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July 14, 2018 9:52 pm
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LaConda Watson, chief executive officer of the Boys & Girls Club of Jacksonville, explains how a $50,000 grant her club received will help with security at the entrance of the facility.
JACKSONVILLE The Boys & Girls Club of Jacksonville is the recipient of a large grant from Lowe’s and will use that money for improvements to the club’s facility.
The Jacksonville club is receiving a $50,000 grant from Lowe’s as part of its initiative Lowe’s Renovation Across the Nation. That program is giving $50,000 to 50 Boys & Girls Clubs across the country, one in each state.
“It’s a tremendous opportunity for us,” said LaConda Watson, CEO of the Boys & Girls Club of Jacksonville. Being able to control our entry to the club is important.”
What Watson is proposing is a buzz-in system with an intercom, similar to what many schools have these days.
“We want to have that set up by the end of the year,” Watson said.
According to plans that Watson provided, the area right outside the door would include an enclosed vestibule. As someone comes in the front door, a new security area would be in place for the workers and children to be separated from visitors until they are allowed access to the facility.
“With this grant, the opportunity and the timeline we have before us is for it to be ready before the end of the year,” Watson said, “so that we can have that point of security where we have that buzz in system.”
In addition to the safety measures, the club is working on what Watson calls “the teen room.”
“We’re looking to enhance our teen room,” Watson said.
She said the room hasn’t been appealing to teenagers in recent years.
“We want them to say, ‘Hey, you know what, I want to come to the Boys & Girls Club and have a good time,'” Watson said. “So I’m hoping we can do our little piece, as far as doing things with the community, whether they are club members or just coming in off the street.”
Watson said the Boys & Girls Club had an after-hours teen party last month, and she hopes to make the party a monthly event.
“It was something for the teens to come here and have some fun and a good time,” she said. Social Security Administration office in Little Rock.
“It will give the teens a way to get away from being that caregiver to their brother or sister, or whatever they’re doing,” Watson said, “and come here and do their homework or whatever they are interested in.
“Those are some good aspirations that are attainable with the right people in place.”
For more information about the Boys & Girls Club, visit www.jbgc.org.
Staff writer Mark Buffalo can be reached at (501) 399-3676 or mbuffalo@arkansasonline.com.
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July 14, 2018 9:41 pm
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MPNHP-Los Alamos Friends Group And National Park Service Sign Philanthropic Partnership Agreement | Los Alamos Daily Post
Members of the Board of the Friends of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park – Los Alamos gathered Friday afternoon for a special signing ceremony with the National Park Service at the powerhouse (stone house) on Bathtub Row. Superintendent Kris Kirby, representing the National Park Service (NPS) and Kristin Henderson on behalf of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park – Los Alamos Friends Group signed a Philanthropic Partnership Agreement between the two organizations to provide the legal and policy framework supporting the achievement of mutual goals and funding needs of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park (MAPR).
The Manhattan Project National Historical Park – Los Alamos Friends Group was created last year to support the efforts of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park.
The NPS recognizes private philanthropy as both a noble tradition for establishment and support of national parks and a vital element of the success of today’s National Park System.
July 14, 2018 9:30 pm
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Washington U lands grant to study childhood obesity as parents grapple with treatment costs | Business | stltoday.com
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Victoria Hulslander, of St. Louis, Nancy was enrolled in Wilfleyas pilot study of a childhood obesity treatment known as family-based therapy and started to lose weight for the first time.
Now, Wilfley and her collaborators at University of Rochester and Louisiana State University have been awarded $14 million by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to expand their study of family-based therapy to hundreds of families across the three states, including Missouri.
One in five children in the United States is considered obese, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Stephen Cook, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Rochester and a collaborator on the new study, said he became concerned with childhood obesity when he began seeing obese adolescents develop complications which he had previously only seen in obese adults, such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
Wilfley noted that, in addition to the increased risk for medical complications, overweight and obese children, asuffer a lot of terrible social consequences like teasing and bullying, and that can oftentimes lead to depression and eating disorders.a
Currently, childhood obesity is treated by counseling the child about eating and physical activity, typically by a pediatrician. Hulslander says that their family still uses many of the strategies learned in the program, such as eating off smaller plates, not eating when distracted, and modifying family recipes to make them healthier.
Childhood obesity is a major focus for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, a nonprofit agency based in Washington that funds research into treatments that center patientsa priorities and can be implemented in clinical practice. The institute has awarded $41 million for studies on childhood obesity.
Andrea Brandau, program officer at the institute, praised the aincredibly stellar teama of researchers involved in this study, saying athe engagement, the work theyave done before they even started the study, has been really strong.a
Evidence supporting the effectiveness of family-based therapy in helping both parents and children lose weight has been accumulating for nearly 25 years, but many of the studies have been in settings like psychology labs or with small groups of participants.
The new five-year program, which will begin this August, will deploy family-based therapy across hundreds of families in Missouri, New York and Louisiana. Each family will undergo 12 months of therapy, with follow-up after 18 months.
Wilfley and Cook also plan to target underserved populations, both because they are at a higher risk for obesity and because less is known about how effective this treatment is for them.
A major strength of this studyas design, according to Wilfley, is the inclusion of three advisory boards to inform the research as it progresses: one for families, one for health care providers, and one for insurance companies. The institute leaders believe that this broad engagement, especially of payers, will be crucial to successfully translating the findings of this study into clinical practice.
Most insurance plans have little to no coverage for treatment of childhood obesity, according to Wilfley and Cook. However, she explained that because the financial benefits of treating obesity in childhood are spread over the childas lifetime, the recovery of costs is slower and harder to quantify, making it less attractive to insurers.
Another barrier, Cook says, is that athereas still a bias against obesity where they want to think, aOh, itas cosmetic, itas a personal choice, itas lack of willpower.aa This stigma has made it difficult for patient advocacy groups, a common driving force for changing insurance coverage, to get a foothold.
Nancy has continued the habits developed in Wilfleyas program, which she says are mainly about creating balance.
aI have so much more confidence in myself, whether itas in school or swimming or with friends,a said Nancy. sHTML += ”;
July 12, 2018 5:56 am
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A proposed game-changer for Buffalo’s West Side got a major boost this week when Albany announced a $5 million grant for D’Youville College’s Health Professional Hub, a project that will deliver health care while training students in the professions.
College officials announced the project late last year. The plan is to build a three-story, 50,000-square-foot health care training and workforce development building near the intersection of Connecticut and West streets. If it all pans out, it will be money well spent.
As Mayor Byron Brown noted when the grant was announced, some 10,000 health care jobs will need to be filled over the next six years in Western New York, an area that the federal government has designated as suffering from a shortage of health care professionals in primary care, dentistry or mental health care. This program will help to put a dent in that number and while also serving its neighborhood.
In addition to training health professionals, the Hub aims to provide clinical care to residents of the West Side. What is more, left unmanaged, they can drive up health care costs, generally. It benefits everyone to find a way to attack a problem such as this.
D’Youville offers a breadth of health care programs. With this grant, the college has raised at least half of the amount sought from government.
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July 12, 2018 5:56 am
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Currently with National Calls for Projects in the USA, Canada, Belgium, France, Morocco, Nordics, Poland, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine, along with an International Calls for Projects, the Foundation’s multi-year research efforts aim to donate millions towards scientific advancement over the years. Schnabl’s winning application for the 2018 International Grant was reviewed and chosen by BMF’s scientific board, comprised of leading researchers from the United States, France, Spain, Italy and Austria.
The Biocodex Microbiota Foundation runs the grant initiative each year, and new calls for projects have just recently opened. For more information, visit http://www.biocodexmicrobiotafoundation.com/foundation.
About Biocodex Microbiota Foundation
The Biocodex Microbiota Foundation’s mission is to support research into microbiota and its interaction with various pathologies. BMF supports both fundamental and applied research, and projects are selected annually by a committee of independent, international scientists.
The BMF’s primary activity remains the awarding of annual grants to innovative scientific research projects that explore the structure and impact of microbiota. Finally, the BMF can establish public projects involving microbiota which aim to help improve human health.
The Biocodex Microbiota Foundation (BMF) is a non-profit, general interest organization.
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July 12, 2018 5:56 am
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Elon Musk vows to fix water in Flint homes ET July 12, 2018
Tesla Chief Executive OfficerA Elon Musk, fresh frommay not have been able to saveA offering rescuers ofA aA soccer team trapped in a Thailand cave the use of his small submarine, said he is committed to another philanthropic mission, this timeA in Michigan.(Photo: Kiichiro Sato, AP file)
Tesla Chief Executive OfficerA Elon Musk, fresh fromA offering rescuers ofA aA soccer team trapped in a Thailand cave the use of his small submarine, said he is committed to another philanthropic mission, this timeA in Michigan.A
MuskA was offering on Twitter on Wednesday to fund eliminating water contamination above FDA levels in homes affected by the Flint water crisis.A
Lead consumption can cause serious health problems including brain damage, especially in fetuses,A infants and young children.
“Please consider this a commitment that I will fund fixing the water in any house in Flint that has water contamination above FDA levels.
July 12, 2018 5:56 am
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New investors Omnes, BNP Paribas Developpement and Sham Innovation Sante invest an additional 5.2M on top of the 7.3M first closing announced in October 2017 | BioSpace New investors Omnes, BNP Paribas Developpement and Sham Innovation Sante invest an additional 5.2M on top of the 7.3M first closing announced in October 2017
Antabio SAS, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibacterial treatments in areas of highest unmet needs, announced today it has extended its Series A financing round with an additional 5.2 million subscribed by investment funds Omnes, BNP Paribas Developpement, and Sham Innovation Sante (Turenne Capital).
“We are thrilled to welcome Omnes, BNP Paribas Developpement, and Sham Innovation Sante to Antabio,” said Marc Lemonnier, CEO of Antabio. “We have built a strong international team of experts to combat the most urgent unmet medical needs in the antibacterial space. BNP Paribas Developpement, a BNP Paribas Group subsidiary founded in 1988, invests its own capital directly in promising small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-cap companies.
In addition to providing financial resources so as to ensure the stability of any company in which BNP Paribas Developpement invests, we also see our mission in helping the company management team to achieve its medium-term strategic plans. In 2016, BNP Paribas Developpement set up the WAI Venture Fund, which specialises in investing in Innovation-oriented companies, from the provision of seed capital through all subsequent funding rounds, with the aim of supporting the growth of high-potential startups.
Launched in July 2014, Sham Innovation Sante is an evergreen Venture Capital Fund controlled and owned by Sham, a French mutual insurance company specializing in insurance and risk management for professionals in the health, social and social-medical sectors and a French leader in civil liability (11,000 members in Europe France, Italy, Spain, Germany , 2 billion in assets under management, 952 employees, revenues of 438.2 million in 2018).
Advised and managed by Turenne Capital, Sham Innovation Sante invests into biotech and medtech companies that are developing breakthrough technologies in the medical and biotechnology fields.
July 12, 2018 5:56 am
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One of nearly 350 nonprofits in contention, Daybreak Youth Services received one of five $100,000 grants from Seattle-based Washington Women’s Foundation.
The award will go toward a life-enrichment program at Daybreak’s RWC Center for Adolescent Recovery in Brush Prairie.
The program, Paths to Prosperity, connects Daybreak clients “to vocational and recreational activities in the community so that they can develop a love for clean and sober living and are empowered to take the next steps in building futures for themselves,” according to a news release from Daybreak.
Opportunities include dance therapy, art therapy and outdoor adventures “that are proven to have a positive impact on how clients view themselves, and their path to recovery,” the news release said.
The program was started at Daybreak’s Spokane facility in 2016.
Since then, inpatient treatment completion rates increased 20 percent, critical incidents decreased 40 percent and there’s been improvement in satisfaction surveys where clients often list Paths to Prosperity as key to their recovery.
Washington Women’s Foundation awarded grants to nonprofits in five categories: arts and culture, education, environment, human services, and health. Daybreak was the recipient in the health category.
The four remaining grants went to nonprofits in Seattle, Spokane, Yakima and Washington, D.C.
“With so many deserving nonprofits across the state of Washington, it is truly an honor to be selected,” Annette Klinefelter, Daybreak CEO, said in the news release.
“We are beyond grateful to receive such generous support for our Paths to Prosperity life enrichment program from Washington Women’s Foundation members.”
Daybreak also hosted a gala in February at Pearson Air Museum to benefit the program.
July 12, 2018 5:56 am
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July 12, 2018 5:56 am
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ET July 12, 2018
TRENTON – Six New Jersey health agencies have been awarded $4.3 million in grant funding to improve health outcomes for black mothers and infants,A the state Department of Health announced.
The funding is part of theA aHealthy Women, Healthy Familiesa initiative to improve access to quality healthcare and reduce disparities in birth outcomes, especially for mothers of color, according to the release.
More than $1.1 million has been awarded to Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative covering Atlantic, Cape May, Salem, Gloucester, Cumberland, Burlington and Camden counties.
The mortality rates for black mothers and infants in New Jersey are higher than those for white mothers and their babies, health officials say.
aItas a tragic reality that race determines health outcomes for some New Jersey mothers and babies.