Time: 8:00am-12:00pm
Location: United Way (51 Sleeper Street, Boston, MA

United Way and ESC of New England, in partnership with Alexander, Aronson & Finning, invite you to further explore board service in this interactive training session. Learn about the role of a nonprofit board and how volunteer leaders can make board service both personally more rewarding and more effective towards advancing any organization’s mission. The session will highlight best practices for nonprofit boards including fiduciary responsibilities, how to work with the executive director, structure committees, plan productive meetings and achieve recruiting goals in a collaborative learning environment.

Cost: $40.00

For more information, contact: Lanita Tolentino at ltolentino@supportunitedway.org or 617.624.8110.

Time: 8:00am-3:00pm
Location: Costa Park (Walnut & Shirley Avenue, Revere, MA 02151)

The City of Revere, Chelsea Neighborhood Devel-opers, JetBlue Airways, and KaBOOM! have joined together to fund a new playground for Costa Park. YOU can help build the playground and show your support for local children and safe play-spaces!

Prep Day 1: Mon., June 18th – 30 volunteers
Prep Day 2: Tues., June 19th – 30 volunteers
Build Day: Wed., June 20th – 150 volunteers!!!

Food & Prizes & Fun for ALL!

Volunteers handling tools must be 18 or older. Youth 14 to 17 can help with side projects. There will be on-site activities for children all day long. Also looking for Build Captains.

To sign up, contact:

Rachel Meketon
RMeketon@ChelseaND.org
(617) 889-1375 ext. 11

Location: The Conference Center at the Maritime Institute (692 Maritime Boulevard Linthicum Heights, MD 21090)

Registration Deadline: May 25, 2012

Event Description:
The U.S. economy is sputtering along, creating new jobs at a rate that won’t get us back to pre-recession levels for at least another decade. An austerity program is shrinking the public sector, tearing apart the remaining social safety net and widening the racial economic divide. Meanwhile, the top 1% are riding higher than ever. The influence of big money in politics continues to grow and the 2012 elections will push such spending to obscene heights. Global trade agreements continue to spur a race to the bottom, economic dislocation and migration, and the inability to rein in too-big-to-fail financial institutions adds up to a frighteningly unstable and potentially catastrophic economic outlook.

Last fall, however, this doom and gloom scenario was pierced by the Occupy movement. The encampments, an increase in street heat activism and the brilliant reframing of the debate on the economy, from a focus on deficits and government spending to the 1% vs the 99%, has provided us an extraordinary moment in history. Although the persistence of extreme inequality, the opportunity for broad-based movement and significant social change has dramatically increased.

The role of education — not sound bites, but thoughtful reflection, analysis, and strategizing — is crucial to the success of the rejuvenated organizing and mobilizing that is taking place. We need to make sense of what’s happening and further challenge the dominant narrative that ignores the structures that systemically drive inequality. We need to create and unite behind a vision of an equitable, sustainable, and democratic economy. We need to establish the conditions for a democratic, multi-racial, multi-class progressive social change movement that can alter the established relations of power.

UFE’s Popular Economics Education Training of Trainers Institute explores these questions and gives participants tools for analysis that will inform and inspire action

Registration Information:
It is important that participants plan to attend the full Institute session in order to get the maximum benefit of the training, and preference will be given to those applicants who can make that commitment. Some materials, including a detailed agenda for the Institute and short readings will be sent to all registrants prior to the training to help participants prepare for the Institute.

The registration fee for this Institute is $500, which includes meals, room and board (double occupancy), materials and the TOT fee. (Transportation is NOT included.)

Scholarship Information:
We are committed to helping people figure out how to attend this Institute. We have limited scholarship funds to help defray a portion of the Institute fee for participants from low-income communities or from organizations with very limited resources. If you require financial assistance to attend this Institute, you may complete a scholarship request form after submitting this application and paying your deposit.

For more information, please click here.

Location: Northeastern University

The Center for Cooperatives & CED is sponsoring a 3 part speaker series with business leaders and cooperative developers to discuss the cooperative business model.  This series is cosponsored by the Faculty Center for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching.  Join us to learn more about cooperatives in New England and about the cooperative business model.

Contribute to the 2012 National Worker Cooperative Conference by submitting a workshop proposal. We will be accepting proposals until the 15th of December. Final decisions and notifications will be sent out by January 15th, 2012. For more information and to submit your proposal, visit our Workshop Proposal form.

For more information, contact Chris Clamp at c.clamp@snhu.edu or (603)644-3154.

Session I: April 15-20, 2012
Session II: September 9-14, 2012

Location: Portsmouth, NH

A training brought to you by Sole & Associates, Inc.

People differ from one another on many important dimensions: We are men and women. We are of different races and cultures. For reasons including organizational role, some of us are more powerful while others are lacking in power. We differ in behavioral style and approach our work in a wide variety of ways. In fact, on virtually every dimension of human life, we are rather remarkable for our diversity. Such variety can, indeed, be the “spice of life”, but too often, it becomes the source of difficult conflict.

Some people attempt to avoid conflicts, believing they produce little but pain. In many situations however, conflict stimulates great energy and creativity. Sometimes it brings people much closer together. Conflicts are often the source of valuable change, insight, and growth. When it is well resolved, conflict generates enormous individual and group benefit.

This six-day workshop is designed to support program participants as they learn more about the psychological forces, skills, and behaviors, that contribute to the productive resolution of conflict.

Cost: $5400

To register for our programs, please call 866-659-3169.

Time: 5:30-7:30pm
Location: State Street Financial Center

Join MBHP as we honor the years of service provided by Lowell L. Richards, III. More details, including sponsorship opportunities, will be available in June, and invitations will be sent one month before the event.

Keynote Speaker: Aaron Gornstein, Undersecretary, Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development