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Full time professional ... PIIN Community Organizer
The Pittsburgh Interfaith Impact Network is seeking a full time professional organizer immediately.
PIIN is an institution-based community organization headquartered in
Pittsburgh PA, and is affiliated with the Gamaliel Foundation. PIIN member institutions include churches, unions and other community-based groups. Compensation commensurate with experience. Contact:
Briarwood Group Associates for detailed information.
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This position filled!
July 2011
Full time professional ... LION, Executive Director/Lead Community Organizer
The Long Island Organizing Network is seeking a full time professional organizer immediately. LION is an institution-based community organization headquartered in Suffolk county, New York, and is affiliated with the Gamaliel Foundation. LION’s member institutions include churches, unions and other community-based groups. Compensation commensurate with experience.
Contact:
Briarwood Group Associates for detailed information
Send cover letter and resume to:
briarwoodgroup@roadrunner.com
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POSTING,
Sorry, CLOSED! January 1, 2011, ISAAC, Kalamazoo, MI
Interfaith Strategy for Advocacy and Action in the Community
has an opening for an Executive Director/Lead
Community Organizer.
ISAAC is a
Faith Based Organization in Kalamazoo, MI representing a diverse coalition of inter-faith,
multi-racial, urban-suburban faith communities and community
organizations throughout the greater
Kalamazoo area.
Contact:
Briarwood Group Associates for detailed information
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February 12, 2010 (Position Filled)
The Alliance
of Communities Transforming Syracuse
has an opening for an Executive Director/ Lead
Community Organizer. A.C.T.S. is a Faith
Based Organization in Syracuse, NY.
A.C.T.S.
organizer salary range is $35,000 - $55,000, including benefits,
negotiable. Salary is based on experience, and responsibility with health
benefits. Send by e-mail, a cover letter and resume only to
Briarwood Group Associates
briarwoodgroup@roadrunner.com
EEOC recruiter.
See all details and
requirements:
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Position Filled
Community Organizing, now in the spotlight, provides a satisfying
opportunity to make a community, region, state or the nation a better
place to work and live. Several Community organizing groups and other
non profit organizations, have, or will have exciting opportunities: See
the details about the expectations for these positions below.... Watch
for new openings....check
here for a community organizer position in Syracuse, NY....
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VOICE Buffalo
(click) (This Position has been filled). Please
see
information about this type of position: Community Organizer. Read the
General Standards for Community Organizers
to familiarize yourself about these positions. E mail
the
Briarwood Group Associates about your interest, cover letter and resume.
Watch for ads regarding the position soon.
VOICE Buffalo
Lead Community Organizer for Faith Based
Organization in Buffalo NY: VOICE-Buffalo, an organization of 20 organizations,
seeks a strong individual to identify, train, and organize community leaders to
address local, regional and state issues around urban sprawl, housing,
education, crime, joblessness seeking to find the root causes that will lead to
better public policies.
The organizer must be a strategic
thinker, willing to take risks, self-motivated, has a deep desire to work for
justice in our society, have fund raising and financial management skills.
VOICE-Buffalo is a part of the Gamaliel Foundation, a network of sixty community
organizations in the United State, South Africa, and Great Britain.
Salary range $35 to $50 K based on
experience. Send cover letter and resume to Briarwood Group Associates,
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Possition Filled
Erie, Pennsylvania. C.A.L.L.
Congregational Action to Lift Lives
www.eriecall.org
A regional affiliate of the
Gamaliel Foundation is looking for a lead community
organizer. Established nearly a decade ago, C.A.L.L. is a non-profit
organization of congregations working together with business, labor,
government, community, and educational groups. C.A.L.L. strives to
effect positive changes in Erie County and to address the needs of the
Erie area to solve pressing community problems. With organizations
working together, improving the quality of life for all, dealing with
community improvement, housing, health care, leadership training,
"living wage," Developmental assets for youth and "GOTV Get Out
the Vote! Salary range based on experience, 35-40K.
The Gamaliel Foundation's
General Standards for
Community Organizers
(Careers) will be the background for experience for this position.
(If you may find an interest
in a pending position, get more details, attach your cover letter and resume and email
to
briarwoodgroup@verizon.net )
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Position Filled:
MORE2 Community Organizer for Kansas City, MO
MORE2
- Metro
Organization for Racial and Economic Equity Position filled
(Link to job posting here)
Kansas City Home Page Kansas City Star
A faith-based community organization made up of congregations, faith
communities and allied organizations inclusive of creed, ethnicity,
culture and economic background focusing on changing policies to promote
racial and economic equity.
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For instance, Battle Creek,
Michigan had an opening for community organizer! See what a community organizer position is all about.
Other opportunities may open in the future. Candidates...see what JONAH is doing!
Read about other organizations working on social justice activities by
using the links on this site.
READ ABOUT JONAH's
Position!
General Standards for Community Organizers
POSITION FILLED!
JONAH is an affiliate of the Gamaliel Foundation.
www.jonahbc.org
A Close Up of Battle Creek Needs
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Initiate a conversation...
For men and women who are willing to prepare themselves to lead
Congregation-based organizing efforts in the United States and in
other parts of the world. Candidates may initiate a conversation which
may lead to full time employment with one of the non-profit networks, expressing
interest via e-mail to
Thomas
R. Hawkins, Ph.D. of Briarwood Group Associates.
The Briarwood Group Associates will help to establish a relationship with
prospective employers in the non profit sector, and establish a
contractual arrangement with you in the process if a serious opportunity
is available.
Organizer recruitment Program: The key to success of
most organizing projects is a committed and talented
recruitment program. Most corporations and non-profits know
what it means to take a pro-active approach to getting the best possible
person for a particular position. Pick from hundreds of possibilities,
not just someone you happen to meet along the way. Most non - profit
organizations have an ongoing program to
recruit diverse professional people to staff its
affiliates. The Briarwood Group Associates prides itself on
the ability to attract scores of people for a particular position,
screen the numbers of interested people down to the best and getting the
client involved in the process according to the clients needs and time
for the work. Briarwood has pride for its record and
its capacity to attract women and minorities to this
profession, with a retention record as well.
Information about
community organizing organizations below will provide an overview about faith based
and other community organizing groups working for social justice in the
United States and Internationally.
What is congregation-based community organizing?
Gamaliel foundation, PICO, DART and other Congregation-based community
organizations are in the process of building
power to hold society's political and economic
systems accountable for justice. The fundamental
problem addressed by these organizations is the
disparity of power faced by persons in
low-to-moderate income communities. "The absence of
broad-based, democratic organizations in these
communities denies them the opportunity to
successfully solve their own problems," according to
the DART leaders. This same theme is generally
espoused by the other community organizations, such
as the Gamaliel Foundation,
http://www.gamaliel.org/default.htm ,PICO,
http://www.piconetwork.org/ , IAF,
www.industrialareasfoundation.org , Jewish Fund
for Justice
www.jfjustice.org and others.
The systemic issues facing most of these
communities are the pervasiveness of low-wage,
non-benefit jobs; disparities in health care, public
education, and safety; and the persistent
ineffectiveness on the part of public and private
structures in delivering services equitably to all
people. These issues are rooted in each
organization's long-term goal of building power to
achieve a greater degree of justice in their
community.
In our society, power stems from two sources;
Concentrated money and organized people.
Low-to-moderate income people are without
significant amounts of money. Therefore, their
potential for successfully addressing political and
economic injustices is contingent on their ability
to organize and mobilize large numbers of people
bound together by common values and interests.
Values-Based
Organizations, such as DART and others, seek to
promote core values like justice, fairness, love,
and respect. For many of those involved in
congregation-based community organizing these values
stem from our great religious faith traditions. For
instance, Christians, Jews, and Muslims all lift up
love as one of their most fundamental values. Three
of the Gospels instruct Christians to both love God
with all their heart and to love their neighbor as
they love themselves. These instructions are also
given to the Jews in Leviticus 19:18 and 34 of the
Hebrew Bible. The Holy Koran similarly shares, "If
one of you truly believe, unless your love for your
brother is what you love for yourself." For many
major world religions, love is indeed the great
commandment. This shared value for loving our
neighbor as we love ourselves requires fairness and
justice. And fairness and justice in the public
arena requires power.
(The basic information above "What is
Community Organizing?" has been gleaned from the
DART organization...see their information below and
several other organizing organizations...)
The Gamaliel Foundation...Background
Information on Gamaliel - The Gamaliel Foundation is a network of
55 organizations in 19 states, three provinces of South Africa and Great
Britian..
Victories of the Gamaliel network include: 1) Establishing regional
transportation authorities in Indiana and Michigan, 2) Passing an
"in-state" tuition bill for immigrants in Illinois that erases tuition
barriers for immigrant students and allows them to establish residency,
3) Winning health care coverage for 90,000 low-income children in
Missouri among many other issues currently being supported and resolved.
The Gamaliel Foundation's
GENERAL STANDARDS FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS will give you an insight as to the general duties for a community
organizer and the requirements for such a position. This hyperlink will
allow you to review this "job description." For a free
discussion as to the value of the General Standards in obtaining a
community organizer position, with any desired organization, contact the Briarwood Group Associates
briarwoodgroup@verizon.net
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DART organization is where
people can achieve their dreams
for social, racial, and economic
justice. Each local organization
in the DART Network has its own
leaders, staff, funding base,
and accomplishments toward
justice at the local level.
Unpaid leaders from the local
community make the decisions and
ultimately run these
organizations. Organizing staff
provides the facilitation,
training, and leadership
development needed to make it
happen. Recent victories include
education reform, affordable
housing investments, fair
immigration policies, job
training programs, and dozens of
others. Local DART organizations
are supported by the DART
Center, Inc. based in Miami.
The DART Center of Miami, Florida
was founded in 1982. The DART Center
builds
and develops strong community
organizations, while also training
and
recruiting new organizers.
Currently, DART staff
members are working to: develop
new organizations, train and
develop new immigrant organizing
and leadership development,
conduct national trainings,
provide local consultation, and
train new organizers through the
DART Organizers Institute.
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DART seeks to provide a
vehicle for communities in
low-moderate income areas to act
powerfully through large, congregation-based direct action
organizations. Members of these
organizations meet face-to-face
with decision-makers. Using the
power of their numbers, they
come together in the public eye
to make demands and get
commitments on issues that their
members have identified. Listed
below is a brief description of
some key characteristics of
congregation-based community
organizations:
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