St. Rest Community Economic Development Corporation is hiring a new Executive Director. Their mission is to develop and support community-based strategies that increase economic opportunity and improve the quality of life for a sustainable Saint Rest neighborhood.
This position would be hired as an independent contractor working, on average, 25 hours a week. The hourly rate of pay would be in the range of $20-25 an hour, depending on applicants experience.
As we enter the 2nd half of our 12th year as an organization, we once again celebrate the work that is happening all over our community on a weekly basis.
I am so proud of our ENP staff, our amazing volunteer partnership teams and all the partners we get to serve with on a regular basis. We have truly built a culture of love and service in our city that grows with each passing year.
Please consider joining us on Thursday, September 26th at 5:30pm for our 3rd Annual Fall in Love with Fresno banquet. It’ll be a time of celebrating, learning and hearing from those working in our school and neighborhoods.
You are personally receiving this because you’ve played a role with ENP in some capacity, be it a church volunteer, organizational partner, university student, resident volunteer, donor, business partner or in some other capacity. We have sold out in our first two banquets so make sure to buy your table or ticket soon!
Above you’ll see various ways to either sponsor, purchase a table or simply an individual seat. Whichever is best for you, we’ll appreciate greatly and we’ll be excited to see you there.
We truly appreciate you and the role you play in ENP’s work in the community.
Blessings, Artie
andrewfeilYou’re Invited – Sept 26 🗓🍽💯 ENP Fall in Love with Fresno Banquet!
Join the ENP team as our Neighborhood Development Coordinator.
Neighborhood Development creates place-based strategies that lead to self-sustainability, empowerment, and leadership development with residents and strategic partners to positively impact their communities. Discovering what people care about the most is the key to making our neighborhoods a better and a healthier place to live!
Flexibility of 15-25 hours/week
Must be available weekday mornings (some occasional nights and weekends)
Fresno’s a city that has many exciting moving parts. We have 2 strong health initiatives focused on making our community an overall healthier place to live. We have 2 vibrant youth and education initiatives that are working on developing ways to help our schools better serve our students and work with community-based organizations to help our youth thrive on and off our campuses. There’s a lot of work in building community and developing leadership with our residents. Workforce and Economic Development are high in the minds of those wanting to elevate those areas in our community.
andrewfeilDid you know? Resident Cohort, Serve Fresno, Literacy and More. (April Update)
Well, maybe it was just Paper Tigers! Paper Tigers is a documentary that follows a year in the life of an alternative high school in Walla Walla, Washington. The high school radically changed its approach to disciplining its students. It even became a promising model for how to break the cycles of poverty, violence, and disease that affected its families. Watch the trailer below or check out the movie here.
The approach this school used is called a Trauma-Informed Care approach. Trauma-Informed Care is a paradigm shift that moves from judgment to compassion. From asking, “what’s wrong with that kid?” to asking, “I wonder what’s going on with this kid?”
“This is Amy, the Saturday Sports Coordinator for ENP.”
You’ve probably read that if you’ve ever gotten an email from me. Since I am relatively new here (hired in August ‘18), I would bet that a majority of those reading have no idea who I am. Hopefully, some have at least seen me out and about leading an SS Orientation or assisting our staff at equipping events. The majority of what I do for ENP is coordinating Saturday Sports volunteers, leading out SS Orientations, and the planning and paperwork to keep SS organized. However, I also facilitate our Social Emotional hand-drumming program, Beat the Odds, at a couple of schools around Fresno. This is work that, sadly, most people don’t get to witness.
Every Neighborhood Partnership was created 11 years ago to help connect, train, and mobilize our local churches and other community assets to actively serve, on a weekly basis, in our elementary schools and neighborhoods. At this stage of our work, we currently have 51 active partnerships in the 92 elementary school neighborhoods of Fresno.
Weekly you’ll see these volunteers in classrooms helping our kids learn how to read, engaging in recreational activities during recess, assisting in after-school programs, opening gates at schools on Saturday mornings so kids and adults can enjoy some fun, and working with residents as they serve and advocate for their own neighborhoods.
ENP believes that the core of a city’s health is the health of our youth, families, and neighborhoods. When it comes down to it, ENP is simply mobilizing our community so they can serve their very own neighborhoods.
As we’ve witnessed over the last few years, our national and statewide civic engagement and political norms seem to be deteriorating. Some would say it’s gotten out of control with negative messaging. Some say that’s our new normal. It now seems to be the way local politics is headed, less about how someone can be a local leader of positive influence and more about how horrible their opponent is.
andrewfeilArtie’s Thoughts on Measure P and Community Leadership
First off, we want to say thank you for being a part of our 2nd annual Fall in Love with Fresno Banquet. With 300 people in attendance and completely engaged in the evening’s events, it was a great night of sharing our story and hearing all the great things that God has done in our city!
It was a blessing to fellowship with our longtime supporters as well welcome new friends who will hopefully join in ENP’s mission to serve. We are truly honored to announce that through the kind donations of our sponsor’s, we were able to raise a total of $60,194!!! Through your giving, we were able to double the amount that we raised from last year.
We are truly grateful for all the support that we have received we know that great things are in store! To all of our sponsors, we want to say thank you for your kind contributions.
If you feel like you still want to contribute there is still time! Click here to donate and select 2018 Banquet and give.
On behalf of all the staff at ENP, we want to say thank you for all that you do to help fulfill the purpose that is before us.
If you would like to be a part of our next fall banquet, feel free to contact Javier Garza at: javier@everyneighborhood.org.
Play the Game!
Challenge your co-workers or family to a fun game about Fresno and the work that ENP does!
Apparently, Bob Nelson knows something about Fresno! 😉 Congrats on the win and the Fall in Love T-Shirt! You can buy your own here!
We showed this video during the Kahoot game, but we thought you might want to take a second look.
Neighborhood Development creates place-based strategies that lead to self-sustainability, empowerment, and leadership development with residents and strategic partners to positively impact their communities.
Discovering what people care about the most is the key to making our neighborhoods a healthier and better place to live!
Thanks for being a part of this work we can’t do it without your support!
Every day, teachers and school administrators walk onto their school campuses and encounter kids who are struggling with academic difficulties and behavioral issues. But there is hope, and sometimes it comes in unexpected forms. For a class of fifth graders at Heaton Elementary School, implementing Beat the Odds, a social-emotional drumming program, has been instrumental in creating life change.
