Development Specialist for Grants and Foundation Relationships
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Development Specialist for Grants & Foundation Relationships Highlander is searching for a talented, self-starting, and organized Development Specialist for Grants & Foundation Relationships to join our Development & Communications staff. The role will help Highlander acquire grant support and other philanthropic funding by telling the story and impact of Highlander’s educational and accompaniment […]
Development Coordinator
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Development Coordinator (Full-Time, Salaried, Exempt) The Highlander Research and Education Center seeks a full-time Development Coordinator to support and lead the staff that is responsible for cultivating and stewarding foundation and individual gifts and relationships, creatively building and nurturing an organizational culture of power-building through fund- and friend-raising, and educating donors about Highlander’s […]
Bookkeeper/Fiscal Specialist
Bookkeeper/Fiscal Specialist Organization Summary The Highlander Research and Education Center is a 90 year-old popular education center that works with grassroots groups in Appalachia and across the U.S. South to promote social and economic justice. Highlander’s long and proud history includes cutting edge work with labor education and organizing, the Civil Rights Movement, environmental justice […]
Human Resources Manager / Gerente de Recursos Humanos
Human Resources Manager // Gerente de Recursos HumanosHighlander Research and Education Center [Note: Actual title to be consistent with Highlander’s current titling structure is “People and Culture Coordinator”] // [Nota: El título real para ser consistente con la estructura de cargos actual de Highlander es “Coordinadx de Personas y Cultura”] The Highlander Mission // La […]
Radical Hospitality: Housekeeping Crew Member
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Radical Hospitality Housekeeping Crew Member (Part-Time Salary) Highlander is searching for a talented, self-motivated, and detail-oriented Housekeeper to serve on the Radical Hospitality team. The Radical Hospitality team provides hospitality to Highlander’s visiting program participants and other guests. As a member of the team with whom guests will often interact most directly and […]
Uganda: Vaccine Apartheid, Linking our Global Struggles: A Collaboration between Highlander and Equal Health’s Campaign Against Racism Chapters
https://vimeo.com/652211981 In this segment of our As We Re/Gather collaboration with Equal Health’s international chapters of its Campaign Against Racism, CAR’s Uganda chapter lays out the impact of vaccine inequity, Western capitalism, and systemic racism on public health and the livelihoods of Ugandans, with clear calls to action on vaccine access and redistribution of wealth […]
Linking our Global Struggles: A Collaboration between Highlander and Equal Health’s Campaign Against Racism Chapters / India
This period has made it obvious that we are much more connected than we think and that artificial barriers created because of race, gender, caste, class, religion, geography, physical ability, sexual orientation etc. are not so clear cut in the face of a pandemic. Of course the pandemic also laid bare for us the huge […]
Linking our Global Struggles: A Collaboration between Highlander and Equal Health’s Campaign Against Racism Chapters
Over the course of our As We Re/Gather project this year, we invited folks to share their stories and experiences emerging from the last 18 months amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, attacks on democracy, and uprisings to defend Black lives. In the U.S., we have experienced our global connectedness and interdependency in new ways, while […]
adrienne maree brown and Makani Themba on hope and possibilities
Highlander Board Co-Chair Makani Themba and adrienne maree brown joined us at Highlander’s 2021 Homecoming to bring light and love in a conversation about what is possible in this moment and for our emergence from this historic period of loss and change.
How Grief Shapes Our Work
Highlander Co-Executive Directors Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson and Allyn Maxfield-Steele join in another conversation as part of our As We Re/Gather project, reflecting on how grief shapes our work and is vital to hold and honor in this period of loss and extended uncertainties. “How do we prepare ourselves for collective grief, and the ways that […]