7/29/2020: Building Healthy, Equitable, & Sustainable Communities

THE PRAXIS PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENTS We're excited to hear from Giuliana Blasi @ Ecology Center, Dr. Vicki Alexander @ Healthy Black Families, Mirna Cervantes @ Multicultural Institute, and Leilani Ison and Meredith Eley @ YMCA East Bay in our upcoming webinar on the impact of community-centered investments and how soda tax revenues can support the frontline work of grassroots organizers.   Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2020 Time: 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT / 11am PDT * Continuing Education Units (CEUs) through NCHEC available upon request. ** Interpretación en español está disponible para este Webinar. *** English captioning of the webinar will be offered. Register Refreshed Webpage on Sugar Drink Tax Investments Resource We recently updated our webpage on Centering Community & Equity Through Sugar Drink Tax Investments. Dive into all things sugary drink tax-related and keep up with the newest soda tax work, and check out our new and refreshed content: Berkeley Soda Tax Investments Video Mini-Series: Now with Spanish Subtitles & English Captions Just released blog: Pepsico’s $7 Million donation in Communities of Color for COVID Relief: Paying for a Health Halo to hide the Devil’s Fork? POLICY NEWS & ACTION Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) The Breathe Act is a modern-day civil-rights bill that offers radical reimagining of public safety, community care, and how we spend money as a society.  This act wants to: Divest federal resources from incarceration and policing.  Invest in, non-punitive, non-carceral  approaches to community safety.  Allocate new money to build healthy, sustainable and equitable communities. Hold political leaders to their promises and enhance the self-determination of all Black communities. Take Action: Become a Community Co-Sponsor POLICY NEWS & ACTION: ON OUR RADAR CALL NOW to Protect Unemployment Insurance! Tell Congress: It is Essential to Include Immigrants in COVID-19 Relief Free Them ALL: Your Actions Saves Lives  Protect Our Kids: Sign all Police Free School Petitions #PoliceFreeSchools  RESOURCES & OPPORTUNITIES RESOURCES Resource: Black Birthing Bill of Rights supports Black people navigating pregnancy and birth during COVID-19 Resource: Anti-Racist Actions to Combat Anti-Blackness in Organizations and Mental Healthcare Webinar TODAY: Register now for Nonprofits as Commercial Property Tenants - Know Your Rights (free for members, $39 for non-members) Webinar TOMORROW: Building movements & raising money: Online fundraising best practices for right now FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Funding opportunities from Borealis Philanthropy and Open Society Foundations: Black-Led Movement Fund Rapid Response (rolling applications), Circle for Justice Innovations (Dec deadline), Collective Fund for Trans Communities (rolling applications). Learn more >> Resist is centered on supporting people's movements for justice and liberation. Their next round of General Support, Accessibility, and Multiyear applications each for up to $4,000 are due on September 4th, 2020 Learn more >> National List of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response and Recovery Funds from Giving Compass. Learn More>> More funds for Coronavirus relief from Candid. Learn More>> JOB OPPORTUNITIES Cooperation Richmond is hiring a Project Officer to support the development of Latinx worker-owned cooperatives in Richmond, CA Mijente is searching for a Social Media Manager based remotely Asian American Community Services is searching for a Community Outreach Specialist based in Columbus, OH Family Equality is hiring a Director of Family Formation (location flexible) IllumiNative is searching for a Director of Communications and Storytelling National Immigrant Justice Center is looking to fill a number of positions Chinese Progressive Association is hiring an UndocuFund SF Director and UndocuFund Coordinator based remotely SHARE YOUR OPPORTUNITIES Do you have any resources or opportunities to share with our network? Reply to this email and tell us about it! The Praxis Project is a values-driven national nonprofit organization that seeks to improve health justice through partnerships to build community power. Our Community Power Digest - Monthly Newsletter features updates and news from The Praxis Project and our basebuilding network. If you'd like to stop receiving these emails, simply click here to unsubscribe.