The George Gund Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation, and the United Way of Greater Cleveland's 211/First Call for Help, are supporting a local voter education effort. The Nonprofit Voter Education Network (NVEN) is holding a NVEN/OhioVOTESkick-off event September 14, 2010 from 9:00-11:30am at Trinity Cathedral to highlight free services and resources available to help organizations incorporate non-partisan voter participation and education into their programming.
This is part of a statewide effort to encourage higher voter participation among homeless persons, low-income people, new Americans, first-time voters, those with disabilities and ex-offenders. Free trainings, promotional material, webinars and others resources have been designed to help nonprofits integrate voter registration, voter education and voter mobilization work into their ongoing activities.
To register for the event, contact KariNoir Mallory at 216 436-2082.
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The Woodruff Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2010 Woodruff Prize, which seeks to honor and award clinical excellence. The Foundation recognizes the difficult conditions under which front line clinical staff currently works. Increased demands on productivity, heightened documentation requirements, flattened organizations offering fewer chances for promotion, and erosion of morale due to staff cuts have all contributed to difficult working conditions. Further, pressure on agency budgets has limited training and education investments. The Foundation understands that clinicians have now have fewer opportunities to learn new approaches, upgrade skills, familiarize themselves with special populations, or refresh their practice, which ultimately slows the potential for clinical growth and client change.
The Woodruff Foundation therefore wishes to direct the 2010 Woodruff Prize to support the kind of learning opportunities that are limited in this difficult environment. $12,000 will be awarded to a clinical staff member of a Cuyahoga County-based behavioral health organization. The prize will be granted to the agency where the winner works, and split roughly into thirds to pay expenses in these three categories:
- the winner's travel and training costs
- the winner's release time
- other clinical learning, training or development costs at the agency
Learn more about the prize, eligibility, and how to nominate someone, here.
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