NOW Innovation Forum Newsletter: April 20, 2022Powered by Vital Village

NOW Innovation Forum Newsletter
April 20, 2022
Powered by Vital Village

“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.” ― Cornel West
 
Welcome to the April 2022 edition of the NOW Innovation Forum Newsletter. We are excited to share and announce new opportunities, tools, and resources as well as set our intentions for the year ahead of us. Thank you for your commitment to children, families, and communities and for joining us as we journey through another year together.
 
Bienvenido a la edición de abril de 2022 del boletín informativo del Foro de innovación NOW. Nos complace compartir y anunciar nuevas oportunidades, herramientas y recursos, así como poner en marcha nuestras intenciones para este año. Gracias por su compromiso con los niños, las familias y las comunidades y por acompañarnos en nuestro viaje por otro año juntos.

Network Highlights and Updates

Download Our New Tool!
 
Check out “A Dignity-Centered Guide to Reflecting on Cooperative Funding Structures,” a new resource that encourages funders and their potential partners to think intentionally about the goals and outcomes of their relationship, drawing on elements of successful cooperative and collaborative structures.

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Listen to Our Webinar Today 
 
The NOW 2022 Webinar Series “Levers of Change in Action: Unpacking the NOW Playbook” will continue in June with a focus on cooperative funding structures.
 
We invite you to revisit the first webinar of the series,  Community  Food Systems, Maternal Health and Justice, featuring India Hinton and Tonni Oberly of the National Birth Equity Collaborative who discussed the connections between community food systems, maternal health and justice.

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Hearing From YOU! 
 
What are you reading, watching, and/or listening to this month that’s pushing your thinking around how to uplift and protect the dignity of children, families, and communities? 
 
Visit the NOW Innovation Forum Blog to share what you’ve learned and start a discussion about what this work means for our communities?    
 
Click HERE to get started.

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Opportunities Across the Village

University of South Florida M3 Center on Inclusive and Ethical Leadership:  Free course features 40 TEDx style sessions (10-30 mins) from 50+ experts from all corners of the world covering cutting-edge research and best practices under 8 sections. This is a self-paced, free course in which the participants can start any time and finish by December 31, 2022. Please watch a short tutorial that shows you how to register and enroll in this free course: https://app.knowmia.com/sppK . If you have any questions, please email us at certificate@academiacentralmooc.org   

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