Dayton Foundation awards $200k to nonprofits | Dayton Business Journal

The Dayton Foundation recently awarded more than $203,000 combined to nine charitable organizations in the Dayton area.

The grants are part of more than $14.2 million in grants the foundation has awarded this year.

Grant recipients are:

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Miami Valley, which received $20,250 to help implement a strategic plan to better address the needs of Dayton area youth by increasing the organizations donor base and recruiting more volunteers.

Cityfolk, which received $20,000 to assist in partnering with the Muse Machine to enhance the arts education efforts in five Neighborhood School Centers that are Dayton Public Schools.

Community Health Centers of Greater Dayton, which received $25,000 to further the centers ability to provide affordable health care to individuals in need by offering full dental services to children and adults.

Comprehensive Community Child Care Organization, which received $22,900 to help improve the quality of early childhood education by providing scholarships to childcare center staff for specialized training.

Dayton Theatre Guild, which received $10,000 to aid in replacing the roof of the Guilds Wayne Avenue location.

Muse Machine, which received $25,000 to enhance in-school programming for middle school students, including creating radio documentaries with WYSO 91.3FM and various art projects in partnership with Wright State University.

Preble County Historical Society Inc., which received $25,000 to aid in building a multi-purpose outdoor amphitheater for community events and programming.

Sinclair Community College Foundation, which received $10,000 to help enhance the Project READ adult literacy program by converting a part-time position to full-time status.

Grants focus on building a system of quality early care and education in Illinois

McCormick Foundation Board of Directors has approved nearly $5 million in grants over two years to 17 organizations as part of its goal to help build a system of quality early care and education for children ages birth through eight in Illinois. The approved grants address public policy issues, such as adequate funding and quality standards for early education, and issues supporting a quality infrastructure, including principal preparation and early math.

"Illinois is a leader in early care and education and these grants will help Illinois sustain that work," said Sara Slaughter, the Foundation's education program director. The grants also continue to improve state policy and move us closer to achieving a system of quality early care and education for children from birth to third grade in the state of Illinois."

To support implementation of this new legislation, the Foundation has awarded grants to New Leaders for New Schools ($300,000) supporting the addition of high quality early education components to their alternative certification principal preparation program and to Illinois State University ($330,000) to provide technical assistance to other key higher education institutions to ensure quality as their programs are redesigned to conform to the new legislation. The Foundation has awarded grants to Erikson Institute ($450,000) to adapt its early math professional development program to a curriculum that community colleges can apply to early childhood teaching candidates and University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center (NORC) ($107,000) to develop teaching strategies tied to early math assessments so teachers can draw on different teaching strategies when they discover students have not mastered early math concepts. Grants designed to increase the skills of teachers in areas other than early math include: Big Shoulders Fund ($240,000), Teach for America ($115,000), and Kohl Children's Museum ($150,000).

Supporting Early Care and Education Programs and Professionals that Develop Tools to Help At-Risk Children and Families Succeed
Children of military families experience many mental health challenges that teachers and others in early education are not trained to address. The Foundation has awarded grants to Zero to Three ($90,000) to support the completion and distribution of a set of training materials for childcare providers who serve military children and their families experiencing stress and to Sesame Workshop ($180,000), supporting the development and implementation of a child resiliency initiative a multimedia educational outreach project designed to help children ages two to eight years old, in both military and civilian families, cope with stress and trauma.

Maintaining Funding and Policy Supports for a System of Quality Early Care and Education

The Foundation has awarded four public policy grants: Latino Policy Forum ($320,000), which will focus on the needs of the growing Latino population; Shriver Center on Poverty Law ($160,000), which will focus on policies and programs affecting lower-income, working families; Advance Illinois ($125,000), which will focus on a birth to age 20 educational continuum; and Council for a Strong America ($220,000), which will bring the voices of law enforcement officials to bear on early education policy issues.

To date, the McCormick Foundation has invested more than $96 million to help build a system of quality early care and education in Illinois for all children ages birth through eight. McCormick Foundation is committed to fostering communities of educated, informed and engaged citizens.Through philanthropic programs, Cantigny Park and museums, the Foundation helps develop citizen leaders and works to make life better in our communities.The Foundation was established as acharitable trust in 1955, upon the death of Colonel Robert R.

ING Adds $50,000 Contribution to its Minot Flood Relief Efforts -- MINOT, N.D., June 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

MINOT, N.D., June 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The ING Foundation will make a $50,000 contribution to the Minot Area Community Foundation as part of ING's overall efforts to help with flood relief in Minot. The company, which has 900 employees at an operations center in the city, has also mobilized ING employee support from around the U.S. We're heartbroken by the destruction caused by the flooding," said Rhonda Mims, president of ING Foundation and senior vice president of Corporate Responsibility for ING. "At the same time, we're overwhelmed with the support of our employees and distribution partners from around the country who want to help ING employees and the larger community.

In addition to the contribution, the ING Foundation will match employee donations to the Minot Area Community Foundation, the Mid-Dakota Chapter of the American Red Cross, and the disaster-relief organization Americares. Affected employees may also tap into an employee disaster fund as well as a pool of additional paid vacation days donated by ING employees throughout the U.S.

In the U.S., the ING (NYSE: ING) family of companies offer a comprehensive array of financial services to retail and institutional clients, which includes life insurance, retirement plans, mutual funds, managed accounts, alternative investments, institutional investment management, annuities, employee benefits and financial planning.

ING's diversity management philosophy and commitment to workforce diversity, diversity marketing, corporate citizenship and supplier diversity fosters an inclusive environment for employees that supports a distinctive product and service experience for the financial services consumer.

The ING Foundation's mission is to improve the quality of life in communities where ING operates and its employees and customers live. Through charitable giving and employee volunteerism, the foundation focuses on programs in the areas of financial literacy, children's education, diversity and environmental sustainability.

We have some dedicated foundations for example Crowder College, Neosho R-5 but there is no over-arching group that will work on anything that the community deems as good for the community. The first is to be an umbrella group for the community to drive philanthropy for projects that the community, as a whole, deems are worthy projects for the community, he said. Neosho Area Community Foundation makes the 43rd chapter under the Community Foundation of the Ozarks.

The Neosho Area Community Foundation Board expressed its appreciation to Rudy Farber, chairman of the Board of Community Bank & Trust, for contributing $30,000 to seed the group and create the new affiliate.

The Neosho Area Community Foundation Board is now working to develop its initial grant-making process and project goals. The creation of an affiliate foundation is a true commitment on the part of these Neosho leaders to develop charitable resources to serve a variety of non-profit groups and community betterment projects that will help sustain Neosho in the future.

FERNDALE Mayor Dave Coulter is on a quest to help preschoolers from low-income families get backpacks filled with supplies for the upcoming school year.

Coulter recently got a $1,250 grant from the Ferndale Community Foundation to buy backpacks for each of the 68 students in the school districts Head Start program.

His goal now is to get church and community groups involved and work to fill each of the backpacks with crayons, coloring books, a reading book, toothbrush, toothpaste, under wear and sweat clothes.

The kids are 3- and 4-year-olds, Coulter said. The school district runs the Head Start program under the Oakland Livingston Human Services Agency.

OLHSA has 1,601 pre-kindergartners in Head Start programs countywide, said Lynn Crotty, director of child and family services for the non-profit organization.

I think this will be amazing for the kids in the Ferndale program, Crotty said.

FERNDALE Mayor Dave Coulter is on a quest to help preschoolers from low-income families get backpacks filled with supplies for the upcoming school year.

Coulter recently got a $1,250 grant from the Ferndale Community Foundation to buy backpacks for each of the 68 students in the school districts Head Start program.

His goal now is to get church and community groups involved and work to fill each of the backpacks with crayons, coloring books, a reading book, toothbrush, toothpaste, under wear and sweat clothes.

The kids are 3- and 4-year-olds, Coulter said. The school district runs the Head Start program under the Oakland Livingston Human Services Agency.

OLHSA has 1,601 pre-kindergartners in Head Start programs countywide, said Lynn Crotty, director of child and family services for the non-profit organization.

I think this will be amazing for the kids in the Ferndale program, Crotty said. He hopes that helping Head Start children with their basic supplies will give them a better start in their formal schooling years.

Since there are four classes of less than 20 students each, Im looking for four community organizations to adopt a classroom and fill the backpacks we provide them, Coulter said.

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Peabody Community Foundation issues more grants

Peabody Community Foundation has announced that it was able to fund additional grants in the community recently.

We did better than we expected at our pancake feed in February, foundation president Lynn Berns said.

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Champion Fitness competition could win Morton Community Foundation $1,000 - Morton, IL - Morton Times-News The Champion clinic in Morton at 947 Jackson Plaza will be part of a 15-clinic competition, trying to bring the top prize of $1,000 to the Morton community.

We also run competitions for clinics each year, but this year we decided to reward the communities that our clinics are located in, rather than just the people themselves.

The clinics will be judged on the number of people who register for the prizes, the number of people who actually attend their open house, the way the event is promoted in their community, the visual display the clinic designs for their open house day, plus one final boost.

The top prize for the winning clinic and community is a check for $1,000 to be donated to the communitys local youth organization. Second prize is a check for $750; third prize is a check for $500 and fourth prize will be a check for $250.