NETWORK NEWS - September 2019, Volume II
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JFNA
Center for Advancing Holocaust Survivor Care Training Workshop
The Network was a strong partner of this week’s 2019 Training Workshop, sponsored by the JFNA Center for Advancing Holocaust Survivor Care. This year’s topic “Aging and Trauma: Innovations in Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed Care for Diverse Older Populations” drew over 200 professionals and advocates from the aging network to Washington DC for a two-day workshop focused on identifying, celebrating and advancing innovations in person-centered, trauma-informed care. Now in its fifth year of Federal funding, the JFNA Center showcased over 80 subgrantees and demonstrated the leadership NJHSA member agencies have taken to advance this philosophy of care as a guiding principle for Jewish human service agencies and the broader aging field. To learn more about specific subgrantee projects,
click here
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Pictured: Reuben Rotman, President & CEO, NJHSA; Maya Gumirov, Russian Survivor Coordinator & Case Management Supervisor, Holocaust Community Services, CJE SeniorLife, Chicago; Yonit Hoffman, Director, Holocaust Community Services CJE SeniorLife, Chicago; Leah Buchbinder, Assistant Director, Community Program Development, Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago; Nora Bergman, Program Manager, Holocaust Community Services CJE SeniorLife, Chicago)
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Digital Marketing Campaign Contest
Request for Proposals
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2020 NJHSA Annual Conference
The Fairmont Dallas Hotel | Dallas, TX | May 3-5
Request for Proposals - Deadline Extended
**The deadline for both proposals is
Friday, October 11, 2019
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It’s a new decade! What are the trends and how is your agency responding to them?
This year, at the 3rd Annual Conference, the Network envisions offering a variety of workshops which showcase:
- High impact solutions,
- Innovative practices and,
- Dynamic responses in
operational management, executive leadership, capacity building, development, advocacy, lay leadership, workforce initiatives
, and
programmatic best practices
.
Dig deep. Think about what our sector needs to know as we forge forward into the new decade . . .
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Executives' Networking Forum
Responding to Change:
Spotlight on Financial Health & Sustainability
Arizona Biltmore|Phoenix
November 2nd-4th
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** Registration for the Executives' Networking Forum and at the Arizona Biltmore will both close on
Friday, October 4th
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Email
Karen
to learn more about the discounted rate for small agencies with operating budgets of up to $750,000.
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In today’s financial climate, with growing concerns of a global economic recession on the rise, the
Network’s 2019 Executives’ Networking Forum
theme,
Responding to Change: Spotlight on Financial Health and Sustainability
could not be more timely. Forum facilitator,
Andrea Mills
, of FMA – Fiscal Strength for Nonprofits, will help us all increase our understanding of the challenges impacting our sector, while also identifying successful responses. Executives will leave with the knowledge and tools needed to develop strategies for sustainability and plans for how to best communicate their agency’s financial positions with boards, staff and stakeholders.
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NJHSA Submits Comments to USDA Opposing
SNAP Reduction
This week NJHSA took the lead in submitting a formal comment in partnership with the Jewish Federations of North America and Jewish Council for Public Affairs in opposition to USDA’s proposal to eliminate a policy called "broad-based categorical eligibility.” This policy change would limit states' flexibility in administering SNAP and leave 3.1 million Americans, including 500,000 children, at risk of hunger and disproportionately affect working families, older adults, and individuals with disabilities.
NJHSA took the lead in drafting a model template and an action alert that we shared with agencies encouraging them to submit their own comments. In total, over 75,000 comments were filed to USDA. Thank you to those of you who submitted comments!
Click here to read NJHSA’s comment
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Resource for Child Welfare Agencies
Following the recent ICE raids in Mississippi, the Center for Immigration and Child Welfare created a resource for child welfare agencies on how to prepare for and appropriately respond to immigration enforcement operations in their local areas, with the ultimate goal of preventing unnecessary entry of children of immigrants into the child welfare system. The resource is attached and the online version is available
here
. Please share it widely with your colleagues, local child welfare agencies/offices, and partners.
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Advice on the Mental Health Access Improvement Act & Improving Access to Mental Health Act
Under current Medicare law, unnecessary barriers to care are impeding older adults’ access to needed mental health and substance use treatment services provided by clinical social workers (CSWs), mental health counselors (MHCs), and marriage and family therapists (MFTs) — all trained and licensed mental health professionals. JFNA is supporting two separate bipartisan, bicameral measures being considered by Congress that offer sensible solutions to expanding and improving access to mental health care and substance use treatment for Medicare beneficiaries. Both of these measures will significantly expand the mental health workforce available to care for Medicare beneficiaries.
Learn more here
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Jewish Disability Advocacy Day
REGISTRATION OPEN!
Registration is now open for our 10th annual
Jewish Disability Advocacy Day
(JDAD). Brought to you by JFNA in partnership with the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism and other generous supporters, JDAD will be held on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, February 4, 2020. This year, 2020, is a historic year for disability rights—the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the 45th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The JDAD 2020 program will highlight and commemorate these milestones, as well as look to the road ahead.
Learn more and register here
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Shaping JFNA's Public Policy Priorities for 2020
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Updates on the National Affinity Group on Jewish Poverty
The Jewish Funders Network is working closely with the Weinberg Foundation, whose dedication and efforts have catalyzed the creation of a national JFN Affinity Group on Jewish Poverty. The next meeting of this Group will be held in November in partnership with the JFNA at its FedLab convening, as part of the Action for Good in the 21st Century track. FedLab is being held in Washington DC, November 10-12 and the Affinity Group sessions will be held on Monday, November 11. To join the Group, please contact
Reuben Rotman
at NJHSA.
Click here for a recent article
that appeared in eJewish Philanthropy on the affinity group, and
click here for the notes
resulting from the June meeting.
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Ta'amond Launches Train the Trainer
Ta’amod: Stand Up!
recently launched their Ta’amod Train the Trainer, designed to prepare and certify trainees to deliver Ta’amod Training which approaches harassment prevention from the perspective of creating safe, respectful, equitable Jewish communal organizations. NJHSA is a proud partner of Ta’amod. If you are interested in becoming certified as a Ta’amod trainer for NJHSA agencies,
click here to learn more
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Work. Grow. Serve.
The
Repair the World
Fellowship is an 11 month immersive service year for young adults passionate about mobilizing the American Jewish community to volunteer alongside them. Based in one of eight Repair the World Communities throughout the United States, Fellows spend a year volunteering with local partners, learning the ins and outs of working at a non-profit, developing their event planning skills, getting to know a community, and getting to know themselves as they work towards social equity
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Click here to learn more and apply
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CALLS & WEBINARS
Thursday, October 10th
- Sharsheret Breast Cancer Awareness Call
- Workforce Development Executives Affinity Group Call
Thursday, October 17th
- Holocaust Survivor Service Professionals Affinity Group Call
Monday, October 28th
Wednesday, October 30th
- Employee Engagement: Does it Really Matter?
Employee retention and motivation is the number one issue in most nonprofit organizations today. No matter what your strategy or how amazing your mission is, if your staff are checked out or burned out, none of that matters. Employee engagement is key to retaining your great employees and attracting new ones. Join us for a robust conversation to spark or re-spark employee engagement in your own organizations.
Speaker: Sonya Llewellyn, 501(c) Services
CE Credit: 1 hour of HRCI and SHRM
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**Recorded calls and presentations can be found in the Members Only section in Calls & Webinars or the Resource Library, respectively. **
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Affinity Groups are for designed for member agency professionals and lay leaders. Others interested are encouraged to contact
Megan
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Griswold Foundation, Jean - 2020 Grant
The Foundation provides grants to select nonprofit organizations to build, strengthen and sustain programs that enhance the quality of life for low-income seniors and adults with disabilities who choose to age in place. The Foundation provides grants to support respite and short-term home care services for those in need. Deadline: October 31, 2019.
Learn more here
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Corporation for National and Community Service – AmeriCorps State and National Grants FY 2020
AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations proposing to engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions to strengthen communities. Grant awards have two components: operating funds and AmeriCorps member positions. Grant award amounts vary ’ both in the level of operating funds and in the type and amount of AmeriCorps member positions. Deadline: January 8, 2020.
Learn more here
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** NEW OPPORTUNITIES ADDED REGULARLY **
Working for a Jewish human service agency is a highly rewarding career.
A listing of open positions at member agencies can be found
here
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Member agencies are welcome to post career opportunities with the Network
as a benefit of membership. Positions will be posted for 90 days.
Non-members may post positions for 60 days for a fee. Email
Megan
to learn more.
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Interested in featuring your agency in the October edition of MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS?
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