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No showers or mail: This is what the Pennsylvania prison lockdown was like for inmates

CEO is hiring a Job Developer!

CEO is hiring a Job Developer!

CEO is currently seeking to hire a Job Developer for our Philadelphia office, a role that’s crucial to CEO’s work to help individuals coming out of incarceration regain the skills and confidence needed for a successful transition to stable and productive lives. Job Developers increase the range of employment opportunities available to our participants using participant interests, experiences, and their ambitions as foundation for participant job placements, and more broad

CEO is Hiring a Crew Site Supervisor/ Team leader!

CEO is Hiring a Crew Site Supervisor/ Team leader!

Are you looking for greater purpose within your work? Do you believe in equal opportunity and access for all? Are you a natural leader driven by fostering relationships and creating work environments that lead teams to achieve success? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, we want to receive your application for our available Crew Site Supervisor / Team Leader position! Center for Employment Opportunities Crew Site Supervisor / Team Leader - Philadelphia, PA

BREAKING POVERTY: Crime, poverty often linked

BREAKING POVERTY: Crime, poverty often linked

September 17, 2018, John N. Mitchell - The Philadelphia Tribune There are the everyday burdens of life and then there are those Eric Eberhart is facing. In April, the 17-year-old Nicetown resident watched in horror from the passenger seat of his father’s car as bullets fired from a passing van exploded through the driver’s-side window and tore holes in Eric Eberhart Sr.’s chest, leaving him dead in the 4400 block of Germantown Avenue, right below Roosevelt Expressway. Eberhar

The half-million-dollar state grant will help expand Philly’s Community Crisis Intervention Program

"Governor Wolf Announces Funding for Gun Violence Reduction Initiatives" September 9, 2018 - MyChesco Governor Tom Wolf recently announced the allocation of more than $1.5 million in funding to eight Pennsylvania municipalities for the 2018 Gun Violence Reduction Initiative. The funding was awarded through a competitive solicitation as part of a Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency program to provide municipalities with funds to implement strategies resulting in t

Racial disparities plague Pennsylvania’s life-without-parole system — but can it be fixed?

Racial disparities plague Pennsylvania’s life-without-parole system — but can it be fixed?

September 17, 2018, Samantha Melamed - The Philadelphia Inquirer For State Sen. Sharif Street, the most promising sign in his quixotic bid to reform Pennsylvania's life-without-parole system came in the form of a call from Americans for Prosperity, the Koch brothers' libertarian political advocacy group. "It was some surprise when they sought us out," he said. "It's my first time being on the same side of an issue with them." Over the past year, Street, a Democrat from North

Save the Date: Forum on Justice & Opportunity

September 17, 2018 - PHENND The Forum on Justice & Opportunity connects volunteers, social change activists, and human service experts around solutions to the biggest challenges facing the region. Engage with the compounded issues of poverty and initiate real world efforts to improve policy and practice. Sat, October 20, 2018 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM EDT Location WHYY, Inc. 150 North 6th Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 hosted by Episcopal Community Services Read the details here!

Russell Sage Foundation Seeks Letters of Inquiry for Social Inequality Research

September 17, 2018 - PHENND Two-year grants of up to $150,000 will be awarded to qualified organizations. To be eligible, organizations must be considered a monprofit under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Review Code. The foundation encourages methodological variety, but all proposals should have well-developed conceptual frameworks and research designs. Analytical models should be specified and research questions and hypotheses should be clearly stated. Awards are availabl

Open Society Foundations Accepting Applications for Soros Justice Fellowships

September 17, 2018 - PHENND The Open Society Foundations (OSF) is accepting applications for its Soros Justice Fellowships. Through the program, grants of up to $120,000 will be awarded to outstanding individuals to undertake projects that advance reform, spur debate, and catalyze change on a range of issues facing the U.S. criminal justice system. The fellowships are part of a larger effort within OSF to reduce the destructive impact of current criminal justice policies on t

RFP for Social Justice Arts Projects

September 17, 2018, PHENND Puffin Foundation West, Ltd. seeks to open the doors of artistic expression by providing grants to artist activists and arts organizations often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to race, gender, or social philosophy. Artists are able to reach across the borders of our imagination and in doing so often peaceably transform society’s ideas about social justice issues. To that end, the foundation is accepting applications for art projects by i

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