OUSD Looking for the offering of Unpaid Internships

From Oakland Unified School District's College and Career Readiness Office comes a request for offering unpaid internships to local students. LINKED HERE is the document "Information for Intern Supervisors and Organizations" from the Academy Directors:

Dear Community Business Leaders,

The College and Career Readiness Office has recognized you as a business partner who has expressed interest in supporting Oakland Unified School District students. 

Do you have a work project that you never seem to get to? These high school students can help! The OUSD Mandela Law and Public Service Academy is looking for host sites to place 11th grade students in unpaid internships this school year.  The purpose of the internship is to give students first-hand experience at a work site where they interact with professionals in a law or public service career field. With your guidance they can complete that work project and contribute to your organization while gaining invaluable real world experience.

The internship would entail:

• January-June 2013, 6 month commitment
• Student spends 2-4 hours per week at the internship host site
• Student completes a pre-assigned work project for your organization 
• You provide orientation to the workplace, sign off on attendance logs and return regular feedback forms by email
• You write a letter of recommendation at the conclusion of the internship if the intern's work is commendable
• Mandela provides an adult contact should questions or difficult situations arise
• Mandela provides feedback tools and attendance logs

Students are available to intern most days after school. Host site supervisors and interns will arrange specific work times.

Please contact Patricia or Ellen if you are interested in linking your industry expertise to classroom learning.

Patricia Arabia
MLPSA Coordinator
(510) 207-2447
arabia2@gmail.com

or

Ellen Salazar
MLPSA Consultant
(510) 409-1308
ellensalazar1@gmail.com
Your partnership with OUSD is a critical asset in the Linked Learning approach to prepare students, Oakland's future workforce, to succeed in college and career.

RFP for San Francisco Parking Pricing & Regulation Study

From time to time, the Chamber is made aware of local business opportunities and projects relevant to our members and other community based organizations. See below for the most recent opportunity spotlight from the SFCTA:

Request for Proposals to Provide Technical Consultant Services for the San Francisco Parking Pricing and Regulation Study (RFP 12/13-03).

The San Francisco County Transportation Authority is inviting proposals to this Request for Proposals (RFP 12/13-03) from interested firms for technical consultant services for the San Francisco Parking Pricing and Regulation Study. The proposal must respond to the scope of services described in Section III of the RFP. 

A pre-proposal conference will be held on November 20, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. at the Authority's offices. Individuals interested in attending the pre-proposal conference, please provide the correct spelling of your first and last name to Lindsey Miller (e-mail lindsey.miller@sfcta.org ) by November 20, 2012 at 12:00 noon.

Questions may be submitted in writing on or before November 21, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. by mail, fax or e-mail to the attention of Lily Yu, Senior Management Analyst (fax 415.522.4829, e-mail lily.yu@sfcta.org ). The answers to questions will be made available on the Authority's website, www.sfcta.org, by November 27, 2012. Any addenda to the RFP will also be made available on the Authority's website, prior to the proposal due date.

The RFP is LINKED HERE and currently available on the Authority’s website, www.sfcta.org.

Proposals are due by December 18, 2012 at 2:00 p.m., at the Authority's Offices.

Advice to President Obama – A Call to Non-Profit Leaders

The President and all of our elected officials need to hear our voices, individually and collectively. Following a practice initiated by “The Chronicle of Philanthropy,” the Oakland Chamber Non-Profit Roundtable is inviting you to participate in a collection of messages to the President, to provide information, advice and guidance to him and his administration as they proceed over the next four years. What advice would you give them as they develop their non-profit agenda? What would you like to see happen? There are many issues already under discussion, such as tax laws regarding donations, federal funding for social services and the arts, and employment.

We want to collect these messages and then forward them on as organizations/companies/businesses with a stake in our community and our country. Please write pointedly and submit your message to Non-Profit Roundtable Co-Chair Jerry Metzker (jerry.metzker@bayer.com) or Ana-Marie Jones (amj@CARDcanhelp.org) November 30, and then we’ll compile them and share them – with our elected officials and each other.

The election is only the beginning. Now we get to work.

RFP for Port of Oakland Designated Aviation Channeling Services

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

For

Port of Oakland

Designated Aviation Channeling Services

 

No Pre-Proposal Conference is scheduled.

Proposal Due Date:  Thursday, December 6, 2012

Proposal Due Time: 11:00 a.m.

The Port has posted the Request for Proposals (RFP) in digital format on a hosting website that can be accessed via the ‘Current RFPs/RFQs/Procurements/Other Business Interests: All Other Port Departments’ link at the following URL:  http://portofoakland.com/business/rfpsrfqs.asp.  Proposing parties should carefully review the requirements of the RFP to ensure that they meet all of the stated requirements.

Election Results - City of Oakland

Unofficial it looks like these are your Oakland election results:

 

City Attorney:                         Barbara Parker   

City Council D1:                     Dan Kalb  52%   Amy Lemley 48%    **

City Council D3:                     Lynette Gibson-McElhaney 54%    Sean Sullivan 46%  **

City Council D5:                     Noel Gallo

City Council D7:                     Larry Reid     

City Council At Large:           Rebecca Kaplan 

 

School Board D1:                   Jody London          

School Board D1:                   Jumoke Hinton-Hodge

School Board D1:                   Rosie Torres        

School Board D1:                   James Harris        

 

State Assembly 18:      Rob Bonta 50.79% (50,028 votes)  Abel Guillen 49.21%  (48,470 votes) only 1,558 votes separate **

 

** provisional ballots could change things

Ca High Speed Rail Authority Small Business Opportunity Conference

Invitation to Bid - Design Build of Outer Harbor at Oakland Army Base

From time to time, the Chamber is made aware of local business opportunities and projects relevant to our members and other community based organizations. See below for the most recent opportunity spotlight from the Port of Oakland:

 *** ATTENTION COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS***

 

INVITATION TO BID

DESIGN BUILD OF OUTER HARBOR

INTERMODAL TERMINAL RAILYARD, PHASE 1

AT THE FORMER OAKLAND ARMY BASE, OAKLAND, CA

 

Mandatory Pre-Proposal Conference, scheduled as follows:

9:00 AM on Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Port of Oakland Building

Exhibit Room, Ground Floor

530 Water Street

Oakland, California

 

Proposal Due Date:  Monday, January 14, 2013

Proposal Due Time:  2:00 p.m.

The Port has posted the Project Manual in digital format on a hosting website that can be accessed via the “Bid Notices: Port of Oakland Engineering Department” link at the following URL: http://www.portofoakland.com/business/bidnotic.asp   Proposing bidders should carefully review the requirements in the project manual to ensure that they meet all of the stated requirements.