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Less than a year ago, a local group of education supporters teamed up with Bartlesville school officials and designed a pilot program to help struggling students live up to their potential and have a successful future.

The dozen or so civic leaders behind Bartlesville Education Promise are already making progress, providing weekly tutoring and summer enrichment activities that will span over the next three years at an estimated annual cost of about $50,000.

“It’s going better than I expected,” said Ginger Griffin, a founding member of BEP. “When Ginger Griffin approached me to help on the Bartlesville system today because of the changing demographics, I decided it was time to review the problems, determine if there was a model that could help the school system today, and maybe try and help.”

And so BEP members have been busy raising funds to support students, beginning last fall with an after-school tutoring program at Bartlesville High School. “Between BEP, Bartlesville Public Schools, Tri County Tech, Bartlesville Community Foundation, the Bartlesville Rotary Club, and Lowe Family Young Scholars, we are going to have a great summer offering for the students of Bartlesville.”

Another BEP member, Roger Box, served on BPSD’s Long Range Facilities Committee several years ago when he became aware of the some of the problems that face special needs students.

He’s particularly pleased with the BEP program for the upcoming transition camps that start this summer and will provide weeklong orientation programs for students moving from fifth to sixth grade as well eighth grade students heading to ninth grade.

“Statistically these are emotionally challenging times for the already academically challenged student.

Paulette Brown-Hinds comes from a family of community-minded individuals.

Paulette Brown-Hinds, a board member of The Community Foundation and publisher of the VOICE newspaper in Riverside, comes from a family of philanthropists and engaged community members. “It’s what we talk about at home and it was always part of our conversations and lifestyle.”

Brown-Hinds began volunteering with The Community Foundation as a member of the Youth Grantmakers Steering Committee. In 2014, the committee launched additional locations serving the Coachella Valley, San Bernardino, High Desert and Idyllwild.

The Youth Grantmakers have awarded over $227,000 to nonprofit agencies since its inception.

Brown-Hinds said her niece, Jordan Brown, was a member of the inaugural class of the San Bernardino Youth Grantmakers.

“She learned so much about working in a team, leadership and giving back to the community,” Brown-Hinds said. So our family tradition is now continuing on in the next generation.”

Brown-Hinds joined The Community Foundation board after her volunteer work with the Youth Grantmakers.

“Being asked to be a board member for The Community Foundation was an honor, but also a natural progression,” she said. I probably do as much volunteer work as I do work for pay.”

Established in 1941, The Community Foundation has grown from a small scholarship distribution committee in Riverside to a nationally accredited institution that serves the counties Riverside and San Bernardino and beyond.

Brown-Hinds believes Inland Empire nonprofits are doing excellent work in the community that is sometimes overshadowed by larger organizations outside the region.

Founded in 1986, Sigma Lambda Beta began the Charity Bowl philanthropy in 2002, collaborating with Sigma Lambda Gamma.

The Charity Bowl is open to anyone from the Ames community, and will even see people traveling from across the Midwest to attend.

aMy favorite part is getting to meet and network with people from different chapters that arenat from this area or even from Iowa,a said Britney Williams, president of Sigma Lambda Gamma.

Registered participants will receive unlimited bowling for an hour, pizza and drinks. Money raised from the Charity Bowl will go toward services ACCESS provides such as childrenas programs, individual counseling, support groups, advocacy, community education, crisis response services and the Sexual Assault Response Team.

aFundraising dollars are great for us because we can use them for however we see fit,a Torresi said.

Money donated specifically from the Charity Bowl may be used to pay for extra staff time or purchase living supplies for a survivor, Torresi said.

Those interested in supporting ACCESS can refer to the ACCESS webpage and like its Facebook page to see upcoming events and fundraisers.

A drum making workshop during the Carrier Sekani Family Services weekly Walk Tall program, aimed at vulnerable youth.

A drum making workshop during the Carrier Sekani Family Services weekly Walk Tall program, aimed at vulnerable youth.

For the last five years, the Walk Tall program has helped at-risk aboriginal youth connect with culture and build stronger community relationships.

Carrier Sekani Family Services learned Wednesday the program got $100,000 from the province.

“The youth program’s going to be able to maintain its service for at least this year,” said Mary Teegee, CSFS executive director.

Until Wednesday, Teegee didn’t know if the program would continue. It’s year-to-year now.”

The grant came under Youth Anti-Gang and Crime Prevention, pulled from the province’s civil and criminal forfeiture programs.

Walk Tall is a weekly program offered separately to boys and girls considered vulnerable, at-risk or gang involved.

“It is based on cultural activities so that they understand who they are as an indigenous young girl or young boy and just to have that sense of pride in who they are,” she said.

All of Carrier Sekani’s programming has to have a traditional underpinning to address historical trauma.

“We’re looking at overcoming the impacts of colonization and overcoming the impacts of residential schools and how we do that is all the programs that we do is based in culture.”

For many Walk Tall offers the only safe space they have, she said, and a place where they can start to form relationships with youth workers.

“They build trust and rapport with the youth workers,” Teegee said.

Teegee said she’s made funding requests to the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD), which she thinks are natural partners for a program, but has never been successful.

“I think with MCFD, given the concern around the outcomes for children in care a program such as this, you’d think would automatically be funded but as of yet we haven’t received any funding from MCFD to maintain this program.”

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J. Floyd Dixon Memorial Fund accepting grant applications to Benefit Jackson County a 2016 – The Jackson County Times-Journal: Community

Floyd Dixon Memorial Fund accepting grant applications to Benefit Jackson County a 2016 Floyd Dixon Memorial Fund is currently accepting applications for its 2016 grant program.

Each year, the fund awards grants to nonprofit organizations located in Jackson County that focus primarily on education or health issues.

Last yearas recipients included: Easter Seals Central and Southeast Ohio, Inc.; Health Recovery Services, Inc.; Jackson City Schools; Jackson County Board on Aging, Inc.; Jackson County Health Department; Jackson-Vinton Community Action, Inc.; Oak Hill Union Local School District; Oaks United Inc.; Stargazey’s Equine Therapy; Wellston City Schools; and Jackson Area YMCA.

The fund is named for Professor Floyd Dixon, who was raised on a farm in Jackson County near Oak Hill. Dixon’s service to the area schools continued in 1920 with his appointment as superintendent of schools for Jackson County. Dixon worked to pass a tax levy vital to the long-term success of Jackson schools, and was instrumental in creating two new high schools, Bloomfield Township and Scioto Township.

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