NEWS

An Alarm System You Already Have
Thanks to Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award winning author for the following:

This is a really cool idea. Next time you come home for the night and you to put your keys away, think of this:

It's a security alarm system that you probably already have and requires no installation.  Start keeping your car keys next to your bed on the night-stand when you go to bed at night.

If you think someone is trying to get into your house, or if you hear a noise outside your house, just press the panic alarm on your car key chain. Test it. It will go off from most everywhere Inside your house and will keep honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it with  the button on the key fob chain. It works if you park in your driveway or garage.

If your car alarm goes off when someone is trying to break in your house, odds are the burglar or rapist won't stick around.....after a few seconds all the neighbors will be looking  out their windows to see who is out there and sure enough the criminal won't want that. Try it to make sure it works before you rely on it. Just know that you must press the alarm button again to turn it off.

And remember to carry your keys while walking to your car in a parking lot. The alarm can work the same way there.....

JOBS, JOBS, JOBS

Thanks to Gerda Govine, Consultant and Entrepreneur for forwarding the following announcements:

1. YWCA Pasadena-Foothill Valley , Executive Director

The Executive Director serves as an ex-officio member of the Board and reports to the Board of Directors through the Chairperson. The Executive will build and manage a staff and work with the Board of Directors to grow, fundraise and support the YWCA Pasadena-Foothill Valley 's vision and mission. The Executive also works extensively with United Way , volunteers, and the Pacific Region. Specific responsibilities will include:

Administration, Fund Development, Membership Development, Financial Management/Budgets, Program/Leadership Development, Communications, Planning And Evaluation, Board Development/Relations

For more information visit their website at www.ywca.org . Submit resume or nominations in complete confidence to:

Peggy V. Chong, YWCA Board Member and Chair, Search Committee.
Level Five Solutions, Executive Search Consultants
E-mail: peggy@level5solutions.net Office: 818-789-6653; Fax: 818-789-7834

2. City of Pasadena:  PROJECT MANAGER, (Northwest Programs), Recruitment #: 07-008

LAST DATE TO FILE Applications accepted until August 9, 2006, 5:30pm. NO POSTMARKS ACCEPTED.

Apply Online www.cityofpasadena.net/humanresources/currentopenings.asp

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Under direction assists the Northwest Program Manager with the monitoring and implementation of all projects/programs associated with the Northwest Community Plan and the implementation of the 5 redevelopment project areas in Northwest Pasadena . Interfaces with a variety of groups representing the community; assesses and evaluates the needs of the community, and makes recommendations for effective program implementation. Under the direction of the Northwest Manager, exercises independence in the responsibility for assessing the concerns and interests of the community, being sensitive to the issues, and effectively articulating the service needs of the northwestern part of the City of Pasadena . Monitors and ensures the continued implementation of projects/programs for the Northwest Community Plan in concert with policy and program directions; visits sites; confers with the Director on opportunities, issues, and concerns that impact the Northwest community; coordinates activities with other City departments, community agencies and groups; evaluates program effectiveness; prepares reports. Assists and monitors the budgets associated with the Northwest projects and programs. Reviews proposals for funding, project development, real estate negotiations, project implementations related to Northwest projects and programs; participates in developing tactical and operating plans for implementing Northwest activities; prepares written reports and recommendations for the Northwest Program Manager's approval; prepares agendas, minutes, correspondence and reports. Attends a variety of community coalitions, associations and activities. As needed acts as community liaison to the redevelopment project area committees (PACS); as needed attends PAC and Northwest Commission meetings; researches issues related to redevelopment and property maintenance issues projects and makes recommendations. Prepares annual reports, correspondence, agenda reports, flyers and documents. Performs related work as assigned.

3. Full-Time Administrative Assistant

The Western Justice Center Foundation is a Pasadena-based, non-profit organization working with children, communities, schools, governments and courts to assure peaceful conflict resolution and improve access to justice.  WJCF seeks a qualified Full-Time Administrative Assistant to support the work of a rapidly growing non-profit organization. 

Duties:
Provide administrative assistance involving all office functions as required, including answering the phone, word processing, scheduling appointments and maintaining Executive Director's calendar, organizing meetings, drafting correspondence or memoranda, opening and routing mail, maintaining files and records, maintaining databases, duplicating, faxing, ordering supplies, and accomplishing other typical and essential office tasks.

Coordinate preparations for periodic and regular meetings of the Board of Directors and for other board committee meetings as needed.

Assist with arrangements and logistics for periodic events, such as large and small receptions, meal functions, events and selected programmatic meetings involving distinguished guests, donors and programmatic experts.

Please e-mail or fax your resume to:

Jordan Pearlstein, Tel: (626) 584-7494, Fax: (626) 568-8223, Jordan@westernjustice.org

For more information on Western Justice Center Foundation, visit our website at www.westernjustice.org

4. Executive Director
Thanks to Elena Ong, Consultant, for letting us know about this opportunity:

Glendale Healthy Kids (GHK), a non-profit corporation that provides access to medical, dental and mental health services to students in the Glendale Unified School District whose families have limited resources and are without access to health care, seeks Executive Director. With an annual budget of $330,000, GHK also provides health education programs. The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated dynamic leader that can take the organization to the next level. Must have excellent public relations skills, funding development experience, minimum of 2 years as an Executive Director or Coordinator of a multi-faceted program, and BA degree. Candidate will need to be visible in the community to promote the organization and must be able to work with Board of Directors, school personnel, local hospitals and medical providers. Responsibilities will include oversight of volunteer programs, fundraising events, grant applications, budget and supportive staff.

Job location is Glendale , California . This is at a non-profit organization.

Reply to: job-180625241@craigslist.org

5. A CPA friend of mine is looking for a full time employee with accounting background
ASAP.  Salary and benefits commensurate with experience. 

If you know anyone looking for an accounting position, please refer them to Arataxpro@aol.com .

Thanks to Lena Bozoyan, Commissioner, Glendale Women's Commission, for sending us this opportunity.

A LITTLE HISTORY

Thanks to Vickie Siedow for the following:

Women's rights convention held in New York
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led the first women's rights convention today in Seneca Falls, New York. The event helped initiate the battle for women's rights and suffrage. A commentary in the Waukesha Democrat from July 20, 1848, shows the sentiment of the time that these women were fighting. "If woman was more thoughtful and opinionative than she is, she would only be more troublesome to man when he is yoked to her. If woman were not fond of dress and dressing, who could clothe and deck the little children so neatly? Would man do it? And will literary and philosophical women do it? Not they; they suffer their children to go in rags, rather than mend or darn. It requires a fortune to keep a philosophical wife," the paper read in 1848.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY

15 million school children in America come home to empty houses after the school bell rings. City Scholars Foundation is an organization that works to ensure that latch-key kids have meaningful programs to go to after school. 

Their main services are to train program leaders on how to run effective, educational, fun and beneficial programs for school children.

They also help the non-profit organizations that run the after school programs to be effective in the operation of their non-profit. 

City Scholars has grown each year, reaching ever greater numbers of children.  If you have skills that you think would be of use, if you just want to help out in their offices, or are interested in being on their Board, contact Kelli Holden Hogan, Founder and President at 213-627-1792.  You'll be glad you did .

Visit their website at www.cityscholars.org

	Fifty/Fifty Leadership
Promoting women's equal leadership.  Fifty/Fifty Leadership is currently looking for men and women who know that a balance in leadership is good for everyone.  Three programs are in the works: Leadership Circles - A program of portable, affordable small circles of women who want to find their voice and hone their leadership skills Freedom Academy - A year-long program bringing 12 young adult women from developing countries to the US for fast-track leadership training Women and Girls Confidence Conference - A joint collaboration with the YWCA of Glendale that will take place in March, 2007  For more information visit their website at www.Fifty/Fifty.us or call Pauline Field at 818.243.2322 or email at pfield@Fifty/Fifty.us

SUBSCRIPTIONS
A year's subscription is just $12!
Subscriptions to The Equality Standard are $12 per year, prorated monthly. So, for those of you willing and able to pay the subscription, please send a check made payable to Pauline Field for $7 for the period ending December 31, 2006 to Equality Standard, 1315 Ruberta Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201 or complete the credit card information below and email back to PaulineField@charter.net Thank you to those of you who have already subscribed.

FINAL WORDS
These words seem particularly apt in today's troubled world:

"When the Power of Love Overcomes the Love for Power,
the World will Know Peace."

Lucia De Garcia,
Author of Building Bridges of Understanding