Jackson Friendly Home has barrier-free accessibility for first time in 138 years | MLive.com “For the first time in more than 100 years, these women will have a home that is free of barriers.”

The deck is connected to a dining room inside the home, and features a few small tables with umbrellas. The project, which began in April, cost about $50,000.

Forty-five women currently live at the home, which provides quality healthcare to women older than 60 in a home-like atmosphere that encourages independence.

The current home was built in 1908, but the organization dates back 138 years ago when the “Home of the Friendless” first opened its doors to orphans and widows of the Civil War.

has been awarded a $2.1-million grant to research why some chemotherapies lead to heart failure.

Gopinath Sutendra is going to look at chemotherapy drugs under the microscope and study their exact molecular pathways. That’s one person every 13 minutes.

Sutendra says the grant allows him to dive into his “top-tier research” right away, rather than waiting to establish funding and then starting the research months down the road.

He wants his research to not only find a way to protect the heart, but also improve the effects some chemo drugs have on tumours.

‘Appreciating science’

Sutendra recalls his high school chemistry teacher Miss Ryan, who helped him appreciate the practicality of science.

After graduating from St. They’re really good,” Sutendra said.

‘A close, connected place’

Sutendra says even though he’s not living in the North now, it’s still important to him.

“We just loved the closeness to nature [in the N.W.T.,] the close-knit communities, and so we just had a great experience.”

Sutendra’s parents still live in Yellowknife and he brings his children up at least once a year.

The Florence-Carlton High School Concert Band received a vibraphone thanks to the Aaron Bolton Memorial Fund music grant.

Band director Jennifer Kirby said until now the band has borrowed the instrument from Sentinel High School in Missoula each time they needed one.

aHave you ever heard or played a vibraphone?a Kirby said.

Kirby said the Florence jazz band had not been able to add the instrument to their performances until the funding came from the Aaron Bolton grant.

aAll of the Florence Band students were so excited when the vibraphone arrived from Morgenroth Music Center in Missoula last fall,a she said.

The Aaron Bolton Memorial Fund honors Aaron Bolton, a musician, entrepreneur, beloved son, brother, friend and life asituationa embracer.

Thus far, it has used $48.6 million in seed money to leverage an additional $224.5 million in public and private investment to enable 134 projects in 52 local communities north of the Malahat.

The trust marked its 10th anniversary June 16 with a celebration at the Deep Bay Marine Field Station near Courtenay with a feeling of satisfaction that it has helped communities grow, learn and succeed.

“The credit goes to all the communities and people who brought great ideas,” ICET chairman Phil Kent said. If they made a good case, ICET would then pledge funds tied to the amount of money proponents could gather from other sources.

A good recent example would be the new suspension bridge at Elk Falls Provincial Park near Campbell River.

The local Rotary Club decided it would be a great idea to build a bridge hanging 60 metres above the canyon and attract new visitors to what BC Parks considered an under-utilized asset.

Working with ICET to help make it happen, Rotary added the resources of BC Hydro, BC Parks, and the West Coast Community Adjustment program to its own building and fundraising acumen to give birth to a new $2.7 million Vancouver Island attraction.

The park traditionally attracted about 70,000 visitors annually. The process helped the applicants develop and build capacity.

“Typically with the government it’s like entering a lottery and you never get any feedback,” Kent said.

By setting a goal that each project would move forward with at least 25 per cent non-government money, it also taught how important it is to collaborate and build ties within and between communities.

Part of the fund’s mandate was to focus on projects that would benefit the entire region.

Some of those projects focused on tangible amenities: the Nanaimo Airport expansion, the Wild Pacific Trail in Ucluelet, the Deep Bay harbour expansion and the restoration of Shawinigan Lake’s historic Kinsol Trestle are examples.

Other projects were more about adding to the knowledge base: these include the Vancouver Island Economic Summit, a variety of community economic development reports, a regional marketing plan for boating tourism, an agricultural show, a youth retention study.

And communities are reaping the benefits. Tourism has also been the biggest beneficiary over its existence, at 43 per cent, with transportation second at 36 per cent, followed by aquaculture (7), economic development (5), forestry (3) and small business (3).

But it has also recently put a fair amount of emphasis on projects aimed at creating economic readiness plans in smaller, more remote communities that typically don’t have resources to develop those on their own.

“It has been very challenging for small communities to access economic development funding from senior levels of government. Funding programs target larger projects or sectors which may not exist in smaller communities or do not align with their priorities,” the trust’s annual report for 2015 reads.

“The result is that small communities have been increasingly shut out of public economic development funding opportunities and are challenged to develop the economic initiatives and amenities required to attract new residents and investment.”

The amount of funding ICET has been able to leverage has dropped off significantly during the past five years, only surpassing $3 per $1 invested once in that span, while averaging $4.6 over its entire existence.

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“This is another avenue and another agency that’s help for the school district, and they have been tremendous; they’ve been gracious to us over the years,” Dennis Williams said.

Kilgore Education Foundation President Gilbert Lopez told the Kilgore Lions club June 9 the foundation was organized in 2009 a non-profit designed to help students and teachers in Kilgore ISD,.

The foundation’s goals include providing funding not available to the district through other traditional funding sources, investing in positive programs that focus on student success and giving KISD employees grants and opportunities for innovative programs and projects.

The grant committee formed last fall and quickly began its search for programs which would benefit from a grant to help develop the idea further.

In May the foundation’s grant committee handed out four checks to help teachers at Kilgore High School develop innovative projects and programs that in some cases combine multiple classes and curricula, grant committee member Dustin Swaim said.

“It’s not a grant just for supplies. It crossed over different subject matters and this thing can just continue to grow,” Swaim said.

The greenhouse will be at the high school, so the students can monitor the plants’ progress more easily.

The committee awarded $8,380 to the project and its teachers to get the project started.

A second grant went to the “Tinker Shop,” which is a workshop with tools available to students and classes outside of metal shop, woodshop or Ag mechanics.

Chemistry and robotics teacher Lance Homeniuk explained in the application he brought his own personal tools for his students to use because they did not have any available to them at school when constructing their robots including those for the theater department’s latest production of “Aladdin” or other projects.

“A dedicated space available to all students and any class that includes constructing projects with hand tools, cordless power tools and some advanced technology would encourage teachers to incorporate some projects and encourage students to participate in those classes. I anticipate it to be especially motivating for those who enjoy working with their hands,” Swaim read from Homeniuk’s application.

The shop also would allow students not participating in a traditional shop class to learn the vocational trade of working with tools and technology.

Homeniuk received $4,550 to create the shop, which will include a laser printer and tools.

A rocketry program also received a grant, which will combine advanced, upperlevel math and science classes and allow students to participate in a new competition.

Structured similar to a cross-curricular pilot program class that began in January, KHS chemistry and physics teacher Jerry Martin’s proposal was to create a two-period class for seniors in which they will receive credit for both advanced quantitative reasoning (math) and engineering, design and problem solving (science).

“Students will work separately and in teams to develop the skills necessary to successfully design, build, launch and understand the forces involved with model rockets.

Pikes Peak region health organizations awarded $2.5 million in grants | Colorado Springs Gazette, News The foundation finalized funding Wednesday for organizations operating in Teller and El Paso counties based on their potential to improve public health, said Colorado Springs Health Foundation Executive Director Cari Davis.

“All of the organizations address important community needs,” Davis said. Selected groups fall into one of four focus areas: access to care for those in need, health care provider workforce shortage, suicide prevention, and school-based programs to encourage healthy lifestyles.

The grants, which will be awarded over the course of a year, represent a fraction of the $8 million that the foundation expects to distribute to local organizations over the next three years, Davis said.

The largest grant, totaling a half-million dollars, will go to Peak Vista Community Health Centers. “It speaks volumes about how our community is working together to solve this provider shortage.”

Colorado Springs-based nonprofit The Resource Exchange received $100,000 to fund research endeavors at its Developmental Disabilities Health Center, which works to break down the barriers people with disabilities face accessing the care they need, said Sheila Ferguson, director of development at the organization.

“This funding is really going to impact health care, not only for people locally with intellectual and development disabilities, but it’s going to help research throughout the United States and the world,” Ferguson said.

The following organizations received grants of $100,000 or more: Atlas Preparatory School, for its student health program; Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado for the Cripple Creek school-based health care program; Open Bible Baptist Church’s TLC Pharmacy for the expansion and integration of its pharmacy and clinic; CU Denver’s Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center, for its preschool wellness program; and UCCS, for two health-related programs.

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Jakob Rodgers and Tiffany Ditto contributed to this story

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Hildegard Center for the Arts (HCFA) has been awarded a grant of $4,356 by the Nebraska Arts Council to support the project aTriumph of a Man Called Standing Bear,a for a 12-month period beginning July 1.

Nebraska Arts Council Executive Director Suzanne Wise said: aHildegard Center for the Arts does an outstanding job of providing arts activities in Lincoln and the surrounding area.

With the help of sponsoring partner Southeast Community College Division of Humanities, HCFAas project aTriumph of a Man Called Standing Beara will bring to the stage the compelling commissioned work by Emmy award-winning Chickasaw classical composer Jerod Impichchaachaahaa Tate to share with the world the timeless story of Ponca Chief Standing Bear.

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