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Michael Saunders is Senior Editor of TopGovernmentGrants.com and TopFoundationGrants.com and a network of comprehensive sites offering information on foundation and government and grants as well as federal government programs.

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.

Social Entrepreneur Leila Janah

February 17, 2016 9:05 pm Published by

Social Entrepreneur Leila Janah | Wells College The founder of international ventures Sama Group and Laxmi will give the keynote address for Wells’ 2016 Entrepreneurship Week

The Sullivan Center for Business and Entrepreneurship at Wells College presents a talk by noted social entrepreneur Leila Janah, founder of Sama Group and Laxmi and World Economic Forum Delegate. Admission is free, and all are welcome.

Leila Janah is the founder and CEO of Sama Group, a company working to reduce global poverty and suffering through social ventures that provide meaningful work and medical treatments in places with high unemployment and poverty, including slums and rural communities in East Africa, South Asia, and the Americas.

Wells College promises a relevant liberal arts and sciences education.

Arts Grants Awarded to Local Groups

February 17, 2016 8:56 pm Published by

KCAIC programs are designed to promote partnerships, enhance community and economic development, encourage risk and innovation, maximize statewide impact and highlight the role the arts play in all areas of community life. By funding a variety of professional and organizational development opportunities that impact cultural programming, these grants support initiatives that use the arts to enhance community vitality, revitalize neighborhoods, generate local business, create and preserve job opportunities and impact tourism.

The Arts Integration Program (AIP) grants support the role the arts play in all levels of education, community service and workforce development. This program provides funding for educational institutions, arts organizations and community service non-profits to use the arts to increase student success, foster creative thinking, develop critical job skills and enhance community development.

The film will be used to create a new category of the next annual Lid-Off Film Festival in Lucas titled “Community Challenge” comprised of locally sourced films featuring Kansas communities.

Southeast CASA Receives Grant Award From Dakota Hospital Foundation

February 17, 2016 8:56 pm Published by

Southeast CASA Receives Grant Award From Dakota Hospital Foundation – Yankton Press & Dakotan: Life
Southeast CASA Receives Grant Award From Dakota Hospital Foundation

VERMILLION a Southeast CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) was recently awarded a $2,000 grant from Dakota Hospital Foundation. SE CASA applied for grant funding from Dakota Hospital Foundation during their fall 2015 open grant period. The training to become a CASA volunteer advocate is extensive, so we greatly appreciate that the Dakota Hospital Foundation is supporting Southeast CASAas efforts in Clay County to recruit and train the very best people to do this important work,a said Sherri Rodgers-Conti, Program Director, Southeast CASA

Not A Traditional Success Story

February 17, 2016 8:50 pm Published by

Recuperative Care is a program that provides short-term medical care and case management to homeless persons who are recovering from an acute illness or injury and whose conditions would be exacerbated by living on the street or in a shelter.

Tom’s condition was terminal, it didn’t change the fact that he needed care and that recuperative care was going to be the most compassionate and cost-effective solution. Homeless patients often die on the very streets they live on and healthcare providers, without appropriate discharge options, are often forced to make the difficult choice to return homeless patients to the street without the benefits of follow-up care.

Through its recuperative care and bridge housing programs, NHF plans to place 100 homeless individuals into permanent housing and 50 individuals into permanent supportive housing in the next year and a half.

Innovations in Health Equity and Health Philanthropy

February 17, 2016 8:21 pm Published by

Innovations in Health Equity and Health Philanthropy | Stanford Social Innovation Review Innovations in Health Equity and Health Philanthropy Our goal in this supplement is to lift up new
voices and approaches in health equity and
to highlight the work of funders and community
organizations that use health equity
as a lens for grantmaking and partnerships. Even in the 19th century, the lack of
health equity in the United States was a subject
of concern for advocates, scholars, and
health professionals. Washington commented
publicly on the high rate of preventable
death among blacks, and in 1915
he organized National Negro Health Week,
hoping to generate broad support for improving
black health. Black public health
leaders sustained this effort by continuing
to promote National Negro Health Week
for several more decades. The Affordable
Care Act (ACA) promises to expand the number
of Americans eligible for these and other
preventive health services, but it is not a given
that health disparities will decrease as a result.

Simply put,
disadvantaged social groups systematically
experience worse health or greater health
risks than more advantaged social groups.

The concept of the social determinants
of health, introduced by the World Health
Organization (WHO) about a decade ago,
has been an important tool for explaining
how the social and economic structures
that shape how people live also affect their
health.

Access to high-quality health services
is just one of several contributors to good
health status. There was
an emphasis on primary prevention (such as
community health education and screening),
improvements in the delivery of health care,
and use of data to track trends and outcomes.

With growing evidence of the social determinants
of health, health funders began
to focus their attention on “upstream” strategies
for example, improving housing or
increasing access to education alongside
continued “downstream” work to improve
health-care services.

Post-ACA, many health funders continue
to support health system reform as one
strategy for eliminating health disparities.

Other funders are taking a broader
view that addresses inequalities by moving
beyond health care and, in some cases,
outside the health sector.

Health funders who have partnered with
non-health organizations are an example of a
growing interest in working across sectors to
improve health equity. Many health funders
recognize that in low-income urban neighborhoods,
community development offers a vital
pathway for improving the underlying conditions
that shape health. The fund supports development of federally
qualified health centers in underserved areas,
as well as affordable housing that incorporates
health programs for low-income residents. If successful, these grantmaking strategies
could potentially lead to larger wins and could
be an opportunity for health philanthropy to
broaden its sphere of influence outside the
boundaries of the traditional health sector.

Because health equity is ultimately part
of the larger issue of social and economic
inequality, worsening economic inequality
in the United States threatens health
philanthropy’s ability to make meaningful
improvements. By catalyzing the power of people to make change, community organizers equip
people at every level to overcome the myriad barriers to health.

Partnering with Philanthropy in Native America

February 17, 2016 8:00 pm Published by

The reservation, a sovereign nation, is
home to the Oglala Lakota people approximately
40,000 residents living in more than
50 small communities and governed by the
Oglala Sioux Tribe. More than 50 percent of the population is
under the age of 18, and young people on Pine Ridge are 10 times more likely to commit
suicide than in any other community in
America. The percentage of young people on the reservation
clearly reflects the area’s low life
expectancy, but it also represents an opportunity
to transform the region by empowering
young people to become leaders who can
change the future of their community.

We wanted to run youth programs, build
housing, create jobs, improve health, and
do anything else needed to strengthen our
communities. The policies,
statutory decisions, and bureaucratic
processes that exist today have created silos,
separated people from resources, and most
important, discouraged people from feeling
empowered to create their destiny.

To tackle these interconnected problems
we chose a community development
corporation (CDC) model and created the
Thunder Valley Community Development
Corporation we didn’t want to be confined
to a narrow focus. As Oglala Lakota people
working through these issues on Pine Ridge,
we recognize that we need to return to our
ways and live in harmony with one another.

So far, our regeneration work has led to
the creation of two major initiatives that
are catalyzing Pine Ridge to build more equitable
communities. Since it passed the Oglala Sioux Tribal council
in 2012, it has brought more than $12 million
into the region in the form of grants, loans,
and investments to improve roads, build
homes, and create more livable communities.

Our approach to creating regional equity is
to build an actual physical community and
to create the associated models for development
that will sustain that community. We are now building a 34-
acre affordable, eco-friendly, place-based
community in the Porcupine district on Pine
Ridge. It
will emphasize home ownership and include
healthy, livable neighborhoods with walking
paths, a community wellness center, outdoor
youth spaces, artist live-and-work spaces, an
organic garden and farm, a workforce development
training center, and spaces to incubate
local businesses. And so our
message to philanthropy is this: If the goal is
fostering sustainable social and economic
change on a national scale, then funding
grassroots community organizations working
to create holistic pathways to healthy and
prosperous communities is crucial especially
if the change you seek is in the poorest
and most challenged communities.

We are working with and actively engaging
our community, and we are challenging
foundations and other private partners to
help us disrupt the status quo and build a
long-lasting commitment to the principles
of equity, regeneration, and social justice. We have a long way to go to create a lasting
ecosystem of opportunity so that our people,
and others who experience the effects
of generations of oppression and failed development,
can become their own agents of
change.

We have the ability to end poverty in
Native American communities in our lifetime
if the philanthropic community is ready
to partner with us, take risks, and invest in
long-term, community-led capacity-building
programs. There is a growing nonprofit sector in Native
America, the community development
finance institution movement is in full swing,
and we have powerful, resilient cultures to
rely on. By catalyzing the power of people to make change, community organizers equip
people at every level to overcome the myriad barriers to health.

Instead of dictating how people should change to meet the needs of the voting system, IDEO’s design team focused on how the system might be redesigned to meet people’s needs.

Philanthropy on the Frontlines of Ferguson

February 17, 2016 8:00 pm Published by

The Deaconess Foundation seeks to shift public policy, mobilize community
members, and strengthen advocacy efforts related to children and youth.

Louis, had lost its
accreditation in 2012, and in 2013 it found itself
at the center of a school transfer debacle
that at one point saw dozens of white parents
from nearby suburbs yelling for Normandy’s
predominantly black young people to leave
the schools in their communities and “go
home.” In
brief, the summer of 2014 marked the very
public diagnosis of an unhealthy community
with suffering youth and racial inequity as
the most prominent symptoms.

It brought home the point that, just
as place and poverty are social determinants
of health, racial equity is an important indicator of our communities’ health. The foundation
envisions a community that values
the health and well-being of all children and
gives priority attention to the most vulnerable. The plan aims to shift public
policy, mobilize community members, and
strengthen advocacy efforts related to children
and young people. In 2015, Deaconess followed up
by establishing the Ferguson Youth Organizing
Fund, which allows other donors to invest
through Deaconess. To date, outside funding partners have been
as diverse as the Public Welfare Foundation,
the Ford Foundation, the NBA Players’ Association
Foundation, Casey Family Programs,
and Anheuser Busch InBev.

From nonviolent direct actions (including
being arrested with clergy leaders attempting
to enter the US Attorney’s office on the
anniversary of Michael Brown’s death) to
closed-door strategy meetings, Deaconess
staff members have engaged directly, taking
on coordinating roles with community
organizers, elected officials, law enforcement,
local clergy, civil rights activists, and
national funders.

It has engaged more than 2,200 citizens
and 100 subject matter experts in more than
60 public meetings, and it has marshalled
nearly 20,000 volunteer hours to explore
issues such as citizen-law enforcement relations,
municipal courts and governance,
racial and ethnic relations, regional disparities
in health, education, housing, transportation,
child care, and family and community
stability.

The commission’s nearly $1 million
budget was funded primarily by the State
of Missouri through economic development,
community service, and community
development block grant dollars. Funding was also provided by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, Missouri Foundation
for Health, and Deaconess Foundation.

The Ferguson Commission report,
Forward Through Ferguson: A Path Toward
Racial Equity, was released on September 14,
2015.

Leading the commission gave Deaconess
the opportunity to influence the prioritizing
of policy recommendations, and we emphasized
the need to advance racial and health
equity, as well as to create policies that are supported by research and that will have generational
impact. Since the recommendations became public,
Deaconess has convened a group of community
organizing and advocacy organizations
to coordinate campaigns and public
actions to assure accountability for civic
leaders. In November 2015, we worked with
activists to host two public accountability
meetings where civic leaders including the
attorney general, the city mayor, legislators,
the Chamber of Commerce president, and
school superintendents pledged support
for Ferguson Commission calls to action.

In many ways, the Ferguson Commission
gave Deaconess an opportunity to learn
and explore its emerging approach to social
change in real time. Public testimony from
people directly affected assured robust community
engagement in policy development. He is president and CEO of Deaconess
Foundation, pastor of Saint John’s Church (The Beloved Community),
and co-chair of the Ferguson Commission.

Walmart Foundation Grants Oregon State $810000

February 17, 2016 7:48 pm Published by

The plan is to pursue continuous digital printing and drying of biopigment inks.

Four OSU professors from different departments have been chosen to collaborate on the textile research project: Alex Chang from the College of Chemical Engineering, Hsiou-Lien Chen from the College of Business, Sara Robinson from the College of Forestry and Wildlife, and Rajiv Malhotra from the College of Manufacturing Engineering.

“I like the collaboration because we can each bring different ideas,” Chang commented.

The four professors plan to start fully working on the research project in the beginning of March and hope to have significant results within the next three years.

“Together we hope to create a new drying technique using light photon energy to dry the ink faster and more efficiently,” Chang said. Conference of Mayors partnered with Walmart on the program to help increase production jobs.

Kathleen McLaughlin, president of the Walmart Foundation and chief sustainability officer, in an article published by Walmart News, relayed, “The U.S. Manufacturing Innovation Fund is part of Walmart and the Walmart Foundation’s broader commitment to foster new economic growth and opportunity and create stronger communities.”

In Jan. stores, including two in Oregon.

Over the next five years, the Walmart Foundation will annually grant the five leading research and academic schools in the country a total of $2.84 million in donations for their research focused on textile production innovations.

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