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Volunteer with RISD NY to help those living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other serious illnesses

The mission of God’s Love We Deliver is to improve the health and well-being of men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other serious illnesses by alleviating hunger and malnutrition. They prepare and deliver nutritious, high-quality meals to people who, because of their illness, are unable to provide or prepare meals for themselves. All services are provided free of charge without regard to income.

RISD NY will be helping with prepping food for meal delivery. Come meet up with other local alums and do some good!

Sunday, August 7th
10:00am - 1:00 pm
166 Avenue of the Americas @ Spring Street
Transportation: C or E train to Spring Street

There is a 15 person limit to this volunteer opportunity, but if we get a strong response, we will schedule more dates! They are always looking for volunteers.

If you would like to volunteer, you must RSVP to Claire Robinson at crobinso@risd.edu.

If you are volunteering, please be aware of the dress code: Comfortable, must wear closed toed shoes and pants, shirts, shorts below the knee and no sleeveless shirts.

Apply for a RISD Etsy Fellowship - deadline coming up soon!


A Summit on Small Business and Sustainablility

Did you know you are eligible to apply for an Etsy Fellowship to attend  Hello Etsy: A Summit on Small Business and Sustainability in Berlin this September? The Summit is a hands-on gathering for small business owners who want to connect with their peers, learn the skills to find success and independence, and be part of the movement to build human-scale economies.

Here's how to Apply for the Hello Etsy Fellowship:  

In order to be eligible for the fellowship, you must be a RISD graduate, and must complete the following by 12 a.m. ET on August 1, 2011:

  •     Join the RISD Etsy Team and submit your shop in the dedicated RISD Etsy Team forum thread.
  •     Have an Etsy shop that shows tremendous promise. (New sellers who haven't yet made a sale need not worry — this is about your potential!)
  •     Tell us what creative entrepreneurship means to you in 250 words or less at etsy.me/helloetsyapp

Look for tips and tricks from Etsy to guide you: Etsy.me/GradsEtsy

Questions? Ask in the RISD Team discussion forum.

Good luck!

RISD After Work at The Sixth Ward, July 26

RISD After Work "Summer Edition" returns to an old favorite, The Sixth Ward!

Celebrate surviving another New York summer with a cool Guinness in the beautiful outdoor garden of this favorite LES Irish haunt.
Enjoy Happy Hour specials and free hors d'ouevres with other RISD alumni! and the heat wave will be over by then!

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
6 PM–11PM,

The Sixth Ward
191 Orchard St (between Houston and Stanton)
F to 2nd Ave

www.sixthwardnyc.com

Fractured Atlas Position Opening: Program Specialist, Insurance

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Fractured Atlas is seeking a Program Specialist, Insurance for a newly-created position. The Program Specialist will provide high-level customer service support for the insurance program and will directly assist and report to the Program Director, Insurance. The Program Specialist will execute the duties of the Program Director in the event that the Program Director is out of the office. The Program Specialist, Insurance assists in the delivery and coordination of all program-related services in accordance with program goals.

The successful candidate will be interested in an arts-related position as a career, not necessarily as a “day job”, and have a sincere interest in insurance/risk management. Additionally, we seek someone who is committed to helping artists function more effectively as small businesses and believes in the transformative power of technology. The majority of our staff are, or were, artists who have chosen to serve the community at large by working at Fractured Atlas.

Fractured Atlas is the nation’s largest non-profit arts service organization with a multi-disciplinary membership of over 17,000 independent artists and arts organizations. Its core service areas include fiscal sponsorship, the nation’s only arts liability insurance program, health insurance navigation, professional development, and advocacy. Fractured Atlas’s Open Arts Network brings its programs and services to an audience of over 100,000 artists and arts groups nationwide. Its technology-based programs include Performing Arts Spaces and professional development through Fractured U. With the assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and The Kresge Foundation, Fractured Atlas is developing ATHENA, an open-source software platform for the cultural sector.

Deadline Friday, 8 July 2011: Apply for the 2011 Producers Academy

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NCME is pleased to be working with WGBH in support of the 2011 CPB/PBS Producers Academy. For more than 10 years the Producers Academy, under the leadership of veteran executive producer Judith Vecchione (The Longoria Affair, 2010; Eyes on the Prize, 1989), has offered intensive production skills training to nearly 200 mid-career producers who create content for public media. Alumni include Laurens Grant (Freedom Riders, 2010), Kirstin Lesko (Operation Homecoming, 2007) and Jorge Aguirre (History Detectives).

This year’s CPB/PBS Producers Academy is October 15-21, and the deadline to apply is Friday, July 8. Awardees will receive a scholarship that covers the cost of the workshop, as well as reasonable expenses for airfare, hotel accommodations, meals and limited ground transportation. Scholarships will be announced by August 26, 2011.

Apply now.