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1. JOBS.
2. HEADS UP MBE's + WBE's. FREE Marketing Event. Register today for the SDP FY2012 Annual Kickoff + Networking Event for M/WBE's. (9/20—8:45am-1:00pm)
3. SCHOLARSHIPS
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1. JOBS.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES AT DSNI - http://www.dsni.org/jobs_interns.shtml
RECEPTIONIST
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) is a seventeen-year-old resident-led, non-profit planning and organizing group in the Roxbury/North Dorchester area of Boston.
Our mission is to empower Dudley residents to organize, plan for, create, and control a vibrant, diverse and high quality neighborhood in collaboration with community partners.
In order to realize the neighborhood's vision of a vibrant urban village, DSNI has organized to make significant strides in the areas of land control, affordable housing, community facilities, urban agriculture, youth development, and community building.
DSNI is seeking a receptionist to work in our office, Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm. The position reports to DSNI's Office Manager. A detailed job description follows below.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Candidates must be reliable and have the ability to work traditional office-hour schedules, typically 9am-5pm Monday-Friday, though special events and evening meetings may necessitate some adjustments on a week-to-week basis. The position involves frequent interaction with our diverse community residents, so candidates must be comfortable with people and have good communication skills.
Primary Tasks:
- Provide information to community residents as needed (by phone, email, mail and in-person)
- Participate in all DSNI projects/initiatives as assigned
- Answering phones and greeting clients and visitors
- Open and distribute mail and email delivered to general box
- Assist with maintaining security of office
- Maintain copiers, fax machines, etc.
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
- Commitment to and interest in the development of the Dudley community
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to work with adolescents and adults
- Detail-oriented and professional
- Flexibility regarding hours and work schedule and tasks
- Excellent Time Management/Customer Service skills
- Language Skills: Bi-lingual (Spanish-English) skills preferred
- Computer Skills: Intermediate-level proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, Access and Publisher preferred
Summary of Job
The receptionist is the first face of DSNI. It is most important that the receptionist be a welcoming and helpful resource for the community residents who are leaders and members of DSNI. Additionally, the receptionist will help direct traffic: managing the many calls, emails and visits that make up a day-in-the-life at DSNI. The receptionist will be an important part of a committed team of staff who seek to serve the Dudley community through convening and organizing residents around areas of common concern.
Qualifications
Good written and oral communications skills
Computer skills
Ability to communicate clearly by phone and in-person
There are no educational requirements for this job.
Position Type
Full time, salary commensurate with experience, excellent benefits
Please reply with letter of interest and resume immediately to:
Personnel
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
504 Dudley Street
Roxbury, MA 02119
Dudley Area Residents Encouraged to Apply
Women and People of Color Encouraged to Apply
Equal Opportunity Employer
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INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AT DSNI
**COMMUNITY ORGANIZER (UNPAID INTERNSHIP)**
The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) is a non-profit planning and organizing group celebrating over 20 years as a successful, resident-led coalition working to create an urban village in the Dudley neighborhood of Roxbury/North Dorchester. DSNI's mission is to empower Dudley residents to organize, plan for, create and control a vibrant, diverse and high-quality neighborhood in collaboration with community partners.
The Community Organizer will work as a team member to strengthen the neighborhood revitalization work. They will work with staff, residents, committee and Board members to unfold planning and organizing efforts to realize the neighborhood's vision of a vibrant urban village.
Responsibilities:
• Work with DSNI Organizers to carry out organizing and planning activities. This includes door knocking, passing out flyers and talking to residents.
• Organize residents and other stakeholders to actively engage in the neighborhood revitalization effort, using door knocking, phoning, neighborhood meetings, and other outreach methods.
• Communicate regularly with residents and others stakeholders through written materials and personal contact
• Work as part of DSNI's overall organizing efforts to Build Our Urban Village
• Attend meetings representing DSNI.
• Investigate, evaluate, and share various tools and models for outreach, organizing and collaboration.
• Prepare regular reports and articles on activities.
Qualifications:
• Commitment to DSNI's mission and organizing principles
• Respect for resident decision-making and community planning
• Ability to take initiative while working well as part of a team
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work long hours and be flexible
• Familiarity with neighborhood issues
• Ability to work in a multicultural setting
• A sense of humor always helps
For more information contact:
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
504 Dudley Street
Roxbury, MA 02119
Women and People of Color Encouraged To Apply
Equal Opportunity Employer
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Job Description: Title Searcher
2008
Dudley Neighbors Inc. (DNI) is a Community Land Trust in the Roxbury and North Dorchester area of Boston, organized as an Urban Redevelopment Organization under MGL Chapter 121A. DNI's Mission is Is to implement the community revitalization plans of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), which espouses development without displacement and includes affordable housing, economic development, open space and other amenities of the Urban Village.
JOB SUMMARY:
To search public and private records to compile a list of documents pertaining to property titles, such as mortgages, deeds, and assessments. To create a reference system of all deeds of land that DNI and it affiliates own.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
· Searches records available at DNI, City of Boston Assessing Department and or Suffolk Registry of Deeds to compile all legal deeds for parcels owned by DNI & its affiliates.
· If required, obtains maps or drawings of property from surveyor or assessor's office or from title companies.
· Prepares reference system and report with information compiled that would be useful for future work reference.
QUALIFICATIONS:
· Ability to take initiative while working independently and as part of a team
· Have working knowledge on how to title search using City of Boston Assessing Department and Suffolk Registry of Deeds.
· A sense of humor always helps
· Word processing and other computer experience (Microsoft word, excel, Adobe Acrobat).
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills a must.
· Must be organized and attentive to detail.
POSITION TYPE: UNPAID INTERNSHIP
Please reply with letter of interest and resume immediately to:
Jason Webb
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
504 Dudley Street
Roxbury, MA 02119
Or email to jwebb@dsni.org
Women and People of Color Encouraged to Apply
Equal Opportunity Employer
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Wanted: Certified High School Algebra 1& 2 Teacher
for an Upward Bound Program at RCC.
((( IMMEDIATELY )))
Starts July 5th through August 5th. 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Monday through Thursday.
$26 per hour. Send Resume' to: MKelly@RCC.mass.edu.
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BUILDING FUTURES IN
BUILDING TRADES
Are you interested in a career in a Building Trade?
Are you interested in learning how to get into a Union?
If you are between the ages of 17-21 and signed up in Summer-
Works, come down to the Downtown office for an interview on
either session June 22, 23, 29, 30 at 4:00
Set a Foundation for
your Future!
Phone: 617-348-6522
Fax: 617-482-0549
E-mail: steven.sullivan@bostonabcd.org
Career Explorations
200 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02111
If you are interested go to or call:
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BOSTON STAFFING ALLIANCE: POSITION MANAGER
I wanted to let you know about this immediate opening for Manager of the Boston Staffing Alliance. The Manager will play a leading role in this promising, one-year-old, community-based temp staffing agency, an initiative of the Boston Workers Alliance. Please help us to spread the word widely.
I've included some information here, below, and the full job description is available at http://www.bostonstaffingalliance.org/about_Bos_SA.html.
After a successful first year, the Boston Workers Alliance seeks a new entrepreneurial manager to grow its unique community-based temp agency, the Boston Staffing Alliance (BSA). BSA focuses on temporary and temporary-to-permanent placement of workers with barriers to employment. In particular, BSA focuses on those who are excluded from the workforce due to a criminal record in the state's Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) system. We are Massachusetts' only not-for-profit staffing company that delivers competitive staffing services to local employers by offering motivated and well-supported workers from Boston's urban communities of color.
The Manager will be critical to staffing agency's success. We are seeking someone with unusual strengths as both an entrepreneur and sales manager. BSA intends to build a professional, efficient organization based on an internal culture of participation and respect for all its employees. To succeed, the manager will need strong business skills, general problem solving skills, good judgment, and excellent marketing and communication skills and high cultural competency...
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Job Opportunity: University of MA Amherst--WFCR Development Associate (DEADLINE—7/11/11)
WFCR Development Associate
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Clerk V, Grade 15
Under the supervision of the WFCR Development Director, provide information management and administrative support to a department that raises over $3 million in annual revenue. This position is responsible for managing gift processing for 14,000 annual donors, managing the billing and payments for 300 underwriting clients and coordinating the station's volunteer program.
The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge and experience with computers; be well-organized, excellent with detailed work, very accurate, show initiative and follow-through; have the ability to work effectively under deadlines, exercising good judgment and grace; have experience responding to customer/donor needs and inquiries in a timely, professional manner; and possess strong communication, administrative, and analytical thinking skills, with the ability to be flexible to meet station needs.
Minimum Qualifications:
Associate's degree with two years experience in office setting or two years of directly related stewardship experience may be substituted for Associate's degree. Demonstrable competency in the use and maintenance of database software. Proficiency with Microsoft Excel & Word.
Grade 15, special recruitment range $34,284 – $38,502. Excellent benefits.
To apply:
complete application for Search #40797 at the Employment Office, 167 Whitmore Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 or call 413-545-1396 to have an application sent to you; please include resume and cover letter.
DEADLINE: The application closing date is July 11, 2011.
Women and Members of Minority Groups are Encouraged to Apply
The University of Massachusetts is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer
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JOBS ARE POSTED ON THESE WEBSITES:
- All colleges and hospitals www.GOOGLE.com for lists of colleges, then for hospitals, or dial 411
- BRA - www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org or (617) 722-4300
- City of Boston - http://search.cityofboston.gov/query.html?qt=job+postings (617) 635-4500
- State Job Postings - http://ceo.hrd.state.ma.us/ceo.nsf/ceo_homepage_frm?openform
- Federal Job Postings - http://www.fedworld.gov/jobs/jobsearch.html
OR http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/
- Opportunity Nocs New England - http://www.opnocsne.org (617) 357-0849
- Social Service Jobs - http://www.socialservice.com/ ( post your resume/free )
- NonProfitcareers.org - http://www.snpo.org/nonprofitcareers/
- Nonprofit Center - http://www.lasallenonprofitcenter.org/research_pub/joblistings.htm
- Monster, Inc. - http://www.monster.com/
- Career Center - http://www.aip.org/careersvc/
- Google.com - http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html
(instructions: type in job opportunities / then press search)
- More jobs + information www.geocities.com/bcljobs3
about upcoming sites
- CONSTRUCTION JOBS
-Boston Residents Jobs Policy (BRJP/Boston Plan) leads on construction contractors need to hire residents,
to hire minorities and to hire women [CONSTRUCTION COMPLIANCE REPORTS ]
http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/Compliance/compliance.asp
-BEC-Boston Employment Commission Monthly GC's + Sub's Compliance Hearings
(Every 3rd Wed) / One City Hall Square (8th Floor) (617) 635-4084
-BRA—Boston Redevelopment Authority construction work sights http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/DevelopmentProjects/DevProjects.asp?action=ViewStatus&StatusID=8
-City of Boston Green Jobs Program http://sites.google.com/site/greenjobsboston/
-City of Boston--JOBS BANK--Sign-up--Patty Boyer (617) 918-5480--43 Hawkins Str/GOVT.CTR Boston 02114
TRAINING PROGRAMS:
COMPUTER TRAINING
- S.E. Tech Ctr. @ Tent City/ Mel King (617) 578-0597 / MHKing@mit.edu
359 Columbus Ave
Boston, MA 02116
CITY OF BOSTON CAREER CENTERS
- Roxbury Resource Center (617) 989 9150 / http://www.theworkplace.org/satellite/satellite.html
- The Work Place (617) 737-0093 / 29 Winter St.
- Job Net (617) 338-0809
- Boston Connects (program closed down) (617) 541-2670
PROGRAMS THAT SERVE INDIVIDUALS WITH CORI CHALLENGES
- BWA-Boston Workers Alliance (411 Blue Hill Ave) (617) 606-3580
- SPAN, Inc. (617) 423-0750
- STRIVE, Inc. (617) 825-1800
- Operation Re-Entry--SNAP/ABCD (617) 267-7400 x227 (Odelious McManus, Jr., Coordinator)
- Career Source - Cambridge site (617) 661-7867 www.yourcareersource.com
- Community Work Services (CWS) (617) 720-2233 x223 www.cwsbos.com
- IMPACT Employment Services (617) 542-0338 www.friendsoftheshatuckshelter.org
- Just a Start Corp (617) 494-0444 x307
- Project Place (617) 262-3740 x20 info@projectplace.org
- Quincy Career Center (617) 745-4000
- Solutions to Work (617) 492-0300 solutionsatwork@hotmail.com
- St. Francis House "First Step Program" (617) 654-1208 /1257 firststep@stfrancishouse.org
- Urban League of Eastern Mass. (617) 442-4519 www.ulem.org
LEGAL ASSISTANCE
***LARC HOTLINE*** (617)6031700
(Legal Advocacy Resource Center)
POLICE BRUTALITY
- New Police Complaint Assistance Project
Sarah Wunsch, Staff Atty (617) 482-3170 x323 / fax 451-0009 swunsch@aclum.org
ACLU Foundation of Mass
211 Congress Street, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02110
The ACLU of MA, the National Police Accountability Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and Suffolk Law School
pro bono program are teaming up for a project to help people who want to file complaints about the conduct of
Boston police officers. 6 law students in January. They can help with the filing of complaints, assisting the person
as Internal Affairs handles the complaint, and with any appeals that the person may wish to file about how their
complaint was dealt with. We will review their information and determine if the project with Suffolk can help them.
- LCCRUL (617) 482-1145 (main) / fax 4392
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law
294 Wash. St. - Rm 443
Boston, MA 02108
- Stephen Hrones, Esq. (617) 227 4019
CORI EDUCATION, ADVOCACY + CORI REFORM MOVEMENT ORGANIZING
- Union of Minority Neighborhoods, MARC, Horace Small (617) 522 3349 / 617 529 9127
- Boston Staffing Alliance, Varda T. Haliday (617) 606 3581
c/o Boston Workers Alliance (BWA) Aaron Tanaka
411 Blue Hill Ave.
Dorchester, MA 02121
COMING HOME' RESOURCE GUIDE
On-line directory for people with CORI records and those returning to
Greater Boston communities
Information about…
HOUSING, TRAINING PROGRAMS, EDUCATION,
EMPLOYMENT AND LEGAL ASSISTANCE
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2. HEADS UP MBE's+WBE's. Marketing Event. Register today for the SDP FY2012 Annual Kickoff + Networking Event for M/WBE's. NO COST. (9/20—8:45am-1:00pm)
Save the Date!
September 20, 2011
SDP FY2012 Annual Kickoff and Networking Event
For the largest Minority and Women Owned Business (M/WBE) Marketing Event of its kind in the Commonwealth. Last year we had over 500 registered attendees.
MBE & WBE Sellers—This is your best opportunity to meet and market your business to the Commonwealth SDP Officers, OSD Strategic Sourcing Services Leads/Managers, buyers and Prime Contractors on Statewide Contracts who are looking for partnerships early in the Fiscal Year.
All State Buyers —Your time is important, don't miss this great networking opportunity to meet State Certified M/WBE Vendors. Special recognition will be given to Departments and their SDP Officers for outstanding performance.
Dates: Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Time: 8:45 am to 1:00 pm
Cost: FREE but you must preregister - Register today,
Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, 415 Summer Street, Boston,
Sponsorship Opportunities are available, please inquire at sdp@state.ma.us
Summary of last year's FY11 Annual Kick Off Event
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3. SCHOLARSHIPS
Boston University's Scholarship for Parents
Please see attachment and pass along.
Offered since the fall of 2008, the Scholarship for Parents is a 50% tuition discount for parents of Boston & Chelsea public school students who have completed some college. Awarded by Boston University's Metropolitan College, the scholarship gives parents the chance to finish a Bachelor's degree at BU with the convenience of part-time, evening study. To be eligible, parents must:
· Have a child enrolled in a Boston or Chelsea Public School (children must be enrolled in BPS, CPS, or a public charter school within either
Boston or Chelsea city limits—parents of METCO-participating students would not be eligible unless they also currently have
children in BPS)
· Have completed six college courses with a GPA of 3.0 or above
· Be US citizens or permanent residents.
· Be enrolled in a bachelor's degree program at BU's Metropolitan College
With the 50% tuition discount, the cost of a four credit course is reduced to $750, and parents can apply for and receive additional financial aid—based on their financial need—through the FAFSA. I've attached the Scholarship for Parents flyer as a .pdf file, which details scholarship benefits, eligibility requirements, and available programs of study.
If you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. I really appreciate your assistance and offer to share this with your network, and I hope people find this information valuable!
Best regards,
Aaron
Aaron Villere
MACC AmeriCorps*VISTA
Community Programs Coordinator
Boston University Metropolitan College
755 Commonwealth Ave., Room B5
Boston, MA 02215
617.358.4689
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