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About the Organization
Episcopal City Mission (ECM) is a justice organization that works with Episcopal communities (parishes, chaplaincies, missions etc.), grassroots organizations, and faith-rooted organizations that are addressing racial and economic injustice.
The mission of ECM is to build relationships and collective power across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for racial and economic justice as the expression of God’s transforming love. The organization does this by developing, convening, mobilizing, and funding prophetic leaders in Episcopal communities, grassroots organizations and faith-rooted organizations.
Founded in 1844, this well-respected, trusted organization has a strong history of successfully partnering with Episcopalians, faith-rooted communities and grassroots organizations and movements. ECM demonstrates its organizational commitment to social justice by integrating spirituality and justice in its internal practices and external partnerships. The organization has a strong commitment to embodying its organizational values of liberation and equity, transformational learning, purposeful action, collaboration and partnership, and spirituality and faith.
ECM exists at the nexus of grassroots community organizing, movement building and faith-rooted justice engagement. ECM builds capacity, resilience, and active participation in movements for social justice. The current activities that support the work include grantmaking, convening, leadership development training, and mobilizing for action. ECM is most known for a strong track record of grant making through Burgess Urban and Parish Partnership Funds.
In recent years, ECM has made many internal strategic updates to better serve its community and constituents. In addition to tripling its staff size since 2014, ECM merged with the Leadership Development Initiative (LDI), an organization that specialized in values-centered leadership training through the teaching of community organizing tools.
Current three-year goals for ECM include:
- Activate and support a base of Episcopalians across Massachusetts who work for economic and racial justice in partnership with the Diocese and Episcopalian Communities.
- Increase resilience of organizations and leaders in ECM’s social justice network.
- Build an accompaniment network for immigrant justice in the Bristol region through collaboration with local partners.
Reflective of ECM’s values-centered leadership approach, this learning organization offers a highly-relational, reflective workplace that is committed to excellence. Staff enjoy a welcoming culture of balance and collaboration and are encouraged to be their whole, authentic selves. ECM’s environment is one in which staff and staff leaders work together to “roll up their sleeves” and get the work done and contribute to the emerging culture and strategy.
The Opportunity
ECM is seeking a Director of Philanthropy, Learning and Evaluation (Director) to:
- Align the organization’s grantmaking purpose, process and practice with organizational values and strategy.
- Develop a learning agenda to guide the evolution of organizational strategy and culture that will eventually guide its measurement and evaluation practices.
- Support relationships across a broad network of grassroots, philanthropic and faith-rooted justice organizations in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- Partner with the management team to shape organizational strategy and culture.
The Director will be a part of the senior management team and will work collaboratively with ECM Staff, Board, Grant Committees, grantees, and philanthropic partners. This position reports to the Executive Director of ECM.
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The Organization
Community Housing Advocates (CHA) was established in 2018 to serve as the parent corporation and administrative services provider for its two affiliates, Mercy Housing Corporation and My Sisters’ Place. Mercy Housing was founded by the Sisters of Mercy, with the purchase of St. Elizabeth’s House on Main Street in Hartford in 1983, and My Sisters’ Place was founded in 1982 as a shelter for women with infants. Today, as affiliates of Community Housing Advocates, the combined organization has 75 staff, an annual budget of $9m and seven program sites in Hartford and West Hartford.
CHA is a leading provider of support services and housing solutions for men, women and children in the Hartford, Connecticut metropolitan area who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Its housing and support services, including the region’s primary homelessness Diversion Center, are a critically important part of Hartford’s fabric of services. On a given night, nearly 325 people are sleeping in a bed at one of Community Housing Advocates’ spectrum of housing options; and over the course of a year its Friendship Center serves more than 67,000 meals to community members in need. CHA’s affiliates are members of the Greater Hartford Coordinated Access Network and integral members of the region’s mission to end homelessness. CHA’s mission is to contribute to the elimination of chronic homelessness in the Hartford area.
The Opportunity
This newly merged nonprofit unites two complementary, well-regarded, champions of the fight to end homelessness in Hartford, and following the retirement and transition of prior leaders, CHA is currently led by the former Chief Operating Officer of My Sisters’ Place, serving as an interim executive to support operations during the transition.
The Board of Directors of Community Housing Advocates seeks a dynamic, inspiring professional with a collaborative leadership style, excellent communication skills and the passion and competence for engaged leadership both internally and with partners in the wider Hartford homeless services system. The board seeks an individual with a career history that demonstrates deep commitment to the values of its affiliates, and an entrepreneurial mindset to lead this highly effective organization as it plans to deepen its impact, grow its service offerings and fully manifest the benefits of the recent merger.
Programs and Services
Community Housing Advocates operates a broad portfolio of high-impact programs and services designed to effectively implement its mission and support key strategic aims, including:
- The Friendship Center at St. Elizabeth’s House served more than 67,000 meals in 2018.
- The Residential Program at St. Elizabeth’s House provides housing and intensive case management to 47 homeless adults for up to 90 days.
- The Rapid Re-Housing Program provides case management and housing services to assist individuals who are at risk of becoming homeless, quickly access and stabilize their housing.
- The Diversion Center connects households (individuals and families) with services that help them preserve their current housing situation or assists them in finding housing outside of shelter.
- The Community Respite Program provides short-term housing for adults experiencing mental health crisis, which allows them to avoid in-patient hospital stays.
- The Women’s Program and Catherine’s Place provide a 90-day housing and supportive services program for women in recovery. This program works to transition women from treatment into the community, or when awaiting another level of care in their treatment program.
- The Veteran’s Program provides case management services and housing for Veterans.
- The combined 64 units at Mary Seymour Place Apartments and Sue Ann Shay Place Apartments provide supportive housing for low-income individuals and families who were formerly homeless and unable to hold their own lease.
- The Scattered Site Housing Program provides supportive services to men and women with psychiatric disabilities, helping them to live in their own apartments, “scattered” throughout the Hartford area.
- Housing Coordination Programs provide a variety of resources including rent, subsidies, security deposits, loans and help with negotiating the local housing market for individuals with psychiatric disabilities.
- The Youth Program supports 70-80 children resident in one of CHA’s housing programs through social, educational and cultural activities.
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New Haven Land Trust-New Haven Farms partners with people to care for our urban landscape so all people discover, access, and enjoy the lands and waters that provide food, health, and life.
The Opportunity
This newly merged organization unites two nonprofits that have been leaders and innovators of New Haven’s urban environmental movement. The New Haven Land Trust (NHLT), Connecticut’s first urban land trust, has served the community for nearly 40 years by acquiring and stewarding over 80 acres of nature preserves city-wide and by supporting 55 community gardens throughout New Haven’s diverse neighborhoods. NHLT has grown significantly over the last five years to include programs for young environmental entrepreneurs and a marine and coastal exploration summer camp on Long Island Sound. New Haven Farms (NHF) burst onto the scene seven years ago with its innovative Farm-Based Wellness Program that partners with medical centers to engage people with diet-related chronic disease risk factors in planting, growing, and harvesting at their seven farms across New Haven.
Both organizations have a growing commitment to racial equity and community leadership and have taken strides in cultivating community ownership among its stakeholders. A large part of both organizations’ work, especially New Haven Farms, takes place in bi-lingual settings, with Spanish as the predominant language. The merged organization synergizes closely aligned missions, values, programming, and diverse support networks into a powerhouse leader for advancing engagement and stewardship of urban nature as a resource for healthy people and communities.
The board of this newly formed organization now seeks a courageous leader and enthusiastic fundraiser who can assemble the many combined strengths of NHLT-NHF to launcha new phase of development and growth. This is a tremendous opportunity for an innovative nonprofit leader to grow an organization that is working at the intersection of urban agriculture, public health, food access, participatory community development, environmental education and stewardship, and youth development. The successful candidate will be passionate about these expressions of the mission, will be able to guide the organization in implementing practices that ensure racial and economic equity, and will help transition it into an organization that is primarily led by the communities it serves. She/he/they will also have significant experience and success in raising funds from diverse sources and advancing the strategic direction and operations of a not-for-profit organization with multiple, interlocking program areas.
About New Haven Land Trust-New Haven Farms
These two organizations have been working closely together over a number of years and co-located their offices in 2018. A merger was discussed for the last several years and the two organizations decided to formally initiate the process with the legal combination scheduled for January 1, 2020. In the midst of this, New Haven Land Trust’s executive director, who had significantly grown the organization over the last six years, announced that he would step down from his post to pursue other interests. The Land Trust’s board engaged an interim executive director to lead the organization until the merger was completed and a new executive hired. The merger process has been smooth and supported by all, including staff and board members, program participants, and community stakeholders.
The new organization offers a platform of innovative programs that coactively impact the interrelated spheres of urban agriculture, public health, participatory community development, youth entrepreneurship, and environmental education and stewardship.
The seven farms and more than fifty community gardens managed by NHLT-NHF have a significant urban agricultural footprint in New Haven. The farms and gardens promote community development and public health, most notably through the innovative Farm-Based Wellness Program, which engages people with diet-related chronic disease risk factors in gardening and learning about nutrition and cooking healthy meals at one of the seven farms. All graduates of this program are invited to grow food in their own garden plots at one of the community gardens as part of the Incubator Garden Program, and exemplary graduates of the program become Community Health Ambassadors in their own communities through training in leadership and behavior change methodologies. Community Garden members are encouraged to serve on the Community Garden Committee, which supports the Garden Manager in stewarding the health of both the gardens and the community of growers.
Equally important is the organization’s focus on accessing the natural environment through education, land conservation and stewardship, recreation, and youth development and entrepreneurship. Its innovative Growing Entrepreneurs Program works with New Haven high school students to develop small-business ventures with a positive impact on the environment and the New Haven community. The organization manages six nature preserves,featuring important natural resources and habitats located throughout New Haven. It holds field trips and guided nature walks in the preserves to connect people to the abundance of nature in the city and reinforce the importance of conservation in urban areas. Schooner is a highly successful summer camp program that brings kids ages six to fourteen to the Connecticut shoreline to learn about the rich coastal habitat of the Long Island Sound through shore exploration and sailing. Fifty percent of all campers utilize a scholarship to attend the camp, and over the past two summers, more than half of the sailing program campers were experiencing sailing for the first time.
The organization is supported by a staff of nine full-time and three part-time members. It is governed by a 19-member board of directors comprised of community leaders from the fields of health, law, finance, public policy, non-profit management, and business. While the board is diverse along the dimension of gender and includes a member from their programs, it is committed to expanding racial, ethnic, and other dimensions of diversity to more fully reflect the community that it serves. The organization has a budget of just under $1M, with nearly $350,000 in reserves. Its revenue is generated from a mix of individual, corporate and family foundation, and corporate support, as well as earned revenue through Schooner and the sale of food through a farm stand and restaurant contracts.
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The Network for Public Health Law (Network) (www.networkforphl.org), with the support of its fiscal sponsor, TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org), is a national organization providing leadership, legal technical assistance and educational resources to help public health practitioners, attorneys, policy makers, researchers, advocates, and communities develop, implement, and enforce laws to solve public health challenges.
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Future Chefs (www.futurechefs.net) prepares high-school aged teens for quality employment and postsecondary opportunities in the culinary field and elsewhere and supports them in developing broad-based transferable skills necessary for career success. With a primary focus on youth development, Future Chefs provides culinary and soft skills training and authentic hands-on experience, working with food professionals in some of Boston’s high performing restaurants and food businesses. Aspiring cooks learn in an environment that promotes a growth mindset, personal responsibility and well-being. Future Chefs’ model is based on the belief that every student is unique, flourishes in settings that provide high expectations, opportunities to grow, and caring supportive relationships.
Future Chefs is a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org).
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The Children and Youth Cabinet of Rhode Island (CYCRI) (www.cycprovidence.org) was established in 2010 and focuses on three resident selected priorities: Improving social and emotional wellbeing, reducing chronic absence and ensuring positive school climate. As a nimble intermediary organization, CYCRI convenes partners, supports community priorities and takes action toward shared goals. Several key initiatives are led by the CYCRI including Building Trauma Sensitive Schools, Evidence2Success and School Based Mental Health Collaborative. CYCRI supports a portfolio of evidence based prevention strategies and programs including Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools, Familias Unidas, Strong African American Families, school based trauma groups, Positive Action and Trauma informed trainings. CYCRI also provides technical assistance and coaching to several cities and states nationally. CYCRI is a fiscally sponsored organization of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org).
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Worker’s Justice Project (WJP) (www.workersjustice.org) was founded in 2010 to address the racial and economic injustices that day laborers face by building collective power to win institutional change. WJP runs a long-standing worker’s center in South Brooklyn and organizes female day laborers in Williamsburg through our Women’s Economic Justice Initiative. We promote justice and opportunity for low-wage immigrant workers in New York City by pushing for systematic enforcement and expansion of workplace protections, including labor and occupational health and safety standards; advocating for industry-specific efforts to improve working conditions; offer skills-building training to workers in health & safety and industry-specific areas; and educating immigrant communities about their rights in the workplace and how to exercise those rights. Workers Justice Project is a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org).
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The Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery (MOAR) (www.moar-recovery.org) is a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org), which organizes recovering individuals, families, and friends into a collective voice to educate the public about the value of recovery from alcohol and other addictions.
MOAR Values: Faces and Voices of Recovery – Visible, Vocal, Valuable
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Station1 (www.station1.org) is an exciting startup nonprofit higher educational institution,, that is building a foundation for the university of the future through a new integrated approach to inclusive and socially-directed science and technology education, research, and entrepreneurship. The mission of Station1 is to expand educational opportunity and develop equitable, ethical, and sustainable science and technologies. Station1 partners with leading startup companies and university research laboratories within the greater Boston entrepreneurial ecosystem in emerging fields such as computational biotechnology, biomanufacturing, agricultural technology, civic technology, inclusive social media, advanced manufacturing and digital automation, autonomous aeronautics, and nanoscale materials design.
Station1 is a fiscally sponsored organization of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org)
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Lawrence Dream Network (www.tsne.org/lawrence-dream-network) is a network of individuals, the goal of which is to provide culturally competent training, mentoring, and coaching to youth and young adults, parents and professionals in Lawrence. Currently the leadership of most city institutions are not led by community reflective leaders or residents, despite their being a pool of educated, qualified individuals residing in the city. Lawrence Dream Network is challenging this structure by focusing on coalition building and allyship to foster empowerment among individuals impacted by social inequities. Lawrence Dream Network is a fiscally sponsored organziation of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org).
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Lawrence Dream Network (www.tsne.org/lawrence-dream-network) is a network of individuals, the goal of which is to provide culturally competent training, mentoring, and coaching to youth and young adults, parents and professionals in Lawrence. Currently the leadership of most city institutions are not led by community reflective leaders or residents, despite their being a pool of educated, qualified individuals residing in the city. Lawrence Dream Network is challenging this structure by focusing on coalition building and allyship to foster empowerment among individuals impacted by social inequities. Lawrence Dream Network is a fiscally sponsored organization of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org).
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Community Boat Building’s (CBB) (www.communityboatbuilding.org) mission is to bring real world experience and academic skills together to stimulate an excitement for learning among low-income students in Boston Public Schools through boat building and coastal experiences.
Our programs help underserved students connect in-classroom learning with a tangible project, making learning real and relevant. The skills they develop have a transformative impact that is transferable to school, future employment, and throughout life. Taking students out of their classroom and engaging them in hands-on learning makes their world bigger and brings learning to life.
CBB is a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org).
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The Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery (MOAR) (www.moar-recovery.org) project is a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org), which organizes recovering individuals, families, and friends into a collective voice to educate the public about the value of recovery from alcohol and other addictions.
MOAR Values: Faces and Voices of Recovery – Visible, Vocal, Valuable
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The Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery (MOAR) (www.moar-recovery.org) is a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org), which organizes recovering individuals, families, and friends into a collective voice to educate the public about the value of recovery from alcohol and other addictions.
MOAR Values: Faces and Voices of Recovery – Visible, Vocal, Valuable
