'Exercising our Civil Right (…and Civic Responsibility) to VOTE! - by President Terri Lee Freeman
Terri Lee Freeman, Museum President'
No one knows better than our national NGO leaders that our 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE cannot do our civic duty when all public agencies are deliberately, willfully, and with malice being held captive by corporate boards now becoming GLOBAL CORPORATE 1% BOARDS. EXERCISING OUR CIVIL RIGHT TO VOTE is MOOT if we are not CITIZENS holding our elected officials accountable with oversight and justice.
CIVIC DUTY STARTS WITH BEING EDUCATED AND EMPOWERED AS CITIZENS. BEING FED PROPAGANDA AND MYTH-MAKING IN ALL MEDIA AND CORPORATE K-UNIVERSITY IS NOT BUILDING CITIZENSHIP EMPOWERMENT.
Any US NGO allowing this dialogue of RUSSIA and election fraud everyone knows has been happening these few decades by CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA----is not working for 99% of citizens, black, white, or brown citizens.
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Exercising our Civil Right (…and Civic Responsibility) to VOTE!
- by President Terri Lee Freeman
Terri Lee Freeman, Museum President
November 4, 2014
It is a privilege and honor to be the new President of the National Civil Rights Museum. And what better time to introduce myself than Election Day 2014.
It’s been stated over and over during this election season that mid-term elections are just as important, if not more so, than the presidential elections. What’s up for grabs? Frankly, the future. While it sounds cliché, it is so very true -- the future is in our hands IF we exercise our right to vote.
I’m a mother of three daughters with two who are young adults that I’m sure will vote today. However, I’ve had the unfortunate opportunity to overhear their conversations with their well-educated friends about how their single vote, really doesn’t make a difference. Such comments make the hair on the back of my neck stand at attention, though I do understand where they are coming from. What they are actually saying is, “I understand that I have a civic duty to vote, but why when nothing changes?” Well, my answer to that question is, “it doesn’t stop in the voting booth.”
Your civic responsibility requires far more than simply pulling a lever, or hitting a touchscreen ballot. Your responsibility requires community engagement – understanding the issues facing your community, getting to know the folks who represent your community and holding them accountable for doing their job which is to serve the people. Too often we forget that they work for us. We must exercise our franchise and take advantage of the right that so many before us died for to make sure we could be included in this process called democracy.
So while I recognize that I’m likely preaching to the choir, we must do the right thing and take the time to vote. I practice what I preach, I did early voting. And, after we vote, we must then engage in the hard work of not just pontificating about what we don’t like, but work to be the change we want to see. Vote, yes, but let’s also use our voices to let our elected officials know that we are counting on them to “serve the people.” And the people are US!
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“The development of a comprehensive, efficient and effective mass transit system is essential to the City of Baltimore’s long-term sustainability, prosperity and relevance,” said Jimmy Rouse, a founding member of Transit Choices'.
The GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM issue for 99% of Baltimore citizens and indeed the entire state in transportation is the fact that MARYLAND GOV LARRY HOGAN further consolidated Maryland and Baltimore's public transit under the umbrella of PORT OF BALTIMORE/BWI QUASI-GOVERNMENTAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY. This means our MTA, subway, light rail, and MARC TRAIN will be VEILED behind yet another PRIVATIZATED QUASI-BOARD.
We KNOW HOGAN is MOVING FORWARD the high-speed HYPER-LOOP train that will be privately operated and replace MARC yet media is telling us HOGAN is adding one more MARC car on weekends. That is our 99% GIFT.
No one knows better than NAACP the goals of MOVING FORWARD US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES----with global corporate campuses and global factories and infrastructure geared to massive movement of cargo to PORT OF BALTIMORE. Can we really build transportation infrastructure before all those global corporate campuses are built? OF COURSE NOT. Is there any intention of building strong PUBLIC transit in Baltimore City Center? OF COURSE NOT.
MARYLAND GOV O'MALLEY enfolded our PORT OF BALTIMORE into all kinds of global corporate investment firms and foreign global operational corporations----HOGAN is simply MOVING FORWARD by enfolding our state public MTA/MDOT/MARC into this same quasi-authority that no 99% of WE THE PEOPLE can control or have oversight and accountability.
O'MALLEY WAS FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1% CLINTON NEO-LIBERAL---HOGAN IS FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1% BUSH NEO-CON----SAME ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE 5% POLS APPOINTING 5% PLAYERS TO BOARDS.
NAACP is of course filled with 5% black global banking players pretending to work for public interest just as all global Wall Street Baltimore Development FAKE 'labor and justice' organizations.
Chronology
In mid-October 2005, DP World approached the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to clear regulatory hurdles for a possible acquisition of the British firm P&O. The CFIUS is the multi-agency federal panel that passes judgment on deals with foreign corporations that raise antitrust or national security questions, Soon after, DPW began negotiating the terms of the takeover with P&O.[1] They were advised by former President Bill Clinton to submit to a 45-day review of the acquisition.[2]
In December 2005, Coast Guard intelligence officials raised the possibility of significant security risks associated with the management of some U.S. port operations by a Dubai company, stating in a report that broad intelligence gaps prevented them from assessing the risks.[3]
In February 2006, the stockholders of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O), a British firm, agreed to a sale of that company to DPW over a bid by PSA International of Singapore. As part of the sale, DPW would assume the leases of P&O to manage major U.S. facilities at the Port of New York and New Jersey, Port of Philadelphia, Port of Baltimore, Port of New Orleans, and the Port of Miami, as well as operations in 16 other ports.
After P&O stockholders approved the deal, the arrangement was reviewed by the CFIUS headed by the U.S. Treasury Department. The transfer of leases was approved.
HOGAN enfolds our MTA bus, subway, light rail, MARC train into the same QUASI-AUTHORITY as PORT OF BALTIMORE operated by global foreign corporations 99% of Baltimore citizens have no ability to control, provide oversight and accountability and to create public policy THEY AS WE THE PEOPLE want.
NAACP Files Lawsuit Over Maryland Governor’s Decision to Reject Urban Mass Transit System in Favor of Road Projects Serving Suburban, Rural Residents
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Manny Otiko
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December 23, 2015
Local civil rights groups are up in arms over Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s decision to scrap plans for an urban mass transit system in favor funding road projects that would benefit white suburban and rural residents.
According to The Guardian, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has filed a civil rights lawsuit over Hogan’s decision. The LDF say Hogan’s plan discriminates against Baltimore’s Black residents.
Transportation is a major issue in Black neighborhoods. Many low-income residents don’t own cars and rely on public transportation. But if they don’t have an effective public transportation system, they can’t get to higher-paying jobs which are often located far from their homes.
The Guardian said Baltimore’s public transit system is so bad the city offered Amazon a $100,000 forgivable loan to help pay for it’s fleet of private shuttles. Susan Yum, a spokesperson for the Baltimore Development Corp, told The Baltimore Sun, the city’s bus system “does not provide access to where the jobs are available now.”
“From some parts of the city, the commute to some areas where there are jobs can be as long as 90 minutes each way,” Yum said.
The proposed rail system, known as the Red Line, would have helped many Black residents get to work.
“The lack of mobility, long commuter times, have critical implications for families in Baltimore,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel for LDF. “We regard the cancellation of the Red Line as a critically important moment that must be addressed and must be engaged.”
According to the complaint, a transportation economist said the switch from a subway line to the new highway initiative would cost Black residents about $19 million in user benefits by 2030. White Maryland residents would see a $35 million user benefit over the same period. Sen. Barbara Mikulski said Hogan’s decision to turn down a federally-funded project was baffling.
BARBARA---DO WE THINK THE RED LINE WAS NEVER ABOUT PUBLIC TRANSIT BUT ABOUT OIL AND GAS PIPELINES FROM WVA/PA FOLLOWING I 83?
“I never thought, ever, in my closing year in the U.S. Senate, I would see a letter saying the Baltimore region rejects $900m in federal investment,” Mikulski said.
However the LDF’s complaint says Maryland has a long history of policies that discriminate against Black residents.
“Maryland, including the City of Baltimore, has exhibited a preference for its white residents over its African American residents in highway construction decisions since at least the 1930s,” said the complaint.
According to the complaint, in the 1960s the government proposed a new expressway through the predominately Black Franklin-Mulberry corridor in Baltimore’s Harlem Park neighborhood.
“As a result, Harlem Park residents stopped investing in their homes, and the neighborhood became filled with deteriorating and abandoned buildings,” said the LDF’s complaint.
The Guardian said that Baltimore has used race-based housing covenants to enforce segregated housing. Realtors also practiced “blockbusting,” a tactic where they used fears of Black people moving into a neighborhood, to convince white homeowners to sell for cheaper prices. This practice means that even today, neighborhoods are still largely segregated.
In 1965, residents of predominantly white areas, such as Anne Arundel County, objected to a light rail system because they feared it would bring urban (Black) residents into their neighborhoods. They complained “that the Metro would enable poor, inner-city blacks to travel to the suburbs, steal residents’ TVs and then return to their ghettos in Baltimore.”
THE MASTER PLANS FOR US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES WERE IN PLACE IN 1980S. THE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE WILL BE BUILT AS GLOBAL CORPORATE CAMPUSES ARE BUILT.
According to The Guardian, last year Carroll County introduced a “Mass Transit Protection Resolution,” intended to keep public transit riders from Baltimore out.
“[Mass transportation] led to the breakdown of those two shopping centers (in Baltimore) and we are not going to use mass transit to connect either Baltimore County or Montgomery County [to Carroll],” said county Commissioner Doug Howard in a Carroll County Times article.
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We shared a few days ago a video of a public K-12 school teacher in Arizona protesting against falling wages telling us she has 2 MASTER'S DEGREES in EDUCATION. Now, we have known these few decades of MOVING FORWARD GLOBAL NEO-LIBERAL CORPORATE SCHOOLS that the 'dumbing down' of highly educated public school students during CLINTON'S education reform was to continue until all US public education was dismantled replaced by overseas FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE corporate K-university apprenticeship schools. We have known since OBAMA era that ONE WORLD ONE GLOBAL COMMONER CORE EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY was dismantling even our classrooms and teachers replacing them with online lessons, artificial intelligence, and soon to be robotics.
Below we see the EDUCATION STRUCTURE that keeps our 99% of MARYLAND/BALTIMORE citizens in constant job training for employment that we all know will disappear in MOVING FORWARD. This video shows how courses are directly tied to our GLOBAL PORT OF BALTIMORE not educating against these privatizations---not educating against US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE status-----simply doing what global banking tells them.
So, PORT OF BALTIMORE under a global foreign authority has a goal of being almost fully AUTOMATED----in only a few decades eliminating what were strong LONGSHOREMEN JOBS---eliminating what were small transportation and storage businesses tied to cargo transfer---and bringing in global 99% labor pool already trained overseas.
'Chronology
In mid-October 2005, DP World approached the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to clear regulatory hurdles for a possible acquisition of the British firm P&O. The CFIUS is the multi-agency federal panel that passes judgment on deals with foreign corporations that raise antitrust or national security questions, Soon after, DPW began negotiating the terms of the takeover with P&O.[1] They were advised by former President Bill Clinton to submit to a 45-day review of the acquisition.[2]
In December 2005, Coast Guard intelligence officials raised the possibility of significant security risks associated with the management of some U.S. port operations by a Dubai company, stating in a report that broad intelligence gaps prevented them from assessing the risks.[3]
In February 2006, the stockholders of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O), a British firm, agreed to a sale of that company to DPW over a bid by PSA International of Singapore. As part of the sale, DPW would assume the leases of P&O to manage major U.S. facilities at the Port of New York and New Jersey, Port of Philadelphia, Port of Baltimore, Port of New Orleans, and the Port of Miami, as well as operations in 16 other ports.
After P&O stockholders approved the deal, the arrangement was reviewed by the CFIUS headed by the U.S. Treasury Department. The transfer of leases was approved'.
When our 'public' schools in this case county community colleges are not providing CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION but only providing CORPORATE PROPAGANDA AND MYTH-MAKING job training----we have no empowerment as CITIZENS.
Port Education - "Baltimore: Port of Opportunity"
Port of Baltimore
Published on Dec 10, 2014
The Affinity Group and SMART are two organizations that help "connect the dots" between education and Port related jobs and careers.
A conglomerate of education facilities aligned with PORT OF BALTIMORE controlled by global foreign corporations having nothing to do with the public interests of 99% of Baltimore or Maryland citizens. IT'S NOT JUST ANY JOB.
'Affinity group
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This article is about the organizational model. For the company, see Affinity Group Inc.
An affinity group is a group formed around a shared interest or common goal, to which individuals formally or informally belong. Affinity groups are generally precluded from being under the aegis of any governmental agency, and their purposes must be primarily non-commercial. Examples of affinity groups include private social clubs, fraternities, writing or reading circles, hobby clubs, and groups engaged in political activism'.
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It does not take a rocket scientist to understand to where these STAKEHOLDER GROUPS have become AFFINITY GROUPS which are MOVING FORWARD to being only that 5% player group working only for those global 1%.
Having AFFINITY GROUPS tied to our public university systems as community colleges and county 4 year universities----now expanding to our public K-12 is simply a FAKE appearance of PUBLIC INTEREST PUBLIC OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY. We can be sure these AFFINITY GROUPS are filled with 5% freemason/Greeks moving public policy written by global banking at the local level under the guise of public education. This has led to our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE strongly educated in broad citizenship education being 'dumbed down' exposed to crumbling schools tied to endless job training.
We heard a citizen shouting he had job training across every industry certification not finding a job.
WHEN WE EDUCATE ON PUBLIC POLICY AND WE KNOW WHO THOSE 5% PLAYERS AND ORGANIZATIONS ARE----WE CAN FIX BALTIMORE MOVING AWAY FROM DARK AGES AND INTO 20TH CENTURY.
No amount of TALKING POINTS pretending these groups are equal opportunity----having any intention of bringing value economics and employment to our local communities hides the fact these are 5% players doing ANYTHING GLOBAL BANKING 1% tells them.
We are not a set of special interests----US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE are EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND ACCESS-----we all have expectations of public officials creating LOCAL ECONOMIES fully employing ALL CITIZENS black, white, and brown citizens.
The enforcement of EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND BILL OF RIGHTS is done by our local government officials and corporations design their HUMAN RESOURCES around that public enforcement. This is the opposite. We are told these corporations are SELF-REGULATING with these FAKE POLICIES.
Global corporations SELF-REGULATING in meeting the US Rule of Law, US Constitutional rights, Bill of Rights ignoring and replacing our DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, LICENSING, AND REGULATIONS is not empowering 99% of citizens ----
These are the societal structures installed these few decades of ROBBER BARON MOVING FORWARD that have taken away the public space from where 99% WE THE PEOPLE do our duty as CITIZENS.
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Affinity Group Danger Zones
By Segal, Jonathan A.
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Structure affinity groups so they are lawful.
Smart organizations want to increase employee engagement and inclusion. One way to do that is through affinity groups.
What are affinity groups? They are groups of employees who have a common interest or characteristic. Sometimes the commonality is based on a factor that is not protected under equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws, such as the employees' position. Usually, however, affinity groups are built around EEO-protected characteristics, such as race, gender and sexual orientation, and are supported financially by the organization.
There are obvious benefits to having affinity groups. They can increase morale, retention and innovation, as well as business, because of greater inclusion of diverse perspectives.
In some organizations, an affinity group may be seen as the antidote to marginalization of certain groups of employees. Affinity group meetings provide a place to experience business and social inclusion for those who are or feel marginalized.
Yet, these groups, if not structured properly, can have divisive and exclusionary effects. Moreover, there are legal risks that need to be navigated. Just because the goal of the affinity group is laudable does not mean that the group is lawful
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The following four hypotheticals highlight some of the legal and business risks of affinity groups, with recommendations on how to manage them.
Affinity Group For White Men
Employer ABC has affinity groups for women; people of color; and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees. The employer provides financial and other support for these groups so that they legally would be characterized as benefits of employment.
A group of white men asks to form an affinity group. The HR leader considers saying, "You don't need one. You already have one; it's called the senior leadership team," which is made up of white men but for one exception.
The emotion behind the fantasy response may be understandable, but the response is, of course, inappropriate because legal risk would accompany it. Title VII's prohibition on gender bias knows no gender. The same is true of racial bias. Denying a benefit to employees because they are white and male is, well, discrimination. But that does not mean that the request necessarily needs to be honored.
The key for an organization is to develop upfront nondiscriminatory criteria in determining whether it will provide financial or other support for a proposed affinity group. Among the criteria an organization may consider are the following:
* How will the proposed affinity group help its members achieve the company's mission and goals?
* How will the proposed affinity group increase inclusion and business development among the individuals in the group (as opposed to employees generally)?
* Are other affinity groups or mechanisms already in place that serve the need addressed by the request?
Making decisions about proposed affinity groups based on the answers to these kinds of questions doesn't eliminate all legal risks, but it does minimize them.
Let's return to the white men at Employer ABC. If the organization's power circle is dominated by white men, the white men seeking to form an affinity group may have an uphill battle. But would that be true for a group of entrylevel employees in human resources?
There is no clear-cut answer; rather, it depends on applying legitimate nondiscriminatory factors.
If Employer ABC has an affinity group for women and not one for men, it might consider including men in a broader affinity group on gender that would focus, although not exclusively, on issues women face that men don't.
It is not that you need men to be part of the group for legitimacy. You don't. But men can learn from being included, and men who are enlightened about the obstacles that women often face are more likely to become mentors and sponsors for female colleagues.
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Southern California Grantmakers----same as Baltimore Association of Grantmakers-----patronage NGOs channeling global corporate donations to their own public policy goals.
This is the structure from where that 5% to the 1% is made a non-profit DIRECTOR leading that group towards the goals of global banking 1% no matter what the goal of grassroots 99% who may join intend. It is the mirror of global Wall Street Baltimore Development controlling all economic and development in Baltimore----only it is tied to societal structures which our 99% of citizens want to control for themselves and their individual communities.
THIS IS THE DOUBLE-WHAMMY OF MOVING FORWARD THESE FEW DECADES----CONSOLIDATING OUR PUBLIC VOICES ON ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PUBLIC POLICY.
So, we have an AFFINITY GROUP calling itself SMART tied to PORT OF BALTIMORE controlling education policies at our local public community colleges leading to absolutely no future in employment and no local economic development tied to community small businesses creating LIFE-LONG CAREERS.
THIS IS WHAT GLOBAL BANKING 1% ARE TELLING US IS OUR LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL ARM----AND NONE OF THIS ENDS BEING LEFT----IT IS ALL MOVING FORWARD FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1% POLICY AGENDA.
When US 99% WE THE PEOPLE allow ourselves to be HERDED into these FAKE citizen action groups controlled by global banking ----we have lost our PUBLIC SPACE----CITIZENSHIP VOICE.
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Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP) is a national network of foundation professionals and social entrepreneurs who strive for excellence in the practice of philanthropy. Our mission is to develop emerging leaders committed to building a just, equitable, and sustainable society. EPIP exists to ensure that emerging foundation professionals are effective stewards of philanthropic resources and all social entrepreneurs reach their potential as leaders.
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Southern California Grantmakers and First 5 Ventura County are pleased to sponsor the Ventura County Funders Forum, a forum for foundations, grant makers and funders who support charitable organizations in Ventura County, advancing the public good and the work of nonprofits. All organizations that provide grants to nonprofit organizations in Ventura County are welcome to attend and participate in a forum designed to educate, inform, share and collaborate where similar goals, charitable intent, multiple visions, dedicated philanthropy and informed experience can find common ground.
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The Communications Network is a nonprofit organization comprised of social sector leaders from foundations, nonprofits and consulting firms across the globe who share the belief that smart strategic communications have the power to transform society and improve lives. Founded nearly 30 years ago by the late Frank Karel of The Robert Wood Johnson and Rockefeller Foundations to help social change leaders improve their work and “get the word out”, today The Network is the premier leadership organization for nonprofit communications professionals.
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When US 99% WE THE PEOPLE allow ourselves to be HERDED into these FAKE citizen action groups controlled by global banking ----we have lost our PUBLIC SPACE----CITIZENSHIP VOICE.
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Our local US media selects public voice from these NGOs tied to AFFINITY GROUPS tied to PATRONAGE CORPORATE GRANTMAKERS.
REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES do not fit in any of these groups because the GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM policy issues are not found in GBLT RIGHTS while the GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM issues kill 99% of GBLT citizens.
GLOBAL CORPORATIONS DONATING AS PATRONS TO MARYLAND/BALTIMORE GRANTMAKERS ARE NOT GOING TO CREATE NGOS ADDRESSING GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM ISSUES.
Our 99% of new immigrant citizens need to know these few decades of ROBBER BARON fleecing of America MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE for only the global 1% never had these captured citizen structures replacing public space and local public agencies allowing our 99% in each community to affect their own community policies regardless of economic, development, or social.
AFFINITY GROUPS tied to STATE GRANTMAKERS are MOVING FORWARD only ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE United Nations policies---economic and social and 99% of WE THE PEOPLE are allowing ourselves to simply follow these protests disregarding GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM ISSUES for both 99% right wing and 99% of left wing US citizens.
Affinity Groups
Edyth Bush Institute members have the opportunity to join a number of local affinity groups. Each group is centered around a particular area of specialization (marketing, human resources, young professionals, etc.) that meet occasionally to discuss topics relevant to the field. If you are a current member and you would like to join an affinity group, please contact the group administrators listed below.
Edyth Bush Institute Affinity Groups
Nonprofit Seasoned CEO Affinity Group
About: The Seasoned CEO Affinity Group is a free resource to CEOs/Executive Directors of Edyth Bush Institute member organizations that have five or more years in their current leadership position. Seasoned leaders discuss trends, best practices, and other timely topics among a trusted peer group who can offer insight, perspective, and support into nonprofit leadership challenges.
Meetings:
Date: The second Tuesday of every month
Time: 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.
Location: Rollins College, Edyth Bush Insititute
Contact: If you are interested in joining this affinity group, please contact Margaret Linnane at mlinnane@rollins.edu.
Grant Professionals Affinity Group (GPAG)
About: The Edyth Bush Institute (EBI) is pleased to welcome the Grant Professionals Affinity Group! We invite all grant writers and managers to attend! A free resource to members and non-members of EBI, our monthly meetings will offer a space to network, collaborate, and hear from funders, thought leaders, and peers in the sector.
Meetings:
Date: Last Wednesday of the month
Time: 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Location: Heart of Florida United Way
Contact: If you are interested in joining this affinity group, please contact Min Sun Kim at mkim@rollins.edu.
Nonprofit Human Resource Affinity Group of Central Florida
About: The Nonprofit HR Affinity Group is a free resource to nonprofit Human Resources professionals of Edyth Bush Institute member organizations. The purpose of this group is to provide a forum for nonprofit human resource professionals to share and gain best practices, knowledge, resources and networking.
Meetings:
Date: Quarterly
Time: 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Contact: If you are interested in joining the affinity group please contact the group coordinator, Karen Revels, Rollins College krevels@rollins.edu.
Nonprofit Marketing & Communications Affinity Group
About: The Marketing and Communications Affinity Group serves as a free resource to Edyth Bush Institute member organizations to discuss trends, best practices and other important topics among peers who can help offer insight and perspective into ideas and projects.
Meetings:Date: Every other month
Time: 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Location: Rollins College, Edyth Bush Institute
Contact: If you are interested in joining the affinity group please contact the group coordinator, Brian Schulte at bschulte@rollins.edu.
Community Affinity Groups
Council of Volunteer Management of Central Florida
The mission of the Council of Volunteer Management (CVM) of Central Florida is to enhance the volunteer programs of non-profit organizations in the Central Florida area by assisting in the development and growth of volunteer services with a focus on networking, marketing and recruiting within the community. Launched in 1974, as the United Effort Volunteer Association, today's CVM provides a vital forum for information exchange and training for volunteer coordinators at non-profit agencies.
For more information please visit CVM's Facebook Page.
YNPN Orlando (Young Nonprofit Professionals Network)
YNPN Orlando empowers young nonprofit professionals with the skills and resources to become dynamic community leaders.
YNPN chapters around the county are building stronger young leaders through programming, education, and networking that provides a career pathway for nonprofit professionals. Through our national network, YNPN works to advocate for a sector that is more sustainable and effective in its talent recruitment, retention and development practices. YNPN is building a network of leaders around the country who can design, advocate for and lead this more sustainable and effective nonprofit sector.
We are a member-driven organization run completely by volunteers.
If you are a young professional new to the nonprofit sector or are thinking about a job in the nonprofit sector and would like to learn more about your career opportunities and to meet nonprofit professionals, please join our email list or become a member by visiting the YNPN Orlando local website or the chapter's Facebook page.
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'Rachel works closely with the National Council and Affinity Group leadership to implement the strategic direction of UNA-USA'.
Hmmmm, here is RACHEL------graduated from global hedge fund IVY LEAGUE Johns Hopkins-----raging far-right wing, authoritarian, militaristic, extreme wealth extreme poverty ROBBER BARON top gun OLD WORLD DARK AGES KINGS AND QUEENS------organizing those AFFINITY GROUPS from United Nations down to our US cities deemed FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES----from where FAKE ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT 99% social progressive issue support unfolds.
NO GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM ISSUES WILL EVER BE ORGANIZED OR PROTESTED THROUGH THIS CAPTURE OF OUR US CITIZEN VOICE------NO HOLDING LOCAL 5% PLAYERS ACCOUNTABLE---
Seems RACHEL is interested in MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD to create maximized GLOBAL CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY.
The same ROBBER BARON GLOBAL BANKING fleecing our wealth killing our freedom, liberty, justice, pursuit of happiness being allowed to tie to all our US 99% and global labor pool 99% of students ----
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As the Sr. Director of Membership and Programs, Rachel Bowen Pittman manages programs for UNA-USA’s network of 20,000+ members and its 150 chapters to cultivate membership, youth engagement, advocacy efforts and public awareness. She coordinates UNA-USA national programs, including Members’ Day at the UN, the Leadership Summit and UN Day events, and manages the Adopt-A-Future refugee education fundraising campaign. Rachel works closely with the National Council and Affinity Group leadership to implement the strategic direction of UNA-USA.
Prior to joining UNA-USA, Rachel served as a Membership Director to several professional associations that represent lawyers, surgeons, regulators and engineers. In her many accomplishments, Rachel increased membership programs by over 15% and secured agreements with national associations representing China, Korea, Argentina, India, Peru, Egypt and Mexico.
Rachel holds a B.S.B.A in International Business from American University and an MBA in Marketing from Johns Hopkins University.
Terri Lee Freeman, Museum President'
No one knows better than our national NGO leaders that our 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE cannot do our civic duty when all public agencies are deliberately, willfully, and with malice being held captive by corporate boards now becoming GLOBAL CORPORATE 1% BOARDS. EXERCISING OUR CIVIL RIGHT TO VOTE is MOOT if we are not CITIZENS holding our elected officials accountable with oversight and justice.
CIVIC DUTY STARTS WITH BEING EDUCATED AND EMPOWERED AS CITIZENS. BEING FED PROPAGANDA AND MYTH-MAKING IN ALL MEDIA AND CORPORATE K-UNIVERSITY IS NOT BUILDING CITIZENSHIP EMPOWERMENT.
Any US NGO allowing this dialogue of RUSSIA and election fraud everyone knows has been happening these few decades by CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA----is not working for 99% of citizens, black, white, or brown citizens.
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Exercising our Civil Right (…and Civic Responsibility) to VOTE!
- by President Terri Lee Freeman
Terri Lee Freeman, Museum President
November 4, 2014
It is a privilege and honor to be the new President of the National Civil Rights Museum. And what better time to introduce myself than Election Day 2014.
It’s been stated over and over during this election season that mid-term elections are just as important, if not more so, than the presidential elections. What’s up for grabs? Frankly, the future. While it sounds cliché, it is so very true -- the future is in our hands IF we exercise our right to vote.
I’m a mother of three daughters with two who are young adults that I’m sure will vote today. However, I’ve had the unfortunate opportunity to overhear their conversations with their well-educated friends about how their single vote, really doesn’t make a difference. Such comments make the hair on the back of my neck stand at attention, though I do understand where they are coming from. What they are actually saying is, “I understand that I have a civic duty to vote, but why when nothing changes?” Well, my answer to that question is, “it doesn’t stop in the voting booth.”
Your civic responsibility requires far more than simply pulling a lever, or hitting a touchscreen ballot. Your responsibility requires community engagement – understanding the issues facing your community, getting to know the folks who represent your community and holding them accountable for doing their job which is to serve the people. Too often we forget that they work for us. We must exercise our franchise and take advantage of the right that so many before us died for to make sure we could be included in this process called democracy.
So while I recognize that I’m likely preaching to the choir, we must do the right thing and take the time to vote. I practice what I preach, I did early voting. And, after we vote, we must then engage in the hard work of not just pontificating about what we don’t like, but work to be the change we want to see. Vote, yes, but let’s also use our voices to let our elected officials know that we are counting on them to “serve the people.” And the people are US!
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“The development of a comprehensive, efficient and effective mass transit system is essential to the City of Baltimore’s long-term sustainability, prosperity and relevance,” said Jimmy Rouse, a founding member of Transit Choices'.
The GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM issue for 99% of Baltimore citizens and indeed the entire state in transportation is the fact that MARYLAND GOV LARRY HOGAN further consolidated Maryland and Baltimore's public transit under the umbrella of PORT OF BALTIMORE/BWI QUASI-GOVERNMENTAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY. This means our MTA, subway, light rail, and MARC TRAIN will be VEILED behind yet another PRIVATIZATED QUASI-BOARD.
We KNOW HOGAN is MOVING FORWARD the high-speed HYPER-LOOP train that will be privately operated and replace MARC yet media is telling us HOGAN is adding one more MARC car on weekends. That is our 99% GIFT.
No one knows better than NAACP the goals of MOVING FORWARD US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES----with global corporate campuses and global factories and infrastructure geared to massive movement of cargo to PORT OF BALTIMORE. Can we really build transportation infrastructure before all those global corporate campuses are built? OF COURSE NOT. Is there any intention of building strong PUBLIC transit in Baltimore City Center? OF COURSE NOT.
MARYLAND GOV O'MALLEY enfolded our PORT OF BALTIMORE into all kinds of global corporate investment firms and foreign global operational corporations----HOGAN is simply MOVING FORWARD by enfolding our state public MTA/MDOT/MARC into this same quasi-authority that no 99% of WE THE PEOPLE can control or have oversight and accountability.
O'MALLEY WAS FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1% CLINTON NEO-LIBERAL---HOGAN IS FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1% BUSH NEO-CON----SAME ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE 5% POLS APPOINTING 5% PLAYERS TO BOARDS.
NAACP is of course filled with 5% black global banking players pretending to work for public interest just as all global Wall Street Baltimore Development FAKE 'labor and justice' organizations.
Chronology
In mid-October 2005, DP World approached the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to clear regulatory hurdles for a possible acquisition of the British firm P&O. The CFIUS is the multi-agency federal panel that passes judgment on deals with foreign corporations that raise antitrust or national security questions, Soon after, DPW began negotiating the terms of the takeover with P&O.[1] They were advised by former President Bill Clinton to submit to a 45-day review of the acquisition.[2]
In December 2005, Coast Guard intelligence officials raised the possibility of significant security risks associated with the management of some U.S. port operations by a Dubai company, stating in a report that broad intelligence gaps prevented them from assessing the risks.[3]
In February 2006, the stockholders of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O), a British firm, agreed to a sale of that company to DPW over a bid by PSA International of Singapore. As part of the sale, DPW would assume the leases of P&O to manage major U.S. facilities at the Port of New York and New Jersey, Port of Philadelphia, Port of Baltimore, Port of New Orleans, and the Port of Miami, as well as operations in 16 other ports.
After P&O stockholders approved the deal, the arrangement was reviewed by the CFIUS headed by the U.S. Treasury Department. The transfer of leases was approved.
HOGAN enfolds our MTA bus, subway, light rail, MARC train into the same QUASI-AUTHORITY as PORT OF BALTIMORE operated by global foreign corporations 99% of Baltimore citizens have no ability to control, provide oversight and accountability and to create public policy THEY AS WE THE PEOPLE want.
NAACP Files Lawsuit Over Maryland Governor’s Decision to Reject Urban Mass Transit System in Favor of Road Projects Serving Suburban, Rural Residents
By
Manny Otiko
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December 23, 2015
Local civil rights groups are up in arms over Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s decision to scrap plans for an urban mass transit system in favor funding road projects that would benefit white suburban and rural residents.
According to The Guardian, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has filed a civil rights lawsuit over Hogan’s decision. The LDF say Hogan’s plan discriminates against Baltimore’s Black residents.
Transportation is a major issue in Black neighborhoods. Many low-income residents don’t own cars and rely on public transportation. But if they don’t have an effective public transportation system, they can’t get to higher-paying jobs which are often located far from their homes.
The Guardian said Baltimore’s public transit system is so bad the city offered Amazon a $100,000 forgivable loan to help pay for it’s fleet of private shuttles. Susan Yum, a spokesperson for the Baltimore Development Corp, told The Baltimore Sun, the city’s bus system “does not provide access to where the jobs are available now.”
“From some parts of the city, the commute to some areas where there are jobs can be as long as 90 minutes each way,” Yum said.
The proposed rail system, known as the Red Line, would have helped many Black residents get to work.
“The lack of mobility, long commuter times, have critical implications for families in Baltimore,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel for LDF. “We regard the cancellation of the Red Line as a critically important moment that must be addressed and must be engaged.”
According to the complaint, a transportation economist said the switch from a subway line to the new highway initiative would cost Black residents about $19 million in user benefits by 2030. White Maryland residents would see a $35 million user benefit over the same period. Sen. Barbara Mikulski said Hogan’s decision to turn down a federally-funded project was baffling.
BARBARA---DO WE THINK THE RED LINE WAS NEVER ABOUT PUBLIC TRANSIT BUT ABOUT OIL AND GAS PIPELINES FROM WVA/PA FOLLOWING I 83?
“I never thought, ever, in my closing year in the U.S. Senate, I would see a letter saying the Baltimore region rejects $900m in federal investment,” Mikulski said.
However the LDF’s complaint says Maryland has a long history of policies that discriminate against Black residents.
“Maryland, including the City of Baltimore, has exhibited a preference for its white residents over its African American residents in highway construction decisions since at least the 1930s,” said the complaint.
According to the complaint, in the 1960s the government proposed a new expressway through the predominately Black Franklin-Mulberry corridor in Baltimore’s Harlem Park neighborhood.
“As a result, Harlem Park residents stopped investing in their homes, and the neighborhood became filled with deteriorating and abandoned buildings,” said the LDF’s complaint.
The Guardian said that Baltimore has used race-based housing covenants to enforce segregated housing. Realtors also practiced “blockbusting,” a tactic where they used fears of Black people moving into a neighborhood, to convince white homeowners to sell for cheaper prices. This practice means that even today, neighborhoods are still largely segregated.
In 1965, residents of predominantly white areas, such as Anne Arundel County, objected to a light rail system because they feared it would bring urban (Black) residents into their neighborhoods. They complained “that the Metro would enable poor, inner-city blacks to travel to the suburbs, steal residents’ TVs and then return to their ghettos in Baltimore.”
THE MASTER PLANS FOR US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES WERE IN PLACE IN 1980S. THE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE WILL BE BUILT AS GLOBAL CORPORATE CAMPUSES ARE BUILT.
According to The Guardian, last year Carroll County introduced a “Mass Transit Protection Resolution,” intended to keep public transit riders from Baltimore out.
“[Mass transportation] led to the breakdown of those two shopping centers (in Baltimore) and we are not going to use mass transit to connect either Baltimore County or Montgomery County [to Carroll],” said county Commissioner Doug Howard in a Carroll County Times article.
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We shared a few days ago a video of a public K-12 school teacher in Arizona protesting against falling wages telling us she has 2 MASTER'S DEGREES in EDUCATION. Now, we have known these few decades of MOVING FORWARD GLOBAL NEO-LIBERAL CORPORATE SCHOOLS that the 'dumbing down' of highly educated public school students during CLINTON'S education reform was to continue until all US public education was dismantled replaced by overseas FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE corporate K-university apprenticeship schools. We have known since OBAMA era that ONE WORLD ONE GLOBAL COMMONER CORE EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY was dismantling even our classrooms and teachers replacing them with online lessons, artificial intelligence, and soon to be robotics.
Below we see the EDUCATION STRUCTURE that keeps our 99% of MARYLAND/BALTIMORE citizens in constant job training for employment that we all know will disappear in MOVING FORWARD. This video shows how courses are directly tied to our GLOBAL PORT OF BALTIMORE not educating against these privatizations---not educating against US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE status-----simply doing what global banking tells them.
So, PORT OF BALTIMORE under a global foreign authority has a goal of being almost fully AUTOMATED----in only a few decades eliminating what were strong LONGSHOREMEN JOBS---eliminating what were small transportation and storage businesses tied to cargo transfer---and bringing in global 99% labor pool already trained overseas.
'Chronology
In mid-October 2005, DP World approached the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to clear regulatory hurdles for a possible acquisition of the British firm P&O. The CFIUS is the multi-agency federal panel that passes judgment on deals with foreign corporations that raise antitrust or national security questions, Soon after, DPW began negotiating the terms of the takeover with P&O.[1] They were advised by former President Bill Clinton to submit to a 45-day review of the acquisition.[2]
In December 2005, Coast Guard intelligence officials raised the possibility of significant security risks associated with the management of some U.S. port operations by a Dubai company, stating in a report that broad intelligence gaps prevented them from assessing the risks.[3]
In February 2006, the stockholders of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O), a British firm, agreed to a sale of that company to DPW over a bid by PSA International of Singapore. As part of the sale, DPW would assume the leases of P&O to manage major U.S. facilities at the Port of New York and New Jersey, Port of Philadelphia, Port of Baltimore, Port of New Orleans, and the Port of Miami, as well as operations in 16 other ports.
After P&O stockholders approved the deal, the arrangement was reviewed by the CFIUS headed by the U.S. Treasury Department. The transfer of leases was approved'.
When our 'public' schools in this case county community colleges are not providing CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION but only providing CORPORATE PROPAGANDA AND MYTH-MAKING job training----we have no empowerment as CITIZENS.
Port Education - "Baltimore: Port of Opportunity"
Port of Baltimore
Published on Dec 10, 2014
The Affinity Group and SMART are two organizations that help "connect the dots" between education and Port related jobs and careers.
A conglomerate of education facilities aligned with PORT OF BALTIMORE controlled by global foreign corporations having nothing to do with the public interests of 99% of Baltimore or Maryland citizens. IT'S NOT JUST ANY JOB.
'Affinity group
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This article is about the organizational model. For the company, see Affinity Group Inc.
An affinity group is a group formed around a shared interest or common goal, to which individuals formally or informally belong. Affinity groups are generally precluded from being under the aegis of any governmental agency, and their purposes must be primarily non-commercial. Examples of affinity groups include private social clubs, fraternities, writing or reading circles, hobby clubs, and groups engaged in political activism'.
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It does not take a rocket scientist to understand to where these STAKEHOLDER GROUPS have become AFFINITY GROUPS which are MOVING FORWARD to being only that 5% player group working only for those global 1%.
Having AFFINITY GROUPS tied to our public university systems as community colleges and county 4 year universities----now expanding to our public K-12 is simply a FAKE appearance of PUBLIC INTEREST PUBLIC OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY. We can be sure these AFFINITY GROUPS are filled with 5% freemason/Greeks moving public policy written by global banking at the local level under the guise of public education. This has led to our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE strongly educated in broad citizenship education being 'dumbed down' exposed to crumbling schools tied to endless job training.
We heard a citizen shouting he had job training across every industry certification not finding a job.
WHEN WE EDUCATE ON PUBLIC POLICY AND WE KNOW WHO THOSE 5% PLAYERS AND ORGANIZATIONS ARE----WE CAN FIX BALTIMORE MOVING AWAY FROM DARK AGES AND INTO 20TH CENTURY.
No amount of TALKING POINTS pretending these groups are equal opportunity----having any intention of bringing value economics and employment to our local communities hides the fact these are 5% players doing ANYTHING GLOBAL BANKING 1% tells them.
We are not a set of special interests----US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE are EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND ACCESS-----we all have expectations of public officials creating LOCAL ECONOMIES fully employing ALL CITIZENS black, white, and brown citizens.
The enforcement of EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND BILL OF RIGHTS is done by our local government officials and corporations design their HUMAN RESOURCES around that public enforcement. This is the opposite. We are told these corporations are SELF-REGULATING with these FAKE POLICIES.
Global corporations SELF-REGULATING in meeting the US Rule of Law, US Constitutional rights, Bill of Rights ignoring and replacing our DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, LICENSING, AND REGULATIONS is not empowering 99% of citizens ----
These are the societal structures installed these few decades of ROBBER BARON MOVING FORWARD that have taken away the public space from where 99% WE THE PEOPLE do our duty as CITIZENS.
Magazine article HRMagazine
Affinity Group Danger Zones
By Segal, Jonathan A.
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Structure affinity groups so they are lawful.
Smart organizations want to increase employee engagement and inclusion. One way to do that is through affinity groups.
What are affinity groups? They are groups of employees who have a common interest or characteristic. Sometimes the commonality is based on a factor that is not protected under equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws, such as the employees' position. Usually, however, affinity groups are built around EEO-protected characteristics, such as race, gender and sexual orientation, and are supported financially by the organization.
There are obvious benefits to having affinity groups. They can increase morale, retention and innovation, as well as business, because of greater inclusion of diverse perspectives.
In some organizations, an affinity group may be seen as the antidote to marginalization of certain groups of employees. Affinity group meetings provide a place to experience business and social inclusion for those who are or feel marginalized.
Yet, these groups, if not structured properly, can have divisive and exclusionary effects. Moreover, there are legal risks that need to be navigated. Just because the goal of the affinity group is laudable does not mean that the group is lawful
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The following four hypotheticals highlight some of the legal and business risks of affinity groups, with recommendations on how to manage them.
Affinity Group For White Men
Employer ABC has affinity groups for women; people of color; and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees. The employer provides financial and other support for these groups so that they legally would be characterized as benefits of employment.
A group of white men asks to form an affinity group. The HR leader considers saying, "You don't need one. You already have one; it's called the senior leadership team," which is made up of white men but for one exception.
The emotion behind the fantasy response may be understandable, but the response is, of course, inappropriate because legal risk would accompany it. Title VII's prohibition on gender bias knows no gender. The same is true of racial bias. Denying a benefit to employees because they are white and male is, well, discrimination. But that does not mean that the request necessarily needs to be honored.
The key for an organization is to develop upfront nondiscriminatory criteria in determining whether it will provide financial or other support for a proposed affinity group. Among the criteria an organization may consider are the following:
* How will the proposed affinity group help its members achieve the company's mission and goals?
* How will the proposed affinity group increase inclusion and business development among the individuals in the group (as opposed to employees generally)?
* Are other affinity groups or mechanisms already in place that serve the need addressed by the request?
Making decisions about proposed affinity groups based on the answers to these kinds of questions doesn't eliminate all legal risks, but it does minimize them.
Let's return to the white men at Employer ABC. If the organization's power circle is dominated by white men, the white men seeking to form an affinity group may have an uphill battle. But would that be true for a group of entrylevel employees in human resources?
There is no clear-cut answer; rather, it depends on applying legitimate nondiscriminatory factors.
If Employer ABC has an affinity group for women and not one for men, it might consider including men in a broader affinity group on gender that would focus, although not exclusively, on issues women face that men don't.
It is not that you need men to be part of the group for legitimacy. You don't. But men can learn from being included, and men who are enlightened about the obstacles that women often face are more likely to become mentors and sponsors for female colleagues.
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Southern California Grantmakers----same as Baltimore Association of Grantmakers-----patronage NGOs channeling global corporate donations to their own public policy goals.
This is the structure from where that 5% to the 1% is made a non-profit DIRECTOR leading that group towards the goals of global banking 1% no matter what the goal of grassroots 99% who may join intend. It is the mirror of global Wall Street Baltimore Development controlling all economic and development in Baltimore----only it is tied to societal structures which our 99% of citizens want to control for themselves and their individual communities.
THIS IS THE DOUBLE-WHAMMY OF MOVING FORWARD THESE FEW DECADES----CONSOLIDATING OUR PUBLIC VOICES ON ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PUBLIC POLICY.
So, we have an AFFINITY GROUP calling itself SMART tied to PORT OF BALTIMORE controlling education policies at our local public community colleges leading to absolutely no future in employment and no local economic development tied to community small businesses creating LIFE-LONG CAREERS.
THIS IS WHAT GLOBAL BANKING 1% ARE TELLING US IS OUR LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL ARM----AND NONE OF THIS ENDS BEING LEFT----IT IS ALL MOVING FORWARD FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1% POLICY AGENDA.
When US 99% WE THE PEOPLE allow ourselves to be HERDED into these FAKE citizen action groups controlled by global banking ----we have lost our PUBLIC SPACE----CITIZENSHIP VOICE.
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When US 99% WE THE PEOPLE allow ourselves to be HERDED into these FAKE citizen action groups controlled by global banking ----we have lost our PUBLIC SPACE----CITIZENSHIP VOICE.
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Our local US media selects public voice from these NGOs tied to AFFINITY GROUPS tied to PATRONAGE CORPORATE GRANTMAKERS.
REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES do not fit in any of these groups because the GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM policy issues are not found in GBLT RIGHTS while the GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM issues kill 99% of GBLT citizens.
GLOBAL CORPORATIONS DONATING AS PATRONS TO MARYLAND/BALTIMORE GRANTMAKERS ARE NOT GOING TO CREATE NGOS ADDRESSING GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM ISSUES.
Our 99% of new immigrant citizens need to know these few decades of ROBBER BARON fleecing of America MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE for only the global 1% never had these captured citizen structures replacing public space and local public agencies allowing our 99% in each community to affect their own community policies regardless of economic, development, or social.
AFFINITY GROUPS tied to STATE GRANTMAKERS are MOVING FORWARD only ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE United Nations policies---economic and social and 99% of WE THE PEOPLE are allowing ourselves to simply follow these protests disregarding GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM ISSUES for both 99% right wing and 99% of left wing US citizens.
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Edyth Bush Institute members have the opportunity to join a number of local affinity groups. Each group is centered around a particular area of specialization (marketing, human resources, young professionals, etc.) that meet occasionally to discuss topics relevant to the field. If you are a current member and you would like to join an affinity group, please contact the group administrators listed below.
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Nonprofit Seasoned CEO Affinity Group
About: The Seasoned CEO Affinity Group is a free resource to CEOs/Executive Directors of Edyth Bush Institute member organizations that have five or more years in their current leadership position. Seasoned leaders discuss trends, best practices, and other timely topics among a trusted peer group who can offer insight, perspective, and support into nonprofit leadership challenges.
Meetings:
Date: The second Tuesday of every month
Time: 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.
Location: Rollins College, Edyth Bush Insititute
Contact: If you are interested in joining this affinity group, please contact Margaret Linnane at mlinnane@rollins.edu.
Grant Professionals Affinity Group (GPAG)
About: The Edyth Bush Institute (EBI) is pleased to welcome the Grant Professionals Affinity Group! We invite all grant writers and managers to attend! A free resource to members and non-members of EBI, our monthly meetings will offer a space to network, collaborate, and hear from funders, thought leaders, and peers in the sector.
Meetings:
Date: Last Wednesday of the month
Time: 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Location: Heart of Florida United Way
Contact: If you are interested in joining this affinity group, please contact Min Sun Kim at mkim@rollins.edu.
Nonprofit Human Resource Affinity Group of Central Florida
About: The Nonprofit HR Affinity Group is a free resource to nonprofit Human Resources professionals of Edyth Bush Institute member organizations. The purpose of this group is to provide a forum for nonprofit human resource professionals to share and gain best practices, knowledge, resources and networking.
Meetings:
Date: Quarterly
Time: 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Contact: If you are interested in joining the affinity group please contact the group coordinator, Karen Revels, Rollins College krevels@rollins.edu.
Nonprofit Marketing & Communications Affinity Group
About: The Marketing and Communications Affinity Group serves as a free resource to Edyth Bush Institute member organizations to discuss trends, best practices and other important topics among peers who can help offer insight and perspective into ideas and projects.
Meetings:Date: Every other month
Time: 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Location: Rollins College, Edyth Bush Institute
Contact: If you are interested in joining the affinity group please contact the group coordinator, Brian Schulte at bschulte@rollins.edu.
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Council of Volunteer Management of Central Florida
The mission of the Council of Volunteer Management (CVM) of Central Florida is to enhance the volunteer programs of non-profit organizations in the Central Florida area by assisting in the development and growth of volunteer services with a focus on networking, marketing and recruiting within the community. Launched in 1974, as the United Effort Volunteer Association, today's CVM provides a vital forum for information exchange and training for volunteer coordinators at non-profit agencies.
For more information please visit CVM's Facebook Page.
YNPN Orlando (Young Nonprofit Professionals Network)
YNPN Orlando empowers young nonprofit professionals with the skills and resources to become dynamic community leaders.
YNPN chapters around the county are building stronger young leaders through programming, education, and networking that provides a career pathway for nonprofit professionals. Through our national network, YNPN works to advocate for a sector that is more sustainable and effective in its talent recruitment, retention and development practices. YNPN is building a network of leaders around the country who can design, advocate for and lead this more sustainable and effective nonprofit sector.
We are a member-driven organization run completely by volunteers.
If you are a young professional new to the nonprofit sector or are thinking about a job in the nonprofit sector and would like to learn more about your career opportunities and to meet nonprofit professionals, please join our email list or become a member by visiting the YNPN Orlando local website or the chapter's Facebook page.
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'Rachel works closely with the National Council and Affinity Group leadership to implement the strategic direction of UNA-USA'.
Hmmmm, here is RACHEL------graduated from global hedge fund IVY LEAGUE Johns Hopkins-----raging far-right wing, authoritarian, militaristic, extreme wealth extreme poverty ROBBER BARON top gun OLD WORLD DARK AGES KINGS AND QUEENS------organizing those AFFINITY GROUPS from United Nations down to our US cities deemed FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES----from where FAKE ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT 99% social progressive issue support unfolds.
NO GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM ISSUES WILL EVER BE ORGANIZED OR PROTESTED THROUGH THIS CAPTURE OF OUR US CITIZEN VOICE------NO HOLDING LOCAL 5% PLAYERS ACCOUNTABLE---
Seems RACHEL is interested in MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD to create maximized GLOBAL CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY.
The same ROBBER BARON GLOBAL BANKING fleecing our wealth killing our freedom, liberty, justice, pursuit of happiness being allowed to tie to all our US 99% and global labor pool 99% of students ----
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As the Sr. Director of Membership and Programs, Rachel Bowen Pittman manages programs for UNA-USA’s network of 20,000+ members and its 150 chapters to cultivate membership, youth engagement, advocacy efforts and public awareness. She coordinates UNA-USA national programs, including Members’ Day at the UN, the Leadership Summit and UN Day events, and manages the Adopt-A-Future refugee education fundraising campaign. Rachel works closely with the National Council and Affinity Group leadership to implement the strategic direction of UNA-USA.
Prior to joining UNA-USA, Rachel served as a Membership Director to several professional associations that represent lawyers, surgeons, regulators and engineers. In her many accomplishments, Rachel increased membership programs by over 15% and secured agreements with national associations representing China, Korea, Argentina, India, Peru, Egypt and Mexico.
Rachel holds a B.S.B.A in International Business from American University and an MBA in Marketing from Johns Hopkins University.
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