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ELIOT, Maine The Select Board approved supporting a Community Development Block Grant for $240,000 Thursday night that, if approved by the state, will be used to assist Modernist Pantry, LLC, with funds for machinery associated with its new construction on Route 236.The business is owned by Janie Wang and Chris Anderson of Eliot; it is now located in Portsmouth.The CDBG program is administered by the Maine Department of Economics and Community Development. Janie Wang said that the jobs will be created when the new building is completed, and that Modernist Pantry will provide either a surety bond or an irrevocable letter of credit to protect the town.In other businessThe board finalized the agenda for the first ever Citizens Option meeting to take place on April 4. Town Manager Dana Lee presented the final numbers just before the board meeting.On the agenda for the Citizens Option meeting are the LD-1 property tax limit, the estimated non-tax revenues amount, and 19 budget articles. The citizens’ initiative made the same voting change, but also created a “town budget meeting.”In addition, according to Town Clerk Wendy Rawski, the new ordinance also gives the Select Board the authority to act on administrative items that use to be voted on annually at the open floor portion of Town Meeting. They include: setting due dates for property tax payments; fixing interest rates for late tax payments and abated taxes; moving surplus amounts between budget articles; spending funds for the first month of the fiscal year if Town Meeting is postponed or if there is no approved budget; disposing of town-owned personal property; disposing of real estate acquired by non-payment of taxes; receiving insurance or other property damage restitution funds and spend them on those damages; and accepting or rejecting funds from grants, donation and reimbursements.For more information, check the town’s Web site, www.eliotme.org, and look for “Town Meeting Process Different for Eliot Residents.”The Citizen’s Option town budget meeting will be held Monday, April 4, at 6:30 p.m., at Eliot Elementary School.

Maine Women’s Fund awards grants to support economic security | PenBay Pilot

FALMOUTH/CAMDEN The Maine Women’s Fund has awarded $111,400 in grants to organizations working to build the economic security of Maine women and girls. Two years ago, the first such grant was awarded to Waterville based nonprofit, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, to focus on leadership opportunities for girls in Maine.

The Maine Women’s Fund 2016 Economic Security Initiative grant recipients are:

A Company of Girls – Setting the Stage for Success – Using an arts-based curriculum developed over 18+ years of programming to empower underserved girls, ACOG helps girls raise their voices with confidence, and provides mentorship that will support them to become successful adults and community leaders.

Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center – Gaining Access Project (GAP) – To help uninsured or underinsured women with lower incomes access preventive reproductive and sexual health care, improving their health and economic security.

Maine Women’s Policy Center – Advancing Women’s Economic Security – Operating support for the ongoing effort to improve the economic well being of Maine women and girls, continuing outreach to build a statewide network of women working on their own behalf; building on education efforts to highlight policy solutions; and ensuring that women are registered, informed and voting.

Islesboro Community Center – Building Resiliency in Maine Island Girls and Women – Education and training programs including leadership training, self-defense classes and community education will help to build resiliency for island women and girls. We know that when women and girls thrive, communities prosper, and that is our goal for Maine,” said Maine Women’s Fund CEO Sarah Ruef-Lindquist.

Since 1989, the Maine Women’s Fund has been creating social change by investing in the power of women and the dreams of girls.

Local chorus receives grant – LeaderHerald.com | News, Sports, Jobs, Community – The Leader Herald

The Mohawk Valley Chorus announced the Saratoga Council on the Arts has awarded the chorus a $3,169 Community Arts Grant for this year.

The grant money will be used to commission a composition for clarinet quartet, master class, by composer Russell Carere, a performer, woodwind doubler, composer and arranger from the Greater Buffalo area, and a performance by the clarinet choir, a news release said.

A master class with the composer and quartet will take place April 3 at 3 p.m.

The master class is open to the public.

The Mohawk Valley Chorus 80th Anniversary Concert will perform at the Bert DeRose Theater, Amsterdam High School, 104 Saratoga Ave., on May 22 at 3 p.m.

Tickets will be available from chorus members, the news release said.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission recently awarded a $500,000 matching grant to Argyle for the town’s first community park.

The grant is one of 39 awarded across the state. Prosper was also granted $500,000 to revamp Frontier Park North with a hike and bike trail, a shaded pavillion, and lighted baseball and softball fields.

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Home / News / Kano Govt Uses $27m Grant To Resuscitate Education Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has pledged that the GPE/NIPEP grant of $27 million allocated to the state would be utilised in resuscitating the education sector.

“The grant will significantly complement our efforts in resuscitating the education sector from many of its inadequacies”, Ganduje affirmed.

He spoke during the occasion of the launching of the programme, Global Partnership for Education/Nigeria Partnership for Education Project, GPE/NIPEP, in the state, meant to actualise education agenda.

The Kano Education Strategic Plan details numerous targets revolving around five main areas namely, ensuring equitable access to basic education through addressing both supply and demand factors, improving educational quality through reducing class sizes, increasing the availability of instructional materials, and improving teacher quality.

It also entails expanding technical and vocational opportunities relevant to the needs of industry and local communities, increasing education financing and introducing school grants to support school development as well as ensuring that all schools have school development plans, school-based committees, and boards of governors to improve school governance.

While assuring that the government would work closely with all the agencies involved in the project to ensure maximum success, he disclosed that his administration has recently released a matching grant of N876, 756, 756. 76 to enable it receive an equivalent amount from the federal government for the execution of Universal Basic Education projects throughout the state.

“Similarly, the state government has paid the sum of N1. 2 billion as counterpart contribution for the Strategic Development Goals (SDGs) projects for the years 2015 and 2016, which we have declared the entire allocation for investment into basic education”, the governor asserted.

The state deputy governor and commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Hafiz Abubakar highlighted that the GPE grant is to be used to increase access and quality of basic education with particular attention to girls’ education.

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