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Ready or not, Here we come - Voices of child care workers
Posted July 19th, 2007 by GretjenWorthy Wage Campaign & Scribe Video Center
Uma Magal with Bob Hering,
If we value our children so much, why is child care one of the lowest paying professions in the country?
The Worthy Wage Campaign of the Delaware Valley is a grassroots effort to organize providers themselves to address the problem of poor compensation in child care. Started in 1991, the Campaign spearheaded the Loan Forgiveness program, organizes yearly advocacy events on Worthy Wage Day, May 1st, has done surveys of salaries and working conditions, leads ongoing training in leadership and advocacy (LEAP), organizes in the workplace in a variety of ways, and helped launch and staff Pennsylvania QUEST as a vehicle for moving forward the compensation agenda in the state.
October 4, 1998 - "Small Beginnings Can Aid Big Changes," by Gerri DiLisi, Philadelphia Inquirer
August 1999 - "Speaking Out for Us," by Cheryl L. Saunders, Worthy Wage Campaign newsletter
February 4, 1999 - Please Touch Musuem (Philadelphia, PA)
May 7, 1999 - Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema (Philadelphia, PA)
International House (Philadelphia, PA)
Worthy Wage Caucus @ National Association for the Education of Young Children Conference (Toronto, Canada)
Delaware Valley Association for the Education of Young Children annual conference (Philadelphia, PA)
Focus on Our Future (York, PA)
Center for the Childcare Workforce national conference
Salford Mennonite CCC (Harleysville, PA)
The Caring Center (Philadelphia, PA
DUTV Channel 54, Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA)
Worthy Wage workshops in Philadelphia, Bucks County, Montgomery County, Millersville, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg
3 leadership development retreats and college courses for child care teachers
Early Intervention staff meeting (Philadelphia, PA)
Currency Of Community
Posted July 18th, 2007 by GretjenTriangle Interests
Dorothea Braemer and Wendy Weinberg
Sometimes it's all about money, honey. Triangle Interests is a lesbian membership association committed to creating opportunities for women to improve their economic status through education and socially responsible investment opportunities. Their video wisely emphasizes the importance of women taking care of their own economic futures and ways women can use their economic power in a positive and constructive manner.
Triangle Interests (TI) is a national lesbian membership association created in 1991 as a 501(c) charitable nonprofit organization. T.I. sponsors Triangle Interests Federal Credit Union (TIFCU), the first and only national lesbian credit union in the United States.
Dorothea Braemer is the Director of Squeaky Wheel Media Center and is a media artist whose work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Anthology Film Archive, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on PBS and festivals in the US and abroad.
Wendy Weinberg is an Assistant Professor of Film/Video at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Weinberg has edited numerous projects, including "Sara Steele: A Portrait", a video about the prominent watercolor artist. In addition, she served as consulting editor for Charlene Gilbert's hour-long documentary, "Homecoming", an ITVS sponsored film airing nationally on PBS in 2000. The film, produced by Kinfolks, is a personal documentary on the history of Black farmers in the South. To date, Weinberg's Academy-Award nominated film, "Beyond Imagining" has screened at over 30 national and international festivals (and numerous other events) and has aired on PBS stations in New York and Philadelphia, as well as Australia, Scandinavia, and Ireland.
September 20, 1996 - Part of Community Visions premiere at International House (Philadelphia, PA)
