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He also maintains sites providing resources on social entrepreneurship and social innovation. All of the sites seek to highlight innovative approaches to improving communities across the nation and the world.
NGOs have one month to apply for Arts Dept grant
Non- Profit organisations focused in the fields of drama, dance, music and visual arts, amongst others, have exactly a month to apply for funding from the provincial Arts and Culture Department.
Connecticut has made progress in helping startups grow in the past few years, but compared to other states, it still sits among the middle of the pack.
A new study by The Kauffman Index of Growth Entrepreneurshipshows that Connecticut ranked 13th a four-spot jump from the previous ranking among the 25 smaller states in average growth for young businesses and startups. Reedy, a Kauffman senior fellow.
A separate Kauffman Index study ranked Connecticut 35th out of all 50 states in startup activity in 2015, focusing on new business creation activity and people engaging in business startup activity. He cited the state’s proximity to Boston and New York City, and services such as reSET, as one of the factors in his move.
But to climb the ranks in startup growth, Lazar said he recommends the state develop incentives, such as establishing “entrepreneur zones.” He also pointed to Connecticut Innovations, formed by the state legislature in 1989 to help finance Connecticut tech companies and support their growth.
James Woulfe, reSET’s director of advocacy and external affairs, said the state could increase its ranking by taking on an identity, such as becoming the state for social entrepreneurship.
Leonardo DiCaprio set to lend support to Scottish social enterprise cafe Social Bite | News | The National Leonardo DiCaprio set to lend support to Scottish social enterprise cafe Social Bite
LEONARDO DiCaprio is expected to follow in the footsteps of George Clooney and visit a Scottish social enterprise cafe later this year.
LEONARDO DiCaprio is expected to follow in the footsteps of George Clooney and visit a Scottish social enterprise cafe later this year.
The Oscar winner is believed to have accepted an invitation to travel to Edinburgh in support of Social Bite, a sandwich shop that feeds, trains and employs local homeless people.
The Hollywood star will also speak at the Scottish Business Awards during his first visit to Scotland.
Clooney paid a visit to Social Bite last November and launched an appeal to help homeless people and fund an aid convoy carrying food and clothing to travel to refugee camps across Europe.
It received so many donations that Social Bite said surplus funds would ensure free hot meals and drinks can be provided to the homeless community in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen for a year.
Clooney went on to launch the enterprises Christmas campaign and appeared in the related video.
The not-for-profit enterprise was founded in 2012 by Josh Littlejohn and one in four Social Bite staff were previously homeless themselves.
Fans lined Rose Street in the Scottish capital last year to welcome Clooney who took time to chat to the crowd and posed for selfies with Social Bite staff before speaking at the Scottish Business Awards.
DiCaprio, who won an Oscar for his role in The Revenant, is also an environmental campaigner and charity activist.
Mural in Building 21 Students from Allentown School District’s Building 21 work on a mural. The new high school has received a $25,000 grant from the Rider-Pool Foundation. Students from Allentown School District’s Building 21 work on a mural.
As a part of the new series reviewing the Rush County Community Foundationas adesignated endowmenta funds, weall be taking a weekly look at the Rush County nonprofit organizations that have funds that support their mission and work held at RCCF. This weekas installment focuses on the Rushville BPOE Lodge #1307.
Itas likely that even if you havenat been inside of the Rushville Elks Lodge, youare familiar with the building location a and more likely than not, youave parked in their parking lot on the corner of Second and Perkins streets in Rushville. The brown brick building formally known as the BPOE Rushville Lodge #1307 is home to an organization comprised of members passionate about our community.
The BPOE Rushville Lodge #1307 is a community-minded organization that focuses service on four main priorities: Clothe-A-Child, the American Cancer Society, scholarships, and Veterans. Outside of volunteerism, members gather as friends, brothers, and sisters at the Lodge for meetings and otherwise, for camaraderie.
The Rush County Community Foundation supports the BPOE Rushville Lodge #1307 via the Gilbert E. Joyce Fund, the Donald and Mary Gray Marshall Fund, and the Rushville Lodge 1307 BPOE Fund. Since the organizationas scholarship initiative is primarily supported via RCCF fund payouts, the Lodge and members can allocate more funds to the other three priority areas. Joyce Fund, the Donald and Mary Gray Marshall Fund, and the Rushville Lodge 1307 BPOE Fund will be released annually forever, assisting the BPOE Lodge with the impact they make within our community.
If you are interested in supporting the Rushville BPOE Lodge #1307 via the existing funds at the Rush County Community Foundation, contact us! Joyce Fund, the Donald and Mary Gray Marshall Fund, and the Rushville Lodge 1307 BPOE Fund and how donations to our designated endowment funds forever impact recipient organizations.
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xmlns:fb=”http://ogp.me/ns/fb#” prefix=”og: http://ogp.me/ns#” class=”no-js lt-ie9″>Pike Road Schools have chance at $10 million grant – Alabama News
A local school district is in the running to win a ten million dollar grant.
The X-Q Super School Project team was met today with students and administrators from Pike Road schools.
Pike Road Schools is in the running to win a $10 million dollar grant being given out by the XQ Super School Project. Freeman hopes they can use the money from the grant as their first class of high school students enter 9th grade this year.
XQ Super School Project is an organization looking to shake-up the way high school students are taught today.
“Were looking at communities across the country to really rethink what high school could, and should, look like in their communities,” Sacha Ostern with the XQ Super School Project explained, “and we’re hoping that students can be a big part of that and voice what they think that they would like for their high schools to look like.”
Mayor Gordon Stone of Pike Road works closely with the school system and says they’re teaching students in a new and innovative way.
“Were not afraid to understand the way that young people need to be prepared for tomorrow, were not afraid to look at our young people and say what are your goals, what are your objectives, what do you want to be,” he explained.
The five finalists for the grant will be announced on August 4th.
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