Bread & Roses Community Fund (BRCF) is a unique partnership of donors and activists who share a vision for a just society in which power and resources are distributed equitably. Bread & Roses was originally founded in 1970 as the People’s Fund – a radical anti-establishment social justice fund – and was re-established in 1977 as Bread & Roses Community Fund. Bread & Roses raises money from individual donors in the community to provide grants, technical assistance, and leadership development to constituent-led, grassroots, social change organizations in the Philadelphia region. The grants BRCF gives are raised and distributed by a cross-race, cross-class, inter-generational group of community members. Bread & Roses centers all of its work around its motto: change, not charity.

Program Associate Position 1- Giving Project Team
The Program Associate reports to the Director of Donor Organizing and will provide administrative support for the Giving Project team. In this role, the Fellow will be a part of all planning sessions for Giving Project meetings. This includes developing logistics agendas, arranging for childcare, and ordering supplies and food for each Giving Project meeting. The Fellow will attend all Giving Project meetings, lead in room set-up/clean-up, while maintaining a high level of hospitality during Giving Project meetings. In addition to supporting the facilitation team, the Fellow will be responsible for taking photos at Giving Project meetings, taking notes during decision-making processes, and responding to any emerging needs of participants and/or the facilitation team.

The Program Associate will take the lead in managing logistics for Meet the Changemakers, a special event in which Giving Project participants meet with grassroots organizers that have received a grant from Bread & Roses. The Program Associate will be responsible for contacting and confirming groups, creating outreach materials, ordering food and supplies and handling on-site logistics for the event. Working closely with the Giving Project facilitation team, the Program Associate will also coordinate with the other staff to schedule interviews with applicant groups and Giving Project participants.

As part of the Giving Project team, the Fellow will have a variety of opportunities to learn about PoC-centered strategies for group facilitation and curriculum building in a highly collaborative environment.

Program Associate Position 2- Under Grant making Director
The position will include: researching and interacting with grassroots community organizers and other local leaders; reviewing and cataloging grant proposals from a wide array of community organizations; and coordinating events for the wider Bread & Roses community.

As the first point of contact for grassroots community organizers within the organization, the QVS Fellow will be responsible for aiding and supporting organizations as they complete their applications. Throughout the year, the QVS Fellow will be responsible for scheduling interviews and site visits with these same organizers. By following actions, movements, and victories around the city, the Fellow will contribute to the Bread & Roses newsletter and internal knowledge of the organization’s grantees.

The QVS Fellow will serve as project manager for our annual Jonathan Lax Scholarship for Gay Men Reception. The reception marks the culmination of the Lax scholarship application process that the Fellow will have managed over the course of their year. The reception happens in the second half of the QVS year, when the Fellow has gained enough experience to take the reins.

There is no typical day in the life of a Bread & Roses Community Fund QVS Fellow, and we like to think that’s what makes it so exciting!

Germantown Friends School is dedicated to reaching that of God in every person. Their mission is to seek truth, challenge the intellect, honor differences, embrace the city, and nurture each student’s mind, body and spirit. They are a Friends school, under the care of Germantown Monthly Meeting, founded on the belief that there is that of God in everyone. Together, love and respect for each individual provide the premise for all that we do. We regard education not as training for a particular way of life, but as part of a lifelong process, and as we guide and encourage our students in their personal growth, we try to cultivate and support in them principles that Friends have long considered to have lasting value. Among these are truthfulness, simplicity and self-discipline, the resolution of differences without violence, and respect for diverse heritages and experiences.

Assistant Teacher

The QVS Fellow will take on the responsibilities of a Lower School Assistant Teacher. We expect everyone working in the Lower School to support the mission of our school, including its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, and our Quaker identity. Fellows should enjoy engaging with curious, thoughtful children and collaborating with creative and intellectual colleagues. At GFS, to help guide us, students and faculty use the acronym “SPICES” to remember the individual testimonies of Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality, and Stewardship.

In this role, the QVS Fellow will support students one-on-one in the classroom during learning, lead small group lessons as appropriate, supervise recess and lunch, prepare classroom materials, and fully participate in the school community. Additional duties may include support during arrival, dismissal, and escorting students on campus. The QVS Fellow will participate as an observer in the Quaker Life Committee and the Lower School Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committees, and attend relevant grade-level, division-wide, and all-school meetings as relevant. The hours are 7:30am-3:00pm Monday-Friday; recognizing the Fellow will be involved in immersive QVS training every other Friday. This position is for on-campus instruction and may also involve remote instruction. The QVS fellow will adhere to the tenets of the Social Compact for our Covid-19 safety practices and uphold all protocols for risk mitigation. We welcome QVS fellows who share our enthusiasm for teaching and learning within a collaborative environment that is inspired by our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Summer Program:
The QVS Fellow will continue in this placement through June and July in a supporting role to the GFS Summer Program. Responsibilities may include working with children or otherwise supporting the general summer camp program at Germantown Friends.

Historic Fair Hill's mission is to preserve our historic Quaker burial ground, and assure that its history and the ideals of the people interred there continue to speak to the world, and act as a collaborative partner in the revitalization of the Fairhill community.

Historic Fair Hill was founded in 1994 to restore the 4.5 acre burial ground of Lucretia and James Mott, Robert and Harriet Purvis and other abolitionists and early women's rights activists and to carry forward their work for justice and equality. For the next 27 years it has expanded its program to serve families in the neighborhood in public schools, gardens, and community events.

Program Fellow

Our program supports gardening, school partnership, and community initiatives. The program fellow will assist in a variety of tasks related to these areas. These include: working to re-open school libraries, leading field trips, helping develop participation in community gardens, co-planning and facilitating community gatherings, helping to deepen education program with attention to equity work., assist with various administrative tasks.

Pendle Hill was established in 1930 as a Quaker study center designed to prepare its adult students for service both in the Religious Society of Friends and in the world. Pendle Hill was meant to be different from existing Quaker schools or colleges, which were mainly academic. Its mission was both educational and religious: Pendle Hill was to be a school, rooted in Quaker community life, where students and staff would live according to Quaker principles and practices and where learning would be experiential as well as intellectual.

The founders of Pendle Hill included well-known Quaker spiritual leaders, teachers, and business people such as Rufus Jones of Haverford, Henry Cadbury of Bryn Mawr, William and Hannah Clothier Hull of Swarthmore, George Walton of George School and his brother, J. Barnard Walton, Agnes Tierney of Coulter Street Meeting, Germantown, and D. Robert Yarnall, who was to clerk the Board for 24 years. The first director was Henry Hodgkin, a respected British Quaker who played a large role in naming Pendle Hill after the hill climbed by George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, in 1652, from which he saw “a great people to be gathered.” Henry Hodgkin wrote: “The name of Pendle Hill symbolizes the call to climb to spiritual heights through hard thinking and self-discipline…to see deeper into the meaning of life and farther out into the great world, and to come down, as did Fox from Pendle Hill, with a fresh zest for the service which reaches to ‘that of God’ in all…”

Central to the vision of the Pendle Hill community and the influence that it seeks to exert in the larger world are: peace, truth-speaking and integrity, equality, simplicity, and reaching out to that of God in every one. Further, Pendle Hill seeks to uphold education, sustainability, and social action and justice as key values and practices for and within our work.

At this moment our organization have a reduced staff of 19 people but we serve more that 5,000 people at year in our different programs and through our conference service. We are committed to radical hospitality as a testimony of simplicity and inclusion.

Education Program Assistant

The Education Program Assistant, under supervision of the Director of Education, would manage tech support for 10 different Pendle Hill online programs, ranging in topic from Quaker Clerking to Reparations and Mindfulness. The Fellow will work collaboratively with the Education Coordinator to recruit speakers and envision content for First Monday Lectures in December, March, and May, as well as for the annual Young Adult Friend conference, Continuing Revolution, in early June. The Fellow would spend 30% of their time supporting on-campus programs (as COVID safety permits following statewide public health rules) through welcoming leaders, orienting groups, and managing the collection of evaluations. The Education Program Assistant would manage social media posts for upcoming programs and general advertising, and work collaboratively with the Education Coordinator on program evaluation and grant reporting. This work, both online and in-person, would bring the Fellow in regular contact with Pendle Hill’s guests and public audience, which skews over 50 and white, but includes people of diverse ages and backgrounds from the region and (online) internationally. Our guests come in three primary ways: Pendle Hill coordinated educational programs; retreats as a part of other organizations and groups; self-guided, personal sojourns. This position will primarily work in the first realm but relate closely to other departments welcoming guests. Qualifications include strong organizational skills including the ability to simultaneously attend to immediate needs and long-range planning; excellent communication and writing skills; experience and comfort in creating content for professional social media posts; familiarity with the Religious Society of Friends.

Pennsylvania Health Access Network (PHAN) is a consumer focused organization working to expand access and improve the quality of the Commonwealth's health coverage options. Since 2007, PHAN has brought consumer voices into discussions of health equity, reaching vulnerable populations in underserved communities.

PHAN has brought together health care consumers and community organizations to advocate for expanded access to health care in Pennsylvania since 2007. PHAN blends coalition-building and policy advocacy with our unique model of community health organizing that focuses on supporting and empowering consumers to get the treatment they need and become advocates for better healthcare in their local communities and statewide. PHAN has a long history of successful campaigns, including expanding Medicaid in Pennsylvania; protecting seniors’ access to care in Western PA; mobilizing Pennsylvanians to defend the Affordable Care Act, and building a group of housing and health advocates to push for needed housing services available through Medicaid.

Regardless of the policy issue, PHAN prioritizes bringing consumer voices and stories to the forefront of the debate and has a deep, successful history of engaging vulnerable populations in discussions that will ultimately impact their access to care and build a more equitable health system. PHAN also provides technical assistance and policy and communications expertise to its 550+ diverse community partners, who participate in PHAN-led coalitions on such issues as: opposing Medicaid work requirements, ending surprise medical billing, and supportive housing services. PHAN’s advocacy work is built on the organization’s direct connections with communities – both rural and urban- throughout Pennsylvania. As a federally-certified healthcare navigator organization, PHAN’s staff enrolls people in Medicaid, CHIP, and marketplace coverage. Over the past five years, PHAN has enrolled over 9,500 in healthcare coverage and fielded tens of thousands more calls through our statewide helpline.

Community Health Organizer
The OVS Fellow is integral to PHAN running its statewide helpline, which provides phone assistance to people from all over Pennsylvania who wouldn't otherwise have help. While much of the work is done over the phone, people are often calling PHAN out of frustration or even desperation, because they have not been able to get health insurance or have struggled with problems with their health plan. These people often need a reassuring voice and someone willing to go beyond what a normal "call center" would do to provide real solutions and hope when they need it the most. We do this in a way that feels friendly, open, and supportive. All of this work we do to uncover the hidden problems in our health system and elevate it for advocacy to change the system.

This is a critical part of our advocacy process, and involves a lot of details. The Fellow answers phone calls, helps identify the problem or issue, and works with callers to directly resolve that problem or issue by referring them to resources, enrolling them in health insurance coverage, filing a complaint or appeal, or helping the consumer call another entity, like a health plan, doctor, hospital, or state agency. The Fellow screens uninsured individuals and educates them about health insurance options, helps people make informed decisions in an impartial way, listens to a consumer's needs and explains options to them, and often provides intensive support and follow up. All along the way, the fellow documents the process and interactions.

Ultimately, the Fellow is engaged in other forms of advocacy and engaged in broader community outreach. The Fellow also helps collect people's stories and prepares them to speak publicly about their healthcare experiences. When possible, the Fellow can help PHAN develop community members as leaders to include furthering meaningful community dialogue around health issues, barriers, and people-focused solutions.

SEAMAAC's mission is to support and serve immigrants and refugees and other politically, socially and economically marginalized communities as they seek to advance the condition of their lives in the United States. SEAMAAC envisions a strong and unified society, where immigrants and refugees work alongside other Americans to build shared political, economic and social power. We envision a community where the contributions of each generation of Americans, whether native to this land, immigrant, or brought against their will, are equally acknowledged, valued and embraced, and where all people live whole, healthy lives with joy and dignity.

SEAMAAC (founded in 1984, as the Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition) is one of the oldest and largest refugee-founded agencies in the region. The founding vision was to unite Philadelphia’s Southeast Asian organizations into a dynamic refugee-led coalition. This allowed small ethnic communities to share resources, and created a unified voice for the city’s Southeast Asian community. Over time, SEAMAAC’s scope of work expanded; our services now engage immigrants from 5 continents as well as US-born Philadelphians of every ethnicity.

Today, SEAMAAC has two South Philadelphia offices and one youth program site. Immigrant/refugee family wellness services include: support groups; art therapy; basic needs; intimate partner violence/domestic violence services; health education and access to care; elders programs; public benefits enrollment; health insurance enrollment; employment support; ESL classes, digital literacy; family literacy; citizenship application assistance; and community development. SEAMAAC’s Education Department works with racially diverse children, youth, and their families in West, Southwest, and Lower Northeast Philadelphia. SEAMAAC’s “Hip Hop Heritage” afterschool and summer program engages youth in hip hop arts activities. SEAMAAC also coordinates a nonpartisan voter registration/mobilization effort for Asian American-serving organizations in PA.

Fellow Position: Community Development Associate

The QVS Fellow (Community Development Associate) will have a variety of duties and responsibilities that follow the wide variety of our cutting edge and impactful Community Development work. Core to the job includes helping manage our South 7th Street Shops organizing work, which supports immigrant-owned small businesses in South Philadelphia. Experience working with small businesses, loan coordination and financing, and working in diverse community organizing or development is preferred. Additionally, the Associate will be helping to manage daily operations of its South Philadelphia East (SoPhiE) Food Truck Business Incubator Program. Experience with catering / food service and driving larger vehicles or food trucks is desired but not required for the position. The Fellow may also help manage the overall SoPhiE program, communicating with chefs (who use the truck as a small business incubator), driving the truck to and from events, connecting to additional events, and overseeing the budget of the SoPhiE program under the supervision of the Director of Community Development.

In addition, SEAMAAC’s Community Development work includes helping to support and coordinate planned work and improvements at Mifflin Square Park, implementing broad community outreach and engagement, supporting the ongoing Neighborhood Plan and implementation work, and supporting the Growing Home immigrant gardens. Again, many residents and businesses SEAMAAC serves are BIPOC, immigrant and LEP. Bilingual capability in specific Asian languages and/or Spanish is preferred. The QVS Fellow should be outgoing. Most of SEAMAAC’s population is BIPOC and we encourage BIPOC and those with diverse backgrounds and language skills additional to English to apply.