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Welcome to the Alliance
E-Newsletter!
Please join us on the morning of June
19th, from 9:30-11am, for our Community Development Mentoring
Program Informational Session and Leadership Panel Discussion. The
event will be held at the TSNE NonProfit Center, 89 South Street, Boston
(by So. Station).
The event will feature a panel discussion responding to the article Ready to Lead. Seasoned and newly emerged leaders in the
field will share their reactions to the article's findings. We will
explore how the findings impact the Alliance's over all mission of
increasing the diversity of leaders of color in the Community Development
field. Our panelists will include:
· Ana Luna, Executive Director, Arlington Community Trabajando
· Jay Lee,
Assistant, Assistant Director of Design & Construction, City of Boston
Dept. of Neighborhood
Development
· Joe Flately, Executive Director, Mass Housing Investment
Corporation
· Jeanne Pinado, Executive Director, Madison Park DC
Moderator: Joe Kriesberg,
Executive Director, MACDC
Learn how you can participate in the Community Development Mentoring
Program The application process runs through the summer. The program
begins with an orientation in the fall.
To
RSVP for the session or for more information on the mentoring program,
contact Shirronda Almeida, shirrondaa@macdc.org
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 Recruitment,
Hiring, Retention, and Advancement Manual
Please email Allianceinfo@macdc.org
for an order form.
Price: $25 or ($15 non-profits)
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Sparking Dialogue
in Community Development:
The Alliance and the
Somerville Community Corporation help leaders to understand the
intersection of racism and housing.
This year, the SCC kicked off a new 'Community
Leadership Development Initiative' to foster the leadership skills of our
members and constituents. The core of the Initiative is our Leadership
Institute, a year long training program consisting of 4 half-day
trainings. We also provide opportunities for all of our members to
engage in activities that will help them grow as community leaders. We
were thrilled to bring in Shirronda Almeida and Adam Gibbons of The
Alliance's Steering Committee to facilitate the viewing of Race
the Power of an Illusion as part of this initiative! They led our members
through a discussion of the effects of institutionalized racism and our
housing system.
On April 30th, we packed the conference room with about 25 people,
including members of our core Leadership Institute group, SCC board
members, a wide variety of Somerville community members, and some folks who
were joining us at SCC for the first time. Everyone was willing to
challenge themselves, and the participants (including new arrivals and
lifetime residents of Somerville) found a lot of ways to relate the systemic
problems that we learned about in the film to challenges that we are facing
here in Somerville. Jared Milrad, an active member and a participant in the
Leadership Institute, reflected on the evening saying, "I was reminded
that every decision I make, particularly as a white male, can reverse
economic, racial and other forms of inequality. For example, the bank I
choose, the place I work, where I live all of this can have a powerful
impact on the injustices around me."
We here at SCC are looking forward to continuing with our community
leadership trainings, and are happy to have established this solid
foundation with the Alliance so that we'll be able to continue work
together to help our leaders learn to overcome oppression as they work to
strengthen our community!
Trevanna Frost Grenfell is the Special Projects Coordinator / New Sector
Alliance Resident in Social Enterprise at Somerville Community Corporation
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Alliance
Event Celebrates Mentoring Program and Manual launch
On April 16, 2008 at The
Boston Private Bank, The Alliance held an event to launched
the new Recruitment, Hiring, Retention and Advancement Manual and celebrate
the completion of the Mentoring Program. The morning included a dynamic
conversation with leaders in the field: Ginny Hamilton, The Fair
Housing Center of Greater Boston; Phil Hillman, Dorchester Bay EDC;
Mary-Helen "M.H." Nsangou, Allston Brighton CDC; and Charlotte
Golar Richie, Office of the Governor.
Mentoring Program
participants
Aida Franquiz, former
chair of the Alliance's Recruitment Committee
Panelists: MH Nasangou,
Phil Hillman, Ginny Hamilton and Charlotte Golar Richie.
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