Census Looking for SF Workers, $16.50 to $23.50/hr, Part-Time Work Avail

Posted on 27th January 2010 in jobs

San Francisco Census Office East Manager Don Chan asked me to let folks know that the Census is looking to hire local San Franciscans to work locally in their neighborhoods for the upcoming census. Hourly pay ranges from $16.50 to $23.50. There are requirements and a test for these positions. Flexible hours, part-time and full-time positions are available, and most of the work takes place on the weekends and evenings, so having work or school full-time doesn’t automatically prevent you from Census work.

The Census hires locally so that enumerators are familiar with their own neighborhoods and comfortable with their neighbors. So if someone lives in North Beach and was hired, she or he would be working in that neighborhood, and not some area across town. The Census needs to find enough workers in every San Francisco neighborhood to ensure that everyone is counted.

The local office is hiring about 1,800 workers by the end of April, but there will be smaller operations before that time that will require a few hundred people.

At this point, several neighborhoods in the city are very low on workers for those areas.

Pay rates are as follows: Clerk $16.50/hr; Enumerator $22.00/hr; Crew Leader Assistant $22.50; and Crew Leader $23.50.

Qualifications: Able to read, write, and speak English at the high school level; second language capability desirable; legal working status resident, preferably with U.S. citizenship; at least 18 years old by April 1, 2010; and have have two forms of indentification.

Hiring takes place from February to June of this year.

Call 1-866-861-2010 for more information and to sign up for a test, which is only 28 questions.

Here’s the areas in the city where the Census office needs workers:

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Call for Skills & Strategy Workshops: California Asian Pacific Islander Policy Summit

Posted on 16th January 2010 in events, politics, service

The California Asian Pacific Islander Policy Summit is searching for a variety of groundbreaking skills building workshops and trainings that will provide community members the tools to address the broad range of issues impacting Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities.

The goal for these workshop sessions is to advance our community’s political, social, and economic well-being by providing participants with an expanded skill-set and knowledge for effective advocacy and organizing. We are looking for workshops that, as a whole, will:

  • Equip participants with concrete and tangible skills that can be applied to their respective fields, such as making linkages between program implementation and policy advocacy.
  • Reflect the diversity of the API community, including race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, language and geography.
  • Highlight issues impacting the API community, including representation from a wide array of disciplines, fields, populations, and sectors.
  • Facilitate linkages among diverse areas to strengthen common goals in public policy advocacy.
  • Utilize innovative training methods, including audio-visual presentations, small group discussions, mock trainings, “hands-on” project formats.

If your organization would like to facilitate a workshop at the May 3 – 4, 2010, California Asian Pacific Islander Policy Summit, please complete the attached form. Workshop sessions should last for two hours.

Workshop proposals are due by February 8, 2010. You will be notified via email on whether your workshop has been selected by March 8, 2010. All selected workshop facilitators will receive complimentary conference registration.

Please email or fax completed applications and materials to Andrew T. Medina via fax at (916) 319-3628 or at Andrew.Medina@asm.ca.gov.

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Founder of Asian Americans for Obama, Ramey Ko, Appointed Municipal Judge in Austin

Posted on 16th January 2010 in people

Ramey Ko , founder of Asian Americans for Obama and a 2009 Gold Star Texan award recipient by the Texas Progressive Alliance, was appointed earlier this week by the Austin city council as a Municipal Judge for the City of Austin. He may be Austin’s first Asian American judge. Congratulations, Your Honor!

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A Community Unites to “Silence the Violence”

Posted on 15th January 2010 in fundraiser

Sandra Oh, John Cho, Aaron Yoo, Lisa Ling, Archie Kao, C.S. Lee, Joan Chen, Justin Chon, Far East Movement, Kaba Modern and more than 100 other members of the creative community appear in a series of videos supporting the Center for the Pacific Asian Family (CPAF).

Los Angeles-based nonprofit CPAF provides a multilingual 24-hour call center, emergency shelter, transitional housing program, counseling services and community outreach programs that focuses on the needs of victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.

CPAF finished in the top 100 out of a half-million eligible groups in the first round of the Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook. As a result, they received $25,000 and a chance to compete for a grand prize of $1 million or one of five runner-up awards of $100,000 in the final round of voting from January 15-22. The winners will be announced on January 23.

Any and all proceeds earned will be used by CPAF to reach beyond the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities by unifying all 24-hour call centers in Los Angeles County. The much-needed funding will be used to create a sustainable joint hotline for 20 domestic violence shelters and six rape crisis centers. CPAF will also extend the hotline services to include online chat to make services more accessible to victims.

Every 15 seconds a woman is beaten in the U.S. Ever two minutes someone in the U.S. is raped or sexually assaulted. One in three women will be abused in her lifetime. It happens too often. The silence is deafening.

If a woman has the courage to call, we must make sure there will be someone there to listen.

To vote, please visit http://www.voteCPAF.org.

Related links:
Chase Community Giving on Facebook – http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving
Center for the Pacific Asian Family – http://www.NurturingChange.org
Watch the Videos on CPAF’s YouTube Channel – http://www.youtube.com/CPAFpsa

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Support API Wellness Center at the Academy of Friends Gala March 7

Posted on 13th January 2010 in fundraiser

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center has been invited to be a beneficiary of the Academy of Friends Gala on Sunday, March 7th, 2010.

This year marks Academy of Friends’ 30th year fighting HIV and AIDS. Their sell-out Oscar party is the second largest in the country and one of the largest HIV/AIDS fundraisers in the Bay Area. Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center is honored to be a returning beneficiary.

There are a number of ways you can help A&PI Wellness Center meet its requirements as an Academy of Friends beneficiary.

BUY RAFFLE TICKETS – Buy a premium raffle ticket for your chance to win a two year lease on an Audi A4, from Royal Motor Sales. Each ticket is $40.00 or Three (3) tickets for $100.00. Or purchase general raffle tickets to win one of three exciting packages. A SF weekend package, including a 2 night stay at CLIFT, $150 for dinner at Asia de Cuba, and $100 for drinks at the Redwood Room. — A $1000 shopping spree at Westfield San Francisco Centre. — Or 2 Roundtrip Tickets Anywhere on Southwest. General raffle tickets are $10 per ticket or three (3) for $25. To purchase raffle tickets contact Sara Kunitake, Development Coordinator, at (415) 292-3420 ext. 373 or sara@apiwellness.org.

TICKETS & SPONSORSHIPS – We ask that you name Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center as the referring organization for your Academy of Friends ticket or sponsorship purchase. After registering as a new donor or signing in as a returning donor at www.academyoffriends.org, indicate “A&PI Wellness Center” as your beneficiary. This will help us meet our goals. A ticket to the Gala is $250 and joining a sponsorship circle ranges from $350 to $20,000.

VOLUNTEER – A&PI Wellness Center also has various volunteer goals at outreach events leading up to the Gala and the fabulous event itself. Work with us to meet these goals. Volunteer any number of different ways including general office help, gift bag set-up, ticket outreach, and more. For more information email Ruben Garcia at ruben@apiwellness.org.

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Jan. 30 Benefit Event for Quake Victims in Haiti, Glide Memorial

Posted on 13th January 2010 in fundraiser

[Cross-posted from BayAreaBenefit.org] A massive earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12 with some estimates putting the casualties at hundreds of thousands of lives. At the time of this post, Haiti officials are still trying to assess the extent of the devastation.

The Glide Foundation, in partnership with Bay Area Benefit, Citizen Hope, and A Good Idea invites supporters from the San Francisco Bay Area to an event to raise funds for the disaster victims in Haiti and for Glide on Saturday, January 30, from 9 p.m. at Nuit Blanche, 564 Market St, San Francisco.

Nuit Blanche, an exclusive penthouse in downtown San Francisco, will host this open bar event with tickets starting at $45 available at http://sfrecess.eventbrite.com.

Event will feature Legendary DJ KingMost, an open bar and hors ‘doevres. The $45 ticket price is good until January 22 (only 65 of these tickets are available) and the price goes up to $60 on Jan. 23.

Join the event on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=273876462564.

Kudos to Mike Kim for spearheading this effort!

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Support Ed Chen’s Nomination as Federal Judge

Posted on 12th January 2010 in politics

Please help send a letter in support of Magistrate Judge Edward Chen of California, whose nomination by President Obama to the federal court, Northern District of California, has been attacked despite having an excellent record as a judge.

It just takes 15 seconds to send Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada a letter in support of Judge Chen through an online form at http://FairJudges.net.

President Obama has to re-nominate Judge Chen this month because the Senate did not take a full vote on the nomination, despite it being approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The President originally nominated Judge Chen to the federal court in August 2009 on recommendation from U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California.

Judge Chen’s character has been attacked despite his mainstream values and a demonstrated record serving as a balanced, fair and unbiased jurist. He has received extremely positive support from a diverse group of individuals and organizations, including a “Unanimously Well Qualified” rating by the American Bar Association.

Judge Chen’s nomination deserves a straight up-or-down vote in the Senate and you can help make that happen by sending a letter to Harry Reid, the Democratic leader in the Senate.

Complete the very short online form at http://FairJudges.net and your letter with be sent at no expense to you.  The site also has links to more information and ways that you can keep in touch with this effort.

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San Francisco Japantown Foundation to Provide Matching Grants Program for 2010

Posted on 12th January 2010 in community

The San Francisco Japantown Foundation will announce details of its 2010 matching grants program at a community meeting on Monday, January 25, at 4 p.m. in the Union Bank Japantown branch conference room, 1674 Post Street, San Francisco.

Like many nonprofit organizations, the Foundation was affected by the severe economic downturn and was unable to provide grants in 2009. For 2010, organizations selected by the Foundation will be asked to match the amount of money given to them by the Foundation from other individual or corporate resources.

The San Francisco Japantown Foundation envisions a Japantown that inspires respect for the past, embrace of the present, and a commitment to a place and a community that is culturally vibrant, prosperous, safe, inclusive, engaging, and attractive to residents and to visitors. The Foundation was formed in December 2006 through generous initial endowments by Kintetsu Enterprises of America, the late Jack Hirose, and Hats and Amey Aizawa. The Foundation has since received additional donations from Minami Tamaki LLP, Union Bank and other benefactors.

The foundation’s mission is to support cultural, community and educational activities for San Francisco Japantown. We are dedicated to preserving and honoring Japantown’s history, to welcoming and serving its residents, visitors, businesses, congregations and community organizations, and to supporting the growth and development of the community. In particular, we support activities that reflect the Japanese American experience, and activities that engage Japanese of all generations and experiences in America.

Foundation board members will share details of the matching grants program at the Jan. 25 community meeting. Attendance at the meeting is not a requirement for being accepted into the matching grants program, but it’s highly recommended so prospective applicants have a chance to ask questions.

Those unable to attend the meeting will be able to download a matching grants program packet from http://sfjapantownfoundation.org after Jan. 25.

The Foundation is requesting RSVPs to the Jan. 25 meeting by emailing names and organizational affiliations by Jan. 22 to info@sfjapantownfoundation.org. Contact board member Keith Kamisugi at keith@keithpr.com with any questions.

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