Spring has returned to the Bay Area! Flowers are blooming, birds are singing, and there’s a light breeze from the Pacific Ocean (which is nice because it’s also getting warmer!).
Rockwood is blooming, too: two new staff members joined our team, and we’re hiring for two other positions. We’re also thinking a lot about the seeds we want to plant in 2018, so look out for new offerings and opportunities that may soon be coming your way.
Whatever the weather wherever you are, we hope you’re planting and sowing and maybe even harvesting the hard and important work you do out in the world. And if you’re still planning, here are 6 questions that may help.
Alum in the News
- Yance Ford became the first trans director to earn an Oscar nomination for his film Strong Island.
- Deepa Iyer released the latest episode of Solidarity Is This, a monthly podcast that looks at solidarity practices activists & organizers are using to combat the current political climate.
- Suhad Babaa, Zahra Billoo, Rye Young, and May Boeve (with a surprise appearance by Akaya Windwood) were featured in The Chronicle of Philanthropy January cover story, “How Millennials Lead”.
- angel Kyodo Williams was included on Thrive Global’s inaugural Fuel List, and was quoted in a CNN article about spirituality in Star Wars films.
- Alicia Garza, with Lateefah Simon and Anna Deaveare Smith, will present an evening of theatrical excerpts and conversation at “Insurgent Voices: Striving to End Racism in America” at the Women’s Building in San Francisco on March 6.
- adrienne maree brown was featured on the podcast The Call.
- Trainer Maria Ramos-Chertok was included in the prose and poetry anthology, All the Women in My Family Sing.
- Zahra Billoo shared a story as part of Wired Magazine’s “6 Tales of Censorship in the Golden Age of Free Speech”.
- Obie Anthony and his organization Exonerated Nation were the subjects of an article in the Davis Vanguard.
- Arisha Hatch, Ai-Jen Poo, and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner were speakers at The State of OUR Union, and Ai-Jen Poo co-authored a piece about the event with Mónica Ramírez.
News & Inspiration
- It’s 2018, and we need radical self-care more than ever before. Akaya Windwood, Sayra Pinto, Carlos Rojas Álvarez, and Marianna Islam were invited by the Schott Foundation for Public Education to explore what care and support can look like in coalition and movement spaces.
- What would it look like if funders used trauma-informed principles to guide their work with nonprofits & communities?
- Decolonize your conferences (and meetings, and brainstorm sessions, and….) with these tips & experiences from Solomé Lemma & alum organization Thousand Currents.
- “Re-imagining a mindfulness movement that actually meets the needs of our racialized world IS a radical act”: Angela Rose Black on the disruption of systemic whiteness in the mindfulness movement.
- If you struggle with practicing self-care, Vu Le of Nonprofit AF shares some wisdom and humor to help you reflect on why.
- “Here’s the big picture: At a time when only 61.3 percent of Americans are white, about 84 percent of nonprofit board members are in that demographic group, along with 90 percent of nonprofit board chairs”: Kenneth Anderson Taylor shares how to fix the nonprofit board diversity problem.
Leadership Opportunities
Jobs
- Paul, MN: Wellstone Action is looking for a Graphic & Web Designer
- Washington, DC or Los Angeles, CA: Climate & Clean Energy Equity Fund is hiring for a Director of Programs
- Locations across the world:org has several positions open
- Oakland, CA: Alliance for Safety & Justice is seeking a Chief Operating Officer
- Palo Alto, CA: The Chan Zuckerberg Foundation has a position open for a Director of Movement Capacity Building
- Washington, DC / Los Angeles, CA: National Immigration Law Center is hiring for several positions
