EPA grants wanted for cleanup of Menomonie Street event center site Land where the project is planned has a history of industrial uses, and the UW-Eau Claire Foundation is seeking EPA Brownfields grants to help remediate tainted soils there. Environmental Protection Agency to help pay costs of containing soils contaminated by more than a century of industrial activity to make way for an event and recreation center along the Chippewa River.

This will be the second attempt the foundation has made for Brownfield grants from the federal agency for the cleanup work estimated to cost nearly $800,000 at land along Menomonie Street planned for the Sonnentag Event and Recreation Complex.

The land for the event and recreation center is about 25 acres on the south side of Menomonie Street, east of the recreation trail.

Removing the contaminated soil or employing methods to cleanse it of unwanted materials would cost an estimated $4 million to $4.5 million, according to the application.

Or consider Stevie Wonder’s “Someday At Christmas”, a Vietnam War-era song about wishing for a world where all men could live in equality and peace.

But a few contemporary artists are also tapping into less-than-jolly emotions to write new songs for Christmas.

Contemporary Christian pop singer Amy Grant is synonymous with Christmas. But she said some fans told her that their holidays aren’t always so joyous.

“I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas music, but I thought, what I haven’t done is to consider somebody that spends their holidays alone”, Grant said, during an interview in Nashville, Tennessee. Jennifer Cooke, Grant’s manager, wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post about LifeWay’s decision and said songs like “Melancholy Christmas” were bringing people together despite the fact that the song never mentions Jesus.

Soul singer Andra Day re-introduced “Someday At Christmas” to a new generation of fans last year when she sang it with Wonder during a holiday TV commercial. That song is included on her new holiday EP, “Merry Christmas from Andra Day”.

“I love that it has all the spirit of Christmas in the song, but at the same time the message in the song is beautiful, and it’s relevant and it’s selfless, taking an opportunity to celebrate Christmas but to also say, ‘Hey, there are things we need to address'”, she said.

Country singer Kacey Musgraves is new to the holiday music tradition, releasing her first collection of Christmas songs this year called “A Very Kacey Christmas”. Known for her acerbic wit in lyrics, Musgraves covered the funny side of Christmas with “A Willie Nice Christmas”, with Willie Nelson, as well as holiday classics like “Feliz Navidad” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”.

Celebrated composer Hans Zimmer is hitting the road again with his career-spanning concert tour, which he describes as a little bit cinematic and a little bit rock ‘n’ roll. And so they sort of set the tone and they were sort of my mentors and teachers in this”, he said of Williams and Brickman, whom he worked with on “The Amazing Spider Man 2” score.

Audiences can expect classic renditions and a few fresh reboots of some of Zimmer’s most popular film scores, including “Gladiator”, “The Lion King”, “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “The Dark Knight Trilogy”.

“When you play ‘Lion King’, you suddenly realize that that was part of so many people’s growing-up music.

Intensive case management and understanding the impact of social needs on health set Medicaid ACOs apart from their counterparts.

We often think of an ACO as a way for providers to coordinate care, improve quality and outcomes for patients, and reduce costs for payers. But applying the ACO framework to Medicaid runs head on into a stubborn challenge: the disproportionate impact of socioeconomic factors on health in the Medicaid population.

“We don’t have the payment structure in Medicaid in any state yet to adequately address those needs,” says Gregory Paulson, executive director of the Trenton Health Team (THT), which operates a New Jersey Medicaid ACO demonstration program. According to the not-for-profit Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS), nine states have fledgling Medicaid ACO demonstrations serving a total of 2 million beneficiaries (see map below). These include payment models that directly or indirectly encourage coordination with non health care services; highly targeted data analysis; and shared savings for federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). In 2013, FUHN became one of the first of six Medicaid ACOs in Minnesota’s Integrated Health Partnerships demonstration. “It was pretty gutsy, and the fact that we didn’t have a large integrated health care delivery system took people by surprise,” says Jaeson Fournier, FUHN’s board treasurer and immediate past chairman.

Care coordination makes sure that “patients who are moderately or persistently mentally ill are connecting with the medications they need,” says Jaeson Fournier of the Federally Qualified Health Center Urban Health Network (FUHN) in the Twin Cities. Founded in 2006 in response to the closure of one of Trenton’s hospitals, THT was a way for the city’s health department, its FQHC, and its two remaining hospitals to assess community health needs and align efforts.

The ACO’s activities build on THT’s community health assessment, developed from hospital utilization data and 300 one-on-one interviews conducted in the community. FUHN identifies utilization patterns and leverages staff capacity accordingly, using care coordinators to contact patients while there is a window of opportunity to bring them in for follow-up care, says Fournier, “and, more importantly, to engage them about how they can and should be consuming their health care resources.” THT built the Trenton Health Information Exchange (THIE), which connects the vast majority of Trenton-area providers, including labs, behavioral health, and the city’s FQHC, all of whom contribute patient data to the THIE, regardless of payer.

The North State community gave generously Tuesday by contributing $758,041 to local nonprofits through Shasta Regional Community Foundation‘s charitable event.

Held for the second year in a row, North State Giving Tuesday organized through the community foundation is meant to be a one-stop giving destination, allowing nonprofits to receive money from community donors online. This year like last, the foundation surpassed its goal.

“We’re blown away,” said Kerry Caranci, chief executive officer of the Shasta Regional Community Foundation. She said she hit the “refresh” button every couple of minutes on the website to see the numbers increase.

And while more money did roll in, and more organizations participated this time around, Caranci said the foundation makes it a point to teach local nonprofits about fundraising on their own and build each organization’s capacity to do so. It’s also a way to expose the community to giving to some of the charitable organizations that are in their back yard.

Each of the participating organizations will get an additional amount of money through the community foundation’s incentive pool as well, which totaled to about $95,000.

Department of Housing and Urban Development funding cuts to transitional housing programs, said Duane Piccirilli, Mahoning County Mental Health & Recovery Board executive director.

Of Mahoning Countyas SAMHSA award, $236,000 is for the period ending April 30, 2017, and the additional $236,000 is for the period from May 1, 2017, to April 30, 2018.

ATR services have been largely targeted to urban counties with large numbers of people returning home from state prisons.

Mahoning and Columbiana counties have been added to the list of beneficiary counties, which previously included Ohioas larger urban counties.

aThese additional dollars will empower people in recovery to seek services and provide the service providers with the means to wrap the necessary services around the individual to help them the most,a Piccirilli said.

aBeing able to meet a personas need for housing, clothing, peer support, job readiness and other services increases the likelihood that that person can maintain their sobriety,a said Brenda Heidinger, associate director of the Mahoning County Mental Health & Recovery Board.

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A state agency could freeze grant money for Lackawanna County and its municipalities if the assessor’s office doesn’t catch up on delinquent reports needed to calculate aid for schools and realty transfer taxes for individual transactions.

Counties are required to provide monthly reports on real estate sales to the State Tax Equalization Board so regulators can compensate for disparities in property value assessments.

“Should the STEB sales reports continue to be delinquent and not comply with the legislative mandate, DCED may elect to flag the county, resulting in a hold of all grant funding issued to … As of Tuesday, Lackawanna County sent STEB sales reports for January and February, with reports through at least May expected to be filed within two weeks, said Andy Wallace, chief of staff to the board of commissioners.

Recorder of Deeds Evie Rafalko McNulty explained the STEB reports allow the agency to plug sales data into a formula to generate common-level ratios, a figure that allows the county to generate fair market value from out-of-date assessments.

Nicole Reigelman, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Education, said the state agency does not withhold funding from schools whose counties fail to submit data to DCED.

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Donor surprises 8 Manatee nonprofits on Giving Tuesday

Dawn Stanhope, left, of Boys & Girls Clubs of Manatee County, greets Ray Baden with a hug on Giving Tuesday, Baden presented Stanhope with a check for $10,000, one of eight he gave out to local nonprofits on Tuesday.
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Cindy Sloan, center, director of the Food Bank of Manatee, gives a hug of thanks to Manatee Community Foundation donor Ray Baden, left on Giving Tuesday.
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Lifelong Bradenton resident Ray Baden, 87, has had airplanes, cars, houses, cars and successful businesses, but none of that, he said Tuesday, has given him the same pleasure as handing out big checks to local nonprofit organizations that he believes in strongly.

This year, the fourth straight, Baden requested funds from the Sara and Ray Baden Fund at the Manatee Community Foundation be made into checks for local organizations doing special and exemplary work in his view to make the community a better place.

The eight recipients this year whose representatives paid Baden back on Giving Tuesday with tears, hugs and repeated thank yous were Visible Men Academy, Just for Girls, the Salvation Army of Manatee County, Turning Points, Family Partnership Center, the Food Bank of Manatee, Boys & Girls Clubs of Manatee County and South Florida Museum.

Baden decided to hand deliver all eight $10,000 checks in white envelopes to those agencies with the help of the Manatee Community Foundation‘s Susie Bowie and Joan McCaw.

The $80,000 donated Tuesday brought the total to $400,000 awarded through the generosity of Sara and Ray Baden through Manatee Community Foundation, Bowie said.

“Susie and Joan told them that a donor wanted to take a tour on Tuesday,” Baden said with a smile and mischievous grin.

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Group aims to raise money for Nordonia Hills City School buildings, educate community

Nordonia Hills — An organization that seeks to provide grant money to the district to upgrade school buildings was launched following the defeat of a permanent improvement levy at the ballot box about a year ago.

Building Boosters of Nordonia Hills, Inc., is a non-profit organization founded by Sagamore Hills resident Karen Byers with two main goals:

To provide assistance in the form of grants to the Nordonia Hills public school buildings for repairs, replacements and new project items not yet budgeted for.

To create and produce programs to educate the community on how to be a “positive civic citizen,” she said.

Byers, a mother of two Nordonia Hills students, president of the Nordonia High School PTSA and a local business owner as a certified public account, is president of the organization.

She formed the organization in January after the school district’s permanent improvement levy was rejected last November. One will be awarded to a Nordonia High School senior and the other to a senior from a high school other than Nordonia but that resides within the Nordonia Hills community. Both will be recognized for demonstrating positive civic citizenship by providing community service to the Nordonia Hills community.

Byers said her group is different from school organizations because it has no affiliation with the school district.

“We have grant request forms that anyone can fill out,” she said.