July 24, 2020 at 9:56 p.m. EDT
Thursday, July 30, 2020
BEMA International Requirement......e-Learning Course. The Fight Against Corruption
Here is the anti-corruption training requirement information.
Charles
From: Charles D. Sharp [mailto:CharlesDSharp@BlackEmergManagersAssociation.org]
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 2:51 PM
Subject: BEMA Requirement......e-Learning Course. The Fight Against Corruption
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 2:51 PM
Subject: BEMA Requirement......e-Learning Course. The Fight Against Corruption
As of Monday, January 13, 2014 PLEASE BE
ADVISED THAT THIS ONLINE TRAINING WILL BE A REQUIREMENT FOR ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP
IN BEMA, future certification process, and our participation in the global
arena will require incorporating certain requirements to ensure our
professionalism and credibility.
Use the following URL to complete the
course. We will not be tracking certification completion, but relying on
your ethics as a professional that you’ve completed the training when asked, or
when a procedure is instituted to track membership training requirements.
I know this is a last minute requirement, but
for me to make any statement at public events of your association to address corruption
issues then a standard has to be set to meet that requirement.
Please feel free to contact me at any time for
additional information.
Charles
BEMA Network:
As part of our partnership in the UN Global
Compact I highly recommend this course for all members, and affiliates with a
global presence.
In order to move forward in establishing our
relationships internationally the issue of corruption has to be discussed
openly to ensure that changes take place.
Sincerely,
Charles D. Sharp
Chief Executive Officer
Black Emergency Managers Association
Grant Funding up to $50K........ Maryland Nonprofit Foundation Recovery Initiative
All members within U.S.
Please check
your local State public safety agencies and offices for similar funding
programs for your community.
Maryland BEMA International Members
If you have a
valid 501c3 entity with IRS tax letter you will find that the application
processes nationally are being simplified for grant application
submission. Apply ASAP.
Also we highly recommend and advise that BEMA
International be added as a subject matter expert for annual
dues contribution, and not to rely on local emergency management resources to
provide all training certifications which may be overwhelmed due to COVID-19
tempo.
Within BEMA International our private sector
members and consultants can provide education & training, exercise
engagement & coordination, and job development advise and recommendations
to ensure your program is a success and fulfills community needs.
Former head of Howard University’s
bursar’s office pleads guilty to stealing more than $140,000
Anti-corruption
education and training
Grant Opportunity up to $50K
All the best,
P.M. Hughes
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Practitioner
Digital Engagement
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“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 is such 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’.
Cooperation,
Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement, and
Partnering (C5&P)
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Climate Change. Science Based Targets for Low-Carbon to Protect Citizens
register for our fourth and final webinar in the Climate and Urban
Health Series:
Net Zero: A Global Health Opportunity
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As the world continues to
tackle the coronavirus pandemic, global cities are taking steps to protect
their citizens from the climate crisis and future public health shocks.
In
this fourth and final webinar in CDP’s Climate and Urban Health series, we
will enable cities to better understand what it means to set a ‘net zero
target’ and how science-based targets and co-benefit solutions drive the
low-carbon transition in ways that work for and protect citizens.
We will be
joined by
José Siri, Senior Science Lead for Cities with the Wellcome Trust’s
Our Planet Our Health Team and
Maia Kutner, Associate Director with CDP
Cities, States & Regions, who leads CDP’s Cities’ work on Science Based
Targets and Race to Zero.
We’ll also welcome
Celia Peterson, Environmental
Sustainability Project Manager in Park City (Utah). Park City has made one of
North America’s most ambitious climate goals: to be net-zero carbon and run
on 100% renewable electricity for city operations by 2022, and for the whole
community to be net zero by 2030.
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Date: Wednesday, August
5, 2020
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Time:
15:00 BST (British Summer Time); 07:00 PDT | 10:00 EDT | 16:00 CET
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You
can find information on the entire series and past recordings by visiting the
CDP Cities, States & Regions events page here. Please feel free to submit any questions or comments you may have in
regards to the webinar to cities@cdp.net. We thank you again for your interest and look forward to seeing you
again soon.
** If you are unable to attend the live webinar –
please register today and we will endeavour to ensure that the full recording is sent to you
via the email provided. This way you will able to view at your convenience. **
Georgetown Climate Center (GCC). Equitable Adaptation Legal & Policy Toolkit for states and communities
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GCC to join NJ Climate Change Resource Center for webinar on Managed Retreat Toolkit
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July 29, 2020. HAITI TROPICAL STORM 9 (potential tropical cyclone Isaias)
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Priority.. Paying Rent and Buying Food. What of water? COVID-19 2020 and Beyond.
Community Imperative
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The pandemic’s devastating toll on vulnerable children, solidarity and allyship in the struggle against racism, and a call for “radical relief,” in this week’s Covid, Race, and the Revolution.
Issue No 16. July 29, 2020
Prioritize People over Profits, and Ban Evictions
By Jamila Henderson
As eviction moratoriums rapidly expire — including the federal moratorium that ended last week — renters, especially those who are Black and Brown and women, will be forced to choose between paying rent and buying food.
In the Bay Area’s Contra Costa County, an estimated 12,000 renter households facing homelessness were spared, due in part to the advocacy of the Raise the Roof coalition. It used data to convince the county Board of Supervisors of the magnitude of potential evictions without a moratorium. The board unanimously approved an extension to September 30, giving vulnerable residents a temporary reprieve from evictions. But millions of renters have no such lifeline in sight. We must prepare for a wave of evictions and homelessness that could ensue without strong renter protections.
Massachusetts and the Bay Area’s Alameda County can serve as models for action and advocacy. In Massachusetts, over 1,000 residents and over 200 organizations took collective action to win one of the strongest eviction and foreclosure moratoriums in the nation. The policy prevents landlords from evicting tenants for nonpayment of rent, stops court eviction filings, blocks sheriffs’ enforcement of eviction and late fees, and includes a moratorium on evictions for small businesses.
In California’s Alameda County, tenants are protected from most evictions through September, with a 12-month grace period to pay back rent without threat of eviction. When the grace period is up, any rent owed becomes consumer debt.
Renters who have been laid off, had their hours or pay cut, or who have fallen ill or had to care for sick loved ones are at particularly high risk of eviction. Some will be spared temporarily by unemployment insurance benefits while they last, or by savings or other sources. Others are ineligible for benefits because they are undocumented, self-employed, or working in the informal economy. These renters and others face an imminent threat of eviction and homelessness. Maria, an undocumented worker living in Houston, became homeless after her hours were cut and she was unable to pay rent. Despite the state’s eviction moratorium, as an undocumented immigrant she feared accumulating debt and appearing in court, a situation that may be quite common.
The entire nation will suffer if struggling renter households are left to fend for themselves when temporary eviction moratoriums end. Renter households account for 37 percent of all households nationwide and contribute an estimated $1.5 trillion each year to the national economy. Even before the pandemic, half of renter households were cost burdened — paying more than 30 percent of their income for housing. This was especially true for low-income renters and renters of color, and the problem has surely grown as unemployment has reached Depression-era levels.
If all renters were charged only what they could afford for housing, together, renter households would have an extra $124 billion to spend in the economy each year. This translates to $6,200 per household to support local businesses, pay for food, education, and health care, or invest in critical savings. We are all in this together: the economic security of rent-burdened households shapes the prosperity of our communities and of the nation and is especially urgent now, as America grapples with structural racism and with a pandemic that’s disproportionately killing Black and Brown people.
Ultimately, we need policies that value people over property. We value people by guaranteeing affordable, safe, and high-quality housing for all regardless of income. We do this by investing in public housing, community land trusts, and housing cooperatives. Tenants in Minneapolis who recently won community control of five apartment buildings are leading the charge. A focus on people must also acknowledge and remedy racist housing policies of the past rooted in the theft of Native land and the exclusion of Black communities, through reparative approaches.
Right now, we need strong protections that endure through the Covid-19 recovery. This includes a ban on evictions, canceled rent and mortgages tied to relief for affordable housing providers and small landlords, and housing first for people without access to safe and healthy shelter. Federal proposals to provide financial assistance for rent would bring immediate benefits to renters. The aid should target the most vulnerable and have adequate funds to meet the tremendous need. Furthermore, we must continue to advocate for strong renter protections that local leaders have been pushing for years, including limiting the grounds on which landlords can evict tenants through “just cause” legislation, enacting rent control, and ensuring the right to counsel for low-income renters.
Local leaders closest to these issues have the solutions, but we need the political will to implement them. Learn more about bold policy solutions to protect renters from eviction during the pandemic and beyond from our latest briefs, Strategies to Advance Racial Equity in Housing Response and Recovery: A Guide for Cities during the Covid-19 Pandemic and Inclusive Processes to Advance Racial Equity in Housing Recovery: A Guide for Cities during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
- Jamila Henderson is a Senior Associate at PolicyLink.
Highlights from the News, Analysis, and Commentary
As Congress negotiates the next Covid-19 relief package, there is a vast gulf between the narrow Senate Republican bill, HEALS, put forward this week, and the more expansive HEROES Act passed by House Democrats more than two months ago.
The debate is heating up as millions of Americans lose their supplemental unemployment insurance. Vox compares the two packages. And see Federal Policy Priorities for an Equitable COVID-19 Relief and Recovery, by PolicyLink.
The anti-eviction provisions of an earlier relief package, the CARES Act, were largely successful until they expired, ProPublica reports. Before the law, more than 7,700 households were evicted monthly from federally backed apartment buildings in Atlanta and Houston; the number dropped to less than 200 in the months the protections were in effect.
Please share with your networks, send your ideas and feedback, and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram using hashtag #COVIDandRace.
We hope you find the COVID-19 and Race Series an important tool for keeping up with news about the virus and its impact on communities we serve.
BEMA International
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The pandemic’s devastating toll on vulnerable children, solidarity and allyship in the struggle against racism, and a call for “radical relief,” in this week’s Covid, Race, and the Revolution.
Issue No 16. July 29, 2020
Prioritize People over Profits, and Ban Evictions
By Jamila Henderson
As eviction moratoriums rapidly expire — including the federal moratorium that ended last week — renters, especially those who are Black and Brown and women, will be forced to choose between paying rent and buying food.
In the Bay Area’s Contra Costa County, an estimated 12,000 renter households facing homelessness were spared, due in part to the advocacy of the Raise the Roof coalition. It used data to convince the county Board of Supervisors of the magnitude of potential evictions without a moratorium. The board unanimously approved an extension to September 30, giving vulnerable residents a temporary reprieve from evictions. But millions of renters have no such lifeline in sight. We must prepare for a wave of evictions and homelessness that could ensue without strong renter protections.
Massachusetts and the Bay Area’s Alameda County can serve as models for action and advocacy. In Massachusetts, over 1,000 residents and over 200 organizations took collective action to win one of the strongest eviction and foreclosure moratoriums in the nation. The policy prevents landlords from evicting tenants for nonpayment of rent, stops court eviction filings, blocks sheriffs’ enforcement of eviction and late fees, and includes a moratorium on evictions for small businesses.
In California’s Alameda County, tenants are protected from most evictions through September, with a 12-month grace period to pay back rent without threat of eviction. When the grace period is up, any rent owed becomes consumer debt.
Renters who have been laid off, had their hours or pay cut, or who have fallen ill or had to care for sick loved ones are at particularly high risk of eviction. Some will be spared temporarily by unemployment insurance benefits while they last, or by savings or other sources. Others are ineligible for benefits because they are undocumented, self-employed, or working in the informal economy. These renters and others face an imminent threat of eviction and homelessness. Maria, an undocumented worker living in Houston, became homeless after her hours were cut and she was unable to pay rent. Despite the state’s eviction moratorium, as an undocumented immigrant she feared accumulating debt and appearing in court, a situation that may be quite common.
The entire nation will suffer if struggling renter households are left to fend for themselves when temporary eviction moratoriums end. Renter households account for 37 percent of all households nationwide and contribute an estimated $1.5 trillion each year to the national economy. Even before the pandemic, half of renter households were cost burdened — paying more than 30 percent of their income for housing. This was especially true for low-income renters and renters of color, and the problem has surely grown as unemployment has reached Depression-era levels.
If all renters were charged only what they could afford for housing, together, renter households would have an extra $124 billion to spend in the economy each year. This translates to $6,200 per household to support local businesses, pay for food, education, and health care, or invest in critical savings. We are all in this together: the economic security of rent-burdened households shapes the prosperity of our communities and of the nation and is especially urgent now, as America grapples with structural racism and with a pandemic that’s disproportionately killing Black and Brown people.
Ultimately, we need policies that value people over property. We value people by guaranteeing affordable, safe, and high-quality housing for all regardless of income. We do this by investing in public housing, community land trusts, and housing cooperatives. Tenants in Minneapolis who recently won community control of five apartment buildings are leading the charge. A focus on people must also acknowledge and remedy racist housing policies of the past rooted in the theft of Native land and the exclusion of Black communities, through reparative approaches.
Right now, we need strong protections that endure through the Covid-19 recovery. This includes a ban on evictions, canceled rent and mortgages tied to relief for affordable housing providers and small landlords, and housing first for people without access to safe and healthy shelter. Federal proposals to provide financial assistance for rent would bring immediate benefits to renters. The aid should target the most vulnerable and have adequate funds to meet the tremendous need. Furthermore, we must continue to advocate for strong renter protections that local leaders have been pushing for years, including limiting the grounds on which landlords can evict tenants through “just cause” legislation, enacting rent control, and ensuring the right to counsel for low-income renters.
Local leaders closest to these issues have the solutions, but we need the political will to implement them. Learn more about bold policy solutions to protect renters from eviction during the pandemic and beyond from our latest briefs, Strategies to Advance Racial Equity in Housing Response and Recovery: A Guide for Cities during the Covid-19 Pandemic and Inclusive Processes to Advance Racial Equity in Housing Recovery: A Guide for Cities during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
- Jamila Henderson is a Senior Associate at PolicyLink.
Highlights from the News, Analysis, and Commentary
As Congress negotiates the next Covid-19 relief package, there is a vast gulf between the narrow Senate Republican bill, HEALS, put forward this week, and the more expansive HEROES Act passed by House Democrats more than two months ago.
The debate is heating up as millions of Americans lose their supplemental unemployment insurance. Vox compares the two packages. And see Federal Policy Priorities for an Equitable COVID-19 Relief and Recovery, by PolicyLink.
The anti-eviction provisions of an earlier relief package, the CARES Act, were largely successful until they expired, ProPublica reports. Before the law, more than 7,700 households were evicted monthly from federally backed apartment buildings in Atlanta and Houston; the number dropped to less than 200 in the months the protections were in effect.
Please share with your networks, send your ideas and feedback, and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram using hashtag #COVIDandRace.
We hope you find the COVID-19 and Race Series an important tool for keeping up with news about the virus and its impact on communities we serve.