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Autistic Hongkonger overcomes adversity to thrive in food processing social enterprise

Lee Kwong-tak overcame an inability to communicate and temper tantrums; he has now been nominated for a Spirit of Hong Kong award

PUBLISHED : Sunday, 05 June, 2016, 4:52pmUPDATED : Sunday, 05 June, 2016, 5:03pm Keeping up this early work schedule since 2004, Lee has even helped his family pay off their mortgage.

The Tung Wah Group Enterprise Vegetable and Fruit Processing and Supply Service has nominated Lee for an Overcoming Personal Challenge Award in the Spirit of Hong Kong Awards, which is run by the South China Morning Post.

Wong is thrilled to see Lee’s hard work pay off over the years.

The team gathers for a retreat every year, and initially Lee couldn’t deal with being around everyone.

Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Invites LOIs for Psychosocial Grant Program | RFPs | PND Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Invites LOIs for Psychosocial Grant Program

The Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation is accepting Letters of Intent for two categories of grants through its Psychosocial Grant program.

1) Psychosocial Launch Grants: Launch grants are designed for early career researchers within seven years of receiving their terminal degree. Maximum $50,000 per year for 2 years will be awarded to applicants

2) Psychosocial Family Impact Grants: Family Impact grants are designed for established investigators.

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Community foundation announces Bernadette Reider’s benefactors – MiningJournal.net | News, Sports, Jobs, Marquette Information | The Mining Journal This week, the Community Foundation for Marquette County announced Reider’s chosen benefactors, as well as the recipients of the 2016 Bernadette Reider Scholarships.

Her hope was that this scholarship would go to someone who planned to serve as a military nurse.

“She was a nurse in the Phillippines in World War II, then she served in Korea, and then in Vietnam,” said Gail Anthony, CEO of the Community Foundation for Marquette County. Through her life insurance policy, she left three endowment funds to the Community Foundation of Marquette County that will continue to perpetuity. Her choice of benefactors represent those she was dedicated to helping.

For more information regarding the Community Foundation of Marquette County, visit its website at www.marquettecountycommunityfoundation.org or call 226-7666.

Justin Marietti can be reached at 906-228-2500, ext.

Whitesville Elementary School is one of four western Kentucky schools to receive a share of a $66,000 grant by Baptist Health Madisonville to create a Project Fit America program this fall to reduce childhood obesity.

Also sharing in the grant are Freedom Elementary and Pembroke Elementary in Christian County and Sebree Elementary in Webster County.

Whitesville will receive $16,350, according to Janet Farrell, physical education teacher at the school.

Each school will receive indoor and outdoor fitness equipment, teacher training and curriculum materials, according to a news release.

Six other schools have received Project Fit grants from Baptist Health Madisonville in the past.

The list includes Grapevine Elementary, Pride Elementary and West Broadway Elementary in Hopkins County, Central City Elementary and Longest Elementary in Muhlenberg County and Sinking Fork Elementary in Christian County.

Kristy Quinn, the hospital’s marketing director, surprised each school with a banner to notify them that they had won a grant.

“This will provide a whole new approach to health and wellness for these students,” she said.

Robert Ramey, Baptist Health Madisonville president, said the program highlights the hospital’s focus on health, “especially in today’s culture when obesity and its related conditions, such as diabetes, are among the area’s greatest health risks.”

He said Project Fit America can help children “build good lifelong habits for healthy lifestyles.”

“We know childhood obesity can lead to health problems such as high blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes,” Ramey said.

The second phase, which will run from 2017 through 2021, will be geared toward the implementation, support and evaluation of these programs.Vernon is already up to a year ahead of schedule, with the district having done much of the pre-planning for an anticipated rollout in September of five new career and technical education programs at Vernon Township High School.Charles McKay, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, said the five programs being planned are engineering; web page, digital and multimedia informational resource design; construction engineering; hospitality administration management; and allied health and health sciences.The programs, which McKay had previously likened to college majors, will require completion of a three-course sequence along with membership in a student organization related to one’s field of study and an internship with an industry partner.The hospitality administration program, McKay said, will be run in partnership with Mountain Creek resort, whose new ownership DiBenedetto described as having been “outrageously great to work with.”For the allied health and health sciences program, the district will be partnering with local doctors and ambulance squads.Further electives also are being planned that will enable students to enhance their respective areas of concentration, which are being developed with additional input from a team of three K-12 curricular supervisors consisting of Math Director Russ Rogers and Science Supervisor Daniel Osenni along with Joseph Piccirillo, the district’s supervisor of business and fine, practical and performing arts.Each of the five programs being planned will offer concurrent credits with various universities as well.McKay indicated specifically that the hospitality program’s course structure will be aligned with concurrent courses offered by Fairleigh Dickinson University and Sussex County Community College. The allied health program will be aligned with Rutgers University, from which students will be able to receive 14 college credits usable at Rutgers or any other state college.DiBenedetto said the total out-of-pocket cost for students to earn these college credits will be the $100 fee to take an occupational assessment exam in their chosen field, which will be a condition for receiving college credit once the courses have been completed.While participation in the programs will be optional, students completing the requirements will receive a certificate in their chosen field along with a standard high school diploma upon graduation. Such a student may decide he or she loves the field or, conversely, “that medical studies are not the best selection,” he said.But, he observed, “It is much better to make such a decision in high school than in one’s second year of college.”Other school districts selected to receive grants through the state-funded pilot program were Northern Valley Regional High School, in Bergen County; Cumberland Regional High School, in Cumberland County; the Orange Public School District, in Essex County; the Freehold Regional High School and Ocean Township school districts, in Monmouth County; the Passaic School District, in Passaic County; and the Elizabeth Public Schools, in Union County.New Jersey Education Commissioner David Hespe, in a statement accompanying the announcement, touted the grant program as an example of continued efforts by Gov.

Foundation celebrates summer with free day at local pools – SunGazette.com, News, Sports, Jobs, Community Information, Williamsport-Sun Gazette

The First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania will host its sixth in a series of 12 monthly “Centennial Surprise” gifts to the community on Saturday by offering a free day to celebrate “summer fun” at local community pools.

Participating pools throughout partnership’s service area include:

Lycoming County – Jersey Shore Community Pool, Loyalsock Township Community Pool, Muncy Area Community Pool/R.J.

Montour County – Sunnybrook Park

Northumberland County – Exchange Pool, Liberty Splashland, Milton Pool, Sunbury Community Pool

Snyder County -Middleburg Community Swimming Pool, Selinsgrove Community Pool

Union County -Lewisburg Pool, Mifflinburg Community Pool. Williamsport Sun-Gazette

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The Dollar General Literacy Foundation recently awarded Farmington Family YMCA a $3,000 grant to support Youth Summer Literacy.

This local grant award is part of over $7.1 million in grants awarded to more than 900 schools, nonprofits and organizations across the 43 states that Dollar General serves.

“The Farmington Family YMCA is grateful for the continued support of the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.

School district officials must determine the extent of mismanagement, nepotism – Opinion – The Buffalo News

Clementa Pinckney.

The Coastal Community Foundation announced 10 recipients Tuesday of the inaugural Reverend Pinckney Scholars Program.

The $3.2 million fund, established by a group of anonymous donors who were moved by Charleston’s response to the June 17 shooting at Emanuel AME Church in which Pinckney and eight others were killed, is dedicated to promoting access to higher education for African-American students.

The students will receive about $80,000 and supportive resources during their college careers, according to a news release. Their career goals vary from journalism to nursing, politics to physical therapy and counseling in the juvenile justice system.

“After meeting many of the scholarship finalists, I am confident that our first group of recipients will honor the best of Reverend Pinckney’s legacy and all who lost their lives at Mother Emanuel last June,” said Darrin Goss Sr., president and CEO of Coastal Community Foundation.

“Their commitment to leadership and dedication to our community will carry them far in college and life.”

The scholarship recipients (with high school and planned college choice) are:

Monejah Black, Charleston Charter School for Math and Science (Winthrop University)

Altoria Brown, Gordon H. Garrett Academy of Technology (North Carolina A&T State University)

Christian Carter, Battery Creek High School (North Carolina State University)

Brian DeLesline, Baptist Hill High School (Charleston Southern University)

Natrese Dorsey, North Charleston High School (Georgia State University)

Carmen Hamilton, Ridgeland-Hardeeville High School (Charleston Southern University)

Kayla Hasty, Ridgeland-Hardeeville High School (South Carolina State University)

Henry Jones, Beaufort High School (University of South Carolina Upstate)

Kierra White, R.B. Stall High School (Spelman College)

Denzel Wright, Baptist Hill High School (College of Charleston)

The Coastal Community Foundation serves Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Georgetown, Hampton, Horry and Jasper counties.