWEEKLY WEDNESDAYS, 9:30-10:30AM

NEXT ZOOM MEETING: AUG 12

Join us as we continue developing our strategies for deployment of resources to respond and assist where needed in South LA. We are in the process of identifying sites for emergency operations, medical triage, PPE distribution and more. The first boxes of supplies are already going out (see pic below).

 

We are in the process of identifying a project manager to help direct CRSSLA efforts. Also, 70 jobs are available to work at home and in the field to increase our community's Census count. Your feedback and referrals appreciated on all!

RSVP

 

CRSSLA EDUCATION COMMITTEE MEETING

BIWEEKLY MONDAYS, 6-7:30PM

NEXT ZOOM MEETING: AUG 10

RSVP

 

Our first case management training last week was a great success. More than 30 agency and school reps attended to learn more about connecting with their families to engage students in their at-home learning. One school district rep suggested a monthly case management meeting beyond the four trainings. We will discuss this and other options for moving forward providing educational support services for students in the South LA area.

 

Thank you to Drs. Angela Parker and Nathan Sessons for a very informative and interesting first session. See next one below!

 

FREE CASE MANAGEMENT TRAINING
FOR AGENCIES AND SCHOOLS

3 MORE DATES TO CHOOSE FROM!

RSVP

 

Our case management training is for agencies and schools to help prepare their staff and volunteers to make family care calls to homes to help engage in their students in at-home learning. Callers will also provide tracking, evaluation and referrals, as needed. All meetings will be held on Zoom. RSVP for logins.

 

Please share with your networks. Click here to download the flyer.


About Us

The Coronavirus Community Response System of South Los Angeles (CRSSLA) is a collaborative effort of key community-based organizations, churches, educational institutions and other stakeholders in South Los Angeles. We provide collaborative aid and crisis management for our community.

 

Our goal is to identify resources for emergency operations centers, medical triage, distribution centers, and command centers that coordinate with various government agencies responsible for deploying information and resources in our area in case of a pandemic or other crises.

Additionally, CRSSLA is developing an immediate deployment strategy to respond and assist where needed.

 

CRSSLA is a project of Community Build, Inc.

COVID-19 pandemic is a “portal”—a “gateway”—to a new world

 It may be time for us to start thinking of #GlobalWarming as a "Health issue" in the same way that we recognize Covid-19 as clearly a health problem and issue.

Daniel Christian Wahl has pointed out that, "our 'unnatural capitalism' needs to make our language commons which is the means, mode and medium of our communications whole again, so that we mean what we say and say what we mean with the least doubt, uncertainty and ambiguity as is possible."

"In the spirit of the language games being played by the elite ruling class to manufacture and engineer consent and hate, when would anti-life activities, like pollution and despoliation of our planetary and social life support systems and deprivation of universal human life necessities provisioning be seen as bona fide hate crimes and crimes against humanity and applied and implemented and enforced in and by our local, regional and international laws?"

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“(we can) walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our… dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through…ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.”
    - Arundhati Roy

the COVID-19 pandemic is a “portal”—a “gateway”—to a new world. “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/covid-19-and-a-new-better-world/

(Covid-19) underlines the folly of humans battling with each other—the horrible human proclivity to war, the folly of pouring national treasuries into armed conflict.

“Seen from space, the Earth has no borders. The spread of the coronavirus is showing us that what we share is much more powerful than what keeps us apart. All people are inescapably interconnected, and the more we can come together to solve our problems, the better off we will all be. One of the side effects of seeing Earth from the perspective of space is feeling more compassion for others.”
    - former U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly

Regards,

Lloyd Helferty, CED (Chief Ecosystem Director)
Programme Development Director & Sustainable Society Consultant
  co-Founder & Administrator, WE-Energime-Global Cooperation Day Turtle Island

Sunday, August 9, 2020

WARNING, WARNING! Hurts Blacks, Latinos, and communities of Color. Shortening Census Period. August 2020

 LULAC Says Shortening Census Period Hurts Latinos

Nation’s Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Says Historically Undercounted Communities Will Suffer Most

Los Angeles, CA - Sindy Benavides, National Chief Executive Officer of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) issued the following statement about the Administration’s decision to end the self-reporting window and door knocking operations one-month earlier for the 2020 Census.

“It is simply inconceivable that we can achieve a full and accurate count by these actions at the time we need it most during a pandemic that is disproportionately impacting Latinos. This is yet another tactic from the Trump Administration to make our community invisible with an incomplete enumeration, which impacts critical funding, representation, and redistricting. Instead of ramping up its work, the Census Bureau cites the COVID-19 pandemic as the reason for deciding to cut short the two most critical aspects of the census. First, there is the self-reporting phase and that is followed by community outreach to contact individuals and families who for one reason or another have not done so.

The latest figures compiled by the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO), show some very troubling trends that we will not be able to correct without sufficient time allotted. In Puerto Rico, only 18.9% have self-reported. In Texas, 56.1% of Latino households have filled out their surveys and in California, that rate is 62.4%. In fact, across the country and Puerto Rico more than one-third of Latino households are still not counted.”

Non-Response Follow-Up, also called NRFU, is decisive for the 2020 Census to provide a complete picture of hard-to-reach communities. These are people of color, immigrants, individuals with disabilities in rural areas, even young children. Often, these groups are the most overlooked and least counted. The result will be another ten years of denying them their fair share of federal funding and representation.

LULAC opposes shortening the census period and we are advocating for Congress to allocate the $400 million needed to finish the 2020 Census. These funds will help pay for what is the costliest and most labor intensive aspect of the count accessing remote and disaster impacted communities. Still, fair-minded American expect that everyone is afforded an equal opportunity to participate. Anything less violates the constitutionally-guaranteed civil rights of those who are excluded and is unacceptable.”

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About LULAC
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the nation’s largest and oldest civil rights volunteer-based organization that empowers Hispanic Americans and builds strong Latino communities. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with 1,000 councils around the United States and Puerto Rico, LULAC’s programs, services and advocacy address the most important issues for Latinos, meeting critical needs of today and the future. For more information, visit www.LULAC.org