TIF Alliance to Host TIF Town Hall Meeting 2-12-13

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Featured Breakout Groups: Citizen Investigation, ‘Become a TIF Illuminator‘ with Tom Tresser
Participatory Budgeting, ‘Design Your Own Utopia‘ with Sharon Post of Chicago Political Economy Group
‘Grassroots Organizing’ with Steven Serikaku, retired CTU teacher and PDAIL activist
Event page: www.facebook.com/events/133963636763105/
Flyers, press release, talking points etc to download: http://imgur.com/a/gXaHq#0
Use #TIFfedOff on twitter.
Schedule: 6:45-7pm – Arrival and check-in
7pm – Introduction
7:05 – Featured Speakers
7:35 – Short break to fill out question cards
7:40 – QnA
8:05 – Breakout Groups
8:45 – Report Back from Breakout Groups
8:50 – Closing
Information on our speakers:
Ben Joravsky - Award winning political reporter. (See all his articles)
Tom Tresser - Citizen activist and civic educator. (TIF Reports site), (TIF article including Tom)
Dr. Richard Dye - Professor at UIC Institute of Government + Public Affairs. (Research finding TIF districts hinder growth)
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In the Loop-January 29, 2013

Welcome to In the Loop, an assortment of e-mails that I have received during the past week, or articles that I may stumble upon. From time to time, you will find announcements of events, grant opportunities, job postings, links to websites and articles of interest or notes of encouragement. I hope that you, or someone you know, would find the information to be of use. If you would like to unsubscribe, submit material, or make general comments, you may contact me at valeriefleonard@msn.com. Here is the January 29, 2013 issue of In the Loop.

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John Maxwell’s Leadership Wired, January 2013

I received the following e-mail from John Maxwell.

 

 

 

To Expand Your Influence, Elevate Your Capacity to Think
by: John C. Maxwell

In 1978, unemployed sportscaster Bill Rasmussen hatched an idea to launch the world’s first around-the-clock television station and to devote its programming entirely to sports. Roughly a year later, the Entertainment and Sports Network (ESPN) made its initial broadcast, and in just a few years the station rapidly transformed the way Americans watch athletics. Whereas the major networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) of the time televised only a few main events on the weekends, ESPN offered nonstop, 24/7 sports coverage. Sports enthusiasts flocked to ESPN in droves, and the station steadily expanded into the global media empire it is today.

Growth always increases your capacity—that’s the Law of Expansion. The explosive growth of a business happens only because a leader has greatly expanded his or her capacity to think. Such was the case with Bill Rasmussen, founder of ESPN. How exactly did he broaden the scope of his thought?

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Expansion Requires Pruning Away the Good to Give Space to the Great

Roxanne Quimby had fallen on hard times. The single mother had been laid off from three part-time waitressing jobs, and she needed a steady source of income to provide for her twin girls. In an effort to make ends meet, she scoured local yard sales for bargains and then resold her purchases at flea markets. In a good week, she could make $150. However, not all weeks were good, and living in Maine, cold weather restricted yard within a narrow season.

Quimby’s friend, a beekeeper, offered his supply of beeswax to her in the hopes that she could use it to make and sell candles. She accepted the offer and after some experimentation, Quimby arrived at a final product she liked. She then loaded up the candles she had made and set up shop at a local craft fair. In the course of a day, she sold $200. Encouraged by her success, she decided to make another batch of candles. They quickly sold out as well. She kept making the candles, people kept buying them, and in short order she had a thriving business. In honor of the friend who had encouraged her to get into candle-making, she named the company Burt’s Bees

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EXPANSION

“The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.”

~ Matthew Arnold

“You can do little about the length of your life, but you can do much about its width and depth.”

~ H.L. Mencken

“If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.”

~ Les Brown

“People who exercise their freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally ‘being lived.’ [That is, until] they are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.”

~ Stephen Covey

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RFP’s from the Philanthropic News Digest-1-20-13

I got the following RFP’s from the Philanthropic News Digest.

Impact Fund Offers Support for Litigation to Advance Social Justice
The fund provides grants of up to $25,000 to private and nonprofit legal organizations working to advance significant law reform or raise public consciousness of social justice issues….

Earth Day Network Seeking Entries for Healthy and Sustainable School Food Journalism Prize
The competition, which offers a grand prize of $1,500, is designed to bring communities the hard facts about school food in the words of students who eat it themselves….

Lego Children’s Fund Seeks Grant Proposals for Youth Creativity Programs
The fund provides grants of up to $100,000 to nonprofits working to support creativity among children up to the age of 14, particularly those who are disadvantaged or at-risk….

Local Initiatives Support Consortium Invites Applications for NFL Youth Football Fund Grassroots Program

The program provides matching grants of up to $200,000 to nonprofits working to make capital improvements to football fields in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods that lack clean, safe, and accessible football fields….

Kaboom! Invites Grant Applications to Open Previously Unavailable Playgrounds

Grants of $15,000 and $30,000 are available to communities in the United States working with local government and school districts to re-open playgrounds and recreational facilities closed due to safety and upkeep concerns….

Expect Miracles Foundation Accepting Grant Applications for Under-Supported Cancer Programs
MMLC awards provide up to $10,000 to underfunded cancer fighting organizations that provide cancer patient care support programs and initiatives, cancer awareness and educational programs, and/or cancer prevention/health service….

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Accepting Grant Proposals to Strengthen Performing Arts
Through its Fund for National Projects, the foundation awards a total of up to $1 million in grants each year to support key national projects in the professional nonprofit dance, jazz, presenting and/or theater fields….

All About the Fruits and Veggies Grant Program Invites Applications From Youth Garden Initiatives

Forty grants worth $500 each in gardening supplies and resources will be awarded to schools, community organizations, and nonprofit programs located within a fifty-mile radius of a Jamba Juice store….

Dollar General Literacy Foundation Accepting Applications for Youth Literacy Grants
Grants of up to $4,000 are available to schools, public libraries, and nonprofits located within twenty miles of a Dollar General store that are working to help students who are below grade level or experiencing difficulty reading….

Dollar General Literacy Foundation Invites Applications for Adult Literacy Grants
Grants of up to $15,000 are available to nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and public libraries that provide direct services in adult literacy and are located within twenty miles of a Dollar General store….

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Schedule of Upcoming Public Meetings Regarding Chicago School Closures

I thank Dwayne Truss, President of PACE, for sharing this letter from Barbara Byrd Bennett, CEO of Chicago Public Schools.  I encourage you strongly to review the list and prepare written and oral testimony.  If you have noticed any discrepancies between the utilization or other data that will be used to determine whether or not schools should be closed, I encourage you to  notify your school’s principal, LSC President, cluster, CTU president and President of the Chicago Principals and Administrators Association.  If you have questions, contact me (Valerie F. Leonard) at consulting@valeriefleonard.com.

Schedule of Upcoming Public Meetings Regarding Chicago School Closures by valeriefleonard

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Providence-St. Mel B.J. Francisco III Alumni Basketball Game

I got the following posting from my brother, Theo Leonard.
I wanted to share this event with you regarding my late friend/neighbor Buvern Francisco III aka DJ Bigg. Our alma mater, Providence ST Mel is having an alumni game in his honor. To all the 21st crew, we need to represent. Lets do it “Bigg Time!!”

Saturday, February 16, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM (CST)
Providence-St. Mel High School
119 South Central Park Blvd.
Chicago, 60624

Click onto the link for further information and to purchase tickets. http://psmalumni.eventbrite.com/?ref=esfbenivte001#

 

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ILAACP Newsletter-What are You Doing to Honor Martin Luther King, Jr.?

I got the following e-mail from ILAACP.

Dear Valerie ,

On Monday, January 21, 2013, as we celebrate the 27th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and witness the inauguration of our nation’s first African-American President, Barack Obama, to a second term, it’s important to acknowledge both the symbolic and real victory this day will represent for the field of prevention and African-Americans.

While Dr. King is often heralded as a drum major for racial equality, many forget how his ever evolving theology began to address broader, systemic inequalities in health and wealth. Recognizing that ending racial inequality was just one facet of a broader civil/human rights movement, Dr. King began to focus his work on advancing “race-neutral” social and economic policies that would have a disproportionately positive impact on African-Americans and other disadvantaged groups. In 1966, while delivering the keynote address at the Second National Convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights in Chicago, Dr. King, in an effort to bring national attention to an inadequate healthcare system, noted that, “of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”

Forty-four years later, President Obama picked up Dr. King’s mantle and passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, the most significant regulatory overhaul of our nation’s healthcare system since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid. The ACA will provide millions of uninsured and underinsured Americans with access to services and care that will not only improve individual health outcomes in the short-term but also save taxpayers billions in the longer-term. For African-Americans, however, the ACA represents a special victory. Unsurprisingly, African-Americans are disproportionately represented in the rolls of the uninsured and underinsured. As result, our communities tend to bear a disproportionate share of the health disparities caused by an inadequate healthcare system.

I’m confident if Dr. King were alive today he would herald the ACA as a shining example of how a seemingly “race-neutral” policy can have a disproportionately positive impact on improving the quality of life for African-Americans. Because of the ACA, an estimated 3.8 million African-Americans who would otherwise be uninsured will gain coverage by 2016. The 4.5 million elderly and disabled African Americans who receive coverage from Medicare now have access to an expanded list of preventive services with no cost-sharing. Four hundred and ten thousand (410,000) African-American young adults between the ages of 19 and 25 who would have been uninsured now have coverage under their parent’s health plan. An estimated 5.5 million African-Americans with private insurance now have access to preventive care services including well-child visits, blood pressure and cholesterol screenings, Pap smears and mammograms for women, and flu shots for children and adults. And more importantly, major federal investments to improve the quality of care will ultimately improve the management of chronic diseases that are more prevalent among African-Americans.

So as we tune into the Presidential Inauguration and celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Holiday, let us take a moment to reflect on the both symbolic and real significance of Monday, January 21, 2013.

Lastly, please remember that the ILAACP’s E-News Bulletin thrives off the content we receive from member organizations, individual members, and our E-News subscribers. To that end, we ask that you continue to provide us with information pertaining to key events, resources, legislation, developments, etc., impacting prevention systems, policies, and programs. With your help, ILAACP can continue to produce an electronic communiqué that works to ameliorate the health and social disparities adversely affecting underserved communities.

If you and/or your organization have News & Resources, Job Opportunities, or Events that you would like for us to include in the E-News Bulletin, please email this information to Dawn DeBoard, at ddeboard@ilaacp.org.

Make sure to connect and share with us on Facebook and check out our tweets and activity on Twitter!

In service,

Malik S. Nevels, J.D.
Executive Director

News and Resources Grant Opportunities
News and Resources Grant Opportunities

Overhauling Juvenile Justice in Tennessee

 

In 2009, Federal investigators began investigating the juvenile justice system in Shelby County, TN, which includes Memphis. They found that black teenagers were twice as likely as their white counterparts were to be detained and sent to adult criminal court for minor infractions far more often than white teenagers. This past December Shelby County and the Justice Department in Tennessee signed an extensive agreement to overhaul the Shelby County juvenile justice system. The department and juvenile advocates called the agreement the first of its kind in the nation and a signal that momentum is growing to find new ways to treat teenagers who break the law. Juvenile justice advocates are hopeful the agreement will serve as a template for other jurisdictions.

 

Community Based Dental Partnership Program

 

The goals of the Dental Community Partnership Program are to increase access to oral health care for patients with HIV in areas that remain underserved, especially in communities without dental education programs, and to increase the number of dental providers capable of managing the oral health needs of patients with HIV, through community-based service-learning experiences. Eligible applicants must work collaboratively with community-based dental providers (such as community-based organizations or agencies that currently provide or plan to provide oral health services, or private practice dental providers) to address unmet oral health needs of vulnerable populations with HIV. Application deadline is January 28, 2013.

 

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Legislative Watch Job Opportunities
Legislative Watch Job Opportunities

New General Assembly to Face Many Old Issues

 

A new Illinois General Assembly was inaugurated on January 9, 2013, with a host of unfinished business. The old Legislature adjourned the day before without fixing the state’s broken public pension system. Also left unresolved were the divisive issues of same-sex marriage, gun regulation and gambling expansion. It’ll be a while before such problems are tackled. In the House, Speaker Michael Madigan remains in charge, as he has for all but two of the past 30 years. In the Senate, President John Cullerton starts his fifth year running the show. Both Chicago Democrats now wield veto-proof majorities after many voters throughout the state opted against the Republican alternative in November legislative races. That new Democratic power brings added pressure to perform was not lost on Cullerton, who said his party’s 40-19 advantage over the GOP is the largest in the nation and in state history.

 

Family Community Involvement Coordinator

 

The Family Community Involvement Coordinator is responsible for ensuring that the goals and objectives of the content area aligned within the Performance Standards of Head Start are met. The Coordinator develops, writes, implements, and evaluates work plans and component outcomes and measurements. Train staff and parents, collaborate with outside agencies, and develop programs that guarantees access to services and requirements in relation to the work plan are instituted. Monitors on a monthly basis and on an as-needed-basis, assigned program content areas.

 

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Events, Training and Webinars Membership
Events, Training and Webinars Membership

U of Chicago MLK Celebration 2013

 

U of Chicago MLK Celebration 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013, 6PM
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
5850 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL 60637

 

2013 National Leadership Forum CADCA

 

2013 National Leadership Forum CADCA
February 4-7, 2013
Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center
National Harbor, MD

 

Imagine how families, businesses, and communities would be transformed if you had a voice in a powerful coalition of prevention practitioners and other stakeholders who advocate policy change, facilitate resource sharing, and offer professional development opportunities.

Envision joining forces with leaders around the state to build and implement viable prevention systems, policies, and programs for Illinois’ underserved communities.

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