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Our View: Center is example of how to take full advantage of grant opportunities

July 14, 2018 11:33 pm Published by

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Our View: Center is example of how to take full advantage of grant opportunities

CEDDERS a shining example of taking full advantage of available grants, serves as an example of what GovGuam agencies and programs could achieve.

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Our View: Center is example of how to take full advantage of grant opportunities

It provides information on assistive technology to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families and works to improve early identification of developmental delay and disability, among other projects and services.

$547K a year in funding for operations

According to a news release from the University of Guam, the grant will provide $547,000 a year in funding for the centeras operations, primarily to support interdisciplinary training and technical assistance.

aThe five-year work plan we highlighted in our grant application was based on input from self-advocates, their parents, and service-providing entities in an effort to really target and serve the unique needs of individuals with developmental disabilities in Guam,a said Heidi San Nicolas, the director of CEDDERS.

A helping hand for Indian universities

July 14, 2018 11:22 pm Published by

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July 15, 2018 23:19 IST

Leadership in philanthropy is central to enabling an institutional vision for higher education

The future of Indian universities (public and private) will significantly depend upon our ability to harness the possibility of individual, institutional and corporate philanthropy for the purposes of higher education.

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Sustainability is community foundation’s alluring quality

July 14, 2018 11:11 pm Published by

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Five Things To Watch At Tales Of The Cocktail 2018

July 14, 2018 11:11 pm Published by

Five Things To Watch At Tales Of The Cocktail 2018 Neat Pour Five Things To Watch At Tales Of The Cocktail 2018 The new Foundation, Jon Lermayer, wellness, a booze-free portfolio party, and some lingering questions will be in the spotlight this week. Organizers assure us that a few other Lermayer surprises are in store.

Portfolio Free Portfolio Party: William Grant & Sons has long been associated with Tales’ most lavish parties. Very few of these events are on the sold-out list; so, get your tix now!

The Foundation: Yup, there is a massive cocktail fest about to invade New Orleans, but Tales’ new leadership team envision the event as support, not the purpose of the renamed Tales of the Cocktail Foundation. So, the opportunity to take the Tales event (and the entire brand) and really leverage the Foundation is what was appealing to us.”

Not surprising, the Foundation’s work will be front and center.
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The art and science of Erie’s transformation

July 14, 2018 11:07 pm Published by

Court Gould, 57, is the new vice president of community impact at the Erie Community Foundation, which stewards 789 charitable endowments valued at approximately $259 million. Gould met with Erie Times-News writer Lisa Thompson to discuss his new role and his perceptions of Erie. The Erie Community Foundation‘s data project, Erie Vital Signs, actually is something that we did in Pittsburgh. My work in Pittsburgh we were no more focused on the environment than we were on the intersection between economy, social equity and quality of life, environmental issues, and our philanthropies, be they private or community, such as the Erie Community Foundation. (Both jobs involve) the work of sustainable development that is focusing on ensuring the creation of abundance, defined by quality of life, jobs, public health, equitable education, progress and creating a better life for everyone.

The other (thing that drew me to the job) was looking at the role that the Erie Community Foundation and its president Mike Batchelor have played in the community. Everybody is coming together to apply the best of strategies.

Were you aware of that when you applied for the job?

Yes, the Erie story is getting out and, actually, in the short month and a half I have been here, there have been a remarkable number of leaders from surrounding cities, Pittsburgh included, who have been here for either work or investment or to be tapped for their ideas. The Erie Community Foundation, under Mike Batchelor’s leadership, takes some risks, but they are always well-informed and relate back to the experience, the expertise and the aspirations of the community. We now see that we were disrupting whole neighborhoods and eliminating some of the very heart and soul of our communities that now we’re working overtime to get back.

Erie has made some big plays (in that regard) that the Erie Community Foundation has their investment in, such as the Innovation District and the Erie Downtown Development Corporation, and the hope for a community college, the focus on our neighborhoods to revitalize our communities, to create places that are safe for walking, have good retail in our commercial areas at the ground floor and living opportunities above. Diversity, equity, inclusion, these are the critical paths to economic resurgence and we are a community of a very strong philanthropic purpose.

I noticed the Vital Signs have now added new categories relating to equity and pretty bluntly states what the history of those problems in Erie are. Are the strategies in place adequate to address those really deplorable indicators in the Vital Signs?

Under Mike Batchelor’s leadership, the Erie Vital Signs of the Erie Community Foundation is demonstrating it’s responsibility and accountability by having a suite of social equity indicators across every indicator as a sober assessment of both the pros and the challenges essential to a community foundation’s ability to be data-informed and focused on making the most judicious investments possible. The Erie Community Foundation has recently made a suite of major investments from helping to reduce truancy to providing access to nutritious food in our downtown and to try and grow literally an ecosystem of residents that are growing food for both their own nutrition needs, but making it available to their neighbors.

Lifeline Connections devotes beds to women

July 14, 2018 10:48 pm Published by

Lifeline Connections will soon have separate residential treatment facilities for men and women with substance use disorders.

The nonprofit treatment provider has operated a coed 44-bed facility since 2008 at the Clark County Center for Community Health. Although the ratio of men to women fluctuates, there are typically more men, said Shannon Edgel, Lifeline’s marketing specialist.

Lifeline purchased a building off Falk Road in May for $1.4 million that will become known as the Women’s Recovery Center. It will house a program for pregnant and parenting women on one side and a women’s residential treatment program on the other.

Having a women-specific program is “especially critical for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault who may be uncomfortable or unwilling to address these issues in a mixed-gender environment,” Lifeline said in a news release.

“The less distraction people have in treatment, the better for everybody,” Edgel said. The money will be used to purchase furniture and equipment.

“By having a dedicated treatment setting for women, we can better address their medical, behavioral and psychological needs,” Jared Sanford, Lifeline’s chief executive officer, said in the news release.

Renovation work is still underway at the Women’s Recovery Center. Edgel wasn’t sure the exact number of residential treatment beds that will be added, but said that the Pregnant and Parenting Women’s program will have 16.

When the center opens, all the women in coed treatment will move there and all 44 beds at the Center for Community Health will be for men only.

McIver’s Grant Public Library wraps up summer reading program

July 14, 2018 10:03 pm Published by

During the summer reading kickoff event on May 30, children in attendance enjoyed many activities including music-themed games such as musical hula hoop (above) and an instrument petting zoo (below).

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On Friday, McIvers Grant Public Library held the grand finale celebration of this years summer reading program. Tuesday was known as Tuning Up days, Wednesday as Jammin with the Arts, and Thursday spotlighted Music Makers.

Activities during Tuning Up days included the Sock Rockerz in concert, tomato planting with Master Gardeners, Fiddle or Violin distance learning with the Country Music Hall of Fame, Tune Up Your Body yoga, music and movement with Amy Carroll, Salsa and Salsa where students created salsa with UT/ TSU Extension Agent Katelynn Newsome and learned salsa dance moves from Cathy Bona of Fine Arts Warehouse, and ventriloquist and balloon animal artist Ron Lighty with Jason and Company.

During the summer reading program grand finale on Friday, children in attendance played musical Legos (above) and enjoyed ice cream. Door prizes were also given away.

Also throughout the summer, children and adults were given an opportunity to earn rewards for each hour of reading completed.

Children in attendance on July 10 enjoyed singing karaoke and dressing up like rock stars.

All programs offered in the librarys summer reading program were free of charge. Families were also welcome to come and participate together.

We had a rocking summer at McIver’s Grant Public Library during our music-themed summer reading program, Libraries Rock!, stated Vanessa Cain, McIvers Grant Public Librarys director of children and youth services.