Donations and contributions by Americans reached record setting levels for the second year in succession, as revealed in a report from the Giving USA Foundation and Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

The report shows that charitable donations and giving totals recorded in 2015 reached as much as $373.25 billion, an increase of 4 percent from 2014.

Keith Curtis, president of The Curtis Group and chairman of the Giving USA Foundation, highlighted that “Americans are embracing philanthropy at a higher level than ever before.”

“If you look at total giving by two-year time spans, the combined growth for 2014 and 2015 hit double digits, reaching 10.1 percent when calculated using inflation-adjusted dollars.”

Contributions made by individuals were the largest in terms of dollar amount amounting to $264.58 billion.

Giving USA notes the largest year over year percentage increase in contributions from sources came through grants from American foundations upping by 6.5 percent in current dollars and 6.3 percent when inflation adjusted.

“Each year, gifts of $100 million or more play a significant role for some individual donors and many different types of charities, and they do affect the numbers,” Patrick Rooney, associate dean for academic affairs and research at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, said in a statement.

“Philanthropy is quite democratic and always has been more people give than vote in the U.S. While the GDP rose by 2.4 percent in the last two years, donations saw a surge of 4.1 percent last year and 7.8 percent the year before.

The Owensboro Family YMCA is partnering with Estes Elementary School this summer to curb academic achievement gaps with literacy, enrichment and family engagement activities.

The program, dubbed Summer Learning Loss Prevention, was funded by a $13,500 YMCA of the USA startup grant this year, and officials with the youth development organization visited the school on Owensboro’s east end earlier this week to track development and implementation.

The summer learning project, underway in about 120 communities nationwide, targets underserved and impoverished areas by fostering partnerships between Title I-funded schools and local YMCA chapters.

Kelly Wise is a technical adviser for YMCA of the USA.

Many Estes Elementary School parents and guardians live in low-income housing, Jewell said.

LENOIR, NC (June 14, 2016) Grassroots Grant applications are currently being accepted for arts projects taking place in fiscal year 2016-2017. Grassroots Grants, a program of the North Carolina Arts Council, is administered in Caldwell County by the Caldwell Arts Council. Last year almost $10,000 was distributed to Caldwell County non-profit groups for community arts projects and events.

Grassroots Grants have been supporting projects and organizations in Caldwell County for more than twenty years. Applications will be accepted at the Caldwell Arts Council, 601 College Avenue (PO Box 1613) Lenoir NC 28645 through Friday, August 19, 2016.

For further information and to download the application form, please visit or call the Caldwell Arts Council, 828-754-2486.

In a time of worsening social inequality, exclusion, and under-representation of cultural minorities, this is unsurprising.

“An increasing number of people are turning to business solutions that tackle society’s biggest challenges, and with this shift comes a great need for specialised support systems and infrastructure for the purpose driven enterprise, nonprofit and social impact sectors.”

What exactly does One10 do?

One10 is creating an ecosystem for people pursuing business solutions to environmental and societal problems. It takes participants through a tailored 12 week program, which establishes and refines all aspects of the business, to ready it for both investment and success.

With a focus on investment readiness, a highly flexible roadmap, and an impact driven mandate, this program is tailored to the needs of individual social enterprises and their teams, ensuring that no time or resources are wasted. Once participants have completed the program, One10 provides ongoing support to raise capital, and continues to share expertise with program alumni throughout the year after they have completed the program.

The launch of the Sydney office perfectly coincides with Promise or Pay (a Sydney based social enterprise) joining One10’s social accelerator program. “We’re really excited to have Promise or Pay on board, they’re a fantastic enterprise with huge potential for scale exactly the type of enterprise we look to take into the accelerator” said Geoff.

One10 is always open for pitch applications so if you have a social enterprise head to the website and pitch your business.

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The following grants and initiatives have been announced by the Iowa West Foundation:

a Audubon Community Cinema, The Rose movie theater renovation, $6,000

a Ballet Nebraska, Season Seven: Swan Lake, The Nutcracker & Momentum 7, $100,000

a Catholic Charities Diocese of Des Moines, Phoenix House remodel, $60,000

a Centro Latino, general operating support, $75,000

a City of Council Bluffs, Council Bluffs Fire Department, Bell Tower project, $85,000

a UN Leash CB image campaign, $100,000

a Council Bluffs Community School District, BLink Wi-Fi phase III, $150,000

a Connections Area Agency on Aging, Meals on Wheels, $70,000

a Friends of the Union Pacific Museum, aWorking on the Railroada exhibit, $100,000

a Habitat for Humanity of Council Bluffs, Neighborhood Network, Year 3, $106,920

a Iowa Newspaper Foundation, Southwest Iowa Newspapers in Education program, $18,500

a Iowa West Foundation initiative, FieldhouseUSA at the Mid-America Center, $3,500,000

a Joslyn Art Museum, Kent Bellows Mentoring Program for southwest Iowa students, $16,700

a Mimran Event Management Inc., USA Triathlon Age Group National Championships, $20,000

a Omaha Theater Company, school field trips for Council Bluffs first-graders, $7,112.50

a Omaha Zoological Society, Education and Exploration Center, $500,000

a Pottawattamie County Mental Health and Substance Abuse Network, general operating support, $15,000

a Promise Partners, youth philanthropy, grantmaking & community networking, $20,000

a Santa Monica Inc., treatment/halfway house for Iowa women, $24,000

a Wings of Hope Cancer Support Center, I-Thrive, a support project for cancer survivors and caregivers, $7,650

a Youth Emergency Services, street outreach services in Council Bluffs, $25,000

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Watertown Daily Times | Community Foundation, WPBS to launch philanthropy podcast this fall

WATERTOWN The Northern New York Community Foundation and WPBS-DT have teamed up and will soon launch a collaborative media project, the “Northern New York Community Podcast: Stories from the Heart of Our Community.”

The podcast series will capture, present and archive audio interviews highlighting personal stories of community service and philanthropy in Northern New York.

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Education

June 14, 2016 9:19 PM

Sacramento State receives grant for new student research project

Program intended to help close ‘achievement gap’ between different groups of students

Fellows to be drawn from programs that support minority students

Students will work with group of faculty mentors

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City’s grant to Young Voices could be shifted

PAWTUCKET Though school officials say they’re cutting ties with student advocacy organization Young Voices over an unauthorized student survey at Tolman High School, a new city grant approved for the organization this year is still in limbo.

Ed Soares, manager for Pawtucket’s Community Development Block Grant program, said Monday that Young Voices applied for and was set to receive a new $15,000 grant “to continue to implement their youth leadership training programming at Tolman and expand their role and presence at Shea (High School).”

The city’s entire CDBG funding recommendation has been submitted to the U.S. Young Voices received about $22,000 from the school department over four years of conducting a program designed to give students a voice in their education.