Foundation Fact Friday: Rush County’s Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship | News | rushvillerepublican.com Foundation Fact Friday: Rush County’s Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship As announced, the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship is now available!

The Rush County Community Foundation is honored to partner with Lilly Endowment, Inc. to offer the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship to a graduating senior in our community for the 19th year. In previous years, the scholarship has been awarded in the early spring, but upon evaluation conducted by Lilly Endowment in 2015, it was determined that awarding the scholarship earlier in the schoolyear would give students more time to decide which college or university to attend.

The Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship is a four-year full tuition scholarship to any accredited college or university in the state of Indiana. Students must submit required information by the deadlines:

a September 16, 2016: College Cost Estimator due.

a October 7, 2016: Applications due.

Throughout the state, each communityas Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship selection process differs slightly: in Rush County, the process has always been completely ablind.a The staff removes any and all identifying information from the applications prior to the evaluation, providing the selection committee with randomly-assigned numbered applications. Criteria for the award includes involvement in school and community activities, GPA, financial need, and the studentas future goals.

The Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship has long been recognized in Rush County and throughout the state as a prestigious award. We look forward to awarding our 35th Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship this year.

For more information on the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship or the Rush County Community Foundation, visit our website or contact our office.

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A Caring Hands Healthcare Centers, Inc., has been awarded two federal grants totaling $357,088 to enhance the services they provide in the McAlester area, District 17 state Rep. aWe applied for the grant because we think dental care is a very big need in Pittsburg County and the surrounding area,a she said.

The grant was awarded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Caring Hands received a $7,088 HRSA grant for notable improvement in one or more clinical quality measurements between 2014 and 2015, records show.

The QI grant recipients will use their funds ato expand current quality improvement systems and infrastructure and to improve primary care service delivery in the communities they serve,a said Marc Pincus,A director of the Office of External Engagement in HRSA.

Caring Hands served 2,176 patients last year at its main office in McAlester and at its satellite clinic in Hartshorne. Caring Hands serves patients from throughout the McAlester area, including Savanna, Stuart and Kiowa, but also from Hartshorne, Talihina and Wilburton, a few from Atoka, plus some from Eufaula, Canadian and Crowder, Belvin said.

The $1,387,336 in services that Caring Hands Healthcare Centers provided last year amounted to an average of $637 per patient, HRSA ledgers indicate.

Caring Hands Healthcare Centers provide internal medicine, family practice, womenas health care, pediatrics, preventive medicine, immunizations, employee and sports physicals, dental care (coming later this year), and chronic disease management services.

Caring Hands is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization that was founded in 2005. aNo patient in urgent need of care is turned away because of inability to pay,a Caring Hands emphasizes.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau and to HRSA, 42 percent of the residents in the Caring Hands service area, and 92 percent of the patients served by Caring Hands, have family incomes that fall 200 percent below the federal poverty level.

Of the patients who were served by Caring Hands last year, 37.5 percent had no health insurance at all; 30.8 percent were served via the stateas Medicaid and/ Childrenas Health Insurance Program; 10.7 percent were enrolled in the federal Medicare program, and 21 percent had other third-party insurance coverage.

Almost four of every five Caring Hands patients (79 percent) are adults aged 18-64, while 6.7 percent are senior citizens (aged 65 or older) and 14.3 percent are children.

The McAlester office is open from 8 a.m.

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The online voting and crowdfunding phase of Lancasteras 2017 Great Social Enterprise Pitch has begun.

The program, now in its third year, is for anyone who wants to start a social enterprise a a firm that incorporates a social or environmental goal in its business model.

Would-be entrepreneurs introduced their ideas at open brainstorming sessions in the spring, then submitted them for formal consideration.

A total of 32 applications were received, with nine people launching crowdfunding campaigns following a three-month instructional program.

People can visit the various proposalsa webpages on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo.com and avote with their dollarsa for the ones they like best. 30, when they will compete before an audience and panel of judges for a chance to win a share of the cash and pro bono services valued around $50,000.

The nine crowdfunding campaigns, including business descriptions and team leaders, are:

a Soberbars: an entertainment company that promotes sobriety by offering alcohol-free entertainment; Kyle Kuehn.

a Win Workplace Solutions: a company that makes a temporary, portable space that employers can offer to breast-feeding women; Heather and Michelle Long.

a Lush Bazaar: a fashion brand that specializes in products made by underprivileged women in India, which underprivileged women in the U.S.

a Ebeneezer Wholistic Foods: a food company that operates a market stand featuring raw vegan food and offers jobs to people with barriers to employment; Lixin Ji.

a BootCamp900: an exercise company that offers fitness training in low-income communities and has been running a 60-minute weight training program in southeast Lancaster city; Luis Miranda.

a Melanin Essentials: a personal care products company that hires single mothers to produce hair products for women of color and body products for all skin types; Saba Williams and Olayinka Credle.

a 5 Loaves Food Co.: a company that supplies locally sourced healthful food to childcare centers; LaShonda Whitaker.

a Bench Mark B-Fit: a gym that offers training to help at-risk youths become personal trainers; Will Kiefer.

The Great Social Enterprise Pitch is a project of the Lancaster County Community Foundation and Assets Lancaster.

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Several local nonprofit groups will share $28,280 in grants through the Greater Salina Community Foundation‘s latest round of grant awards.

Several local nonprofit groups will share $28,280 in grants through the Greater Salina Community Foundation‘s latest round of grant awards.

Money came from the Dane G. Hansen Foundation Community Grant Fund, Early Childhood Care, Education and Development, Greater Salina Kansas Health Foundation Fund and the L.P.

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aBy awarding these grants, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation is committed to making a meaningful impact in our local communities,a said Todd Vasos, Dollar Generalas chief executive officer.

Committed to helping increase the literacy skills of individuals of all ages, the foundation has awarded more than $127 million in grants to nonprofit organizations, helping nearly 7.9 million individuals take their first steps toward literacy or continued education since its inception in 1993. The foundation awards grants each year to nonprofit organizations, schools and libraries within a 20-mile radius of a Dollar General store or distribution center to support adult, family, summer and youth literacy programs.

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A grant awarded this summer is currently allowing treatment of five women dealing with substance abuse.

Rep. Matthew Stinson and Chip Wolf (Right) during a stop at Jordan Valley Community Health Center in Springfield Thursday.

Officials with the Health Center shared its latest efforts Thursday with Republican Congressmen Billy Long of Missouri’s 7th District. He praised Jordan Valley for counseling expectant mothers whose children may be addicted to drugs before they’re even born.

“People wanna take care of their kids, whether they’re on drugs or not, and if you can look ’em in the eye and say ‘Hey you need help, we can help you,’ I think it’s vitally important.”

The Substance Abuse Expansion grant helped create a partnership between Jordan Valley and Preferred Family Healthcare, which has been treating behavioral health and substance use disorders for nearly 30 years. Other officials talked about the need for more public education on substance abuse, noting some women addicted to drugs won’t bring their child in for prenatal care until he/she is well into their toddler years.

Stinson notes that when pregnant women dealing with substance abuse understand the danger it poses for their children, they’re willing to make some important changes.

Long said much attention is being paid at the federal level to substance abuse, particularly the nation’s opioid epidemic.