Announcing the 2012 AJWS Marathon Team!
We are thrilled to announce this year’s AJWS Marathon Team. The lucky runners were picked from a lottery, due to an overwhelming interest in the team.
Congratulations Team AJWS!
Rachel Ackerman
Jonathan Elkin
Joshua Koretsky
Miriam Lamey
Evan Schultz
Thank you for running 26.2 miles to help AJWS work to realize human rights and end poverty in the developing world.
An Evening of Service: Help Newly Arrived Immigrants Rebuild Their Careers in the U.S.
Join an AJWS colleague organization, Upwardly Global for a night of volunteering. Upwardly Global is a national award-winning nonprofit organization with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. They help work-authorized, skilled immigrants rebuild their careers in the U.S. by providing professional job-search training and access to employers with global talent needs. To date, the organization has coached 2,400 skilled immigrants and has assisted over 1,100 professionals back into their career field at companies such as: JPMorgan Chase, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Accenture as well as hundreds of small-medium businesses, nonprofits and government entities.
The goal of the evening of service is to help new immigrants practice their interview skills. Upwardly Global partners with companies and organizations to host mock-interview sessions for their career seekers to get feedback on their resumes and most importantly, practice interviewing.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
6:00 to 8:30 p.m.
AJWS Offices
45 W. 36th Street, 11th Floor
To RSVP email Alexis Kort at akort@ajws.org by Friday, May 18.
A Foodie’s Take on the Farm Bill
I think of myself as a foodie. Maybe not a spend-25%-of-my-salary-on-pickled-lamb-tongue omnivore — not even someone who would choose pickled lamb tongue off the menu — but someone who buys organic, goes to the farmer’s market on Sundays, and appreciates not only how my food tastes, but how it was grown, made, packaged and sold. I also read enough to know that the story of how my food got to my plate is hardly straightforward, shaped by a tangled web of political, economic, and cultural forces. (Global ones, too: just see where your salad comes from.) more »
