ANNOUNCEMENTS
Announcements 12.4.17
OPEN SUBMISSIONS FOR CURRICULUM DEVELOPERS & INSTRUCTORS FOR CIVIC HALL’S DIGITAL LEARNING CENTER PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS
Civic Hall is launching the Civic Hall Digital Learning Center (DLC) to address the nonprofit digital leadership gap by providing professional development classes and workshops aimed specifically at building the digital, data and technology literacy of New York City nonprofit organizations and their leaders. Civic Hall will start the DLC programming off with a year-long pilotaimed at serving some 400 individuals from an estimated 100 organizations across the spectrum of nonprofits in New York City.
Civic Hall is currently looking to partner with subject matter expertsto help develop appropriate curriculum and teach courses that will address the most important digital literacy needs indicated by nonprofits via a Fall 2017 survey which showed the following as the most pressing:
1) overall digital and technology literacy;
2) social media expertise;
3) data science & data analytics, and
4) online & digital fundraising
All partners should have direct experience developing curriculum or teaching courses in one of area that will be developed. Prior experience can include professional training or academic contexts and may have been in-person or online courses in the form of classes, seminars or workshop.
To apply, please fill out this application form. Applications open Monday, 11⁄20 and close Monday, 12⁄4.
NOTE: Civic Hall is committed to building a strong, diverse, and mission-driven team to better serve the community we know and love.
We are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in its hiring and contracting practices. We actively seek applicants from many backgrounds, as well as those who have worked closely with historically marginalized groups, including but not limited to people with disabilities, people of color, LGBTQ people, first- or second-generation immigrants, and people from low-income families. When applying, please feel free to include information about your unique background.
DECEMBER 11: CONQUERING DATA QUICKLY & SECURELY WITH CADRE & HARRY’S
Tackling data, regardless of scale, introduces unique challenges across different industries. Through two diverse startup stories, you’ll learn that although the businesses may be completely different, there are many common best practices shared in designing reliable, scalable, and secure data pipelines. Learn how Cadre manages sensitive financial data through their strict auditing practices, and hear from Harry’s about their open source tool Arthur which can help your team reduce development time for data analytics. If you’re starting to work with large data sets, or interested in learning ways to improve what you currently have, come learn and share with others. Register here: https://conqueringdataquicklyandsecurelywithcadreandharrys.splashthat.com/
DECEMBER 12: THE STATE OF STARTUPS & AWS LOFT HOLIDAY EVENT
You’re invited for an evening of holiday celebrations and a look forward into the New Year! The startup ecosystem in 2017 has been filled with massive funding rounds for late stage companies, a spotlight towards improving tech culture, diversity and behavior, the arrival of machine learning as a crucial ingredient for new businesses, and an evolving relationship between public and private markets. Join us for a fireside chat with Hayley Barna, Partner at First Round Capital, who will discuss some of the biggest startup events, moves and trends from the past year, as well as a look forward into 2018. We’ll dive into these topics and more, as well as trends every entrepreneur should keep in mind for the year to come. The event will also feature a holiday happy hour and AWS swag! Register here: https://awsholidayevent2017-ny.splashthat.com/
NYC OPEN DATA WEEK 2018 SUBMISSIONS
NYC Open Data is a platform run by the City of New York containing nearly 2,000 data assets published by City Agencies - from street tree data, to 311 service requests to traffic speeds - we’re putting information on how the City runs back in the hands of New Yorkers. To raise awareness about this free resource the NYC Open Data Team partnered with the civic technology community to produce Open Data Week 2017 which engaged over 900 New Yorkers! We’re now asking for submissions of ideas for Open Data Week 2018 and hope you’ll share an idea. The deadline for submissions is December 15th. Email: aschmoeker@analytics.nyc.gov with any questions, you can also learn more via our coverage in StateScoop a few weeks ago!
DOTEVERYONE TRUSTWORTHY TECH SLACK COMMUNITY & PARTNERS PROGRAM
Doteveryone’s Trustworthy Tech slack: we hope this will become a valuable community of practice for people working on digital /internet technologies and seeking to do so responsibly. All welcome to join - sign up: bit.ly/TTSlack
The Trustworthy Tech Partners program is an 8 week exploration of how ethical and responsible an organisation’s business and technology practices are, and whether it’s possible to demonstrate these. Any organisation working on a digital/internet product/service is welcome to take part, and the next program will start on November 20th, and we’d love to have some participants from the Civic Hall community. The program will take participants through exploring what they do today in terms of responsible practices, and what evidence can be provided to demonstrate trustworthiness to external folks (customers, investors, other stakeholders etc). It could take 2-4 hours a week over 8 weeks (depending on scale of organisation) and it’s also totally fine to timebox to, say, an hour a week, or to save up tasks to do in a batch on one day. More info in the program booklet (disregard the dates, these were for our UK program)
Key benefits of participation:
* pioneer a better tech sector which is responsible and trustworthy
* a structure to help you evaluate your current performance and spot opportunities for improvement
* feedback and support from independent confidential external advisors (about the program and other issues around responsible tech development!)
Sign up, or fix a time for a call to discuss further, by emailing laura.james@doteveryone.org.uk
HOLIDAY HOURS
Mark your calendar: Civic Hall will close at 5pm on Friday, 12⁄22, and reopen as usual after New Year’s Day on Tuesday, 1/2/18.