This year we are joining forces with the FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and The Miami Foundation to directly impact our community. On November 19, 2020, we will be supporting the Green Family Foundation NeighborhoodHELP Food Insecurity Initiative that is truly making a difference in the lives of those in need.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, our NeighborhoodHELP households have experienced many challenges, including great economic hardship due to the loss of employment and other factors. Food insecurity has been a major concern. In response, the Green Family Foundation NeighborhoodHELP Food Insecurity Initiative is organizing bi-weekly food sorting and distribution to households. For every $100, this initiative can make 40 meal deliveries to families in need.

The Green Family Foundation will be matching all gifts up to $5,000. Make a difference today in the lives of those who are experiencing food insecurity as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and DOUBLE your impact!

https://www.givemiamiday.org/NeighborhoodHELP

The Green Space Initiative – Green Space Miami Announces Open Call for BIPoC Artists

Green Space Miami is the Green Family Foundation’s new art space. Guided by the Foundation’s principles of inclusion, community empowerment and education, Green Space Miami centers marginalized stories, hosted in a space for dialogue. Green Space Miami’s mission is to be a catalyst for action collaborating with community partners and educational institutions. Located in the MiMo Biscayne Boulevard Historic District, Green Space Miami will open to the public as soon as possible. Today Green Space Miami launches its inaugural initiative, to begin working with artists in our community currently unable to exhibit or teach, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Green Space Initiative is an open call for BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) artists based in Miami-Dade County. The Green Space Initiative will grant $5,000 each to ten visual artists selected by an advisory committee of arts and education leaders. The works of selected artists will be brought together in an exhibition as soon as it is safe to do so. Through a series of online events and a group exhibition, The Green Space Initiative works to support and promote Miami-Dade County’s artists.
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WHO:​ The Green Space Initiative seeks to support BIPoC professional artists based in Miami-Dade County who have lost income due to projects, exhibitions, and educational roles being cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Excludes currently employed full-time college professors and K-12 teachers.

ELIGIBLE WORK:​ Painting, photography, other two-dimensional art processes and techniques, sculpture, installation and video. The Green Space Initiative seeks artists whose practice illuminates the conversations around critical social issues such as race, gender identity, immigration, justice system reform, access to healthcare, and education.
SELECTION PROCESS:​ The Green Space Initiative invites artists to submit artworks until October 31, 2020. All applications will be reviewed, and ten works will be selected by the Green Space Initiative advisory committee.

AWARDS:​ A one-time grant of $5,000 each will be made to ten visual artists in recognition of artworks selected by the advisory committee. The Green Space Initiative will announce the selected artists before the end of the year. Selected artworks will be exhibited together when it is safe to do so.

Artists are invited to apply ​here​. Please help us reach Miami’s artists by sharing this announcement with your networks.

The Green Family Foundation NeighborhoodHELP (Health Education Learning Program) continues to engage underserved communities and increase access to healthcare in uncertain times. Despite their mobile health centers not operating, the NeighborhoodHELP Outreach Team continues to connect households to services in the community.
The team is reaching out to each of the 800 households they serve to find out what they can do for them. Armed with personal protective equipment (PPE), physician assistants have been making house calls for those that need special care. They bring groceries, medicine refills, medical equipment, and anything else their patients need.
“This is extremely important because minorities—blacks and Hispanics—and the socioeconomically disadvantaged experience health disparities and social conditions that put them at higher risk for contracting the virus,” said Dr. David Brown, chief of Family and Community Medicine. “We want to help them stay healthy.”

Read the full article here.

Launched in January 2018 to focus on global relations and U.S. foreign policy, the Dorothea Green Lecture Series emerged to focus on the most prominent global issues of today. To continue furthering this goal, the series' annual State of the World conference is returning for its third year in a row.

Being the first of its kind in Miami, the two-day State of the World conference has brought in dozens of the world's leading experts in foreign policy and global affairs, including former ambassadors, top journalists, current and former U.S. administration officials.

“This event has truly become a major highlight of the year for me personally and for so many of us at FIU and at the Green School,’’ said John F. Stack, Jr., Founding Dean of the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs. “Within the major conference circuit, the State of the World is making its mark by being the first one of the year and a must-attend event.”

State of the World 2020 is co-hosted by the Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs, the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University and The American Interest.

View the full program agenda and registration at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/state-of-the-world-2020-tickets-84735162151.