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Financial institutions offer $600,000 to Flint water crisis relief efforts | MLive.com Financial institutions offer $600,000 to Flint water crisis relief efforts

FLINT, MI Nine financial institutions have pledged up to $600,000 in grants to provide aid to children that have been affected by the Flint water crisis.

Bank of America, Chemical Bank, Citizens Bank, Comerica Bank, Fifth Third Bank, FirstMerit Bank, Flagstar Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Quicken, and Talmer Bank are providing the funds to the Flint Child Health and Development Fund established by the Community Foundation of Greater Flint.

“We are humbled and grateful for the generosity of southeast Michigan banking institutions in supporting Flint’s children through their gift to the Flint Child Health and Development Fund,” said Kathi Horton, president of the Community Foundation of Greater Flint in a statement.

“The Fund will support critical public health, medical, and community-based interventions that address the long-term impacts experienced by Flint children who have been exposed to lead through their drinking water,” she added.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is providing a lead gift of $150,000, with the amount being matched by the JPMorgan Chase Foundation.

The JPMorgan Chase Foundation is also matching employee donations up to $100,000. Bank of America is also set to match $50,000 in employee donations.

“Nothing is more important than the health and safety of our children,” said Bob Rummel, East Michigan Market Manager for JPMorgan Chase in Flint.

Matt Elliott, Michigan Market president for Bank of America, said “Flint children deserve every opportunity to be healthy and successful. The fund will help families and children with resources and interventions to overcome this population-wide exposure to lead.”

The group of financial institutes is also hosting fundraisers, managing volunteer engagement, and encouraging in-kind donations for water crisis relief efforts.

Anyone wishing to donate to the Flint Child Health and Development Fund may do so online at flintkids.com.

The school says they want to use the money to support the “My School in Motion” program.

SAN RAFAEL, CA- Bahia Vista Elementary School in San Rafael has received an education grant as part of the KNBR Step Up to the Plate for Education grants program. With the $4,000 offered, the school wants to support the “My School in Motion” program which provides fitness and academic support for high needs students in Kindergarten through 5th grade.

The education grants program, funded by Wells Fargo, presented checks to 29 Bay Area schools on Friday, who received a total of $100,000 to support their sports, musical, art and education programs.

San Francisco Giant Brandon Crawford spoke to the grant winners about the importance of working hard in both sports and academics. It is an honor to be part of a program that gives Bay Area kids the opportunity to expand their academic and athletic horizons.”

Representatives from the following schools attended Friday’s event to receive the grants, for the following purposes:

Malcolm X Elementary, Berkeley: Purchase new sports equipment for Physical Education classes and recess time. $5,000.00Mira Vista Elementary School, Richmond: Purchase art supplies for the successful and widely popular school art program. $2,500.00Bahia Vista Elementary School, San Rafael Support the “My School in Motion” program which provides fitness and academic support for high needs students in Kindergarten through 5th grade. $5,000.00El Granada Elementary School, Half Moon Bay: Purchase a classroom set of ukuleles to be used by students in 2nd through 5th grade and offer an after school ukulele program.

In a decision that could have massive repercussions for PhiladelphiaA schools, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the provision in stateA law granting the School Reform Commission “extraordinary powers” to cancel provisions of the state school code is unconstitutional.

Charter schools are not subject to District-imposed enrollment caps, absent the charter school’s consent, according to the school code.A

The ruling is a severe blow to the SRC, which has frequently sought to suspend the school code in an effort to limit charter expansion, expediteA school closings,A and cancel provisions in the teachers’ contract aincluding built-in raises for yearsA ofA service andA seniority protections in calling back laid-off employees.A

Since it was established, more than $849,400.00 has been reinvested in the county by local charitable organizations to fund projects in the arts, recreation, health, community service, environmental improvement and a variety of other community development areas.

Established in 2006, funding for the foundation was secured from the Iowa Legislature to encourage improvement projects in communities that do not have a gaming facility located in their county. Includes shingles, new windows, painting and siding;
Hawkeye Point Foundation, construct a 5 fire pit at the campground, landscape stones & plants around the welcome sign, purchase recreational equipment, decorative fencing;
Melvin Area Development Corporation, purchase 12 double-sided banners & Christmas lights for Melvin’s Main Street;
Ashton American Legion Post #290, upgrade lighting in main hall, improve energy efficiency, & purchase fire proof safe for ceremonial guns and sound system;
Osceola County Conservation Board, improve trail accessibility at Willow Creek Park, create parking lot from hill area, erect mobility impaired fishing structure and dock;
Willard F. Members will also seal tables and purchase fiberglass embedded signs for kiosk at the high point;
Sibley Park Board, install sewer hook-ups for 7 campsites at Robinson Park to assist visitors that stay for extended times;
Sibley Public Library, funds to assist with the establishment of English Learning Language classes including promotion & teaching materials as well as a coordinator to assist with the program;

OTHER AWARDS:

Melvin Fire Department, $2,900.00 to replace light bar on their tanker. Many monuments have no living relatives available to assist with the project costs and the tilted stones pose a safety hazard for children that may visit the cemetery;
Sibley Recreation Department, $1,078.78 to build and purchase new games for Sibley’s Central Park including a Gaga Ball pit and 9 square games designed to improve park usage;
City of Harris, $2,355.49 to repair and update the Harris Park bathrooms including a new roof, plumbing fixtures and remodeling expenses.

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Child care centers in low-income Black communities, advocates said, should be receiving enough money to meet standards and requirements.

The issue centers around the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant program. In fiscal 2013, there was $11.8 million left in unspent money from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families grant, which could have gone to child care programs.

In addition, advocates said, the constant call by state leaders for more residents to work and not use public assistance is confusing, at best, in the context of child care funding in Mississippi.

“Everything they say would lead you to believe that they want the child care program to work,” said Carol Burnett, executive director of the Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative.

“Yet, what happens, because it is a state block grant, all the rules are set by the state. But in a statement to Equal Voice News, officials did not elaborate on the report details or recommendations.

“The Mississippi Department of Human Services is committed to serving the citizens of Mississippi every day,” spokesman Paul Nelson said in a statement.

“The child care subsidy program uses all CCDF funds to serve parents and offer early learning environments that prepare them to be successful lifelong learners.”

The Mississippi-Low Income Child Care Initiative works with families and child care providers to secure access to affordable and quality child care services for low-income residents in the state.

Center for Law and Social Policy, child care and development block grant program, Children, Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Human Services, Mississippi Low Income Child Care Initiative, U.S.

Special to the Jasper County Sun Times

Agape Family Life Center executive director Deloris Young and Antioch Educational Center director Jackie O’Bannon were grant receipents of The Beaufort Fund.

With a mission to make dreams real for school-aged children in Stanislaus County through programs that enrich and stimulate their minds and bodies, as well as teach values through service learning, the Make Dreams Real Endowment announced the opening for this year’s grant application period.

The Make Dreams Real Endowment Fund was founded by the late Carl Boyett and his wife Carole Boyett of Boyett Petroleum in 2009 in order to provide funding support for children’s programs in Stanislaus County. Administered by the Stanislaus Community Foundation, the fund has awarded $573,500 in grants since its inception and the fund anticipates granting over $200,000 in financial support to local organizations this year.

“Carl Boyett was a visionary; passionate in his quest to make dreams become a reality for underserved youth,” said Carole Boyett.

The money for the Make Dreams Real Endowment Fund is raised solely through the annual Make Dreams Real Golf Tournament in conjunction with a “Send a Kid to Camp” donation drive at all Cruisers convenience stores and gas stations owned by Boyett Petroleum in the Central Valley.

Past recipients of Make Dreams Real Endowment Fund grants include Salida Union School District, Empire Union School District, Cardozo Middle School in Riverbank, Stanislaus Union School District and Sylvan Union School District, all which received funding for Foothill Horizons Outdoor Education Camp.

Organizations with programs that align with the Make Dreams Real Endowment Fund mission, vision and grant guidelines are encouraged to apply.

From left, Carnegie Mellon University graduate students Lauretta Wild, 33; Megan O’Rourke, 29; Samantha Grant, 25; and Katie Moritz, 26, inside of CMU’s Tepper School of Business on Monday.
Michael Henninger/Post-Gazette 20160215MWHconference Biz From left, Carnegie Mellon University graduate students Katie Moritz, 26, Megan O’Rourke, 29, Samantha Grant, 25, and Lauretta Wild, 33, pose for a portrait inside of CMU’s Tepper School of Business in Squirrel Hill on Monday, Feb. Wild, O’Rourke, Grant and Moritz are the organizers behind a conference to help mid-career level women make the jump to management that will be held this weekend.
Michael Henninger/Post-Gazette 20160215MWHconference Biz From left, Carnegie Mellon University graduate students Katie Moritz, 26, Samantha Grant, 25, Lauretta Wild, 33, and Megan O’Rourke, 29, pose for a portrait inside of CMU’s Tepper School of Business in Squirrel Hill on Monday, Feb. Wild, O’Rourke, Grant and Moritz are the organizers behind a conference to help mid-career level women make the jump to management that will be held this weekend.

A year ago, Samantha Grant and Megan O’Rourke, both MBA candidates at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, were elected ambassadors of the Forte Foundation an Austin, Texas-based consortium of corporations and business schools that encourages women to advance their careers.

Months later, staff from Tepper became involved with the idea and helped bring to fruition the school’s first-ever Women in Business Conference set for Saturday at the Twentieth Century Club in Oakland.

Much of the conference material will help women who are shifting from the role of independent contributor to manager, said Leanne Meyer, program director for CMU’s Leadership Academy for Women. Forte’s research shows 34 percent of recent MBA grads are women, while at Tepper’s full-time MBA program, women accounted for about one-fourth of the 417 enrollees as of last fall.

Sedgefield Elementary receives grant for books – Greensboro News & Record: Gnr

Thanks to bestselling author James Patterson, students at Sedgefield Elementary School will have new books for their library. The school was selected to receive a $1,000 grant to buy books the schoolas population would find relevant.

aGiven that funding is such that libraries do not see much of a budget, new books are golden,a said Julie Hebert, Sedgefieldas media specialist.

For the school library, Hebert will buy mostly multicultural picture books for the schoolas Read Aloud program.

When Hebert applied for the grant, her school was in the middle of a 40-day reading challenge in which each teacher was challenged to read aloud one book every day for 40 days.

Her list of books she plans to buy include African American, Hispanic, Chines, Vietnamese and Japanese stories, as well as books that discuss the Festival of Eid al-Fitr/Ramadan.

aOur students love new books, and they will love the different stories from different cultures and perhaps connect with them,a Hebert said.

aI hope that these new multicultural books will tell stories that envelope students, are stories they can identify with, encourage them to read more books and give us all something to talk about.a

aWe start here in elementary and build for our futures, so having a variety of books to share throughout their elementary years is critical to a successful school experience.a

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act: Youth Grant | Delta News Web

Prepare to Succeed

Adult Learning Programs of Alaska has been awarded a Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act: Youth Grant. Employ-ability skills development includes job search training as well as the development of positive work attitudes and work habits through internships, job shadowing, and permanent job placement.

What to Expect
>You will be given an exciting opportunity to move forward with your educational and career goals!
>You will engage in thorough enrollment process.
>You and the Adult Learning Programs staff will create a clear, goal-oriented plan to reach positive outcomes.
>You will work with a positive mentor and guide.
>You may achieve certification in an educational or vocational program as well getting a job.

General Eligibility Requirements
>Out of school youth (graduated or dropped out) between the ages of 16-24
>In school youth (currently attending school, college) ages 14-21.
>Must possess valid identification: photo id, social security card.
>In school youth and families must meet Federal low income guidelines to be eligible.

Benefits of Youth Services
>Exploring career opportunities
>Paid internships and job shadowing experiences
>Being exposed to a variety of training opportunities
>Being eligible for funding for advanced training
>Receiving intensive instruction for job placement and career exploration
>Getting a good job!

You may contact the offices listed below:
Fairbanks Office: Delta Office:
Adult Learning Programs of Alaska Adult Learning Programs of Alaska
60 Hall Street 2880 Alaska Highway AMC Bldg
Fairbanks, Alaska 99701 Suite A
Ph: (907) 452-6434 (ask for Rob Fabian) PO Box 1188
Fax: (907) 451-6598 Delta Junction, Alaska 99737-1188
Ph: 907-895-1819/907-803-3115
www.adultlearning.org deltaged@hotmail.com