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Eyes Greater Financial Disclosure in Hospital Sales – – The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas Under the bill, such disclosure would be part of the state approval process required for the sale of nonprofit medical centers to commercial firms.

Info: Kenneth Hacker, 575-646-2801 or Salazar, commstudies.nmsu.edu/cyrus-salazar.

Young Rail Readers Book Club: Meets from 3 to 4 p.m. Info: Joanne Beer, 575-647-4480, jobeer@las-cruces.org or museums.las-cruces.org//rrmuseum.shtm.

Thursday

Living Legends: At 7:30 p.m. Tickets or info: 575-523-6403 or RioGrandeTheatre.com.

Big Band Dance Club: Dance from 8 to 10 p.m. Info: 575- 526-6504.

Science CafA : At 5:30 p.m. Info: 575-647-9633 or ajoseph@nmsu.edu.

RAVE (Rise Against Violent Encounters): From 6 to 9 p.m. Info: 575-526-3437.

CLABS-Research Presentation: At 5 p.m. Info: IA igo GarcA a-Bryce, 575-646-6814, igarciab@nmsu.edu or clabs.nmsu.edu/spring-2015-speaker-series.

Heart Talk and Health Screenings: From 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Reservations or info: 575-521-2233.

NMSU Warner Hutchison Contemporary Arts Festival: At 5:30 p.m. at Atkinson Recital Hall, NMSU Music Center, featuring NMSU Music Departments faculty. at Atkinson Recital Hall, NMSU Music Center a pre-concert chat with Ben Grosser; 7:30 p.m. at Atkinson Recital Hall, NMSU Music Center, featuring guest artists Ben Grosser and Kelland Thomas, as well as NMSU Music Department Faculty Pancho Romero and Rhonda Taylor. RSVP or info: 575-524-8900 or LasCrucesHispanicChamber.com.

Mississippi Soul Man Johnny Rawls in Concert: At 8 p.m. Info: Juan Albert, 575-646-2911.

The Birds, The Bees and The Brews: From 6 to 9 p.m. Info: 575-522-3120, las-cruces.org/museums or Facebook.

Golf Tournament: At 12:30 p.m.

Also, not pictured above is Rebecca Spiegel, who contributed to the proposal but was absent because she was ill.

Students in an advanced public speaking course at FIU recently had the opportunity to award $25,000 to a non-profit of their choosing.

Retired financial executive and current FIU student Herb Gruber underwrote the project, along with his partner, Donna Lee Steffens, an FIU graduate.

“His goal was to acquaint students with the work of non-profits and stimulate interest in possible work in the non-profit sector as well as to introduce students to philanthropy and the responsibility that comes with it,” said Joann Brown, chairman of the Communication Arts Department at the College of Architecture + the Arts (CARTA.)

“He was following an existing model for innovative real-world teaching and learning that has been implemented by Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford,” Brown added.

Brown created a public speaking course focused on philanthropy and recruited recently hired faculty member Elena Nuciforo to teach it.

Students in the class were divided into five groups and each chose a non-profit organization to research and present to their classmates. They were instructed to look into the organization’s mission, goals and financial records.

Each team pitched their organization to the class, along with students from the FIU TEDx Student Club, students from the Lambda Pi Eta Communication Arts chapter of the National Communication Association Honor Society and representatives from the non-profit organization.

The winning organization IDEAS for Us is a student-run non-profit based in Orlando that focuses on sustainability and environmental change.

One of the group’s current projects is to transform Miami’s Camillus House into an environmentally friendly building with solar panel installations.

Florida Power & Light, which is consulting on the project, estimates it will save Camillus House more than $350,000 in energy costs over the next 10 years.

The winning team Rebecca Spiegel, Chloe Castro, Joanna Suarez, Alejandro Cerice, Linda Elvir and Orietta Caula agreed the course seemed intimidating at first but said it turned out to be an eye-opening experience.

“I am beyond excited with all that we have been able to do as an institution, a class, a team and students,” said Linda Elvir.

News & Notes – Foundation helps center; United Way campaign; grant deadline; fish fry; Thalian Hall discussion; 5K race; reception, exhibit; winter show and sale | StarNewsOnline.com News & Notes – Foundation helps center; United Way campaign; grant deadline; fish fry; Thalian Hall discussion; 5K race; reception, exhibit; winter show and sale

WILMINGTON | The Landfall Foundation continues to help support the mission of Good Shepherd Center with a recent gift of $5,900.

The center gives aid to the area’s hungry and homeless, helping foster their transitions to housing.

ATMC raises funds in United Way campaign

The company and its employees have contributed more than $330,000 to United Way within the past fifteen years.

Good Shepherd grant deadline March 15

WILMINGTON | The Good Shepherd Fund a nonprofit comprised of community members interested in the prevention of substance abuse operates off the interest earned from the sale of the Good Shepherd Home in Lake Waccamaw.

WILMINGTON | The Tidewater Camellia Club Winter Show and Sale is 1-5 p.m. News & Notes – Foundation helps center; United Way campaign; grant deadline; fish fry; Thalian Hall discussion; 5K race; reception, exhibit; winter show and saleFebruary 23, 2015 11:09 PM

Landfall Foundation helps support center

WILMINGTON | The Landfall Foundation continues to help support the mission of Good Shepherd Center with a recent gift of $5,900.

The center gives aid to the area’s hungry and homeless, helping foster their transitions to housing.

ATMC raises funds in United Way campaign

The company and its employees have contributed more than $330,000 to United Way within the past fifteen years.

Good Shepherd grant deadline March 15

WILMINGTON | The Good Shepherd Fund a nonprofit comprised of community members interested in the prevention of substance abuse operates off the interest earned from the sale of the Good Shepherd Home in Lake Waccamaw.

WILMINGTON | The Tidewater Camellia Club Winter Show and Sale is 1-5 p.m.

Local news from Rock Hill, SC | The Herald

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The UMass Lowell Honors seminar Experimenting with Philanthropy/Birds of Change held its awards ceremony, where the Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust and Project LEARN were each awarded $5,000. James Canning, the UMass Lowell Honors College has gone from simply being an honors program to being its own college with its very own housing for freshman students. One of these new seminars is Philanthropy for Change.

The focus of the Philanthropy for Change course is to demonstrate to students how charities and nonprofits operate, and what kind of impact they can have on a community. A representative from Texas Christian University and their philanthropy course greatly influenced Canning to create our own UMass Lowell version.

Nancy Lippe, who previously taught a similar philanthropy course at Tufts, was enlisted to head the course. Students also created their own nonprofits, including riversocks.org, where socks are collected and given to the Lowell Transitional Center.

“The main goal of the class was to find charities the class wished to award $5,000,” Kilgo said.