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The Kentucky Restaurant Assocation is giving grants to both Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College and family consumer science programs at local high schools.

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GLEN ROCK – A $4,000 state grant awarded to a Glen Rock High School junior funded recent programs encouraging healthful eating and lifestyles in the district’s elementary, middle and high schools.

Student Erica Jones, recipient of the Sustainable Jersey for Schools grant, said her goal in applying for the funds was to drive educational activities “to change Glen Rock students’ diets and increase their awareness of what they are eating.

According to Glen Rock Environmental Commission (GREC) member Sylvia Rabacchi, the $4,000 grant funded by the New Jersey Department of Health through Sustainable Jersey for Schools resulted in part from a collaboration between the GREC, School Superintendent Paula Valenti and GRHS Principal John Arlotta.

Rabacchi said that Sustainable Jersey for Schools offers multiple cycles of grants throughout the year, and that interested students should contact the school district and/or the GREC.

GLEN ROCK – A $4,000 state grant awarded to a Glen Rock High School junior funded recent programs encouraging healthful eating and lifestyles in the district’s elementary, middle and high schools.

Student Erica Jones, recipient of the Sustainable Jersey for Schools grant, said her goal in applying for the funds was to drive educational activities “to change Glen Rock students’ diets and increase their awareness of what they are eating.

According to Glen Rock Environmental Commission (GREC) member Sylvia Rabacchi, the $4,000 grant funded by the New Jersey Department of Health through Sustainable Jersey for Schools resulted in part from a collaboration between the GREC, School Superintendent Paula Valenti and GRHS Principal John Arlotta.

Rabacchi said that Sustainable Jersey for Schools offers multiple cycles of grants throughout the year, and that interested students should contact the school district and/or the GREC.

Boys & Girls Clubs of North County celebrate annual Great Futures Awards | Village News Boys & Girls Clubs of North County celebrate annual Great Futures Awards
Genesis Aaron, from Fallbrook Street Elementary is the Boys & Girls Clubs of North County Youth of the Year.

FALLBROOK With over 100 guests in attendance, the Boys & Girls Clubs of North County celebrated the achievements of its members and staff at the annual Great Futures Awards.

Youth members are recognized in the areas academics, athleticism, sportsmanship, and citizenship. Frazier site; the award for Coach of the Year was presented to Rolando Rojas for his dedication to teaching members the correct way to play soccer; Raul Perez was recognized as the MVP Staff for the professionalism and dedication that he pours into the club each and every day.

This year, the Legacy Endowment Community Foundation awarded Jason Fuentes and Esmeralda Solis with their Rising Star Award. The Ridgecrest Family Endowment Fund was created in 2008 at the Legacy Endowment Community Foundation by Laurenn Barker and her brother, Sandy Prater, as an incentive to encourage youth to stay on the positive path toward high school and college.

Legacy Endowment Community Foundation is a volunteer-driven, nonprofit public charity established in 1994 to provide leadership, serve donors, and award grants and scholarships to improve and enrich the quality of life in San Diego’s North County, forever.

For more information on donating to or starting a fund, contact Legacy Endowment Community Foundation at (760) 728-3304.

From left are Coach of the Year, Rolando Rojas; Maie Ellis site supervisor Josue Rojas and MVP Staff winner Raul Perez.

Director of operations Lisa Ware presents, Boys of the Year for each of the Boys & Girls Clubs of North County’s school sites, from left, Alex Martinez, Isai Beltran, Cole West, Juan Manuel Mercado, Donovan Martinez, Jonathan Gates, and Angel Rivera.

From left, director of operations Lisa Ware, presents the Girl of the Year award winners for each of the clubs’ sites, Lilyanna Contreras, Jacqueline Ceja, Anaceli Juan, and Genesis Aaron.

Jan Pichel from Legacy Endowment Community Foundation presents Jason Fuentes with the Rising Star Award.

One-hundred not-for-profits have received Westpac Foundation Community Grants valued at up to $10,000 each

Yass community organisation, Indigenous Community Volunteers has been awarded with a Westpac Foundation Community Grant worth $10,000 in support of their outstanding efforts improving the lives of Indigenous Australians.

In addition, Indigenous Community Volunteers will also receive additional support which includes a Westpac Foundation Community Grants Ambassador, mentoring, training and networking opportunities.

In New South Wales, Westpac Foundation has this year provided $243,095 worth of Community Grants to 25 grassroots organisations with innovative ideas to create more cohesive communities and create brighter futures for those at risk. Over the past five years, Westpac Foundation Community Grants have provided more than $969,095 to New South Wales not-for-profits who are making a difference locally.

Bernard Sandral, Westpac Regional General Manager, Regional South West said, “We are delighted to present Indigenous Community Volunteers with a Westpac Foundation Community Grant of $10,000.

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Ben Bingle, manager of the DeKalb County Nonprofit Partnership, smiles as he watches people from the community arrive to the DeKalb County Community Foundation‘s depot before the NIU Time Arts Animation students present their artistic light show to celebrate the work being done by Give Local on Tuesday, May 3, 2016.Danielle Guerra – dguerra@shawmedia.com
Sycamore Police Chief Glenn Theriault takes video on his cell phone of the during the presentation of the NIU Time Arts Animation students’ artistic light show to celebrate the work being done by Give Local on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, on the face of the old Sycamore Train Depot which houses the DeKalb County Community Foundation.By DAILY CHRONICLE-
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SYCAMORE This year’s Give Local DeKalb County campaign set a new fundraising record by bringing in $428,297 for local nonprofit organizations.

Sixty-eight nonprofits participated in the one-day online giving campaign this year, and the fundraising total was more than double what was raised in 2015 and triple what was raised in 2014, the first year the campaign was held here, according to a news release from the DeKalb County Nonprofit Partnership and DeKalb County Community Foundation.

“The third time was a charm,” said Lynette Spencer, executive director of Adventure Works and Give Local DeKalb County committee chairwoman. Volunteers give back to DeKalb County nonprofits at Day of Caring Give Local DeKalb County campaign sets record

(Courtesy Williamsburg Health Foundation)

The Williamsburg Health Foundation recently distributed $3,566,227 in grants to local organizations and nonprofits dedicated to improving the health of the greater Williamsburg area.

This round of grants, which was announced last week, focuses on supporting organizations that provide what WHF’s strategic plan refers to as “health opportunities.”

“What we mean by health opportunity is when the healthy choice is the easy choice,” said Jeanne Zeidler, president and CEO of WHF.

In keeping with that mission, Williamsburg-James City County School’s Student Health Initiative Program (SHIP) was the largest grant recipient for this cycle, receiving $640,000 to support its efforts to bring healthier, fresher food options to the area’s schools.

“SHIP doesn’t just teach nutrition, it makes sure there are healthier foods on the lunch line,” said Zeidler. “We also want to the community to know that we remain committed to helping those who need health care find the health care they need.”

The full list of grant recipients is as follows, with the organization listed first followed by the program and the amount given:

Child and Family Connection Multicultural Counseling & Outreach Program for the Greater Williamsburg Area $40,000
Colonial Community Corrections Better Ways: A Therapeutic & Transitional Substance Abuse Program $14,000
Colonial Behavioral Health Greater Williamsburg Child Assessment Center (GWCAC) $271,000
Colonial Behavioral Health Williamsburg Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) $45,000
KaBOOM! Community Playground Build $100,000
Literacy for Life at the Rita Welsh Adult Learning Center Health Education and Literacy (HEAL) $60,000
Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools School Health Initiative Program (SHIP) $640,000
Colonial Behavioral Health Network of Care Website (NOC) $34,000
Child Development Resources Breastfeeding: Building Confidence and Competence $24,000
Community Housing Partners Mobile Food Pantry $5,927
FISH, Inc. Health Priorities in Action $6,300
Angels of Mercy Medical Mission Chronic Care Collaborative (CCC) $113,000
Colonial Behavioral Health Chronic Care Collaborative (CCC) $183,000
Gloucester-Mathews Care Clinic Chronic Care Collaborative (CCC) $270,000
Lackey Clinic Chronic Care Collaborative (CCC) $420,000
Olde Towne Medical and Dental Center Chronic Care Collaborative (CCC) $250,000
Rx Partnership Chronic Care Collaborative (CCC) $35,000
Lackey Clinic Volunteer Recruitment Program $13,000
Virginia Health Care Foundation Greater Williamsburg Medication Assistance Program (GWMAP) $400,000
United Way of Greater Williamsburg Home for Good $130,000
City of Williamsburg Child Health Initiative $260,000
Free Foundation For Rehabilitation Equipment & Endowment Geographic Expansion to Serve Williamsburg Health Foundation Service Area $25,000
Peninsula Agency on Aging Care Transitions Intervention Pilot Program $75,000
Peninsula Agency on Aging S.H.A.R.P.

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But nothing in the plan suggests a peace plan or a truce.

The plan presents a four-step action logic: engage communities, help train and recruit teachers, help schools get facilities, and replicate successful schools in the neighborhoods it has targeted. It doesn’t even try to sketch out what a good school system would look like, how these schools would relate to one another, whether the dedicated teachers that the plan talks about are to be employed as charter school teachers on employment-at-will contracts or whether they will have the economic status and employment security of public school teachers.

It fails to acknowledge that charter schools are inherently parasitic; they require a healthy host school district to survive. And given the general advice to keep your friends close and your enemies closer if I were in the superintendent’s office or on the LAUSD board I’d be talking frequently with the GPSN folks.

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The Daily News | City Schools: $944,000 in grants start targeted after-school program City Schools: $944,000 in grants start targeted after-school program

BATAVIA An Extended School Day program launching this fall at the Batavia City Schools is intended to help 50 middle and high school students handle stressful situations with appropriate social and emotional reactions.

The program will be paired with another prevention program launching next year district-wide with a $212,748 State Education Department grant. Molly Corey said Thursday that $944,000 will be invested into skills development over the next five years.

By working with Partners in Restorative Initiatives, a Rochester-based training organization, BCSD hopes to improve on the school culture framework built through the school’s Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support program.

“We are adding onto (PBIS), enhancing it with new lessons and fresh ideas to be a positive culture and learning environment,” Corey said.

Training would pass down from teachers to students, with students eventually being able to model behaviors and use previous lessons to evaluate how they handle situations.

NYSED has awarded more than $24 million in grants to school districts for expanded behavioral assistance programs for the 2016-17 school year, with Batavia the lone district in the GLOW region selected.

In announcing the awards, State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said extended school day programs are meant to increase student achievement and foster extracurricular enrichment activities.

“It’s a simple proposition when students are safe and engaged in productive afterschool activities, they’re going to enjoy school more and do better,” Elia said. “The grants we’re awarding today will go a long way towards protecting and enriching our children.”

In Batavia, Corey said the idea is to share the benefits students receive from participating in sports, music and clubs with students that often aren’t taking part in extra-curricular activities.

Students, who will be invited for involvement because of recognized struggles with absenteeism, discipline referrals and problems offering a respectful attitude, will meet for programming three days a week.

It will be the farthest thing from detention.

“It’s meant to be a very proactive extension of the school day,” Corey said, “to appeal to them like (other extra-curriculars), to develop in them the sense of identity I’m involved in my school too.”

Gisborne’s Sunrise Foundation Announces New
Trustee

The Sunrise Foundation’s newest
trustee, Lilian Tangaere Baldwin, is passionate about
whanau, marae and hapu development and believes that the
Sunrise Foundation has the potential to positively support
the smaller communities on the East Coast north of
Gisborne.

Lilian said that Sunrise offers an opportunity
for Ngati Porou whanau, marae, hapu, and organisations to
consider becoming active contributors in making responsible
charitable choices that can have an enduring impact in their
own communities.

“The most compelling aspect of Sunrise
is that unlike national charities all the money raised here
is kept right here in Tairawhiti. “Lilian’s extensive background and knowledge within iwi
and the smaller coastal communities in our region will bring
a fresh insight and perspective to Sunrise.”

Lilian has
also joined Sunrise’s Grants Committee which administers
the granting of funds to local charities and organisations. I’m looking forward to
working closely with Lilian and the rest of the Grants
Committee on our second funding round which opens
shortly.”

The Sunrise Foundation, a community endowment
foundation, was launched by Sir Stephen Tindall in October
2014. Funds are
invested and each year enough is retained to ensure that
endowments grow in line with inflation, the surplus
investment income is available as grants to charities and
organisations in the local community (Gisborne
District).

Glenda added that “At Sunrise we are all
about capital preservation, meaning that any donations we
receive will keep on supporting our local charities and
organisations forever. The second funding
round applications are open from 1st July to 19th August
2016.

Mr John Clarke, Sunrise Foundation Chairman,
believes that the community foundation endowment model is
poised to make a real difference in the Gisborne District.