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Applications are live through  July 28, 2021,  for the  Morgridge Acceleration Program (MAP) Fellowship . This part-time, fully-funded program matches emerging leaders, called MAP Fellows, with nonprofit executives, called MAP Mentors, driven to create positive impact while leveling up their skill sets and deepening professional networks.  From a competitive selection pool of hundreds of applicants, twelve MAP Fellows will be selected and paired with twelve MAP Mentors from across the country. In addition to hands-on mentorship, MAP Fellows receive executive coaching, access to curated in-person and virtual events, funding for a two-day site visit to their mentor’s organization, and membership into a national cohort of peers. Additionally, up to $4,000, generously underwritten by The Rieschel Family Foundation, is available for each organization. The program kicks off in Denver, Colorado, with a series of workshops hosted in part by MindSpark Learning, and culminates in...

The Innovation Project Manager plays a critical role on Commonwealth’s Accelerator team to scale innovative solutions to support financially vulnerable people building financial security and opportunity.  This position is perfect for you if you have 3+ years of professional experience, you understand the role of the private and public sector in supporting financial security and you have experience effectively communicating and working with internal and external partners. Bringing exceptional project management skills, the Innovation Project Manager will work on multiple projects with a small team that is passionate about having a positive and scalable impact. Organization Overview: Commonwealth strengthens the financial opportunity and security of financially vulnerable people by discovering ideas, piloting solutions, and driving innovations to scale. For nearly two decades, Commonwealth has designed effective innovations, products, and policies enabling over a million...

ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW  CityBridge Education’s vision is for the nation’s capital to be the first city-level proof point for an excellent, equitable education system . A Washington, DC-based nonprofit, we incubate the people, ideas, and conversations needed for equity-centered innovation in DC’s public schools . We do this by identifying talented leaders and school designers who can solve the educational needs and challenges of DC families, deploying particular effort to recruiting leaders of color. We then incubate and invest in the best of their ideas and, together, bring to market the next generation of transformational public schools and education ventures.  POSITION SUMMARY The Director, Stakeholder Engagement is part of the cross-functional Network Engagement team, which focuses on meaningfully and strategically engaging, growing, and cultivating relationships with our full external network, as well as development and communications efforts at...

My First Place is an education and employment program developed nearly two decades ago by First Place for Youth. Envisioning a future where the disparities between foster youth and their non-foster peers have been eliminated, the My First Place program will be expanding to communities across the country, starting with HopeWell’s implementation in Boston. Through My First Place, youth receive stable, safe and affordable housing, community-based case management, and individualized education and employment support.  A team of staff including a Youth Advocate, an Education and Employment Specialist, and a Housing Specialist, support a youth in working towards healthy living, education, employment, and housing goals that the youth sets for himself/herself.  The Youth Advocate is a dynamic, collaborative and results-oriented service provider who will partner with 18-24-year-old transition-age foster youth to support them in their path to independence. This position requires a clinical...

The Okoa Project connects people to the healthcare they need by collaborating with communities to engineer context specific solutions. Since its inception in 2016 at MIT and incorporation as a nonprofit in 2018, we have developed two motorcycle ambulance designs with community partners in Tanzania and Ghana and introduced processes, organization, and professionalism across the organization. Now as we continue to grow, we are gearing up to expand our Board of Directors.  Lack of transportation is one of the major reasons people around the world are unable to access medical care. In most rural areas, neither the funds nor the vehicles exist to navigate the terrain to the clinic without exacerbating the patient’s health issues. The exact number of fatalities, crippling injuries, and neglected treatments resulting from these problems are unknown, but the maternal mortality rates can show insights into the breadth of the problem: 830 women die of preventable pregnancy complications...