Public input sought at meeting tonight on Springfield Climate Action and Resiliency Plan | masslive.com Public input sought at meeting tonight on Springfield Climate Action and Resiliency Plan Residents were given an opportunity to discuss their concerns about global warming at a dinner hosted by the Springfield Climate Justice Coalition earlier this month.

SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield Climate Justice Coalition is partnering with the University of Massachusetts Amherst for a meeting Tuesday to continue gathering public input for the Springfield Climate Action and Resiliency Plan.

The Climate Action and Resiliency Plan was commissioned by the city of Springfield as part of a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and when completed is expected to outline steps that Springfield can take to become a more sustainable community and protect residents from the impacts of climate change, according to event organizers.

The coalition was invited to join the working group for the Climate Action and Resiliency Plan, and secured an additional grant through UMass Amherst to hold four community meetings across Springfield to gain resident input for the plan.

The first meeting was conducted recently in Indian Orchard and attended by about 30 community members.

“The city is still in the beginning stages of getting this plan written, but we didn’t want to wait to get started on engaging the public in this process,” said Jesse Lederman, an environmental organizing consultant with Arise for Social Justice, which coordinates the Springfield Climate Justice Coalition. It is essential that the voices of all Springfield residents, especially poor people and people of color most affected by climate change, be heard as the city begins planning to address this coming crisis.”

Neighborhood youth were also hired to do outreach for both meetings.

“We thought it was important to give as much back to the community as possible while soliciting their input,” said Lederman. “We want to know what will be most important to bring up as we represent them in working group meetings.”

The final two meetings will take place next spring, and dates and locations will be announced then.

The Springfield Climate Justice Coalition is an alliance of more than 32 community groups workings together to address climate change and public health in Springfield.

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Dennis Haut is a little tired of dealing with a recalcitrant computer that is limping along with a poor network connection.

“It has more problems than Carter’s has liver pills,” Haut said.

The founder and CEO of Unity House of Davenport explained that turning the machine on and off, and hiring technical help, was getting to be cumbersome, not to mention expensive.

Haut was thus delighted to find the Community Foundation of the Great River Bend, Bettendorf, issued grants for items such as computers.

The foundation has been doing this for four years, and Tuesday, it announced more than $120,000 went to 11 local organizations to build capacity and for staff training, board development, strategic planning, technology and other critical equipment needs.

This is part of a program called Capacity Building Grants.

Other grants, Thompson said, went to Lydia Home, a program that helps children to stay with their parents and families, as the adults try to work out problems they have.

“It’s before the kids go into the foster care system,” Thompson said.

Another beneficiary was One Eighty, a Davenport organization that offers programs to those who are homeless, on the streets or in despair, who try to turn their lives around, “180 degrees.”

The One EightyA received $15,000 for strategic planning, and Thompson said this is a benefit to nonprofits that are relatively new and growing rapidly at the same time.

The Community Foundation of the Great River Bend will accept online letters of interest for grants in 2017.

These are the grants awarded Tuesday:

a Childrenas Therapy Center of the Quad-Cities, upgraded technology, $13,476.

a Iowa Legal Aid, upgraded technology, $7,860.

a Junior Achievement of the Heartland, upgraded technology, $15,000.

a Lydia Home, upgraded technology, $4,483.

a National Alliance on Mental Illness Greater Mississippi Valley, mental health education training program, $15,000.

a Palomares Social Justice Center, upgraded technology, $3,276.

a Putnam Museum and Science Center, strategic planning; $15,000.

a Scott County Family Y, mobile website enhancements; $15,000.

a One Eighty, strategic planning, $15,000.

a Unity House of Davenport Inc., upgraded technology, $6,177.

a YMCA of the Quad-Cities, upgraded technology and board development, $10,564.

Perdue Foundation.
The grant was presented during a midday ceremony at Perdue’s processing plant in Milford amid the backdrop of the Women’s Mobile Health Screening (WMHS) Van and Perdue’s onsite Wellness Center, where associates have access to quality, affordable health care. It began in 2011 as a bilingual (Spanish/English) educational event that has grown to include all backgrounds and ethnicities, and offers programs to women, men, and children at various sites throughout the year.

Migdalia Garduno, DBCC Bilingual Screening Coordinator, Vicky Cooke, DBCC Executive Director, Janet Hynes, Perdue Milford Health Improvement Program Specialist and Derrick Mangum, Perdue Milford Human Resources Manager.

Perdue has partnered with the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition throughout the years to provide health and wellness programs to benefit Perdue associates, their families and the community. The van is owned by Delaware Public Health and the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition holds the operating contract.

“Perdue and the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition have had a long-standing and wonderful relationship,” said Dean Walston, director of Perdue Milford operations.

Here’s Christen Beat with more on the grant, and this week’s big winner.

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Frost Fire purchase efforts move forward
Snowboarders account for more than half of the patrons at Frost Fire Ski Area in the scenic Pembina River Gorge near Walhalla, N.D. A new nonprofit foundation is making progress toward purchasing a popular northeastern North Dakota ski area.

The Pembina Gorge Foundation, which had its first meeting a month ago, is seeking to purchase Frost Fire near Walhalla, N.D. The Pembina Gorge Foundation will work with the Parks and Recreation Department to “expand the mission and vision of the Pembina Gorge State Recreation Area,” it states.

The Pembina Gorge Foundation has yet to be legally designated as a nonprofit, but the Community Foundation is currently acting as the fiscal sponsor, allowing donations to come in. There are more than 1.2 million people living within two hours of the Pembina Gorge, “which equates to a strong market potential and a foundational piece to tourism and outdoor recreation in northeastern North Dakota,” the document states.

Some have pointed to the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation, a nonprofit that operates the popular Medora attractions in western North Dakota, as an example for the Pembina Gorge Foundation to follow.

“It’s proven the need and everything, it’s just that we need the financing,” said Duane Littlejohn, a member of the Pembina Gorge Foundation.

When New Prairie High School senior Kennedie Bellegante started in band, mallets were her first love.

New Prairie band director Patrick Teykl is thankful for the $1,000 One School at a Time grant from Martin’s Super Markets.

Visit wndu.com/features/oneschool to nominate your school for a One School at a Time grant from Martin’s Super Markets.

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November 29, 2016 5:59 PM

Mysterious ‘Cheerful Giver’ hopes to inspire generosity through anonymous gifts

Tim Dominick
tdominick@thestate.com

COLUMBIA, SC

The Cheerful Giver is something like a saint, something like a Santa, but nothing like a celebrity.

At least as far as most of us can tell; he doesn’t give us much to go on.

One of the Midlands’ most generous benefactors is also one of its most mysterious, anonymously donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to dozens upon dozens of organizations in need over the past two years.

“He’s very caring and paternal. 2 Corinthians 9:7

A long-time resident of Columbia, a Foundation spokeswoman said, the Cheerful Giver supported various organizations for years, both openly and anonymously.

That was before he adopted the biblically inspired monicker in 2015, around the time of the annual Midlands Gives fundraiser sponsored by the Central Carolina Community Foundation.

The Cheerful Giver matched nearly $325,000 in donations, ranging from about $1,000 to $2,500 each for more than 200 organizations, during the 24-hour Midlands Gives campaign in 2015. You give because giving is in your heart.”

Reach Ellis at (803) 771-8307.

The Cheerful Giver’s gifts

$10,000 Recent donation to Richland Library’s new Ballentine location

$324,496 Donations matched for more than 200 nonprofits, ranging from about $1,000 to $2,500 each, during the 2015 midlands gives campaign.

53 Midlands organizations that have received one of the giver’s weekly surprise donations in the past year

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