The purpose of this forum is to hear from a wide- range of community experts, residents, activists, developers and stakeholders on how the affordable housing crisis is affecting life in downtown Silver Spring. This forum will be particularly focused on those individuals that feel the greatest threat to being able to live in the community due to the escalating costs of affordable housing.

IMPACT Silver Spring is a non-profit organization which works towards supporting and empowering all members of the community to work collaboratively across lines of race, class, and culture on challenging community issues. Growing out of the Montgomery County Executive's Silver Spring Redevelopment Advisory Committee, a group of concerned citizens from the general and business community met for over a year to develop a common plan towards ensuring that the diversity of the community's population would be reflected in the life and leadership of a newly revitalized Silver Spring.

Contact Impact Silver Spring at 301-495-3336

The D.C. Employment Justice Center is eager to sponsor applicants for post-law school public interest law fellowships, to begin in September 2006. For more information on our programs, staff and successes, visit our website at www.dcejc.org.

The mission of the D.C. Employment Justice Center is to secure, protect and promote workplace justice in the D.C. metropolitan area.
The EJC takes a holistic approach to our work, combining legal services, community education, systemic reform advocacy, and community organizing to achieve workplace justice.

All applicants must be fully bilingual in English & Spanish

All applicants will be contacted by letter, e-mail or phone to be apprised of their status. All finalists will be interviewed by phone or in person, depending on the convenience of the candidates, before making final selections. Please do not hesitate to contact either Judy Conti (jconti@dcejc.org ) or Kerry O'Brien (kobrien@dcejc.org ) if you have any further questions.

The Sociological Initiatives Foundation provides grants of $5,000 to $15,000 to support community- based research projects. Areas of interest include but are not limited to social justice, social welfare, human rights, literacy, language learning and use, dialect use and curricular issues in teaching second languages and non-native languages. The Foundation is also interested in supporting research by sociologists and linguists that provide a direct benefit to communities.

The Sociological Initiatives Foundation was established in 1999 to support research and social action projects that focus on understanding and finding solutions to a broad array of social problems.
The primary goal is to encourage research, including community-based research, that supports and promotes social change.

For more information, contact Prentice Zinn at sociology@grantsmanagement.com or 617-426-7080.

Part-time position (20 hours a week) with possibility of expanding to full-time.

Tellin' Stories, a DC-based project of Teaching for Change, has developed a highly effective approach to building grassroots multiracial parent power in schools. Tellin' Stories seeks to hire a bilingual coordinator to oversee the family-school program in one or two schools and support the citywide initiative.

Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform schools into socially equitable centers of learning where students become architects of a better future. Teaching for Change is a not-for-profit organization based in Washington, DC.

Interested persons are asked to send a resume and at least two references by US mail or e-mail to:
Teaching for Change
PO Box 73038
Washington, DC 20056
Phone: (202)588-7207 or 7219
ts@teachingforchange.org
Visit website at www.teachingforchange.org

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.