The city is encouraging all DC high school students , grades 9-12 to submit their original artwork and a competition entry form into this years "Artistic Discovery".

Submission Guidelines

Artwork submitted for the competition must be original and created entirely by the contestants. Only two-dimensional artwork will be accepted. Three-dimensional artwork is not eligible. The maximum total dimensions of framed artwork are 30x30x4" and unframed artwork is 26x26x4". The content, condition and production of artwork must be suitable for public displays as determined by the architect of the capitol.

How to Enter

Deliver artwork submissions to Congressional Eleanor Holmes Norton Attn: Thomas Atkins, The National Press Building, 529 14th Street NW, Suite 900, Washington DC 20045-1928
For more information contact Thomas Akins at 202.783.5065

AVODAH is seeking a highly-motivated and bright- spirited person to serve as a critical part of a small, dedicated team. The Program Assistant is responsible for ongoing administrative and operating functions, and for providing support for our ongoing educational, fundraising and development efforts. This is a full-time, 40-hour-per-week position.

AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps integrates work for social change, Jewish learning and community building. It provides an opportunity for young Jews to live out and deepen their commitments to Jewish life and social change through a year of work in low-income communities in New York City and Washington, D.C. After participants complete this intense one-year program, the AVODAH Alumni Community supports and encourages alumni in their continued work for social change.

To Apply: Send cover letter, resume and three references to: Gena Schoen, Site Director,AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps or email avodahdc@avodah.net

IONA Senior Services is recruiting a Full-Time Volunteer Coordinator with experience developing, operating and sustaining professional volunteer programs. Skills working with diverse population as both constituents and volunteers. Experience with program planning and management creativity. Organizational and community skills necessary. Computer skills essentials.

IONA has been helping seniors maintain their independence in the community since 1975. They provide a broad range of programs that support seniors, caregivers and their families in the metropolitan Washington, DC area and can link with services across the country.
From Adult Day Health Care to care management and counseling services to support groups and classes for seniors, they can help.

Send resume and cover letter to:
IONA Senior Services
ATTN: Volunteer Coordinator
4125 Albemarle Street, NW, Washington, DC 20016
Fax: (202) 895-0236 or E-mail: personnel@iona.org

Tom Jawetz, a litigation fellow at the ACLU National Prison Project will be presenting the first Prison Awareness Event of the semester. Mr. Jawetz will describe the chaos that broke out in New Orleans prisons, particularly the Orleans Parish Prison (7000 inmates), during and after Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of inmates were abandoned by deputies and sheriffs and some inmates spent days locked in their cells, without food and water, standing in sewage water up to their necks. The ACLU has gathered hundreds of personal testimonials from inmates incarcerated during the catastrophe and is pursuing a case concerning the lack of prison emergency procedures and inmate mismanagement.

Contact 202.320.4648 or ahg26@georgetown.edu for more information.

American Legacy is looking to award a youth who has used tobacco industry documents to advance research, policy, or advocacy. The winner will be awarded $7500 in D.C. in July.
American legacy is also looking to recruit high school and college students who would like to be trained as leaders in the tobacco control and prevention arena.

The American Legacy Foundation is an organization that was established in November 1998 after the Master Settlement Agreement between 46 states, 5 U.S. territories and the tobacco industry. Legacy?s mission is to build a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit.

If you would like to share any announcements from your organization or campus with the CoRAL Network community, send a brief blurb to kcarter@coralnetwork.org by close of business each Thursday for inclusion in the following Monday's Newsbits.

Please note that submissions MUST be about local events, news, opportunities and activities that are related to community affairs in the District of Columbia, Maryland, or Northern Virginia.