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Global Kids' Center for Global Leadership
Spring 2010 Professional Development Offerings

Global Kids provides curriculum resources and training for teachers, administrators and youth workers, and works directly with students in the classroom and after school. Trainings will be facilitated by Global Kids' staff members who are highly skilled educators with extensive training and experience in international affairs, youth development, service learning, leadership development, interactive and experiential learning, violence and bias prevention, and youth-created digital media.

All trainings are offered at $75 per person with a discounted rate of $50 each for two sessions or more. Trainings will take place from 9:00 am to 3.00 pm at Global Kids' Center for Global Leadership, located at 137 East 25th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10010.

Schedule
Infusing Social Action into Your Curriculum: Darfur as a Case Study - Thursday, February 25th
Games-Based Education - Wednesday, March 3rd
Transforming Youth From Social Media Consumers to Creators - Wednesday, March 17th
Environmental Service Learning Projects - Tuesday, March 30th
Creating a Safe Space I: Conflict Resolution - Wednesday, March 31st
Creating a Safe Space II: Cultural Diversity - Tuesday, April 6th
W@: Understanding Youth in the Digital Age - Thursday, April 15th
Developing Global Citizens - Saturday, May 8th
Interactive Teaching Strategies - Tuesday, May 18th

For more information or to register, please call: 212-226-0130 or e-mail pdtrainings@globalkids.org. For a complete list of offerings, please click here.

Winning Beginning NY
Emerging Leadership Initiative
Request for Applications

The WBNY Leadership Initiative is designed to cultivate and support a diverse group of emerging leaders who in their professional capacity have demonstrated a commitment to working to improve the lives of young children. This nine month program will help participants hone their leadership skills, deepen their understanding of critical early childhood policy issues, broaden their networks and strengthen their ability to be an effective advocate.

Those selected will participate in a series of learning and networking events including a two-day intensive leadership institute to be held in Albany, NY June 24th and 25th.

Click here for more information and an application form.

The National Book Foundation
Innovations in Reading prize 2010

For individuals, institutions and collaborative programs using innovative approaches to successfully inspire Americans to become lifelong readers.

Click here to access an application for the Innovations in Reading Prize.

Each year, the National Book Foundation will award a number of prizes of up to $2,500 each to individuals and institutions--or partnerships between the two&emdash;that have developed innovative means of creating and sustaining a lifelong love of reading.

In presenting the National Book Awards and its other literary and educational programs, the Foundation’s goal is to expand the audience for the best of American literature. Through the Innovations in Reading Prizes, those individuals and organizations that use particularly innovative methods to generate excitement and a passionate engagement with books and literature will be rewarded for their creativity and leadership.

Postmark deadline for all materials is February 17, 2010.

2010 Application Process

Applicants may now download the necessary paperwork and fill it out using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Complete the application and email it as an attachment to kmcdonough@nationalbook.org. You may also print out the application and send all materials by postal mail. Reference letters can also be emailed as attachments to kmcdonough@nationalbook.org.

Certificate Program for Child and Youth Workers

York College of the City University of New York (CUNY) offers a Certificate Program for Child and Youth Workers. The certificate program is approved by the New York State Department of Education and is designed to offer youth workers a professional program of study that provides college credits that can applied towards an undergraduate degree.

Courses are designed to help youth workers improve their literacy and technology skills; foster an understanding of children and youth across age, gender, culture, and ability; provide opportunities to develop teaching and youth development competencies; develop skills in designing developmental learning environments across grades and subject areas; provide techniques in first aid and safety, as well as physical education; foster an understanding of diverse cultures; and stimulate thinking and reflective praxis.

For more information, please contact Regina Misir at (718) 262-2530 or rmisir@york.cuny.edu.

New NYSAN Professional Development Event Listing

NYSAN is pleased to announce the launch of a new professional development event list. All of the listings on this page are directly related to afterschool and school-age child care; take place in New York State; and are open to anyone who would like to attend.

The event list is available in two places:

• NYSAN Website, Professional Development page
• NYSAN Twitter homepage (To receive instant updates on professional development opportunities, follow us!: @NYSAN)

If you are organizing a local or statewide professional development event designed for afterschool providers that you would like listed, please email Jen Siaca.

How is the Economy Affecting Afterschool Programs?

The Afterschool Alliance is conducting a survey to determine how the demand for afterschool may be changing as unemployment rises, costs increase and state and local governments face shortfalls.

The Afterschool Alliance is engaged in conveying the many ways the economic downturn is affecting afterschool programs. We want to know: What are the trends in enrollment, funding, and capacity right now? Have funding sources changed in the last several years and if so, how is that affecting students and families?

With the data from the survey the Afterschool Alliance hopes to build a strong information base that will help inform conversations with decision makers. When filling out the survey keep in mind:

• Site level coordinators are encouraged to answer questions specific to their one site when possible.
• If data, including funding information, are only available at the program or consortium level, please respond on behalf of the entire program/consortium and be sure to indicate the number of sites for which you are responding.
• Please complete this survey by the close of business Wednesday, April 29.

Five lucky respondents who completely fill out the survey will be chosen at random for a $50 Discount School Supplies gift certificate. You do not need to sign up for any services to participate and your individual information will not be shared.

New Foundation Center Map Guides Nonprofits to Stimulus Dollars and Other Resources

The Foundation Center, the nation's leading authority on organized philanthropy, has collected an extensive array of resources on how nonprofits may be able to access stimulus package funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. The Center's new MapShot: Best ARRA Funding Resources by State provides a state-by-state display of funding opportunities and other pertinent information. The new map guides visitors to a wealth of annotated links about ARRA, such as:

• Detailed lists of "shovel-ready" projects in every state, submitted in the 2008 U.S. Conference of Mayors report
• "New Opportunities for Michigan Nonprofits," the first in a series of briefings prepared by City Connect Detroit related to funding opportunities through the ARRA
• "State of Hawai'i's HI-Way to Recovery," official state web site on the economic stimulus package
• "What Stimulus Means to Texas Health Care," preliminary information from the Texas Medical Association on major health and human services allocations for Texas

"America's nonprofits are fighting for their piece of the stimulus pie, and this mapping tool gives them a running start," said Bradford K. Smith, president of the Foundation Center.

Also informative is the Center's PhilanTopic blog post, What Do Nonprofits Need to Know About the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act?.

MapShot: Best ARRA Funding Resources by State is available at the Center's Focus on the Economic Crisis web page, which offers a variety of resources to help nonprofits and foundations deal with the challenges of the unstable economy.

Lawyers Alliance for New York

FREE nonprofit legal information is just a phone call away!

Call the Hotline at (212) 219-1800 x 224 to leave a message with your nonprofit legal question. A staff member will return your call within 48 hours with the answer you need or a helpful referral.

Click here to ask your question by email. Please include a phone number where you can be reached during regular business hours (9:30 am - 5:30 pm).

New CRE Executive Director Hotline:
(917) 344-6678

• Are you a Nonprofit Executive Director in need of an immediate answer to a management problem?
• Do you need a quick coaching tip on a sensitive HR issue?

Call the Executive Director Hotline at (917) 344-6678!