The MVLA Foundation’s Innovative Learning Grants funded the fair.

The MVLA High School Foundation recently gave the Mountain View Los Altos Union High School District a $1.575 million grant, the largest grant in the foundation’s 34-year history. With record participation, the foundation expanded this year’s grant to bolster Innovative Learning Grants and a wellness initiative.

MVLA Innovative Learning Grants challenge students to make connections and discover alternative problem-solving solutions.

The wellness grant enables district schools to provide students with support beyond the classroom, including stress management and extended counseling hours.

That’s the case with the Mountain View/Los Altos Service League of Boys (SLOBs), which recently completed its third year of service in the community.

With more than 100 boys representing a dozen middle and high schools, SLOBs is a philanthropic organization that seeks to strengthen parent-son relationships and promote leadership development through community service activities.

SLOBs focuses on serving the diverse needs of communities in Los Altos, Mountain View and surrounding cities, whether it’s to serve those in need, visit with seniors, help the environment, work with youth or assist the city.

SLOBs is led by an executive board of boys and parent volunteers who are voted in annually by members.

The city of Los Altos has been a major recipient of SLOBs service.

This year Los Altos Community Foundation provided 501(c)3 fiscal sponsorship for SLOBs, simplifying the financial and tax aspects of management.

Ellie Ward caught up with her to talk corporate clients, social enterprise in Birmingham and five year plans.

But what does Birmingham’s social enterprise offering look like?

Rosie Ginday (pictured below left), the founder of Birmingham-based social enterprise Miss Macaroon, takes time out of the kitchen to offer her perspective. She set up her catering business which sells premium and personalised macarons whilst simultaneously offering personal development and employability skills training to unemployed individuals in early 2011.

Ginday explains: “Our mission is to reduce youth unemployment through positive work experience programmes in a catering workspace so we can improve young people’s employability and personal development skills through the power of food.”

The ‘Macaroons That Make a Difference’ programme offered by Miss Macaroon is a four week pastry training course for long-term unemployed people between the ages of 18 and 35 in the Midlands. We have to look at the psychological barriers they are putting in their own way and try to break those down,” says Ginday.

This plan is also one of the ways Miss Macaroon is measuring its impact as a social enterprise, along with other success measures including; “self reporting, wellbeing sessions and the percentage of participants who go onto further training and employment”.

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Ginday initially trained as a high-end pastry chef at University College Birmingham and in Michelin starred restaurant Purnell’s in the city. “You don’t get that kind of openness in some industries but I think in the start-up community you do,” she says.

Among the support on offer in Birmingham that Ginday highlights is the Initiative for Social Entrepreneurs (iSE) organisation and the annual social enterprise city drive, which takes place to raise awareness about social enterprise.

The Los Altos Educational Foundation provides funding for the Los Altos School District’s STEM program.

For more than 30 years, the nonprofit foundation has solicited donations from parents and local residents to provide funding for enrichment programs and smaller class sizes for all nine schools in the Los Altos School District. The foundation accepted donations throughout the school year to fulfill the grant, which was factored into the district’s budgeted 2015-2016 revenue to fund programs, teachers and staff.

The foundation increased this year’s grant to fund an additional certified PE teacher so that every elementary school has a dedicated instructor and a computer science teacher, which enabled the district to expand coding into junior high.

The foundation is finalizing its grant for the next school year, guided by input from its annual parent survey and strategic discussions with district leadership.

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Will $5M donation for new media institute be enough? Will $5M donation for new media institute be enough?

David Haas and the Wyncote Foundation will give a combined $5 million to an endowment that seeks to secure the future of quality journalism in the Philadelphia region – and help the Inquirer, the Daily News, and Philly.com in particular.

“Gerry” Lenfest shook the media landscape when he announced that he had donated the Inquirer, Daily News, and Philly.com to the newly created Institute for Journalism in New Media.

The move opens philanthropic avenues to fund the company’s journalism, allowing charities, corporations, and other benefactors to give to the institute to support reporting projects and new ways of disseminating news.

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Students from 18 Douglas County schools are clustered with neighboring schools for an exciting opportunity for summer enrichment that includes field trips to such venues the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville to Wild Animal Safari and the Roosevelt’s Little White House in Warm Springs.

These students are receiving the summer enrichment opportunities from the highly

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competitive 21st Century Community Learning Center federal grant funds.

According to Mitzi Teal, director of Communities in Schools, the summer camp is an extension of the school system’s after school program which is mandated for students who participate in the after school program during the school year from September through May.

The school system’s after school program is not a “drop-in program,” said Teal. The high school program requires Monday through Thursday participation for 12 hours each week.”

Teal describes the summer camp as “an academic enrichment program.”

“We are evaluated on the number of kids coming every day and the progress on how children are doing academically,” she said.

Summer camp activities are more focused on enrichment and the field trip piece of the grant content requirements.

“It is project-based learning that ties in all content areas through the enrichment piece,” Teal said. Students have also visited Sweetwater Creek State Park, the Delta Flight Museum, Wild Animal Safari and the Little White House, said Teal.

“This was all because the funding called for extended time for enrichment,” she said.

The summer camp program is designed to provide opportunities based on certain qualifications for students who need additional benefits for academic support, according to Teal.

The 21st Century Community Learning Center program (CCLC)was designed to provide federal funds to local schools and organizations to operate after school programs to provide opportunities for academic enrichment and tutorial services for students; to offer students a broad array of additional services, program and activities to reinforce and complement the regular academic program and offer families of 21st CCLC students opportunities for literacy and related educational development.

“All seven programs target students who are in need of additional academic assistance, said Teal.

“Criteria for students to qualify for available slots includes: academic performance below grade level; not meeting state standards on tests; and/or failing grades in one or more subjects/classes.”

She said, “We have a newly awarded grant in July of 2015 called Lithia Cohort at Annette Winn, Beulah, and Lithia Springs elementary schools. The SUCCESS grant serves students in grades third to fifth at Bright Star and North Douglas elementary schools. These grants were awarded in July of 2014 and are funded for five years.”

IMPACT Champ was awarded in July of 2014 and serves students at Chestnut Log and Mason Creek middle schools. These schools include a sixth grade transition component for students during the school year and summer. High Achiever CHAMPS serves students at Douglas County, Lithia Springs and New Manchester High Schools.

“The focus of this program is to help offset the academic struggle that occurs in the transition from middle school to high school by targeting at-risk students in grades ninth through 12th.

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