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CareerWorks: Greater Newark Workforce Funders Collaborative Awarded $320,000 in Grants to Develop Workforce Partnerships | Business Wire CareerWorks: Greater Newark Workforce Funders Collaborative Awarded National Fund for Workforce Solutions, Jobs for the Future and

NEWARK, N.J.–()–CareerWorks: Greater Newark Workforce Funders Collaborative announced National Fund for Workforce Solutions network of 35 innovative workforce “CareerWorks workforce partnerships composed of employers and key About CareerWorks: Greater Newark Workforce Funders Collaborative CareerWorks: Greater Newark Workforce Funders Collaborative is the only National Fund for Workforce Solutions regional collaborative in New The award-winning National Fund for Workforce Solutions is a network of 35 regional workforce funders collaboratives across the Foundation; National Fund for Workforce Solutions; Newark WIB/Newark Works; New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development; The CareerWorks: Greater Newark Workforce Funders Collaborative
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The cast of Bronson Community School’s spring musical “The Wizard of Oz” will offer a special performance at 2 p.m. Sunday, to celebrate the life of Dawn Gallup, who died March 4 after a battle with cancer.Dawn, a special education administrator for Branch Intermediate School District, also taught three years at Reading Community Schools and 14 years at Bronson High School. During her years in Bronson, Dawn and her husband, Jeff Gallup, a Bronson High School teacher and football coach, brought musical theater back to the district.Proceeds from Sunday’s presentation will go to the cast’s choice of three local charities: Community Health Center of Branch County Foundation to assist cancer patients; Tibbits Foundation; or Bronson Community Schools at Branch Community Foundation.”Those are three things Dawn would have loved,” Gallup said. He elaborated on the three options:Community Health Center of Branch County Foundation: “It’s heartbreaking to hear people rearranging a chemotherapy appointment because they don’t have gas money,” he said.Tibbits Foundation: Because they value theater, the Gallups were often involved at Tibbits over the years.Bronson Community Schools at Branch Community Foundation: Theater is extremely important and must remain an option for Bronson students, he said.The cast members will announce its choice at the performance.A similar special presentation was held in 2001. mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+mainImageData_credit+”; mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+htmlencode(mainImageData_caption)+”; $(‘#art-main-image-credit-container_sm’).css(‘width’,smimgwidth).css(‘padding’,’3px ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding – 3)+’px 0 0’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container_sm’).css(‘width’,sm_img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding + 3)+’px’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container’).css(‘width’,img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+mainImageData_leftPadding+’px’); $(‘#art-main-image-credit-container’).css(‘width’,img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding)+’px 0 0’);

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Sports Award Accepting Applications for 2015 Honor – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

For the past decade, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has presented the Steve Patterson Award for Excellence in Sports Philanthropy. Building on the Patterson Award, RWJF’s new Sports Award will place a greater emphasis on collaboration across communities and sectors to build a Culture of Health, the Foundation’s core vision.

The RWJF Sports Award recognizes the ways in which sports influence healthy change in communities by helping children maintain a healthy weight, creating safe play environments, encouraging positive behaviors, eliminating bullying, abuse and violence, and expanding opportunities for children living in poverty.

Those eligible to apply are making communities healthier through sport in the following three categories:

Category 1 A professional sports team community relations department or foundation based in North America

Category 2 An individual athlete or professional coach’s foundation based in North America

Category 3 An organization in North America that is an influential leader and model for others

Finalists will be notified before June 23rd and will be required to provide an additional video submission by July 14th. Winners will be notified in August and a public announcement will be made on September 10th at the 2015 award presentation in Princeton, N.J., at the RWJF headquarters.

The application for the 2015 award can be found at www.rwjf.org/sportsaward/apply.

About the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Sports Award

The Robert Wood Johnson Sports Award honors individuals, organizations and teams that are making communities healthier through sport. About the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

For more than 40 years the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has worked to improve health and health care. Inspiring Healthier Communities Through Sport

To that, I always answer that there are more things one can do outside of politics to help in nation-building like philanthropic architecture and architectural activism.

Through my professional practice, I am able to plan a sustainable future for all and create value in every place, building, and community we design. Aside from architecture, design and planning for large-scale urban development of various land uses and building types, we also plan and design for the poor, the Church and the environment. Similarly, we worked with the Urban Poor Associates to design better and more resilient housing for the informal settlers living along the esteros in Manila.

We call this architecture for humanity and democratic architecture. It is my belief that development is not worthy of the name unless it is spread evenly like butter on a piece of bread.

Aside from helping our less fortunate countrymen, we also make it a point to reach out to local government and put forward our recommendations on architecture, planning, and design towards building better, safer, smarter, and more sustainable communities and cities. We send our proposed designs to mayors and other public officials, calling our urban design and architectural perspectives as “Postcards from the Future,” in hope that these images will inspire those in power to take action.

On the national level, we also submitted more than a hundred recommendations to the past and current administrations on addressing hazards before they become disasters.

USA Equestrian Trust Opens 2015 Grants for Equine Nonprofits | TheHorse.com Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA): The trust awarded the MSPCA $37,164 in 2014 to help its Equine Safety and Ambulance Program purchase a new truck and replace a mannequin horse used for training.

EDT March 18, 2015

The Groton Public Library(Photo: SIMON WHEELER / Staff Photo)

The Groton Public Library has received two grants that will help continue a teen program and bring authors to visit.

The library received grants totaling $21,168.56 from The Bernard Carl and Shirley Rosen Library Fund of the Community Foundation of Tompkins County and the Children & Youth Fund of the Community Foundation.

Two grants will be used for the third year GPL Teen Thing, a program for youth in grades six through eight.

WOONSOCKET, R.I., March 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — The CVS Health Foundation, a private foundation created by CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), today announced the first four grant recipients in its “Making the Next Generation Tobacco-Free” grant program a five-year, $5 million partnership with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is a leading force in the fight to reduce tobacco use and its deadly toll in the United States and around the world.

Every day, more than 2,800 kids under the age of 18 nationwide try smoking for the first time, and 2.7 million high school students in the United States still smoke. Through the “Making the Next Generation Tobacco-Free” grant program, the CVS Health Foundation and Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids aim to reduce youth tobacco use, especially among at-risk populations, educate the public about the problem of and solutions to youth tobacco use in local communities and increase youth engagement in tobacco prevention activities.

BREATHE California of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
BREATHE California plans to reach approximately 8,000 third- to eighth-grade students throughout Los Angeles County as part of the “No to Tobacco” prevention program, which focuses on underserved populations.

California School-Based Health Alliance, Oakland, CA
California School-Based Health Alliance will increase the capacity of school-based health centers (SBHC) to implement youth-led tobacco prevention programs and educate kids throughout California.

Ohio Public Health Partnership, Columbus, OH
Ohio Public Health Partnership (OPHP) plans to educate lawmakers and the public to support an increase in the Ohio tobacco tax, equalize the tax on other tobacco products and designate 12 cents of every $1.00 of the proposed tax increase for tobacco use prevention and cessation. In addition, since the company’s tobacco announcement, CVS Health has announced more than $1 million in grants to tobacco cessation organizations and launched a 5-year, $5 million partnership with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids through the CVS Health Foundation. CVS Health Foundation Commits $5 Million to Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

“Also, there’s her successful business experience she will be able to tell us about.”

The dinner serves as the foundation’s largest annual fundraiser, he said.

The foundation also holds a golf outing each June.

“The dinner draws more and more people — well more than 200,” Schottke said. “Pretty soon, we’re going to be getting close to reaching the space limits of the golf club facility.

“This is such a supportive and wonderful community and that’s proven by the support we receive each year for our dinner and auction,” he said.

The foundation awards grants to support innovative teaching projects each fall and provides $500 to $2,500 scholarships to students at each high school and the South-Western Career Academy.

“Last year, we were able to provide more than $100,000 in scholarships and a record amount of $25,000 in grants,” Schottke said.