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Dear ECA SoCal members, You are invited to join other ECA members, American Red Cross Volunteers, and Los Angeles Fire Department CERT members at the Los Angeles Abilities Expo this weekend (March 4-6) at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This is a major event with special demonstrations (adaptive sports, inclusive dance performances, and more), a variety of informative workshops each day, and more than 100 exhibitors/vendors providing information, promoting services, and showcasing an amazing array of adaptive equipment, healthcare resources, and many other items. Like other events now resuming, the Expo will follow several safety measures. As we have in past years, Earthquake Country Alliance will be sharing a large booth area with key partners to provide earthquake preparedness and mitigation information, especially of course our resources for people with disabilities and new materials in many languages. This is a fantastic opportunity to meet and share safety information with participants, but also to learn from them about how we can improve our messaging and approach. You are welcome to bring your organization’s preparedness materials to distribute too! You are welcome to join us any day or multiple days of the Expo. The Expo hours are Friday and Saturday from 11am – 5pm, and on Sunday from 11am – 4pm. To help us reach more people, please consider coming on Saturday or Sunday. By having a large team, we all will be able to visit the other booths, attend workshops, and see the demonstrations! If you would like to join us, please email me at sandow@usc.edu for
further instructions. We hope to see you there! Sharon Sharon Sandow de Groot Director for Strategic Partnerships Communication, Education, and Outreach Program Southern California Earthquake Center University of Southern California 3651 Trousdale Parkway, ZHS 156B Los Angeles, CA 90089 |
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Los Angeles Abilities Expo this weekend (March 4-6) at the Los Angeles Convention Center. March 1, 2022
Los Angeles. FIRST IN-PERSON CERT Basic Training Class. begin on April 7 and continue every THURSDAY NIGHT FROM 630-9P / 1830-2100 Hours March 1, 2022
This message is being forwarded to my friends who are part of Neighborhood Associations, block clubs, neighborhood councils, and so on. I am happy to announce that Community Emergency Response Team Training is back. We have our first class taking place in our Palms area of the city.
I know many of you have members of your team (or maybe even you) who want to take this training. See below and sign up...quickly. Seating is highly limited and I know we will fill up fast.
If there are any questions, please feel free to let me know.
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I am happy to announce that the FIRST IN-PERSON CERT Basic Training Class will be taking place right here in Battalion 18. It's being conducted out the same location where the very LAST in-person class was held prior to COVID-19, the Iman Center in Palms.
The class will begin on April 7 and continue every THURSDAY NIGHT FROM 630-9P / 1830-2100 Hours. Classes will conclude on May 19, 2022. Please note that the following weekend, a mapping exercise is planned for the Westside Village area which will allow our new graduates to get some time applying their new skills. More is to come on that later.
Seating in the class is limited as we are still observing social distancing procedures which is a prudent thing. This is a class which has been greatly anticipated for a long time. I ask that previously CERT trained members REFRAIN from signing up for this class. We'd like to leave it for folks especially those coming through our NTP program to take. Previously trained members will have the opportunity as more classes open up down the line. Also, our previously trained members SHOULD be taking advantage of the in-person opportunities such as the monthly pop-ups to sharpen skills. Additionally, PLEASE ONLY SIGN UP FOR THE CLASS IF YOU INTEND TO ATTEND FOR THE FULL DURATION. Again, seating is limited and it is a shame to have seats go empty because folks decided NOT to continue for whatever reason. Just sayin'.
This is a momentous occasion for us and we are very happy to be hosting this first class. If there are any questions, please feel free to let us know. To sign up for the class, use this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lafd-cert-iman-cultural-center-tickets-82852489025
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CHIN THAMMASAENGSRI
South Bureau Coordinator &
LAFD CERT Call Out Team Dispatcher
"Head 'em up, move 'em on!"
Climate Change: Join the course: Deep Dive in Scaling Up Sub-National Sustainable Finance Through Thematic Labelled Bonds
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Dear UNDRR network, We would like to invite you to join us on the innaugural
course: Deep Dive in Scaling Up Sub-National Sustainable
Finance Through Thematic Labelled Bonds by Climate Bonds initiative and
designed with the partnership with MCR2030 and UNDRR. 6,7 April - See further information
here. We are offering a discount for the cities participants
of the MCR2030. For a list of the eligible markets, please see the
image attached, please note you need to be based in one of
these markets. When you register for the course, add the following code
to get 33% discount: CBICitiesEM33 For a list of the eligible markets, please see the
image attached. About the course:
Cities and local and regional governments are on the front
line of climate change risks. Amongst a number of issues are the lack of
information and market knowledge, lack of policy and/or regulatory
system, lack of support from national authorities, lack of aggregation
schemes for small scale eligible projects.
Acknowledging these obstacles and the rapid growth and relevance of the
labelled debt market for sub-national governments, the Climate Bonds
Initiative (CBI) has structured a comprehensive course on
thematic-labelled bonds. It is suitable for professionals who wish to
gain knowledge of such labels and the market, their issuance process and
mechanisms that can support local governments when embarking on this
journey. CBI’s Scaling Up Sub-National Sustainable Finance Through
Thematic Labelled Bonds discusses in detail challenges and supporting tools,
but most importantly, the benefits of issuing these innovative instruments
by sub-sovereign entities.
This course will be delivered in English. Limited spaces. For further information, kindly email training@climatebonds.net Kind Regards,  Alicia Bastos
von Döllinger Head of
Events & Training
Twitter: @climatebonds
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Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Request for Applications (RFA) for the LBTQ Health Equity Initiative March 1, 2022
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Sunday, February 27, 2022
Just Imagine. Working together for our communities. February 2022
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Friday, February 25, 2022
You are a part of history, everyday. 5,357 school facilities for African American students in 15 states established between 1913 and 1932
You are a part of history and contributing to
the message, the narrative, the story everyday.
The good, the bad, and the ugly.
Know the past to know the future.
BEMA International
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 To fight injustice, he built schools  La Verne Gray, left, was a
student at this former school in Capitol Heights, Maryland, one of more than
5,000 built to educate Black American children in the early 20th century,
when public schools refused to admit them. The massive building campaign was
partly funded and driven by philanthropist Julius Rosenwald. Today, Dorothy
Canter, right, is working to preserve some of the Rosenwald Schools still
standing and make them into a multi-site element of our National Park system. Photo by Jason Sauler
 Interior shot of the renovated Ridgeley School in Capitol Heights, Prince George's County, Maryland.Photo by Preservation Maryland By Glenda C. Booth Posted on January 31, 2022 “All the other pleasures of life
seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.” Bethesda retiree Dorothy Canter was “blown away” when she saw “Rosenwald,” a 2015 documentary directed by Aviva Kempner that told the story of Julius Rosenwald, a philanthropist who built more than 5,000 schools for African American children who were denied the right to public education during the Jim Crow era. Born in 1862 to German Jewish immigrants who came to the U.S. fleeing persecution in the mid-1800s, Rosenwald left his Illinois home at 16 for New York City. There he learned the clothing trade, never completing high school. When
he was 23, he moved to Chicago and opened a company making men’s suits.
Sears, Roebuck & Co., then a struggling new company that sold many
products by mail order, was a client. Rosenwald eventually headed Sears,
transforming it into a retail powerhouse. Rosenwald believed in the Jewish concepts of tikkun olam, “repair the world,” and tzedakah, which means “righteousness, charity and responsibility.” He had a “give while you live” philosophy, believing that every generation should create wealth and direct it for use in their time. He was alarmed at the injustices against African Americans, and in 1911 befriended Booker T. Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), and joined Tuskegee’s board. At Washington’s urging, Rosenwald helped six rural Alabama communities raise money to build schoolhouses at a time when there were few or no schools for African American children in the rural South. From that effort with Washington grew a financing partnership combining Rosenwald’s grants and local contributions that led to the construction of 5,357 school facilities for African American students in 15 states between 1913 and 1932. Inspired to
create a national park
Before
seeing the film, Canter, a retired Ph.D. biophysicist, had never heard of
Rosenwald. As she walked out of Washington’s Avalon Theater, she had a
lightbulb moment and told her husband, “We need a national park to honor
him.”
Inspired, Canter established the Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park campaign, recruited board members, met with national park and historic preservation officials, recruited 107 supporting nonprofits, commissioned three studies and is president of the campaign — all as a volunteer. Her
group wants the National Park Service to create a multi-site national park
honoring Rosenwald’s legacy, with a visitors’ center in Chicago, the
philanthropist’s hometown. Canter dreams of being first in line at the ribbon cutting for the new Rosenwald Park, the country’s first of more than 400 in the U.S. to honor a Jewish American. Like Rosenwald’s parents, Canter’s Eastern European and Russian grandparents came to the U.S. to escape persecution. “They stressed the importance of education and social justice,” Canter said of her grandparents. “Like so many immigrants, they contributed to our nation. I will be very proud to see a story that reflects some of their history shared in a new national park.” A biography of
Rosenwald Board
member and D.C. resident Stephanie Deutsch learned from a newspaper wedding
announcement that her husband’s great-grandfather was Julius Rosenwald.
A stay-at-home mom for years, Deutsch became so intrigued with the story that she wrote a book, You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South. She probed archives and visited two dozen Rosenwald Schools. Learning the story “opened my eyes to the African American experience,” Deutsch said. “In the face of prejudice and exclusion, they built up very strong institutions.” Deutsch
describes her book and volunteer work to preserve the history of Rosenwald
schools as her “second act.” Today, she’s on the campaign’s board and is
writing a second book about the fellowships Rosenwald created in 1928 for
talented African Americans. Nearly 900 artists and scholars received Rosenwald Fund grants, among them Langston Hughes, Marian Anderson, Ralph Ellison and Jacob Lawrence. Twelve worked with Thurgood Marshall on the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case that found segregated schools to be unconstitutional. Thousands of students — including John Lewis and Maya Angelou — flourished in Rosenwald schools throughout the country. Many schools in
this areaRosenwald’s
donations, matched with local contributions, led to the construction of 382
Rosenwald buildings in Virginia between 1917 and 1932, and 150 schools in
Maryland, including 27 in Prince George’s County and 17 in Montgomery County.
In 1927, Marylander LaVerne Gray’s family donated two acres of their farm in Capitol Heights for a Rosenwald school. Gray’s mother, Mildred Ridgeley-Gray, attended the Ridgeley School starting in 1927 and later taught there. Gray also attended Ridgeley from 1949 to 1954, when the school closed following the Supreme Court’s decision. The Ridgeley School, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, still stands today, fully restored in 2011. “It’s part of a
great story of how a community of former slaves could educate their children
— and when the opportunity came along, they grabbed it,” Gray said. “It’s a story of the camaraderie between Rosenwald and Black people to enhance the lives of us all. It’s a great American story.” Endangered
schools
From
the 1920s to the 1940s, about one-third of Black children in the South
attended Rosenwald Schools. After the Supreme Court’s ruling to end school
segregation in 1954, public school systems gradually desegregated.
As
a result, many of the Rosenwald school buildings were abandoned or
demolished. In 2002, the National Trust for Historic Preservation put Rosenwald
Schools on its “11 Most Endangered Historic Places” list, noting that only 10
to 12 percent of the buildings still stand. Many people are working to save those existing buildings. For instance, the 100-year-old Scrabble School in Rappahannock County, Virginia, was restored after being neglected for four decades, thanks to some of its alumni. “I am very excited to have this nice little gem of a place,” said Nan Butler Roberts, president of the nonprofit Scrabble School Preservation Foundation Roberts
attended the Scrabble School for first through fourth grade, 1962 to 1966,
and recalls that her teacher had to commute 75 miles one way weekly from
Lynchburg. She helped restore the building as a senior center in 2009. “I’m a doer when I get involved in something I’m passionate about,” she explained. The national park
campaign
Canter’s group hopes to include many of the remaining Rosenwald school buildings in the national park system. So far, the campaign to establish the Julius Rosenwald & Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park has raised funds and prepared several studies on Rosenwald’s legacy and the schools. The studies concluded that Rosenwald and the Rosenwald Schools are of national historic significance and that the park would be an important enhancement to the national park system. One study identified Chicago sites for the future visitors’ center. Working with state historic preservation officials, the group recommended 56 former school facilities for possible inclusion in the national park system. They
lobbied Congress to pass a bill, which became law last year, requiring the
National Park Service to conduct a special resources study, the normal
prelude to creating a national park. The
Park Service will determine if there are nationally significant natural or
cultural resources, and whether they are a suitable and feasible addition to
the park system. Campaign members volunteer untold hours and energy to move the project forward, inspired by Rosenwald and Washington. “The important lesson is in how people can partner and get something done,” said Fairfax County resident Jordan Tannenbaum, a campaign board member. The schools represent the story of “Jewish and Black communities working together toward a common goal to achieve betterment of the country.” To
find out more about the campaign to establish a national park, visit rosenwaldpark.org. The Scrabble School will premiere a documentary and unveil a historic marker later this year. Visit scrabbleschool.org. For information about the Ridgeley School, now
a museum in Prince George’s County open by appointment only, visit pgparks.com/3022/Ridgeley-Rosenwald-School or
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
2022-2023 Next Generation of Black and Hispanic Farmers Scholarship Program Application Deadline May 15, 2022
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