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An exciting announcement from The Parent Leadership Training Institute of Alexandria! PLTI has officially announced their Alumni Racial Justice Fellows to host the Alexandria People’s Assembly. Congratulations to this year's fellows! Learn more about PLTI here:
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August 29, 2022
The Parent Leadership Training Institute of Alexandria
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE PARENT LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (PLTI) OF ALEXANDRIA ANNOUNCES OUR ALUMNI RACIAL JUSTICE FELLOWS
The PLTI of Alexandria Board of Directors is pleased to announce ten parent leaders selected today as our PLTI of Alexandria Alumni Racial Justice Fellows:
Angelia Hill - Youth Community Meetings
Bill Campbell -Drivers Licenses
Bill Cleveland - Recognize Overcome Racism Training
Jenny Gutierrez - Employee Nonpayment Claims
Jennifer Murphy - Bail Fund
Salma Ahamed - We Are Series
Sonnja Bennette-Brown - Divert Youth from VADOC
Victoria & Zania Morgan - Home Ownership Education
Zion Abebe - We Are Series
Zohreh Khoshnamak - Science Club Racism Survey
Our board is delighted to announce that a former Children’s Leadership Training Institute participant is also listed as an honorable mention for working in partnership with her mother! These amazing parent leader alumni fellows will help plan and facilitate the Alexandria People’s Assembly on Saturday November 5, 2022. — PLEASE SAVE THE DATE!
Thanks to the generous support of the Horning Foundation, Black Women’s Roundtable Virginia, and Meyer Foundation, the alumni fellows will each receive a mini grant of $2000 to support their alumni advocacy and community building work combating anti-Black racism and advancing racial justice in Alexandria.
Registration opens for the Alexandria People’s Assembly, hosted by PLTI of Alexandria in October. Come join your neighbors as we continue to build on what our community started during the PLTI Alumni Race Equity Forum in 2019.
PLTI is working to promote racial justice through proximity, and people power. In 2018, the PLTI Alumni Association Race Equity Team created a policy evolution timeline that centers the work, and stands on the shoulders of Alexandria’s civil rights leaders drawing a connection between past and present policies impacting Alexandria families. This timeline also outlines the future advocacy required from our parent leaders and residents to create a racially equitable city. In May, 2019, the PLTI Alumni Association Race Equity Team hosted a sold out race equity forum. Sponsored by NPLI, the City of Alexandria, and ACT for Alexandria, 75 attendees engaged in a day of coalition building with city officials, ACPS staff, and community members.
Forum participants reviewed and provided feedback on the policy evolution timeline and also heard from PLTI alumni and experts in the field of race equity. This program included the KAIROS Blanket Exercise, facilitated by the American Indian Alaska Native Program Director for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on behalf of Natives in Philathropy’s Truth and Healing Movement work. The forum hosted Virginia Indigenous and Black history speakers Fredericka Joseph, Chair for the Society of American Indian Government Employee (SAIGE), and the late Nelson E. Greene, Jr., the son of Nelson Greene, one of Alexandria’s Civil Rights Leaders, known as the Concerned Citizens Network. We were also treated to additional local history remarks from Linwood Campbell, and the late James E. Henson, Sr.
Participants were asked the primary PLTI question "If you were to do one thing to create more racial justice in Alexandria, what would it be?" Participants self-selected into breakout groups that blended PLTI’s participant-led community projects into the eight areas of concern listed in the May 1968 Concerned Citizens Network letter written to the Alexandria City Council. The eight areas of racial injustice included housing, city employment, law enforcement and police protection, health and community upkeep, recreation, communication - and education. PLTI Alumni facilitated the forum and led breakout session conversations where participants began identifying possible solutions and collaborations.
There were 2 follow up assemblies prior to the COVID-19 shutdown, including a session dedicated to training alumni and residents to serve on city boards and commissions. The core 20-week class and the upcoming people’s assembly demonstrate how resident-led community building, organizing and engagement makes the City’s All Alexandria Resolution possible.
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FURTHER INFORMATION:
Email:
[email protected]
Website:
http://www.plti-alex.org
Hello PLTI Alumni!
Please read your [Apply Now] PLTI Alexandria Alumni Racial Justice Fellowship! email for details and links
The Parent Leadership Training Institute of Alexandriaa has been awarded a $250,000 grant by the Horning Family Foundation as part of the foundation’s Racial Justice Initiative (RJI). PLTI is slated to receive $50,000 a year over a five-year period beginning in 2022.
PLTI’s Mission Statement says their purpose is to “enable parents to become leading advocates for their children. Parents’ opinions are often unheard. They may lack advocacy skills, but not the motivation or will to change their children’s lives. PLTI teaches parents to become practiced change agents for the next generation.”
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Parent Leadership Training Institute of Alexandria Wins $250,000 From the Horning Family Foundation Racial Justice Initiative grant
PRESS RELEASE
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Contact: Eliza Engle, Board Chair
Email:
[email protected]
Parent Leadership Training Institute of Alexandria
Parent Leadership Training Institute of Alexandria Wins $250,000 From the Horning Family Foundation
(Alexandria, VA) -- Parent Leadership Training Institute of Alexandria (PLTI) has been selected to receive the Horning Family Foundation -- Racial Justice Initiative grant (RJI). RJI is a competitive multi-year social justice initiative intended to support an ecosystem of black-led organizing and advocacy which promotes the efforts, sustainability and long-term health of organizations and people. They believe “that over the long term, healthy organizations, and healthy people have more success in winning campaigns and changing systems.”
The award will provide $50,000/yr of general operating support over five years and reinforce PLTI Alexandria’s efforts to recruit Cohort 12 for the 20-week civic advocacy and leadership program, enhance the alumni network, and implement the People’s Assembly -- a community led framework created during the 2019 PLTI Alumni Association Racial Equity Forum.
The $2.5 million RJI was launched this year by the Horning Family Foundation in response to the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on Black and other communities of color, recent instances of police violence, and calls from activists and social change makers requesting philanthropic organizations invest funding and resources to support the racial justice movement.
Out of 121 applicants, PLTI won this inaugural award alongside 10 other 2021-2025 awardees which include Black Girl Tribe, Black Swan Academy, Collective Action for Safe Spaces, Brookland Manor Brentwood Manors Resident Association, Grassroots DC, Harriet’s Wildest Dreams, Life After Release, Offender Aid and Restoration of Arlington County, PG Changemakers, and Who Speaks for Me.
For more information on PLTI Alexandria please visit
www.plti-alex.org or contact Eliza Engle
[email protected]
🌴Coast to Coast, Parents are leading at home, in schools, in community and at the ballot boxes. 🍂 Join us to learn more from parent leaders on how they are engaging and moving others to action this election season.
There is still time to register for The Parent Policy Table: Voting and the 2020 Election on September 17, 2020 at 4pm PT / 7pm ET. Please register in advance here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrdeihrD4qG9cJP-JQT-gHH5SRG6a81Cq5🙋🏻♀️
Bagels & Bach Concert – December 1
Do you love classical music, but it is difficult to attend a concert because you have to find a babysitter? Or if you go to a concert, it might be too long and your children will not be able to sit through it. Attend one of the “Bagels and Bach” Concerts on the First Sunday of each month. You will enjoy classical, your children will begin to learn how to appreciate classical music and a light brunch, what better way to enjoy a Sunday morning? Doors open at 11 a.m., concert begins at 11:30 a.m.
The Provázek Quartet will be featured at the December 1 concert. Musicians showcased are: Violin - Mia Lunati and Leah Nickelsburg; Viola - Eliza Medearis; and
Cello - Kristianson Dillon.
Tickets are $9. Children 5 years and under are free. Children must be accompanied by at least one adult. To purchase tickets (alexandriava.gov/webtrac), enter in as guest and click on the program you wish to attend. Tickets are also available at the door.
For more information or to request reasonable disability accommodation for any of these programs, contact
[email protected] or 703.746.5565, Virginia Relay 711.
About the Artists
Provázek Quartet
The Provázek Quartet is a professional youth string ensemble performing traditional, romantic, classical and modern music in the Washington, DC metropolitan region. Its members are Mia Lunati (violin), Leah Nickelsburg (violin), Eliza Medearis (viola) and Kristian Dillon (cello). The group formed in the Spring of 2015 with a common goal to challenge themselves to play great music. The members share enthusiasm for romantic compositions and fun music, like tangos and adaptations of popular music. The quartet can be found playing and competing against other talented musicians in the greater Washington, DC area. Their professional engagements include weddings, holiday gatherings, celebrations, and regular "Mornings with Mozart" performances at Nook childrens' play centers.
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