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The Calais Foundation Board Trustee The Calais Foundation is a 501(c)(3) volunteer non - profit organization with a mission to empower children and young adults with serious learning disabilities and socialization challenges to reach their fullest potential in life.  Our Foundation’s mission is achieved by providing grants, innovative programming, information, education, awareness and volunteer support for families and other organizations that serve the special needs community.     The Calais Foundation supports the prestigious Calais School, a state approved provider of special education for children with special needs located in Whippany, New Jersey. The school serves students in grades K through 12 Plus with multiple learning disabilities as well as anxiety, mood, behavior and autism spectrum disorders.     The Role of a Potential Board Member: A successful Board Trustee will collaborate with other Board members to help to broaden their...

Family Resource Workers apply a child-centered, family-focused, trauma-informed approach to working with foster parents and children. They do this by providing building and maintaining strong relationship with Foster Parents and youth, advocacy, guidance, and community connections. Family Resource Workers carry caseloads of foster parents based on the needs of the program. Individuals and families served include children, foster families, birth families, kinship caregivers. They are responsible for ensuring child safety and well-being, as well as quality foster care in accordance with out-of-home placement practices, DCF policies and EEC regulations. Family Resource Workers are responsible for the recruitment, assessment, evaluation, training and support for prospective and existing foster parents. This position is responsible for ensuring that state licensing and out of home care practices and policies are implemented in a manner that promotes child safety and well-being,...

JAGFC seeks a visionary, strategic, and relationship-driven leader to serve as President. Joining an organization with strong programmatic and financial footing, the President will galvanize a talented 12-member team, engaged 25-member Board of Directors, and a strong community of volunteers and donors. With oversight of both internal and external functions, the President will play a highly visible role in elevating JAGFC’s profile across the region and state, expanding our funder base, and ensuring the sustainability of JAGFC for years to come. Specifically, the President will: Develop and execute a strategic vision that drives growth, innovation, and sustainability. In close collaboration with the Board of Directors and senior staff, set short- and long-term strategic priorities to guide the organization’s direction. Translate strategic vision into clear goals, metrics, and work plans. Ensure that priorities align with JAUSA’s overall strategy, as well as respond to...

JOB DESCRIPTION: Director of Development Location:   Reports to: Chief Development Officer Department: Development Position Type: Full-Time, Exempt Supervision: Yes Effective Date: 10/22/2024     About the Role:  The Director of Development works closely with the Chief Development Officer to implement the strategy for sustainable fundraising for the organization and provides informal leadership to the development team. This individual will develop and manage a portfolio of philanthropic supporters and prospects who power Big Thought’s mission and vision.   About Big Thought:   Big Thought equips youth in marginalized communities to imagine and create their best lives and world. The secret that makes our work uniquely effective is the powerful combination of our social and emotional focus, experiential learning, community-centered partnerships, inclusion/equity lens and future focus....

The transition coordinator manages and oversees high quality placements, with the goal of supporting individuals in HopeWell’s Shared Living and In-Home Support programs to live a happy, healthy, and productive life. We achieve our goals by implementing industry best practices, creating innovative solutions to complex problems and employing staff who care deeply about individuals, our mission, and our values. This position is an exciting opportunity to work collaboratively with the Director, Home & Community-Based Adult Services in supporting, developing, and growing the Shared Living program.    KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Assure high quality support & comprehensive training is provided to the individuals through a Positive Behavior Support (PBS) approach, which increases individuals’ independence. Collaborate with the Director to engage in recruitment, selection, matching, transition, retention, and evaluation of caregivers. Maintain & train current and new...

Freedman Consulting, LLC, a strategic consulting firm, seeks a skilled Manager to research and support the development and design of new programs that support city-government efforts to harness resources and develop innovation capacity with the Bloomberg Cities Insights Unit.  The Manager, Program Research, will join a dedicated unit of content development and research professionals working in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Government Innovation (GI) team to:  Uncover, distill, and produce intelligence that keeps the team and its work at the forefront of what’s happening in cities; and, Inspire local leaders to adopt new, effective ways of working.  The Insights Unit is part of a 50-person firm that offers strategic consulting services to foundations, nonprofit organizations, and public interest coalitions, partnering with many of the nation’s leading philanthropic institutions. The Manager, Program Research, will work closely with...