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The Kearney Area Community Foundation's Celebration of Giving event Thursday paid homage to three honorees for their generosity and civic-mindedness.

But this annual event Thursday night also provided a great opportunity for the community to celebrate another aspect of giving represented by the foundation itself.

Why it took longer for the community foundation idea to take root here, we're not sure, but fortunately the KACF is working hard to make up for any lost time.

At one end of the scale, the foundation has worked with the 2-year-old Kearney Tackles Cancer movement, a wonderful grass-roots effort mobilized largely by students at Kearney High School and Kearney Catholic.

Foundation Moves Year-Round Applications for Community Grant Awards From now through the end of June 2012, the Board hopes to commit $250,000 to organizations in Muhlenberg County through its Community Grants Program. Grants will be awarded to support civic, educational or cultural projects in Muhlenberg County, with preference to those that relate to Economic Development, Youth Services, Substance Abuse Services, and Health/Human Services. If an organization is interested in applying for a grant, they should first review the funding guidelines that can be found in the Foundations Community Grant Application. If an organization feels its proposal meets the criteria for consideration, the organization may complete the Grant Application and submit it for Foundation staff to review. Organizations should recognize that although a project may appear to meet all of the criteria required for approval, the Board of Directors must select among numerous applications that meet the program focus and specific initiatives of the Foundation. If an organization would like to discuss a potential application or have questions about the Foundation in general, please contact the Foundations Program Officer, Lindsey Ransdell, at (270) 977-9194 or e-mail her at More information on the Foundations grantmaking, including a complete list of past Community Grant recipients as well as the current community grant application, can be found on the Grants section of the Foundations website at www.FelixMartinFoundation.org.

Verizon Foundation Awards More Than $200,000 to Domestic Violence Prevention Programs in Massachusetts -- BOSTON, Oct. Verizon Foundation Awards More Than $200,000 to Domestic Violence Prevention Programs in Massachusetts 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- To help address the continuing issue of domestic violence, the Verizon Foundation is donating $205,000 to 19 nonprofit agencies in Massachusetts for programs that engage men in the prevention of domestic violence, promote healthy relationships among teens and young adults, and use technology to improve the reach of services that help survivors.

The nonprofit agencies were honored by Verizon at an event that was hosted by the Sport in Society, a Northeastern University Center, and that focused on engaging men in the prevention of domestic violence. Angelo McClain, Massachusetts commissioner of child and family services, and Don McPherson, activist, ESPN college football analyst and College Football Hall of Famer, who are both leaders in men's engagement initiatives, were keynote speakers at the event, which was held on Friday (Oct.

Jarrod Chin, director for training and curriculum at Sport in Society, said, "The Verizon Foundation understands the importance of engaging men, as well as teens and young adults, to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence. For a list of the 2011 Massachusetts Verizon Foundation Domestic Violence Solutions Awards, go to www.verizon.com/ma.

In the past five years, the Verizon Foundation has awarded nearly $1.5 million to nonprofits that focus on domestic violence in Massachusetts.

The program provides wireless phones and airtime to victims of domestic violence and cash grants to local shelters and nonprofit organizations that focus on domestic violence prevention, awareness and advocacy. For example, HopeLine recently awarded grants to provide for: the printing of training documents that assist employers in recognizing and addressing the threat of domestic violence in the workplace; video technology that allows domestic violence's youngest victims, children, to participate in legal proceedings from a safe environment; and startup funding for entrepreneurial survivors of domestic violence attempting to establish small businesses and economic stability.

Sport in Society, a center affiliated with Northeastern University's College of Professional Studies, educates and supports emerging leaders and organizations within sport with the awareness, knowledge and skills to implement innovative and impactful solutions for social change.Topical areas of work include: leadership, healthy development, diversity and inclusion, violence prevention, community building, community service, and civic engagement.

The Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Verizon, uses its technology, financial resources and partnerships to address critical social issues, with a focus on education and domestic violence prevention. Verizon has invested more than $28 million in domestic violence prevention.

SYCAMORE Dan Templin said he believes preparing to move into a new, yet old, space will be a significant moment for the DeKalb County Community Foundation">DeKalb County Community Foundation.

Templin, executive director of the community foundation, said an ad hoc committee was formed to begin working with Sharp Architects of DeKalb on potential designs for the renovation of Sycamores historical train depot at the corner of Sacramento Street and DeKalb Avenue.

We really see it as a real kind of pivotal part of our history, Templin said of the planning and moving process.

A few board members toured the depot Thursday to see its new windows and doors.

The city of Sycamore voted last month to donate the depot to the DeKalb County Community Foundation">DeKalb County Community Foundation after putting about $400,000 into it $300,000 from a private donation and about $100,000 in tax increment financing money.

Repairs to complete the renovation of the depot are estimated to cost $500,000. A handful of organizations have contacted the foundation about leasing that space, he said.

Templin said he doesnt expect the foundation will move into the building before late spring or early summer, though it could be a full year before construction is completed.

He also said money to renovate the depot will not come from the foundations grant money and wont impact the ability to make grants.

Thats a completely separate pot of money, he said.

Muskegon County foundation gives money to help create internships | MLive.com

WEST MICHIGAN The ongoing push to create additional internship opportunities in West Michigan has received a financial boost from the Community Foundation for Muskegon County.

The local community foundation, its mission partially focused on creating positive change through grant-making, gave $5,000 to the West Michigan Internship Initiative, a program designed to increase internship opportunities as a way to retain young educated workers in West Michigan.

The program, run by the West Michigan Strategic Alliance, was established in 2009 with the ultimate purpose of improving the region's intellectual capital base, deemed necessary for job creation. Nationally, 70 percent of internships result in a full-time job offer.

The training offered by the program helps employers get past the perceived barriers of the time required to structure an internship program and the time commitment for supervisors to work with the intern.

More than 1,500 internships have been created in West Michigan since the program began. The program's original goal was to create 3,000 new internships by the end of 2011.

The initiative is expanding its focus to the more than 5,000 nonprofit organizations in West Michigan, which employ more than 63,000 people. In Muskegon County alone, 454 nonprofit organizations employ more than 8,000 people and represent more than $385 million in economic impact.

We are excited to take the strategy that has been successful in helping small and mid-sized companies in the region establish internship programs and apply this same strategy to the more than 5,000 nonprofit organizations in the region.

The Community Foundation for Muskegon County's recent grant brings the total award to $30,000 from area community foundations.

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Tax-deductible contributions can be made to the Craven County Community Fund, which is administered by the North Carolina Community Foundation.

Grants go to Carolina East Foundation for the Carolina East Foundation Indigent Care Fund; Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Raleigh-New Bern Regional Office for the Senior Pharmacy Program; Coastal Carolina Chamber Music Festival to support Carolina Chamber Music Festival community outreach programs; Coastal Women's Shelter for the CWS Resale Store Seed Funding Project; Craven County Partners in Education for the Beginning Teacher's Toolbox program.

Other recipients include Craven Cherry Point Child Development Center for the Child Development Services and Family Support Program; Craven Literacy Council to provide GED and pre-GED training classes for adults in New Berns Five Points and Duffyfield communities; Girl Scouts-North Carolina Coastal Pines for the Craven County Girl Scout community outreach program; Habitat for Humanity of Craven County for the Havelock Community Build, Service Men and Women Building for Habitat for Humanity program; USO of North Carolinas Jacksonville Center to support the USO of NC Information Desk at the Coastal Carolina Airport; MERCI Clinic for restorative dental care for uninsured adults and Monarch Health for the Monarch Ability Garden.

Grant money also went to Prevent Blindness North Carolina for the vision screening and eye care program; Boy Scouts of America - East Carolina Council to support the Neuse Basin Scout Scholarship Fund; New Millennium Theatre Works for the Carolinian Shakespeare Festival; North Carolina Coastal Land Trust for the Havelock Area Conservation Initiative; Promise Place for the "Business of Child Sexual Abuse" program; Religious Community Services for the Perishable and Prepared Food Recovery Program; Tryon Palace Council of Friends to provide Tryon Palace History Camp Scholarships for underserved children; West Craven High School for three programs: Can You See Me Now?, Books a Million?