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SUMMARY:Student Debt and Nonprofit Workforce Forum
DESCRIPTION:The Forum on Student Debt and the Nonprofit Workforce is hosted in partnership with StudentDebtCrisis.org. The Forum will be a blend of practical trainings and tools that can be used by nonprofit employers and employees to manage student debt. It will also be a call to action\, offering an opportunity to discuss what’s happening nationally and locally on this issue and how the nonprofit sector can engage in the debate. Join us for a day of learning\, discussion and action on a crucial issue. Register now! \nSCHEDULE\n8:30 AM: Registration & Continental Breakfast \n9:00 AM: The View From D.C. and the California Perspective \nStudent debt is a personal issue and a national crisis. So what are our representatives in Washington\, D.C. doing about it? Congressman Eric Swalwell (CA-15) is a national champion on the issue. We are fortunate to have him with us to share what it feels like to be a Congressman with student debt\, how it informs his position\, and what he thinks Congress will do to alleviate the student debt crisis in the future. He will also discuss his recently introduced legislation (“Know Your Repayment Options Act” and “Strengthening Forgiveness for Public Servants Act“)\, and ways we can work to get better debt relief programs implemented quickly. \nFollowing Congressman Swalwell’s national overview\, CalNonprofits Program Director Diana Dunker will discuss the California perspective. This year CalNonprofits conducted a detailed survey of nonprofit employees and employers – and got nearly 1\,000 responses! What did we learn about student debt from employees? What solutions did we find in the data? Diana will briefly discuss the results of our survey\, including a look at how California’s nonprofit sector both converges and diverges from national trends in student debt. \n10:30 AM: WORKSHOPS (Choose One)\n\nDebt Relief Options Workshop for Nonprofit Employees \nPublic Service Loan Forgiveness is the best loan forgiveness program available to anyone working for a nonprofit. Natalia Abrams\, Executive Director of Student Debt Crisis\, will present this workshop full of useful tools for individuals with student loans. Learn about the different types of student loans\, the available debt repayment plans\, ways to avoid default\, and how to take advantage of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. \nNonprofit Employer Toolkit for Combating Student Debt \nIn this workshop\, CalNonprofits Program Director Diana Dunker will unveil the newly developed employer toolkit full of useful\, free and low-cost opportunities for nonprofits as employers to support employees with student debt. Learn how to attract and retain talented employees using the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program\, simple steps for improving employee loyalty\, and why the economics of student debt are driving staff turnover. This workshop is designed for Executive Directors\, Human Resources staff\, and supervisors. \n12:00 PM: Nonprofit Student Debt Task Force Meeting (invitation only) \n1:00 PM – 4:00 PM: One-on-one consultations with Student Debt Crisis staff members Natalia Abrams and Cody Hounanian (limit 22) \n  \nFREE for Members / $30 for not-yet-members\nNote: Continental breakfast included\, lunch is not provided \n  \nCo-Sponsors\nThis Forum and the Nonprofit Student Debt Project are made possible by the Trustees’ Philanthropy Fund at Fidelity Charitable\, foundations who provide unrestricted support to CalNonprofits including the California Wellness Foundation\, the David & Lucile Packard Foundation and the Weingart Foundation\, and the thousands of nonprofit organizations that are members of CalNonprofits. \n  \nThe Forum is co-sponsored by the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network-LA\, the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin\, San Francisco Human Services Network\, Community Partners\, Valley Nonprofit Resources\, the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State LA\, the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy\, and Antioch University Los Angeles Master of Arts in Nonprofit Management Program. \n  \n     
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/student-debt-nonprofit-workforce-forum/
LOCATION:The California Endowment\, Los Angeles\, 1000 N. Alameda Street\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90012\, United States
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SUMMARY:Deadline Extended! The UCLA Center for the Study of Women invites proposals for Thinking Gender 2017
DESCRIPTION:Star cluster image courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. \nCall for Submissions: \nThe UCLA Center for the Study of Women invites submissions of paper\, poetry\, spoken word\, film\, photography\, performance\, and poster proposals for their 27th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference. \nThis year’s conference theme\, Imagining Reparations\,engages contemporary social\, scholarly\, and literary movements that push to reimagine and retheorize what freedom\, justice\, health\, and care can look like. Historically\, reparations have taken financial form with governments recognizing victims of perceived injustice by awarding them money. Such practices have depended on and have defined the law and dominant ideas of justice within states and empires. By contrast\, marginalized groups today are reframing reparations as capable of addressing historical and ongoing abuses\, evident in law itself and manifest in biological\, environmental\, educational\, technological\, institutionalized\, political\, and diplomatic violence. The daring to imagine new forms of reparative justice emerges from raced\, gendered\, and sexualized subjectivities\, which inform movements that devastate the binary between theory and practice in their struggle to be whole. A broad and intersectional investment in reparations challenges the assigning of rights and privileges in the past\, and it is an important tool in recasting the structures that impact our daily lives. \nThinking Gender 2017\, Imagining Reparations\, takes a cue from movements that conceive of violence and reparative justice intersectionally with consequences that shape and are shaped by gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, ability\, etc. We invite presentations of work from across disciplines that embody this intersectional ethos and envision reparations through the lens of gender and sexuality. Conference sessions will include ample time for discussion of work\, emphasizing dialogue discussion\, writing as important modes of conference participation\, and exploring their potential as feminist\, decolonial tools for learning and action. Imagining Reparations aims to create cohesion among a broad range of disciplinary engagements\, theoretical stances\, and practical applications by providing space for thinking together about the role of the academy in theorizing tools for collective liberation from gendered and racialized violence. \nRegistered graduate students from any institution are eligible to submit presentation proposals for all Thinking Gender sessions\, including the panels\, plenary session\, multimedia salon\, and poster session. Registered undergraduate students from any institution are eligible to submit proposals for poster presentations and participation in the multimedia salon only. \nAPPLICATION REQUIREMENTS \nPanel Presentations \nPanels will consist of graduate student paper presenters and a UCLA faculty moderator who will read and provide detailed feedback and questions on each paper.\nTo apply\, submit:  \n\nPaper proposal\nWorks cited\nCV\n\nPlenary Session\nA number of exceptional papers will be selected from among those submitted for Panel Presen-tations and awarded the Think-ing Gender Plenary Prize. Those selected will present their papers on the Plenary Session\, and their work will be responded to by a distinguished guest scholar.\nTo apply:  \n\nComplete Panel Presentation application requirements by October 10th deadline\nSubmit a draft of your paper by Monday\, December 12.\n\nPerformance and Poetry\nWe invite submissions of poetry\, spoken word\, short film\, photography\, musical\, and other kinds of performance for a multimedia salon.\nTo apply\, submit:  \n\nDescription of your work and its relationship to the conference theme\nCV or Resume\nA short work sample\nDescription of any technology needs\n\nPosters\nGraduate students\, undergraduate students\, activists\, and community organizations will present visually compelling re-search posters\, the presentation of which will be integrated into the Multimedia Salon. Posters will remain on display through-out the conference.\nTo apply\, submit:  \n\nPoster proposal\nCV or Resume\n\nCSW Call for Submissions \nDeadline Extemded: October 17\, 2016 \nSubmit online: www.csw.ucla.edu/TG2017
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/deadline-ucla-center-study-women-invites-proposals-thinking-gender-2017/
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SUMMARY:The UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group Meeting
DESCRIPTION:We\, the UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group\, are an intellectual community of graduate students and scholars who share interests on the intersecting issues of Global South socioeconomic development and underdevelopment\, political and social movements\, labor\, and state-society relations. Focusing on the developing world is a central element for us. We worry that much of the claims made in the name of ‘general sociology’ reflect instead the rather local experiences of the Western developed world. This group has been conceived upon the conviction that studying the multiple realities of the developing world can bring new insights into different areas of sociology. The meanings\, dynamics and analysis of “politics\,” “development” or “collective agency” in the Global South require us to rethink many taken for granted paradigms and concepts. \nThis working group is open to all regardless of enrollment status. \nOur meetings take place every other Friday in Haines 279\, between 14:00-15:30 –unless otherwise specified. \nOctober 21st: Student Paper Presentation: \nLeydy Diossa (UCLA\, Sociology) \nEmma Colven (UCLA\, Geography)
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/ucla-political-sociology-global-south-working-group-meeting/
LOCATION:Haines Hall 279 Room\, 375 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:7th Annual Festival For All Skid Row Artists
DESCRIPTION:The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) presents the 7th annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists on Saturday and Sunday\, October 22 and 23\, from 1–5pm each day. The Festival for All Skid Row Artists is a two-day festival of performing and visual art with plenty of music\, showcasing the diverse range of talents among Skid Row residents. Taking place in Gladys Park (corner of 6th Street and Gladys Avenue) in L.A.’s Skid Row\, the festival has become one of the most anticipated grassroots cultural events in the area. At last year’s festival over 100 Skid Row Artists performed or displayed their artwork to enthusiastic audiences. Many will be back and are preparing their acts and works of art and a select number of artists from outside Skid Row will perform and lead workshops again as well. \nFestival attendees are invited to participate in the workshops and creativity stations facilitated by the artists. There will be creative stations for writing and painting\, a Paper Mache bowl making workshop\, guided meditation and sitting yoga workshops. Poet Jen Hofer will write letters and poems on demand and visual artist Clayton Campbell will invite the people to participate in his exhibit ‘Words we learned after 9/11’ which is currently on view at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive on 440 S. Broadway\, Los Angeles\, CA 90013. LAPD’s Festival for All Skid Row Artists gives audiences a chance to hear what you usually don’t hear about Skid Row: that it is a community rich with talent! \nPerformers\, Poets\, Musicians\, Visual Artists – sign up now to participate with: Austin Hines: austin@lapovertydept.org / 213-361-4644 \nVolunteers are needed!\nFor more information please write to Henriëtte Brouwers: info@lapovertydept.org \nLos Angeles Poverty Department celebrates and preserves the rich artistic heritage of Skid Row and since 2009 has kept a registry of Skid Row artists\, which now numbers more than 500. LAPD is a theater company comprised primarily of low income and homeless people living in Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Founded in 1985\, LAPD creates performances and multidisciplinary artworks that connect the experience of people living in poverty to the social forces that shape their lives and communities. LAPD’s works express the realities\, hopes\, dreams and rights of people who live and work in L.A.’s Skid Row.  \nFestival for All Skid Row Artists is produced by Los Angeles Poverty Department with partners United Coalition East Prevention Project (UCEPP) and Lamp Community’s Arts Program. This year’s festival is made possible with the support of the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City Los Angeles\, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation\, Los Angeles County Arts Commission\, The California Arts Council’s Local Impact grant\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, The Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council and the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks. \nFestival For All Skid Row Artists\, 2015 – Garry Brown performing in the shirt he designed\, picture by Austin Hines.
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/7th-annual-festival-skid-row-artists/
LOCATION:Gladys Park\, 808 E 6th St\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90021\, United States
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SUMMARY:7th Annual Festival For All Skid Row Artists
DESCRIPTION:The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) presents the 7th annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists on Saturday and Sunday\, October 22 and 23\, from 1–5pm each day. The Festival for All Skid Row Artists is a two-day festival of performing and visual art with plenty of music\, showcasing the diverse range of talents among Skid Row residents. Taking place in Gladys Park (corner of 6th Street and Gladys Avenue) in L.A.’s Skid Row\, the festival has become one of the most anticipated grassroots cultural events in the area. At last year’s festival over 100 Skid Row Artists performed or displayed their artwork to enthusiastic audiences. Many will be back and are preparing their acts and works of art and a select number of artists from outside Skid Row will perform and lead workshops again as well. \nFestival attendees are invited to participate in the workshops and creativity stations facilitated by the artists. There will be creative stations for writing and painting\, a Paper Mache bowl making workshop\, guided meditation and sitting yoga workshops. Poet Jen Hofer will write letters and poems on demand and visual artist Clayton Campbell will invite the people to participate in his exhibit ‘Words we learned after 9/11’ which is currently on view at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive on 440 S. Broadway\, Los Angeles\, CA 90013. LAPD’s Festival for All Skid Row Artists gives audiences a chance to hear what you usually don’t hear about Skid Row: that it is a community rich with talent! \nPerformers\, Poets\, Musicians\, Visual Artists – sign up now to participate with: Austin Hines: austin@lapovertydept.org / 213-361-4644 \nVolunteers are needed!\nFor more information please write to Henriëtte Brouwers: info@lapovertydept.org \nLos Angeles Poverty Department celebrates and preserves the rich artistic heritage of Skid Row and since 2009 has kept a registry of Skid Row artists\, which now numbers more than 500. LAPD is a theater company comprised primarily of low income and homeless people living in Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Founded in 1985\, LAPD creates performances and multidisciplinary artworks that connect the experience of people living in poverty to the social forces that shape their lives and communities. LAPD’s works express the realities\, hopes\, dreams and rights of people who live and work in L.A.’s Skid Row.  \nFestival for All Skid Row Artists is produced by Los Angeles Poverty Department with partners United Coalition East Prevention Project (UCEPP) and Lamp Community’s Arts Program. This year’s festival is made possible with the support of the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City Los Angeles\, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation\, Los Angeles County Arts Commission\, The California Arts Council’s Local Impact grant\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, The Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council and the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.\n \nFestival For All Skid Row Artists\, 2015 – Garry Brown performing in the shirt he designed\, picture by Austin Hines. \n 
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/7th-annual-festival-skid-row-artists-2/
LOCATION:Gladys Park\, 808 E 6th St\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90021\, United States
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