Title: Community Mural Painting Day
Location: CARR Hardware, Great Barrington
Description: Join artists Brett Parson and Jake Reiny as they lead the community in an all-hands-on repainting of the WEB Du Bois mural in Great Barrington!
Date: 2010-07-25

RSYP seeks creative, intelligent, high-functioning adults for two exciting positions:

MANAGING DIRECTOR: Railroad Street Youth Project seeks to hire a Managing Director for its vibrant youth empowerment organization. Must be a visionary and engaging leader, an experienced manager, a strategic thinker and deeply committed to social services. This is a small, lean organization where all staff play a direct, hands-on role. The Managing Director must excel at balancing multiple tasks, including internal management of staff and programs, cultivating external relationships with key stakeholders and allies, and the demands of working in a fluid, fast-paced environment. The Managing Director must work strategically to advance the organization’s goals and to ensure that it is fiscally and programmatically sound. Fundraising, grant management and financial oversight experience a plus. This is a full-time salaried position that will begin Sept. 1, 2010. Please send cover letter, resume with salary history and three references to lannie@rsyp.org by June 20.

MENTORING AMERICORPS POSITION: The Ambassador of Mentoring will serve as the Mentoring Program Coordinator for the 2010-2011 program year, which runs 8/2/2010 through 7/31/2011. Responsibilities will include: recruiting and screening mentors and mentees; facilitating mentor/mentee trainings; facilitating mentor/mentee activities, including the annual Mentoring celebration; data input and analysis in evaluation database and researching, creating and disbursing program marketing materials. Please send cover letter, resume and three references to: Marla Robertson, email marla@rsyp.org or call (413)-528-2475.

On Monday, April 12 at 6:00pm, The Red Lion Inn will host a culinary arts program dinner NOT TO BE MISSED!  We’ll be celebrating the great city of NEW ORLEANS with a cajun family-style menu, live jazz music, and a raffle drawing that will knock your socks off.  As you know, we have an enthusiastic team of six who will be volunteering with the St. Bernard Project during April vacation to help rebuild homes in the lower ninth ward.  Proceeds from this dinner and raffle will help send local youth on their very first service trip to the great city of NEW ORLEANS!

The cajun dinner will be prepared by students from the prominent Berkshire Culinary Arts Program, which is under the fantastic direction of Red Lion Inn Executive Chef Brian Alberg, BRIX’s Daire Rooney, and John Andrew’s Dan Smith.

A team of youth musicians from Monument Mountain High School Jazz Band, including saxaphonist extraordinnaire Tyler Gasek, will welcome guests with the sounds of great jazz tunes old and new.

Tickets are $100/person, but if you’ve attended a dinner before you qualify for our special spring price of $75.  For parties of 2-4, you can reserve your tickets online using Red Lion Inn’s open table reservation system.

Reservations by phone, call The Red Lion Inn:  413-298-5545.  For special Spring pricing, email lannie@rsyp.org.