National Conference: Balancing Compassion for Refugees & Compassion for Yourself
February 23 - 24, 2009
Austin, TX
This will be the first annual conference for a new national Association for Refugee Service Professionals –
http://www.refugeeprofessionals.org/ – and it will focus on self-care, compassion
fatigue and resilience, and ethics.
Keynote by Anne Fadiman, Author of The Spirit Catches You & You Fall Down [posted on CLAStalk listerv]

Funding for Immigrant-led Community Organizations
The New Routes to Community Health, a program by RWJF and the Benton Foundation, announced recently that it will award eight immigrant-led community organizations with three-year, $225,000 grants to help create local campaigns to raise health awareness among immigrants, MarketWatch reports. The organizations will use the grant money to produce original content in English and other languages. Projects resulting from the grants will be posted on the New Routes Web site and will be available for the public to use. The Web site also will serve as a resource for multimedia, research and news on immigrant community health issues (MarketWatch, 9/30). http://www.newroutes.org [posted on CLAStalk listerv]

Immigrants’ impact on state economy report: Nebraska’s Immigrant Population: Economic and Fiscal Impacts
This recent report from the University of Nebraska at Omaha quantifies the multi-billion dollar effects that immigrants have on the state’s economy. http://www.newroutes.org/node/16451

A Guide for the Inclusion of Children in Emergency Operations Plans
September 2007
This guide is a project of Save the Children’s Domestic Emergencies Unit.
This guide was created to help local and state emergency managers/coordinators in their efforts to develop and maintain a Children in Emergencies supplemental document to the community’s standard Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) that addresses the special needs of children. This guide is meant to drive the active planning process, not to take its place. There is no single format that can adequately fit every community – developing this capacity is both the legal and the moral responsibility of the community leaders themselves. http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/emergencies/Children-in-Emergencies-Planning-Guide.pdf

Abstracts & Disclosure Form Must Be Submitted Electronicaly by November 18, 2008
The Office of Minority Health (OMH), Department of Health and Human Services, issues this Call for Abstracts for oral and poster presentations as part of the Third National Leadership Summit on Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. The Summit will include sessions which highlight progress, challenges, and opportunities for improving the health of minority populations since the release of the 1985 “Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Black and Minority Health.” http://www.omhrc.gov/npasummit2009/ [posted on OMHRC E*NEWS FLASH!]

The Commonwealth Fund: In the Spotlight
The Center for Rural Health’s (http://ruralhealth.und.edu/) Mary Wakefield, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., talks about the unique challenges accessing health care in rural areas. Read the article at http://tinyurl.com/5nre7y [posted in Commonwealth Fund Digest - September/October 2008]

Big Read Offers Support for Community Reading Projects
Deadline: February 3, 2009
The Big Read ( http://www.neabigread.org/ ) is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts ( http://www.nea.gov/ ) designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. Presented in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services ( http://www.imls.gov/ ) and in cooperation with Arts Midwest ( http://www.artsmidwest.org/ ), the initiative brings together partners across the United States to encourage reading for pleasure and enlightenment. The Big Read is accepting applications from nonprofit organizations to conduct month-long, community-wide reads between September 2009 and June 2010. Organizations selected to participate in the Big Read will each receive a grant ranging from $2,500 to $20,000, financial support to attend an orientation meeting, educational and promotional materials, an Organizer’s Guide for developing and managing Big Read activities, inclusion of the organization and activities on the Big Read Web site, and the prestige of participating in a highly visible national initiative. Approximately four hundred organizations of varying sizes across the country will be selected for this cycle. http://www.neabigread.org/guidelines.php

Library Leadership and Management Association Seeks Library Public Relations Award Entries
Deadline: December 4, 2008
The Library Leadership and Management Association ( http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/llama/lama.cfm ) is accepting entries for the 62nd John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award. The award honors outstanding library public relations programs that support a specific project, goal, or activity, or a sustained, ongoing program (e.g., the promotion of a summer reading program, a year-long centennial celebration, fundraising for a new college library, an awareness campaign, or an innovative partnership in the community). Winning entries will receive $5,000 for their organizations from contest sponsor H.W. Wilson ( http://www.hwwilson.com/jcdawards/nw_jcd.htm ).

Sundance Institute Accepting Entries for Documentary Fund
Deadline: February 9, 2009
The Sundance Institute ( http://www.sundance.org/ ) Documentary Fund is dedicated to supporting U.S. and international documentary films that focus on current human rights issues, freedom of expression, social justice, civil liberties, and exploring the critical issues of our time. Proposals are evaluated on artful storytelling, stylistic innovation, subject relevance, and potential for social engagement. http://www.sundance.org/press_subgen.html?articleID=4&colorCode=green

Brookdale Foundation Accepting Applications for Relatives as Parents Programs
Deadline: Various
The Brookdale Foundation Group’s ( http://brookdalefoundation.org/ ) Relatives as Parents Program supports the creation or expansion of services in the United States for grandparents and other relatives who have taken on the responsibility of surrogate parenting when the biological parents are unable to do so. The program awards seed grants of $10,000 each over a two-year period in three categories: Local, Regional, and State Public Agencies. http://www.brookdalefoundation.org/RAPP/rapp.html

NEA Foundation Offers Funding for Public School Library Books
Deadline: November 20, 2008
The NEA Foundation ( http://www.neafoundation.org/ ), in collaboration with the National Education Association ( http://nea.org/ ), is accepting applications for Books Across America Library Books Awards. The program will make awards of $1,000 each to public schools working to provide economically disadvantaged students with new books in their school libraries. http://www.neafoundation.org/programs/BAAawards2008.htm

Copyright (c) 2000-2008, the Foundation Center. All rights reserved. Permission to use, copy, and/or distribute this document in whole or in part for non-commercial purposes without fee is hereby granted provided that this notice and appropriate credit to the Foundation Center is included in all copies. RFP Bulletin (October 24, 2008)

Public Health Preparedness Summit 2009
The Changing Face of Preparedness: Building and Sustaining Public Health Capacity for Disaster Response
February 18-20, 2009
San Diego, CA
http://www.phprep.org/2009/
The Summit is the largest conference for public health and emergency preparedness professionals offering a variety of plenary, panel, and poster presentations, roundtable discussions, and interactive workshops all focused on building, enhancing, and sustaining our nation’s ability to plan for, respond to, and recover from disasters and other public health emergencies. [sent by NACCHO]

Trust for America’s Health Releases Blueprint for Modernizing Public Health
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-Supported Report Calls for Stable Funding for Public Health and Offers Options for Making Up the $20 Billion Shortfall
Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) released Blueprint for a Healthier America: Modernizing the Federal Public Health System to Focus on Prevention and Preparedness. The report provides recommendations for the next administration and congress on ways to improve the health of Americans.  http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=35590&c=EMC-CA141

By SIMON ROMERO
Published: October 19, 2008
LA GLORIA, Colombia — In a ritual repeated nearly every weekend for the past decade here in Colombia’s war-weary Caribbean hinterland, Luis Soriano gathered his two donkeys, Alfa and Beto, in front of his home on a recent Saturday afternoon. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/world/americas/20burro.html [posted on Health:Literacy listserv]

The Medical Library Association offers a variety of scholarships and grants to assist qualified students in graduate library science programs and to enable practicing health sciences librarians to take advantage of opportunities for continuing professional development.

Downloadable applications and information are available on the MLA Website at http://www.mlanet.org/awards/grants/.  For more information, contact the jury chair for the grant/scholarship you are interested in. The deadline for applications is December 1, except as noted. [posted on CAPHIS listserv]

The goal of the National Football League Youth Football Fund’s Grassroots Program is designed to provide non-profit, neighborhood-based organizations with financial and technical assistance to improve the quality, safety, and accessibility of local football fields.

To be eligible, projects must be sponsored by non-profit, community-based organizations with 501(c)3 status or middle or high schools. In addition, all organizations applying for funds must be located specifically and exclusively within NFL Target Markets (see website below for more information) and serve low to moderate income areas within those markets.
Deadline: December 15, 2008
From The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS)
If you need to contact, go to http://www.lisc.org/docs/2008_nfl_grassroots_rfp.pdf

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows program provides the nation’s most comprehensive experience at the nexus of health science, policy and politics in Washington D.C. The fellowship is an outstanding opportunity for exceptional midcareer health professionals and behavioral and social scientists with an interest in health and health care policy. Fellows experience and participate in the policy process at the federal level and use that leadership experience to improve health, health care and health policy. The fellowship is a 12-month residential experience in Washington, D.C. with continued health policy leadership development activities. http://www.healthpolicyfellows.org/fellowship_howtoapply.php