• Community Organizing Residency (COR) Project (posted 03.11.10)
• Part time Volunteer Coordinator (posted 03.11.10)
• Progressive Welcoming & Affirming Baptist Congregation Seeks Pastor (posted 03.08.10)
• 2010 Summer Academy Fellowship (posted 02.24.10)

Community Organizing Residency: Launching Social Justice Careers Rooted in Faith

Got faith? Want social change? Interested in a career in community organizing but wondering how to move forward?

The Community Organizing Residency (COR) is a six month, paid residency. COR is for people from different faith backgrounds who want to make community organizing their profession. They will gain social justice experience working with leading organizing groups in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Organizers bring people together to act on behalf of their shared values and interests, to create more meaning in their lives, and to build a better world. Interweaving relationships, motivation, strategy, and action, they build powerful communities to influence the decision and policies that affect their lives.

The residencies will begin July 29, 2010 and end Feb 2, 2011. Residents will receive a salary with health care benefits.

To apply, complete an application by April 2, 2010, at http://jewishjustice.org/cor/.

Community Organizing Residency, is an initiative of the Jewish Funds for Justice, with program support from the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute, The Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary, and the Jewish Organizing Initiative.

http://jewishjustice.org/cor/ (212) 213.2113 x29

"The job of the public intellectual is to provoke controversy, to question and challenge power by offering alternative models and resources of hope, and perspective. It is not our destiny to be an army of occupation. We have a choice. To be engaged- writing, agitating, organizing. It can't be done individually,but as a social movement." Edward Said

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Part-Time Volunteer Coordinator

• Hours: Flexible. Number of hours to be negotiated with successful applicant.
• Location: The successful applicant works from home, although obligated to travel and attend meetings and events when necessary.
• Compensation: $12 to $20 per hour, commensurate with experience.
• This is a contract position with a current cap of $5000.
• Deadline: April 12, 2010

Asian Pacific Islander Pride Summary

Asian Pacific Islander Family Pride is a 14-year-old, non-profit organization, with 501 (c) (3) status since 2004, dedicated to end the isolation of Asian and Pacific Islander families with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members through support, education, and dialog. With a mailing address in Fremont, CA, it was a totally volunteer organization, until the increased demand for its services and consequent workload lead to the Board of Directors' decision to develop paid staff positions. The Part Time Volunteer Coordinator is the first of these positions.

Job Summary:

The Volunteer Coordinator reports the Executive Director. Direction is general and the successful candidate is expected to execute assignments independently. He or she is responsible for recruiting and coordinating volunteers to support A Family Pride's programs and projects. The Volunteer Coordinator is also responsible for creating and documenting an administrative system that matches volunteers' skills, knowledge, and abilities with task requirements.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

1. 1. Write draft procedures for volunteer administration to serve as model
2. for subsequent volunteer programs.
3. 2. Recruit, screen, interview, and orient volunteers.
4. 3. Match volunteer skills, knowledge, and abilities with task requests from A Family Pride's programs and projects.
5. 4. Consult with and assist volunteers as needed or requested.
6. 5. Ensure that volunteers have a good experience working with A Family Pride.
7. 6. Maintain contact with volunteers through email, telephone, letter, or personal contact. 7. Maintain that portion of the A Family Pride database dedicated to volunteers with relevant information:
1. a. Volunteer contact information.
2. b. Volunteer skills, knowledge and abilities.
3. c. Nature of assignments and dates assigned.
4. d. Evaluation of skills, knowledge and abilities used on assignments.

Job Qualifications:

1. 1. Ability to commit to A Family Pride mission, vision, and values.
2. 2. A minimum of five years relevant experience with volunteer programs.
3. 3. Excellent writing and communication skills.
4. 4. Organizational, judgment and initiative taking skills.
5. 5. Ability to communicate effectively with volunteers and to supervise and empower them to be effective.
6. 6. Access to a computer and an ability to work with email and word processing computer programs.
7. 7. Ability and willingness to travel in the nine Bay Area counties.
8. 8. Ability to work with different personalities.
9. 9. Appreciation of the diverse Asian and Pacific Islander cultures.
10. 10. A bachelor's degree in a relevant major is a plus.
11. 11. Experience working in LGBT programs is also a plus.

Asian Pacific Islander Family Pride is an equal opportunity employer with an absolute commitment to a diverse and multicultural staff.

To Apply: Please email belinda@apifamilypride.com with cover letter and resume. Subject line of the email should read: API-FP Volunteer Coordinator. Alternatively by Mail:A Family Pride, P.O. Box 473, Fremont, CA 94537

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Progressive Welcoming & Affirming Baptist Congregation Seeks Pastor

University Baptist Church, Seattle WA seeks a full-time pastor to walk in ministry with us as we divest ourselves of a building that no longer serves our vision of ministry. We are an active and mission-oriented congregation that values care and compassion for one another. With a long history of mission work locally and globally, we continue to advocate for social and multicultural concerns related to an urban church. As a Welcoming and Affirming community, we celebrate our ethnic, social, and theological diversity. Our worship speaks through preaching, music, drama, and prayer. We seek a pastor whose prophetic voice is enriched by sound scholarship.

For more information, contact Mary Rolston at ubcsea.search@gmail.com and visit our website at http://ubcseattle.org. If American Baptist, please request profile be sent to Evergreen Association of American Baptist Churches, attn: Rev. Dr. Marcia Patton.

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2010 Summer Academy Fellowship
June 7, 2010–August 13, 2010

What is the Academy for Leadership and Action?

The Task Force's Academy for Leadership and Action (the Academy) prepares leaders and potential leaders, primarily at the local and state levels, to fill the staff, board, and volunteer roles critical to the success of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement. We lead direct action for short-term gains, develop leadership and long-term organizational capacity, and shift worldviews to frame LGBT issues within a larger progressive social justice movement that makes explicit connections to struggles against systematic oppression.

What is the Summer Academy Fellowship?

This is not your average fellowship — this is your chance to create change. The Summer Academy Fellowship is a paid social justice fellowship that's furiously intense. The program provides the first-hand, real-world experience working for social justice necessary for becoming professional organizers or capacity builders. You’ll learn to develop and disseminate a progressive worldview that connects LGBT issues to struggles against racism, classism, ableism, and spiritual oppression; to build relationships with a broad-cross section of other LGBT movement leaders, especially in communities of faith and communities of color, that will endure for the long-term; and to mobilize mass numbers of people for direct action targeted at achieving immediate political gains for the LGBT community.

Academy fellows will work on a combination of the following:

• Work at the denominational and congregational levels within communities of faith to change hearts and minds about LGBT people.
• Partner with communities of color to build organizational capacity.
• Lead trainings and collective actions for campaigns that yield both short-term, local, ballot measure and legislative victories.

Stipend and Placement

Summer fellows are paid a net stipend of $500 per week. The summer 2010 term runs from June through August with a possible November extension. Organizing fellows work out of our offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, or Minneapolis, MN. Summer organizers are responsible for their own housing and living expenses.

Qualifications

Applicants interested should have:

• Strong desire to excel as an organizer – openness and thirst for learning, even if it means unlearning some things.
• Organizing and training ability – demonstrated experience in recruiting, motivating and training large numbers of staff and volunteers to engage in collective action..
• Attention to Measurable Results – enormous drive to achieve measurable progress towards meaningful social change.
• Ability to be a Team Player – enthusiastic desire to work as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Knowledge of and great curiosity about all aspects of the LGBT community, especially within communities of faith and communities of color.
• Ability and desire to travel extensively – this fellowship may require you to travel up to 15 days per month.
• Work Ethic – willingness to work evening and weekend hours when projects demand it.
• Desire to recruit, motivate, train, and support volunteers and staff – with a commitment to constantly building a bigger team and an understanding of why a big team is important.
• Demonstrated capacity and desire to work in a multi-cultural environment where diversity based on race, ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, real or perceived gender identity, physical ability, and spiritual practice is an important value.
• Commitment to pursuing organizing as a career.
• Spanish fluency is strongly preferred.

To apply

Applications must include:

• Cover letter explaining your motivation in applying for the fellowship
• Resume
• Contact information for three references
• If you are currently enrolled in a college or university, a transcript

Applications must be received by Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Decisions will be made and communicated by Monday, April 26, 2010.

• Step 1: Send cover letter, resume and references in the body of an e-mail to rlehtinen@theTaskForce.org. Verify your e-mail address by replying to the auto response.
• Step 2: Mail college transcript (if applicable) to: Rodrigo Lehtinen — Academy Fellowship Program,National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,2801 Hyperion Ave., Suite 102,Los Angeles, CA 90027

Questions? Contact Rodrigo Lehtinen, field organizer at rlehtinen@theTaskForce.org, or call 202.329.0087.

The Task Force is an equal opportunity employer. People of color, women, transgender people are encouraged to apply.

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