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The Pay-Less Markets Community Foundation is proud to announce more than 20 community fair vendors will participate in the 19th Annual Pay-Less Kick the Fat 5K Run/Walk & Community Fair scheduled for Saturday at Paseo Stadium in Hagatna.

Touted as Guam’s largest 5K event, Pay-Less invites the community to join it and celebrate the start of the race with a Zumba warm-up by Synergy studios, followed by a shotgun start and fireworks at 6 a.m. ..Build 0: 0 ms (Misc)
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The Director of Major & Planned Gifts for the Community Foundation of Morgan County (CFMC) is a newly designed position within the Foundation to capture community interest in the $1 million Lilly Endowment GIFT VI Matching Program. This position reports directly to the Executive Director of the Foundation having primary responsibility in efforts to meet the goal of the matching program creating and developing a strong major and planned giving program for the CFMC.

In late 2014, the Lilly Endowment announced that the Community Foundation of Morgan County was the recipient of a generous $1 million matching grant. Primarily, this will benefit the foundation’s impact grant making, and allow the foundations current annual grant program to evolve with the communitys growing needs.

Founded in 2000, through the merging of the Mooresville Community Foundation and the Morgan County Community Foundation, The Community Foundation of Morgan County is a public tax-exempt non-profit foundation.

Qualified individuals should submit a cover letter and resume to: Executive Director, Community Foundation of Morgan County, 56 N.

(AP) – A program of the Vermont Community Foundation is offering scholarships to help preschool age children attend a child care center.

The Community Foundation has been providing qualified child care centers with scholarships for underserved families since 1990 with funding from the O.P. Edwards Foundation.

The Edwards Foundation intends for the scholarships to benefit preschoolers who seem to be getting “lost in the cracks” when other subsidies are not enough or the child falls just outside of federal or state program eligibility.

Any nonprofit child care center in Vermont that serves children from economically stressed families is eligible to apply for grants up to $2,000.

The deadline is May 1.

Copyright 2015 The Associated Press.

Community gardens sprout in Massillon – News – The Independent – Massillon, OH A group is working on setting up at least two community gardens in Massillon this year with plan to a dd a few more every year to combat the growing problem of food insecurity. James AME Zion Church Community Garden that organizers say should be ready for planting come spring.The Massillon Community Gardens, comprised of community leaders, gardening experts, Walsh University students, and others who have been meeting every month since the fall, has received one grant so far to get two community gardens started. A couple of other gardens may also get started this year or next year depending upon whether the coalition receives more grant money. So far, the group has received a grant for $3,774 through the Creating Healthy Communities program funded by the Ohio Department of Health to get the gardens started. The idea behind the gardens is to give people access to healthy affordable food. Coalition members and directors anticipate people will able to plant a variety of crops tomatoes, peppers, onions, kale, collards, beets, squash and corn.Lisa Benton, one of the directors of the coalition and special events and marketing supervisor at the Massillon Parks and Recreation Department, is credited with getting the ball rolling on community gardening in the city. While the coalition waits to find out about a discretionary grant through Stark Community Foundation, Benton said it welcomes any donations or volunteers to help with the gardens. To help maintain these gardens and start new gardens each year, the coalition is seeking two grants through the Stark Community Foundation: a planning grant for $15,000 and an implementation grant of $100,000. FOCUS ON FOOD SECURITYA study on food insecurity, which refers to access to affordable healthy foods, was commissioned more than a year ago by the Stark Community Foundation and shows this is a public health issue that is a rising challenge for local communities. “If you have a place to grow food, then you have food security,” said Dee Beyeler, who is a master gardener, and a director of the Community Gardens Coalition. Her husband, Les Beyeler, is a facilitator for the group and he said not only do community gardens provide access to healthy food, but the gardens create relationships, which lead to healthy communities.”We’ve sort of lost that art form in the last 50 years,” he said. I get to play in some dirt.”Page 3 of 3 – Gardening program at libraryThe Massillon Public Library offers a free Starting Seeds Indoors program 6 to 7:30 p.m. SW.Get involvedFor more information about volunteering, donating or becoming a community gardener in Massillon, call Lisa Benton at 330-832-1621 ext.

And both veteran foundations and new ones are seeing impact investing as a way to generate both a strong financial return and a social return by placing capital in socially oriented businesses and business-minded nonprofits.

Heron Foundation, and Jean Rogers, chief executive of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, wrote in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, foundations must deal with complex regulations governing their uses of assets, perceptions that social investments lead to lower returns, limited expertise in impact investing among the banks and other organizations that manage endowments, and the struggle to measure the performance of an investment with social returns.

Such concerns are important for foundations to weigh because before they undertake impact investing, they need to understand their appetite for risk and how willing they truly are to use their resources for maximum impact now and how much they are motivated by preserving assets for activities tomorrow.

And in some ways, foundations may find they have little choice: The century-old approach to foundation management, with its silos for investments and mission, may soon become obsolete because of the growing intensity of the problems facing the world.

Assessing sources of money for investments and scale of resources that will be committed to impact investments versus more conventional investments. Only half the foundations that the Foundation Center says make program-related investments (typically loans that charge below-market rates) have been offering loans for more than five years. A few foundations have made the leap to look at investments in a holistic way, but simply mixing philanthropy and investment has not magically led to better financial and social outcomes.

The appeal of impact investing for foundations is based on the idea that their capital can be a catalyst that bursts open a pinata of commercial and public money attracting incremental capital at scale to innovative and effective projects and enterprises.

Impact investing can’t resolve the cross-purposes that are inherent in the way today’s foundations operate, but it will become the must-have app if philanthropists expect to stay relevant.

MACC Server Izzy Eagleson(right)serves apple pie at the MACC kitchen. In her will, Ruddell set up a private foundation to aid organizations providing programs and services to the citizens of Manchester and institutions working for the prevention of cruelty to animals.

Other 2015 grants from the Ruddell Fund are:

Rebuilding Together Manchester, Inc., $7,500 to buy materials for home modifications and repairs for low-income homeowners.

Manchester Scholarship Foundation, Inc., $5,000 to help adult learners with fees outside tuition, such as books and lab fees.

Community Renewal Team, Inc., $6,640 to support READS, a language and reading literacy program for elementary-age students.

Manchester Police Activities League, Inc., $5,500 to support a safe physical education and training environment for PAL by updating equipment, purchasing additional storage and installing air conditioning and fans.

Little Theatre of Manchester, Inc., $7,000 to support the 2015 play season and reach new audiences, including young adults and families.

Lutz Children’s Museum, $9,000 to support care and feeding of museum animals.

The Children’s Museum, $5,000 to expand the Science Achievement for All program for low-income students in town schools.

Manchester Historical Society, $4,000 to help buy visual and audio equipment for the History Center.

C.A.S.T., Inc., $1,600 to provide reduced-rate tickets for seniors and children as part of its outreach programs.

Manchester Symphony Orchestra & Chorale, Inc., $1,500 to partially support the artist and venue costs for the “Cruisin’ to the Oldies” concert.

Connecticut Humane Society, $8,525 to purchase updated veterinary diagnostic equipment for the Fox Memorial Clinic.

Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective, $4,000 for veterinary care, food and other supports of the Aid-A-Pet program.

Protectors of Animals, Inc., $3,190 to buy shelter software, PetPoint.

The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving“>Hartford Foundation for Public Giving serves Hartford and 28 surrounding communities.

According to 2015 data from the renowned Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, most business executives believe that corporate citizenship contributes to company success, returns value to shareholders, and merits additional investment.

On corporate philanthropy, CECP: The CEO Force for Good says that giving has increased for 64% of its member companies since the end of the Great Recession (2010 2013), and companies that have increased giving since 2010 have improved business performance.

Most of us in corporate philanthropy and responsibility know the employee stats, too: companies with a purpose greater than return to shareholders alone have more engaged employees.

At Quest, with our largest diagnostic laboratory, 93 patient service centers, our global corporate headquarters, and 2,700 dedicated employees based in New Jersey, we make it our business to make a difference in our State.

Clair plaza merchants offered matching donations

The new lights at the Riverview Plaza in St. CLAIR a Merchants of the Riverview Plaza have a new incentive to play an active role in the courtyard’s improvements.

The Riverview Plaza Merchants Association has started a new funding match program. Follow him on Twitter @RobertGross477

HOW TO DONATE

RIVERVIEW PLAZA RENOVATIONS

a Riverview Plaza merchants, employees and vendors who want to donate to a Riverview Plaza Merchants Association matching fund program for courtyard renovations should contact Pat O’Connor at the St.

This is the 16th year of this annual award to recognize five DeKalb County school employees, one in each of five categories: Teacher Grades Pre-K-5; Teacher Grades 6-8; Teacher Grades 9-12; Administrator; and Support Staff.

Yvonne Johnson, retired elementary school teacher in the Sycamore School District, has established an endowed fund with the DeKalb County Community Foundation to make these awards possible.

Dan Templin, Executive Director of the DeKalb County Community Foundation, stated, “Nominations were a joint effort from teachers, administrators and the community. A nonpartisan committee made the final determination from the 16 nominees.

The recipients of the 2015 DeKalb County Excellence in Education Awards are:

Pre-K Fifth Grade Teacher: Marcy Billington, kindergarten teacher, Davenport Elementary School, Genoa-Kingston CUSD 424

Marcy Billington is a kindergarten teacher at Davenport Elementary. She is married to Don Billington, and has two sons, Kevin and Craig.

Sixth Eighth Grade Teacher: Amanda Baum, seventh-grade mathematics teacher, Clinton-Rosette Middle School, DeKalb CUSD 428

Amanda Baum is a mathematics teacher at Clinton Rosette Middle School. She also has been involved with youth sports and community charitable events including Feed My Starving Children.

Ninth 12th Grade Teacher: Lisa Beynon, art teacher, Genoa-Kingston High School

Lisa Beynon is an art teacher at Genoa-Kingston High School where she teaches painting, drawing, 3-D studio arts and digital photography.