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In his spare time, Gordon operates country singer Dolly Parton’s fan website.

“We go there quite often, and I know several people who live down there,” Gordon said.

“It was devastating,” said Gordon, who followed reports on social media from friends living in the Gatlinburg area. Duane Gordon, executive director of the Middletown Community Foundation, has close ties to the Gatlinburg, Tenn., area, and visits there … Duane Gordon, executive director of the Middletown Community Foundation, has close ties to the Gatlinburg, Tenn., area, and visits there often. He runs a Dolly Parton fan website.

“There are hundreds of families there that have lost everything, and it’s just heartbreaking to think that they have to start over with nothing,” said Gordon, who is among many across Southwest Ohio who love the mountain area with a combination of majestic forests and touristy areas like Parton’s Dollywood theme park and resort nearby in Pigeon Forge.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited of the country’s 59 national parks with about 10 million visitors per year double that of No. “It’s a popular attraction for people from this area because it’s only five hours away, so a lot of people here drive down there once a year, twice a year, for family vacations.”

Gordon said he knows one local family who recently sold a cabin they had for years. Some cabins operated elsewhere by Dollywood were destroyed, he said.

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The New South Wales government has unveiled its innovation strategy with a number of key initiatives around streamlining innovation proposals, collaborating within and across government, and experimenting with ideas within regulatory sandboxes.

NSW Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation Victor Dominello has on Wednesday unveiled the state’s multifaceted innovation strategy aimed at fostering a culture of new ideas and innovation within government in collaboration with technology entrepreneurs, startups, and small to mid-sized enterprises (SMEs).

As part of the innovation strategy [PDF], the government today launched the NSW Innovation Concierge (NIC), aimed at being the “front door” for entrepreneurs, startups, and SMEs looking to do business with the government.

Speaking at the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) NSW Government Innovation Forum, Dominello explained that the NIC will implement a “Shark Tank” process where proposals for the government to be more innovative and agile are judged in consultation with industry experts.

Another key initiative of the innovation strategy is the creation of a Ministerial Innovation Committee (MIC) that will oversee the implementation of the innovation strategy, seek advice and recommendations from subject matter experts, and address systemic barriers to innovation and collaborative practice within and across government.

As part of the innovation strategy, the NSW government will also provide businesses in the state the ability to test out new technologies within sandboxes that are isolated from their regulatory obligations. Regulatory sandboxes are already being used in the financial services sector, but we want to push the boundaries and apply this concept to other areas.”

Dominello advised businesses to alert the NSW government of specific regulatory barriers to innovation in agtech, blockchain, healthtech, energy tech, social innovation, and other areas via the NSW Innovation website.

As a precursor to the launch of the innovation strategy, Dominello said the government introduced changes to procurement guidelines to make it easier for government agencies to do business with startups and SMEs. The changes have seen the upper limit of the procurement innovation stream — a mechanism to foster innovation in the way government buys goods and services — increase fourfold from AU$250,000 to AU$1 million.

Dominello also lamented the lack of collaboration within and across government agencies, explaining that the new innovation strategy aims to change that.

“We have recognised that we must collaborate not only with the non-government sector but different levels of government operating in NSW. He first announced the state’s plans to create the Data Analytics Centre in August last year, saying at the time that data is one of the greatest assets held by government, but when it is buried away in bureaucracy, it is of little value.

Since then, Dominello has introduced a bill that requires each of the agencies and state-owned amenities to give his department their data within 14 days; appointed an advisory board charged with overseeing how the state government uses that data; and announced the addition of a chief information and digital officer to drive the government’s digital agenda.

Youth Theater receives Republic Rewards grant – fhtimes.com: Local News

Fountain Hills Mayor Linda Kavanagh and the Town Council announced last week that the Fountain Hills Youth Theatre (FHYT) is the 2016 Republic Rewards grant recipient.

The FHYT was selected by Fountain Hillsa citizens who participate in the Republic Rewards Recycling Program.

The FHYT will use the $10,000 grant to fund Fountain Hills Youth Theater (FHYT) programs and develop community-wide support of these programs.

The grant was made possible by Republic Services through Republic Rewards, a novel recycling program launched in 2013 between the town, businesses and residents.

The Civic and Cultural Association, plus the Fountain Hills Community Theater, Four-Peaks Rotary Club and the River of Time Museum submitted proposals for community projects and were selected by the Town Council as eligible grant recipients for 2016.

Republic Services will make community grants available for Fountain Hills community improvement projects annually through Republic Rewards.

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The Community Foundation of Frederick County, a public charity, was founded in 1986 by a group of community citizens as a conduit for donors to fulfill their charitable dreams by establishing permanent, named, component funds that award grants and scholarships to nonprofits and deserving students.

To date, the Community Foundation has more than 679 funds that support health care, the arts, human service agencies, animal welfare groups, environmental organizations, faith-based organizations, educational institutions, scholarship programs, and other civic causes.

Since its inception, more than $47 million has been given back to the Frederick County community.

To learn more about the Community Foundation, visit www.FrederickCountyGives.org or call 301-695-7660.

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The Longmont City Council on Tuesday thanked local leaders and Longmont police profusely as they accepted a $200,000 grant from The Colorado Health Foundation to continue work on improving mental health services in the area.

Local leaders echoed the calls for community conversations on mental health after there was a murder-suicide and a fetal abduction in Longmont within 24 hours in March 2015.

Since March 2016, Supporting Action for Mental Health a collaboration of local community groups, residents and the city has organized 10 conversations that set the priorities for expanded mental health programs.

The Colorado Health Foundation grant money will towards hiring a temporary coordinator and training 2,000 community members in mental health first aid training, among other initiatives.

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One social entrepreneur came to campus on Tuesday night to talk about her successful commercial and philanthropic business model based on something unexpected: tampons.

Following the philanthropic business models of Toms Shoes and Warby Parker, the company Cora is helping to redefine the feminine hygiene landscape across India and Kenya. Speaking to a small group of students in the Philomathean Society’s room in College Hall, the company’s co-founder Molly Hayward discussed her mission to ensure that girls in developing countries have a safe and effective way to manage their menstruation.

Founded in 2014, Cora provides 100 percent organic, biodegradable and hypoallergenic tampons to women in the United States while using the profit to help girls in India stay in school by purchasing sanitary pads for them. For every purchase of a month’s supply of Cora tampons, the company purchases an equivalent supply of sustainable pads from local partners in India.

Cora began with Hayward’s unexpected trip to Kenya with a volunteer organization that focused on girls’ education and women’s health. Her experience was actually impeding her education, which I would argue is the most critical endeavor for her.”

Immediately upon her return to the United States a couple of weeks later, Hayward took to Google to start researching ways to help the girls. “At that moment, it dawned on me that I could create a brand that provided better [menstruation] products for women here in my society while helping to provide [menstruation] products to girls in other societies.”

Rather than donating the company’s products to girls in developing countries, Cora has partnered up with Aakar Innovations a social enterprise that produces “plant-based, sustainable and biodegradable” pads that are produced in small manufacturing units in rural villages and urban slums in India. This way, Cora helps support the local economy by using local resources and employing women who live there.

“It’s not a donation. We’re not importing a product from overseas that would undermine the [local] economy; we’re actually helping them to scale as a business by generating revenue for them as a customer,” Hayward explained.

The partnership is currently only based in India, but Cora is planning to expand to Kenya next year, according to Hayward.

As it stands today, Cora provides its organic tampons via subscriptions and target stores, but is on its way to expanding its product line.

Two Alaska Native tribes on the Kenai Peninsula will receive approximately $1 million over the next five years to help address substance abuse and mental health disorders among Alaska Natives.

The Ninilchik Traditional Council and the Kenaitze Indian Tribe will both receive funds from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for their services. The grants are part of the Native Connections program, which provides funds for tribal entities to provide education and services to prevent suicidal behavior and drug abuse, support trauma recovery and to promote good mental health among Alaska Native and American Indian youth younger than 25.

The Kenaitze tribe will receive $199,960 annually, and the Ninilchik Traditional Council will receive $200,000, according to SAMHSA’s grant list. Three years ago, the tribe participated in a partnership with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium to do a survey about community perception of substance abuse and suicide among youth. The outreach will include community awareness events and line up with existing efforts, like awareness months, she said.

The Ninilchik Traditional Council has worked on developing its behavioral health and substance abuse services in the last five years. It also affects young Alaska Native adults more than the risk growing with age, the opposite trend of the general population, according to a 2011 analysis from SAMHSA.

Although the grant is going to the tribe and will be used Alaska Native youth, it will also benefit the community at large substance abuse and poor mental health are not confined to the tribal members, and overdoses and suicide affect everyone.