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Vera Lloyd Presbyterian Family Services is creating a model transition services program to prepare youth to become successful and productive adults once they leave Vera Lloyd’s children’s home in Monticello.

The Walton Family Foundation recently awarded Vera Lloyd a three-year $500,000 grant to support the new program.

“Youth who age out of foster care face tremendous barriers to success, including homelessness, unemployment or underemployment, incarceration, unwanted pregnancy and drug abuse,” Donna Mahurin, CEO, said. “Vera Lloyd’s transition services will help break the cycle of abuse and neglect by giving youth that leave our care the resources and support they need to make good choices.”

Vera Lloyd has evolved its residential transitional living program limited to young adults ages 18 to 21, to this comprehensive education program that will include youth ages 14 and older who are in foster care at Vera Lloyd. The transition services education program includes individualized instruction in independent living skills, mentoring, academic support, workforce development and assistance with education beyond high school.

“This new program will enable Vera Lloyd to offer transition services as part of our core programming.

Mark Abraham, executive director of DataHaven in New Haven, looks into the recesses of various topics for clients on subjects relevant to business, government and social agendas.

NEW HAVEN >> To Mark Abraham, executive director of DataHaven, data is not simply information.

DataHaven has been indispensable to other nonprofits, such as the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and Yale New Haven Health, say officials at those agencies. Whether it’s the Greater New Haven Community Index, first issued in 2013 with an update coming out this summer, or the Community Wellbeing Survey, Abraham’s group of five staffers sifts through the ever-growing wealth of information to present a picture of Connecticut and Greater New Haven that’s unavailable elsewhere.

“The problem isn’t a lack of data; it’s knowing what data to use,” Abraham said.

“We get requests from researchers, community groups, nonprofits in the New Haven area, and we’re able to write back and point them in the right direction or provide simple analysis,” he said.

The Community Foundation sees DataHaven as “our community knowledge partner,” said Christina Ciociola, senior vice president for grant-making and strategy. The foundation uses DataHaven’s information to help determine how best to support those who work for the greater good in the New Haven area.

Among the community survey’s conclusions: “Connecticut’s poor regardless of race believe government is less responsive to residents’ needs; that they have less access to goods and services, have less faith in police, have fewer chances to obtain suitable employment, have a lesser opinion of the condition of public parks and facilities; play less of a role in government decision making; show less tendency to remain in their communities long-term; believe that their neighborhoods are less safe; have less trust of their neighbors; lack positive role models; are more likely to be in poor health; enjoy less overall life satisfaction; experience less happiness and more anxiety; and have higher rates of obese and overweight residents, lower rates of health insurance and higher rates of smoking.”

On the Community Wellbeing Survey, there are three broad areas “that most affect well-being,” Abraham said. and including New Haven, you’ve got a 20-year gap in life expectancy between the most poor neighborhoods and the most well-resourced neighborhoods,” Abraham said.

“The third area that most impacts people’s happiness is basically economic opportunity, basic needs,” Abraham said.

DataHaven began as a project called New Haven Maps, which showed, block by block, factors such as affordable housing, community gardens and infant mortality. Now, its statistics on teenagers, for example, can be shared with the “10 or 20 organizations” that “probably just have data on the 100 or so teenagers they serve at a given time,” Abraham said.

Augusta Mueller, manager of community benefits for Yale New Haven Health, which operates Yale-New Haven, Bridgeport and Greenwich hospitals, said DataHaven conducted an unprecedented survey that included six competing hospitals in Fairfield County, as well as others across the state.

Mueller said Yale New Haven Health is using the Community Wellbeing Survey, which it helped to underwrite, to look at health statistics in the 13 towns and cities that the organization focuses on.

“I just think that data in the DataHaven survey is wonderful,” Mueller said.

Penny Canny, chairwoman of DataHaven’s board and former senior vice president of the Community Foundation, said Abraham brings talents to the organization that many experts in data collection and curation lack. “I love it that Mark is part of the next generation that generation that cares a lot about making New Haven a great place to live and doing the work of making it happen.”

“I would say that DataHaven, particularly Mark Abraham himself as the leader of DataHaven, has been invaluable to the Community Foundation and to the nonprofit sector,” said Ciociola.

She said the survey on immigration revealed that “17 percent of the population in New Haven is foreign born.

DataHaven also has done surveys for the Greater New Haven Branch of the NAACP and the Valley Community Foundation.

Los Alamos Community Foundation Update | Los Alamos Daily Post

The Los Alamos Community Foundation in partnership with the UWNNM held a conference April 8 at UNM-Los Alamos for nonprofits serving Los Alamos.

The Los Alamos Community Foundation in partnership with the UWNNM held a conference April 8 at UNM-Los Alamos for nonprofits serving Los Alamos.

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Have something you want to tell us, a question, or complaint? DP World grants Emirates Youth Council Dh367,000

The grant aims to empower local talent and build the next generation of UAE’s leaders

Dubai: Global trade enabler DP World has given a grant of $100,000 (Dh367,000) to the Emirates Youth Council to help Emirati youth shape a bright and sustainable future for the UAE and contribute to achieving UAE Vision 2021.

The announcement of the grant was made at the first Strategic Youth Circle organised by the Dubai Youth Council, the executive arm of the Emirates Youth Council and hosted by DP World earlier this week.

The grant aims to empower local talent and build a next generation of UAE’s leaders.

Minister of State for Youth Shamma Suhail Faris Al Mazroui, said: “The UAE government seeks to enable our young people and provide them with all possible opportunities to participate in the development of the country and in achieving the goals of UAE vision 2021.”

She commended DP World’s backing of the Youth Council adding that it is a notable example of how leading businesses are major supporters of young people playing a vital role in shaping a bright and sustainable future.

The Strategic Youth Circle, which was held under the theme of ‘Emirati Youth Strategy: Enabled Youth, Sustainable Future’, provided participants a platform to express their views on three major topics expectations of the national Youth Strategy, how it will serve their future needs and the role of public and private organisations in activating long-term youth participation.

The structure of new strategic plans, challenges facing today’s youth and factors that will enable them to take an active role in shaping the future of the country were also discussed, including the most effective solutions to major issues faced by Emirati youth and the initiatives they would want the government to launch.

Sultan Ahmad Bin Sulayem, DP World Group chairman and CEO, said one the main objectives of youth councils is to create a communications platform between young people, government and business, to get to know their aspirations and involve them in the decision-making processes.

“The nature of work in our sector is changing like never before and this grant is a reflection of the trust we have in young people to shape the future of world trade.

Associate Director – Venture Philanthropy – Job in Sydney – Social Ventures Australia

The role will support SVA’s growing Venture Philanthropy presence nationally, with a particular focus on building and supporting the national portfolio and presence in Victoria and New South Wales.

The Associate Director will be deeply involved in the day to day delivery of SVA’s Venture Philanthropy work, including the due diligence of ventures, portfolio management and provision of tailored support to ventures, and managing diverse stakeholders, including funders and pro bono partners.

Development of strong relationships with relevant stakeholders, including funders, ventures and the social sector more broadly Portfolio management of ventures; including management of ventures towards agreed partnership objectives and milestones, delivering or sourcing business support internally and externally, monitoring and evaluating impact and reporting Work closely with the national Venture Philanthropy team and where required deliver and / or source professional support services for all ventures Provide support to ventures in measuring and monitoring their social impact Raise awareness of Venture Philanthropy and social enterprise, including convening events and representing SVA at sector events / conferences as appropriate.

Community organizations benefiting San Bruno residents may seek additional funding through a grant program launched by the foundation allocating settlement money paid by PG&E after the Crestmoor gasline explosion.

The San Bruno Community Foundation announced Friday, July 1, community groups may apply through the end of September to receive grants worth as much as $25,000.

“With the community grants fund, the San Bruno Community Foundation will be able to support numerous organizations that are serving our community in many important and different ways,” she said.

Executive director of water institute receives top community honor | MLive.com Executive director of water institute receives top community honor Alan Steinman has often said the Muskegon’s two greatest assets are its water and its people.

The executive director of Grand Valley State University’s Annis Water Resource Institute still believes that, but while receiving the Patricia B. Events like that really remind me why I’m so proud to call Muskegon my home.”

Steinman received the 17th award at the Community Foundation for Muskegon County‘s Annual Gathering and Reception on June 28.

Established by the foundation to honor Pat Johnson, the first president and CEO of the foundation, upon her retirement, the purpose of the award is to recognize visionary, dynamic leadership by an individual or organization.

Recipients receive a cash award to be given to a nonprofit organization of their choice and are recognized on a plaque in the foundation boardroom.

Annis Water Research Institute building in Muskegon formally dedicated

Steinman arrived in Muskegon 2001 to assume leadership of the Annis Water Resource Institute. Since then, the facility has become a national leader in water-related research.

Steinman has been at the forefront of the idea for Muskegon’s “Blue economy” and has attracted millions of dollars in philanthropic dollars for the study and improvement of area lakes, rivers, wetlands and watersheds.

“His influence has made phrases like ‘harmful algal blooms, phosphorus cycling and aquatic invasive species like quagga mussels’ understandable to non-academics like me, and fun to say.”

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