Jobs
- New Rose Fellowship Opportunity in Colorado - Applications Due September 15!
- Trust for Public Land Job Openings
- Americorps*VISTA - Appalachian Coal Country Watershed Team
- Pratt Center for Community Development Seeks Architect/Job Captain
Tidbits
Jobs
New Rose Fellowship Opportunity in Colorado: Applications Due September 15!
Enterprise Community Partners is pleased to announce that applications are available for a Rose Architectural Fellowship position in Durango, Colo., opening in November 2007. Applications are available online at www.rosefellowship.org. Applications for this opportunity are due Sept. 15.
The Rose Fellow will work closely with the executive director of the La Plata County Regional Housing Authority on pre-development activities related to land acquisitions. The Fellow also will provide technical assistance to local organizations such as Fort Lewis College, Durango Mountain Resort and 9R, who are all investigating possible developments on currently owned land. The Fellow also will collaborate with local nonprofits such as Habitat for Humanity, including taking a project from site planning through unit construction on four to eight homes each year.
Applicants with diverse educational, professional and personal backgrounds, including minorities and individuals from disadvantaged communities, are encouraged to apply. For more information, please visit the website at www.rosefellowship.org or contact Rose Fellowship Director Katie Swenson at kswenson@enterprisecommunity.org.
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Trust for Public Land Job Openings
The Trust for Public Land has three job openings available in their playground program. Please visit the web sites for complete information on responsibilities, qualifications and application.
Program Manager (Job #1723)
http://www.tpl.org/tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=21757&folder_id=176
The Program Manager is responsible for implementing all aspects of a program that creates new permanent playgrounds on public land in lower income neighborhoods in New York City. A special feature of this program is extensive involvement by a local school or community sponsor in the design and operation of the playgrounds.
Program Associate (Job #1722 and 1724)
http://www.tpl.org/tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=21756&folder_id=176
The Program Associate is responsible for assisting implementing specific aspects of a program that works with the NYC Parks Department to create 161 new permanent playgrounds on public land in lower income neighborhoods in New York City. A special feature of this program is extensive involvement by a local school and community in the design and operation of the playgrounds. (Please note: There are 2 positions available.)
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Americorps*VISTA - Appalachian Coal Country Watershed Team
Would you like a job that matters? Are you motivated to fight water pollution and improve the living conditions of low-income communities in Appalachia? Appalachian Coal Country Watershed Team members live and work in low-income communities dealing with contaminated streams, depressed economies and other issues related to abandoned mine lands and impoverished communities. Your help is needed in building programs that will alleviate these problems. Work with local volunteers as an OSM-VISTA team member and see lasting environmental change happen on the ground level!
- Location: 55 sites in 8 Appalachian states (PA, MD, OH, WV, VA, TN, KY, AL)
- Duration: 12 months
- Start Date: Placements are made on a rolling basis, with six start dates throughout the year.
- Hours: Full Time
- Compensation: As an Americorps*VISTA you receive a monthly living stipend of roughly $833 (before taxes), health insurance, child care if eligible, student loan forbearance (with interest paid), and the choice of a $4725 education award or $1200 cash stipend upon term completion.
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Pratt Center for Community Development Seeks Architect/Job Captain
The Pratt Center for Community Development works for a more just, equitable and sustainable city for all New Yorkers, by empowering communities to plan for and realize their futures. We seek an architect to provide architectural services to not-for-profit, community-based organizations in New York City. The successful candidate will provide design, feasibility/zoning analyses, and program planning for community facilities and other community development projects as well as support to the architectural director and construction specialist on major projects in construction.
Applicants must have completed an accredited undergraduate or graduate level architectural degree program and have a minimum of three years’ professional architectural work experience. For a detailed position description, requirements and application procedures, please visit our website at www.pratt.edu/jobs. For more information about Pratt Center, please visit www.prattcenter.net. Pratt Institute is an equal opportunity employer.
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Grants and Funding Opportunities
The Brick Awards Program
The Brick Awards Program sponsored by Do Something honors nine outstanding leaders ages twenty-five and under who use their talents to take action that measurably strengthens their local communities in the areas of community building, health or the environment. The application deadline is 12/01/2007. For more information, e-mail brick@dosomething.org or visit http://www.dosomething.org/brick.
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The William Randolph Hearst Foundations
The William Randolph Hearst Foundations assist institutions in providing opportunities to underserved and underrepresented populations, in line with the funding priorities:
- Education – The Hearst Foundations support efforts that ensure students access to a quality education. Preference is given to institutions of higher education, particularly in the fields of teaching and health care.
- Health – The Hearst Foundations are committed to supporting programs that seek to improve and assure access to quality health care for underserved populations in both urban and rural areas.
- Social Service – The Hearst Foundations support human service agencies that foster effective solutions to social and economic problems.
- Culture – The Hearst Foundations support programs that enrich the lives of young people by engaging them in cultural activities, primarily through arts-in-education programs.
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Tidbits
Global Exchange Cuba Research Trip
Global Exchange, a non-profit human rights group, is offering research trips to Cuba for qualified architects and urban planners. The trips are led by prominent architects and urban planners with emphasis on community projects and other socially relevant works. They have been organizing and sending groups to Cuba since l992.
The next group trip runs December 27, 2007 to January 5, 2008. For more information, contact Leslie Balog (phone: 1-800-497-1994 ext 242; email: leslie@globalexchange.org; website: www.globalexchange.org).
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ACD Announcements Move to Monthly Schedule
Starting this month, ACD Announcements will be consolidated and published at the beginning of every month. The deadline for announcements is the 28th of the month before the announcements go out. For questions, suggestions and to submit announcements, contact us at newsletter@communitydesign.org.
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