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She was honored as Cultural Rhythms’ Artist of the Year on

For 30 years, the Harvard Foundation has been inviting artists to preside over Cultural Rhythms, a series of student performances celebrating the diversity of Harvard’s student body. To honor her work in television, film, and philanthropy, Cultural Rhythms named Eva Longoria its 2015 Artist of the Year.

Abdurezak Shemsu ’18, audience member

RR: Who should be next year’s Artist of the Year?

Abdurezak: A lot of names pop up, but I don’t know what would make them Artist of the Year.

RR: Maybe they just pull names out of a hat?

Abdurezak: They pull names out of a hat? Ayogu ’10, Adams House resident tutor, audience member

RR: Have you been to Cultural Rhythms before?

Nworah: I have I think six times?

Delta Tau Delta raises $3,500 for Diabetes research – The Red and Black : Uganews Delta Tau Delta raises $3,500 for Diabetes research

For the third year in a row, the Delta Tau Delta fraternity hosted The Sound of Milledge, a singing competition between Panhellenic sororities that raises money for its national philanthropy.

Connor MacDonald, Delta Tau Delta philanthropy and community service chair, since its beginning, the event has continued to grow.

We just feel it super close because we have a brother with type one diabetes,a said Colt Neal, a Delta Tau Delta freshman and romance languages major from Cumming.

Sigma Delta Tau placed second the first year but last year and this year did not place.

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March 5 is our second annual Giving Day, a 24-hour period of donating online at
FCGives.org to support more than 300 local nonprofits throughout Fairfield County.

Trumbull nonprofits participating in Giving Day include:

Connecticut Chamber Choir, IncCooperative Educational Services Foundation, Inc.Fairfield County Children’s ChoirFriends of the Trumbull High School Choirs, Inc.The Kennedy Center, Inc.

Information about these and other Fairfield County nonprofits (including links to their web sites) may be found at
FCGives.org.

Here’s how Giving Day works: For the 24 hours of Thursday, March 5 from 12:00 a.m. Bill Tommins is Southern Connecticut market president at Bank of America, which provided more than $2.6 million in grants to Connecticut nonprofits in 2014.

Police investigate after bomb scare and reported home invasion, home health aide charged in theft from disabled resident, and more.
Something tells me we don’t need to be afraid of the fiery wrath of this Middletown dragon!
Two people in Canton fell to their deaths, two horses died from a roof collapse and MEMA reported 131 roof collapses in the past two weeks.
Unbelievable!

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Cambridge, MA The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) announced today that Mary Kay Leonard has joined the organization as its first director of advisory services. Under her leadership, CEP’s advisory services practice will expand and build upon CEP’s existing work in the areas of foundation-grantee relationships, performance measurement, operational benchmarking, and information sharing among foundations.

“CEP has contributed to meaningful, documented change in foundation practice with our benchmarking data delivered through our assessment tools and research, as well as through our programs focused on foundation effectiveness,” said CEP President Phil Buchanan. in urban studies from Colgate University.

About the Center for Effective Philanthropy

The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to provide data and create insight so philanthropic funders can better define, assess, and improve their effectiveness and impact. For more information on CEP’s work, including its research, publications, and assessment tools, see www.effectivephilanthropy.org.

The Center for Effective Philanthropy Improving foundation performance through data and insight.

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The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide data and create insight so philanthropic funders can better define, assess, and improve their effectiveness and, as a result, their intended impact.

14 teachers at Mount Dora High School will participate in the school’s “Dancing with the Teachers” March 6r

Fourteen teachers at Mount Dora High School will participate in the school’s sixth annual “Dancing with the Teachers” fundraiser.

The event, scheduled for 7 p.m. Dickson, who taught at Mount Dora High for more than 25 years and participated in the first dancing competition, died in 2011.

The public is invited to watch the dance-off, modeled after the television show “Dancing With the Stars.”

The contestants have been paired and have been learning dances from Amanda Warren, a professional choreographer from the Bay Street Theatre in Eustis.

Some of the celebrity judges will include Lake County Superintendent Susan Moxley, Lake County School Board Chairwoman Debbie Stivender, state Sen.