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Global Family Research Project (GFRP) (www.globalfrp.org), a fiscally-sponsored project of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org), is dedicated to helping all children thrive through family and community engagement. Our research and capacity building activities inform policymakers and seek to improve front-line practice. GFRP is dedicated to helping all children thrive through family and community engagement.
GFRP is an independent, entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that supports effective engagement practices and policies so that all children find success in and out of school. We create a worldwide exchange of ideas that furthers the understanding and implementation of anywhere, anytime learning for all. With more than 30 years of leadership, we provide a research base and proven expertise for capacity building in schools, community-based organizations, philanthropic entities, and other related ventures.
Our Work
- Supports systemic approaches to family and community engagement;
- Produces top-notch research-practice resources;
- Provides current news and resources to policymakers and practitioners;
- Builds the capacity of organizations to engage families;
- Designs professional learning opportunities, such as interactive cases, design thinking sessions, and communities of practice;
- Delivers actionable guidance and tools for evidence-based.
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The Massachusetts Coalition for Domestic Workers (MCDW) mission is to bring justice and dignity to all domestic workers in our state. Founded in 2010, MCDW was the driving force in passing the MA Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights, which established important labor standards and granted basic protections to nannies, housekeepers, and other in-home caregivers.
With the passage of the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights behind us, our focus now is the implementation of the new law and continued advocacy on behalf of domestic workers. The Coalition is currently made up of the following organizations: the Brazilian Women's Group, the Dominican Development Center, Brazilian Worker Center, MassCOSH, Women Institute for Leadership & Development, the New England Jewish Labor Committee and Greater Boston of Legal Services.
The Mass Coalition of Domestic Workers is a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org).
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New Entry Food Hub is a project of New Entry Sustainable Farming Project (www.nesfp.org). Our Food Hub embodies a unique relationship between producers and consumers, which benefits consumers, small-scale limited-resource farmers, local communities and the environment. New Entry is a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org).
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A Way Home America seeks a National Director of the Grand Challenge. A Way Home America (AWHA) is a national initiative to build the movement to prevent and end homelessness among young people. Youth homelessness is overwhelmingly and disproportionately experienced by youth of color and LGBTQ youth. Given this, we believe that the experiences of young people of color and LGBTQ youth hold the keys for ending homelessness for all young people. The A Way Home America Grand Challenge Director will lead campaigns in 10 communities across the country to end homelessness for LGBTQ youth and youth of color over a two-year period of time, setting the path to ending homelessness for all youth.
A Way Home America (AWHA) (www.awayhomeamerica.org), a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE (www.tsne.org) is a national initiative to build the movement to prevent and end homelessness among young people. We are youth homelessness providers, advocates, researchers, government agencies, philanthropists, and young people uniting behind a common goal:
- Prevent and end homelessness among all youth and young adults.
- Ensure that homelessness among youth and young adults is rare, and if it occurs, experiences of homelessness are brief and one-time.
AWHA’s formation was inspired by the success of 66 communities (and counting) who proved it is possible to effectively end homelessness among veterans. Prior to this achievement, many assumed homelessness, for any population, was an intractable social problem. Knowing that an effective end to homelessness is possible has radically changed the goal and our work: success is now nothing short of ensuring homelessness among young people is ended.
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A Way Home Washington (AWHWA) (www.awayhomewa.org), a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org), is mission-driven to prevent and end youth and young adult homelessness across Washington state. AWHWA partners with the state Office of Homeless Youth, philanthropic foundations, advocates, and service providers who support over 13,000 unaccompanied young people experiencing homelessness in Washington. AWHWA leads and coordinates these stakeholders as we work collectively to build a statewide system so that local communities can respond to youth and young adult homelessness in their areas.
About the Anchor Community Initiative
AWHWA launched the Anchor Community Initiative (ACI) in 2018 as a central pillar of our mission and activities. The ACI will help the first four communities in Washington state end youth and young adult homelessness by 2022. Success will include creating clear, believable proof points that demonstrate it is possible to solve youth and young adult homlessness; learning what a sustainable system to end youth homelessness looks like by using real-time, quality data; and generating progress and new action throughout Washington. Most importantly, young people struggling with homelessness will know our state values their wellbeing and is able to help them find safety and stability. We are currently funded for the first cohort of 4 communities.
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The BUILD Initiative (www.buildinitiative.org) envisions a time when all children reach their full potential; race, place, and income are no longer predictors of outcomes. The BUILD Initiative partners with state leaders to promote equitable child- and family-serving systems that result in young children thriving and learning.
BUILD is a national effort that advances state work on behalf of young children (prenatal-five), their families, and communities. BUILD staff partners with early childhood state leaders focused on early learning, health, mental health, and nutrition, child welfare, and family support and engagement to create the policies, infrastructure and cross-sector connections necessary for quality and equity. BUILD provides consultation, planning, and tailored implementation assistance, learning opportunities, resources, and cross-state peer exchanges. These efforts help state leaders improve and expand access to opportunities and promote equitable outcomes for our youngest children.
The BUILD Initiative is a virtual organization. Staff members work from home offices. BUILD is a fiscally-sponsored project of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org) in Boston, MA.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL COLLABORATIVE FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS (NCIT)
Funded through the Pritzker Children’s Initiative, NCIT brings together national partners, early childhood leaders, philanthropy, policymakers and practitioners inside and outside state and local government to create and strengthen promising policies and programs, and share what works, so that more states and communities can support the healthy development of our youngest children.
When we support them in their earliest years, infants grow into healthy kids who are confident, empathetic, and ready for school and life—and our communities, workforce, and economy become stronger and more productive. That's why NCIT is committed to advancing the most promising prenatal-to-three policies and programs to create and expand systems of support for families—reaching every mother and child at or before birth—and increasing access to affordable, high-quality infant and toddler child care and learning environments in settings that meet the varied needs of families.
The BUILD Initiative has received funding from the Pritzker Children’s Initiative (PCI) to develop a Capacity-Building Hub to support states to increase their programs and services to infants, toddlers, and their families who are furthest from opportunity. The Hub will offer consultation and support to assist PCI grantees and coalitions 1) build (or further develop) their public and private sector state and local teams; 2) clarify their shared visions; 3) identify gaps and opportunities in their states’ efforts to support children prenatal to age three including racial and economic disparities and strategies to advance equity; 4) better understand their current financing and funding needs; 5) create and then execute action plans that seek to create a 25-percentage point reduction by 2023 in the gap between children and families served by high-quality programs and those in need and, by 2025, create a 50-percentage point decrease in the gap.
The Capacity-Building Hub Learning Community Manager will be a member of the BUILD staff team.
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TSNE MissionWorks (formerly Third Sector New England) (www.tsne.org) is a management support organization that partners every year with hundreds of nonprofits, foundations, community-based groups, and others working for social change. Our mission is to provide information and services to build the knowledge, power, and effectiveness of individuals, organizations, and groups that engage people in community and public life. The ultimate intention of our work is to create a more just and democratic society.
We assist a wide range of organizations in the social sector with a mix of management support and capacity building services in consulting, financial and grants management, business administration, human resources, compensation and benefits administration, professional development training and research in nonprofit fields of practice.
As a leading voice and capacity builder in the nonprofit sector, TSNE MissionWorks is committed to learning and building our practices and values around diversity, inclusion and equity, and working in a culturally proficient way with our staff and the organizations and communities we serve. We actively cultivate a work environment that values the experiences of individuals in an open-minded and collaborative atmosphere.
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About Connecticut Cannabis Innovation and Research Center (CT Can)
CT Can is a newly launched Connecticut-based research and innovation center supporting the medical and scientific study and application of Cannabis, its various applications, and cannabis-related technologies. CT Can seeks to develop a data-driven model to promote the best research and raise funds for new studies. It hopes to create a nexus for science-based collaboration across the world in the cannabis space. This exciting new Executive Director position is an opportunity for an entrepreneurial, energetic, collaborative, science and research savvy person to help launch the organization, raise funds, and begin the journey of reaching its interesting goals.
The Model
CT Can plans to build a clearinghouse of Cannabis-related medical and scientific research, as well as provide seed money, grants, and funding for medical and scientific cannabis research across the following (but not limited to) disciplines: agricultural research, medical effectiveness of cannabis, Cannabis as medication, the isolation of compounds in the cannabis plant, pain management, user addiction, Opioid addiction, strain testing, mechanisms for most effective delivery, and health and consistency product testing devices. It will consolidate and track patient and outcome data connected to cannabis and its use. Creating networks and synergies among researchers and innovators in the cannabis space is an important outcome as well.
Of note, CT Can is not a policy or advocacy group. It is explicitly not for or against the use of legal cannabis or its legalization, and it is a non-political and non-religious organization.
Private donations support CT-CAN’s launch. This position will be its first full time staff; administrative/fiscal support is available. The work is CT-based and offers flexibility in where the executive resides.
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Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Website: South Park Inn
Founded in 1984, South Park Inn has been a leading provider of shelter and alternative housing solutions for men, women and children in the Hartford, Connecticut metropolitan area who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Its beds for women and families are a critically important part of Hartford’s fabric of services. On a given night, nearly 150 people are sleeping in a bed at one of South Park Inn’s facilities. South Park Inn is a member of the Greater Hartford Coordinated Access Network and an integral member of the region’s mission to end homelessness. Its mission is to serve people who are homeless and at risk of homelessness who lack the means to provide for themselves the most basic of human needs: a safe place to live.
Executive Transition
South Park Inn was led for several decades by an Executive Director who was also the organization’s co-founder. This long-tenured executive stepped down in March 2018 and the organization has employed an interim executive to support operations during the transition.
The Board of Directors of South Park Inn seeks a dynamic 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 system of homeless services. The board seeks an individual whose career demonstrates deep commitment to values shared by South Park Inn to lead this highly effective organization as it plans to extend its impact.
Organizational Programs and Services
South Park Inn undertakes a suite of high impact programs and services designed to effectively implement its mission and support key strategic aims.
- Emergency Shelter with 85 beds
- Permanent Supportive Housing site with 35 beds
- Fast growing respite care program for care of hospital patients after discharge
- Well regarded programs focused on the needs of Veterans
- Homeless Outreach
Strategic Opportunities and Challenges
South Park Inn has had only two executive directors in the last 35 years and faces an important and exciting juncture in its organizational history. While recent developments in the policy and funding environment have resulted in the loss of important funding streams, South Park Inn has rapidly innovated new programs with strong funding. To take hold of these developments the organization undertook an intensive review process throughout fall and winter 2017-18 and completed a new three-year Strategic Plan in March 2018. The Executive Director will be charged with providing both guidance and effective partnership with the board, committee chairs, staff and other regional leaders to navigate newly-developed strategic decisions. In addition, high priorities for the next executive director include:
- Managing effectively and efficiently the daily operations, together with the incoming Director of Programs, of a mission-driven $2 million nonprofit organization, and directing and empowering a team of skilled and dedicated professionals committed to serving those at risk of homelessness;
- Working energetically with and supporting South Park Inn’s new development director to identify further grant opportunities and donor segments;
- Pursuing further business development and growth of the organization’s new and promising respite program which partners with local hospitals to support patient transitions;
- Conceive and implement, together with the Program Director, more data driven, next generation quality assurance and administrative systems;
- Partner effectively and exercise leadership within the Greater Hartford and Connecticut wide peer and funder ecosystem of homeless services.
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The BUILD Initiative (BUILD) (www.buildinitiative.org) is supporting leaders and teams to promote optimal health and wellbeing for children prenatal to five; shift or realign systems to increase access to opportunities for young children and families; and engage community members with lived experience in the definition, design and development of solutions. BUILD is a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org).
The Brazelton Touchpoints Center, Boston Children’s Hospital is seeking a Senior Training and Technical Assistance Specialist to support training and technical assistance for a National Center on Parent, Family and Community Engagement (NCPFCE) awarded by the Office of Head Start and Office of Child Care. NCPFCE will identify and disseminate evidence-based and exemplary practices to early childhood programs related to parent, family and community engagement practices that are positively associated with the development of and learning for children from birth-to-five.
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The BUILD Initiative (BUILD) is supporting leaders and teams to promote optimal health and wellbeing for children prenatal to five; shift or realign systems to increase access to opportunities for young children and families; and engage community members with lived experience in the definition, design and development of solutions. BUILD is a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE MissionWorks.
Project HOPE is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that seeks to support states and communities to increase access to opportunities for young children and their families. Project HOPE Consortium is one of RWJF’s strategies to advance health equity and child wellbeing; by leveraging the knowledge, tools, and resources of the BUILD Initiative, Nemours, and BMC Vital Village Network.
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Massachusetts Advocates for Children (MAC) began 50 years ago as the Task Force for Children Out of School, investigating the exclusion of large numbers of children from Boston’s public schools. An ensuing report led to the first bi-lingual education and first special education laws in the nation. Since then, MAC has established itself as an essential child advocacy and education reform organization within the state. Its roles include:
• Primary organization protecting the educational rights of children with disabilities and their families.
• Statewide and national leader in the growing movement to create trauma-sensitive and safe and supportive schools, benefitting all students.
• Leader of a statewide coalition to reform school discipline laws.
• Leading statewide advocate to expand educational opportunities for children on the autism spectrum.
• Lead advocate in creating access to higher education statewide for students with intellectual disabilities and autism.
• Statewide support center in the civil legal aid network for children’s rights.
Overview of the Organization and Programs
Since its inception as the Task Force on Children Out of School under the leadership of founder Hubie Jones, MAC has played a critical role in the enactment of Massachusetts’ first special education law, which, in turn, served as the model for the first federal special education law, passed in 1975. To this day, MAC still employs the unique multi-strategic approach to advocacy pioneered by Hubie. Strategies include case advocacy; administrative and legislative advocacy; generating and publicizing reports on high-impact issues; coalition building; fostering empowerment of families, youth and community leaders; technical assistance and training; and, when necessary, litigation. MAC acts to hold public institutions accountable and prioritizes systems change in order to achieve the greatest impact for the most children. Simultaneously, through its Helpline, case advocacy and trainings, MAC works to ensure that the needs of individual children are met.
MAC’s major projects include:
•The Autism Center– Launched in 2002, The Autism Center works with partners and elected officials to create laws and regulations to ensure that children and young adults with autism spectrum disorders obtain the services and resources they need in order to reach their full potential. The Center works to empower parents to be a voice for their children by providing legal services, advocating for their children, and providing community workshops and online resources to help parents understand their rights.
•Children’s Law Support Project (CLSP)– MAC throughCLSP identifies and addresses otherwise untended legal needs of Massachusetts children from low-income families, particularly those needs related to education. MAC through CLSP also serves as the statewide support center in the civil legal aid network for children’s rights.
•Racial Equity and Access Project (REAP)– The overarching goal of REAP is to eliminate gaps in opportunity and achievement for Black and Latinx students in Boston, including those living in poverty, immigrant students, English language learners, and students with disabilities. The project’s primary focus is to disrupt the “school to prison pipeline.”
•School Discipline Project– Rooted in the passage of the Education Reform Act of 1993 and Chapter 222 in 2012, MAC’s School Discipline project focuses on school exclusion and the effects of zero tolerance policies and practices, particularly among students of color and students with disabilities.
•Special Education– As the leading voice on behalf of children with disabilities within the State, MAC conducts effective legislative, administrative and case advocacy, develops training curricula to empower parents and youth, provides technical assistance and representation to low-income parents, convenes statewide coalitions, and mobilizes parents and advocates to defend special education.
•Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI)– TLPI is a nationally-recognized collaboration between MAC and Harvard Law School. Its mission is to ensure that children affected by family violence and other adverse childhood experiences succeed in school.
•The Boston Special Education Transition Project (B-SET)– The goal of B-SET is to increase inclusive workforce and post-secondary education placements and opportunities for Boston youth with disabilities, of all types and severities, while enrolled in school and after exiting.
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, MAC is overseen by a volunteer board of directors, currently comprised of 14 community, legal and education leaders. MAC’s annual revenue is approximately $1.6 million. The organization employs approximately 20 staff members, fellows and interns, who work from its headquarters on Kingston Street in Boston and in Cambridge at Harvard Law School.
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Urban Edge (UE), a 501c(3) nonprofit corporation, is a national leader in the community development field, known for innovation and excellence. With its heart in Egleston and Jackson Squares, a vibrant, inclusive and culturally and economically diverse area of Boston, UE works with others across the City of Boston and region to promote high quality, sustainable and affordable communities. Public, private and non-profit entities turn to UE for its advice and expertise, and as a partner in undertaking complex and transformative urban projects.
Overview of the Organization and Programs
UE is a community-led and -represented, non-profit community development corporation (CDC) founded in 1974 by Boston community leaders to fight redlining, combat the effects of real estate speculation and the displacement of low- and moderate-income families, celebrate and maintain the racial and ethnic diversity of the neighborhoods and ensure community control of development.
For over forty years, UE has proactively contributed to neighborhood revitalization by developing and preserving high quality affordable housing and commercial space in Roxbury, Jamaica Plain and other neighborhoods of Boston. In addition to three projects currently in development and a robust pipeline, UE’s existing portfolio of affordable housing consists of over 1,300 units in the following Boston neighborhoods:
• Roxbury – 811 units at 12 sites
• Jamaica Plain – 108 units in 5 housing sites
• Dorchester – 319 units in 5 housing sites
• Mattapan – 89 units in 2 sites
Beyond the bricks and mortar, the organization has built a stellar reputation as a community-builder and has shown dedication to resident engagement and leadership at all levels of its organization. To support the needs of residents and others living in the community, Urban Edge offers a wide range of innovative programs that build financial skills and resiliency, promote and support sustainable homeownership and increase access to needed community resources and services. Program highlights include the following:
Housing and Homeownership
• Credit Counseling Boot Camp
• Financial Coaching
• First-Time Homebuyer Education Counseling
• Foreclosure Prevention Counseling
Other
• Family Supports
• Strong Start Program
• Student Loan Borrower Repayment Counseling
• Summer Youth Jobs
• Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Center
UE is overseen by a Board of Directors, currently comprised of 22 civic, community, neighborhood and resident leaders. UE’s annual revenue is approximately $30 million, $5 million of which is related to general operations, with the remainder related to housing owned by UE. The organization employs approximately 30 staff members, the majority of whom work from its headquarters on Columbus Avenue in Roxbury.
Executive Transition
From its inception through 2014, UE was very successfully led by its founding CEO and then by a successor CEO, who was a long-serving senior leader before she assumed leadership of the organization. After the departure in June 2018 of UE’s first “external” CEO (who led the organization for three years), UE has been led by an interim CEO, Marty Jones, who will remain in place until a permanent CEO is named.
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MLPB (www.mlpboston.org), a non-profit social enterprise, seeks a Part-Time (.4 FTE) Partnership Coordinator. MLPB (f/k/a Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston) equips health and human service organizations with upstream problem-solving strategies that improve people’s social determinants of health (SDOH). Leveraging our public interest law expertise, we advance health equity for individuals, families and communities. MLPB’s operating model involves a range of capacity-building training and technical assistance strategies for our organizational partners and their workforces, including but not limited to:
- workforce training;
- interprofessional education (IPE);
- a robust portfolio of workforce-friendly educational content (digital and print) spotlighting people’s legal risks, rights, and remedies in a range of SDOH domains as well as role-/scope of practice-appropriate problem-solving strategies that workforce members can undertake with people (curated by MLPB regularly for accuracy and comprehensiveness in a dynamic law and policy landscape);
- integration of our team of legal advisors within interdisciplinary case reviews/rounds/huddles to offer real-time problem-solving insight;
- facilitation of workforce-driven safe hand-offs of individuals/families to MLPB-curated legal specialists; and
- technical assistance to partner organization leadership and interdisciplinary teams re: SDOH-related systems design.
MLPB partners with 20+ health and human services organizations in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and nationally, embracing interdisciplinary strategies and continuous quality improvement principles in its work. The Partnership Coordinator will advance the organization’s mission and successful growth in the following domains:
- Training/IPE Administration & Coordination;
- Impact Measurement & Quality Improvement;
- Branding & Marketing Support; and
- General Operations Support.
MLPB is a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org).
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Ada Developers Academy (ADA) (www.adadevelopersacademy.org), located in downtown Seattle, provides an intensive software developer training program for women and gender diverse people with little or no prior software development experience. In one year, students are taught programming techniques and best practices to enable them to become junior developers. The program consists of two distinct parts - six months in the Ada classroom, and five months of internship at local sponsor companies where students refine their skills working on real-world code. Ada is a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org).
At Ada, teachers lead by example, demonstrating their passion for learning and their commitment to a high standard of excellence. In addition to excellent instruction on the core concepts of web development, teachers lead discussions, guide inquiry, support students in their projects and challenges, and provide feedback to students and each other.
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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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Tools of the Mind (www.toolsofthemind.org), a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org) is a research-based early childhood program that embeds development of executive functions and self-regulation into the design of all teaching and learning, leveraging make-believe play and a classroom culture of co-regulation & peer scaffolding to build the foundational skills children need to be successful in school and life.
Mission: To help all children learn and develop to their full potential by applying developmental theory-based principles of learning to early childhood education.
Vision: Our vision is to empower teachers with the understandings and tools they need to create positive classroom cultures, facilitate intentional, playful learning and support the development of self-regulated learners who achieve to their full potentials – closing the achievement gap for low income, minority and DLL students.
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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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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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Ada Developers Academy (www.adadevelopersacademy.org), a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE MissionWorks (www.tsne.org), is an intensive software developer training program for women and gender diverse people. In one year, students are taught programming techniques and best practices to enable them to become junior developers. The program consists of two distinct parts, six months in the classroom, and five months of internship, where students refine their skills working on real-world code.
At Ada, teachers lead by example, demonstrating their passion for learning and their commitment to a high standard of excellence. In addition to excellent instruction on the core concepts of web development, teachers lead discussions, guide inquiry, support students in their projects and challenges, and provide feedback to students and each other.
