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IFS middle managers conversation about finding balance during the COVID-19 pandemic
Hello Project Directors and program coordinators! Join us for a conversation about finding balance during the COVID-19 pandemic: Meet with other settlement house colleagues from around the world to share practices and strategies. This meeting will...
New Online Courses on Returning to Work as COVID-19 Risks Decrease
The Alliance for Strong Families and Communities is offering the OpenSesame learning catalog, Returning to the Workforce: Preparing for the New Normal, to all users for free via the Alliance Learning Community through June 14. As states begin to...
Sharing is caring webinar – Staying close while social distancing
A social talk with an international perspective where actors from Europe, the United States and Australia share best practice on how we keep contact with our societies’ most vulnerable during the pandemic. The webinar will be organised by...
Support message to the IFS members in the USA and all Human Rights defenders.
Dear sisters and brothers We are watching the news from the USA in the grip of growing anxiety. How is it possible that once again, the old wounds of structural racism and discrimination are open? And how is it possible that the police forces that...
United Neighborhood Houses of New York’s statement on Police Brutality and the murder of George Floyd
NEW YORK – May 29, 2020 – In response to the murder of George Floyd, UNH Executive Director Susan Stamler commented: George Floyd’s murder is not an isolated incident, but rather part of a deadly and familiar trend. The senseless killing of black...
By surrendering to autocracy in the fight against COVID-19, Hungary poisons European ideals – Open letter to the EU
19 major newspapers have published an open letter by 73 European personalities calling the European Union to act immediately. The personalities are denouncing and demand sanctioning of Mr. Orbán’s attack on democracy and European ideals. Please...
Coronavirus follow-up meeting: The Impacts on Neighborhood Houses and Community Centers.
As a follow-up to the first Coronavirus meeting: The impact of Coronavirus on Neighbourhood and Community Houses. IFS members gathered for a second time to update or share news from their communities. Representatives from Australia, the USA,...
Coronavirus : The impacts on Neighbourhood Houses and Community Centres
Leaders and representatives of Settlement Houses from Sweden, Finland, Austria, France, Hungary, the United Kingdom and the USA met online to share news about the situation in their countries and discuss the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on...
Must Read: Special Issue of the Human Service Organizations
The article is a Special Issue of the Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance Journal! In this is Special issue researchers, educators, and practitioners were invited to explore questions at the intersection of the...
“Get to know your board members” series : Staffan Lindqvist
“Get to know your board members” series: IFS Board Member Staffan Lindqvist Where do you work and what is your title? I am partly the Executive Director of IFS and partly Education Officer in the Swedish Federation of Settlements which is a...
