Kat Stork, far right, Caroline County Department of Recreation and Parks deputy director and national Afterschool Ambassador for the Afterschool Alliance, was joined by Afterschool Alliance Executive Director Jodi Grant, center, and Maryland Out of School Time Network Director of Programs and Policy Tammy Shay.

Kat Stork, far right, Caroline County Department of Recreation and Parks deputy director and national Afterschool Ambassador for the Afterschool Alliance, was joined by Afterschool Alliance Executive Director Jodi Grant, center, and Maryland Out of School Time Network Director of Programs and Policy Tammy Shay.

Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., to discuss the unmet need for more funding for after-school programs.

The visit was part of the annual Afterschool for All Challenge, sponsored by the Afterschool Alliance.

Kat Stork, deputy director of the Caroline County Department of Recreation and Parks, said the visit was a terrific opportunity to inform elected officials about the ways after-school programs support children and families.

Stork serves as an Afterschool Ambassador for the national Afterschool Alliance, spending time working with local, state and federal lawmakers and their staff to help them better understand the importance of out-of-school programs in communities like Caroline County.

On Capitol Hill, Stork joined an eight-person Maryland team of after-school program providers and advocates who visited Maryland lawmakers. Also from the Eastern Shore were Tammy Shay, director of programs, policy and communications for the Maryland Out of School Time Network and a resident of Queen Anneas County, and Mathew Peters, executive director of the Chesapeake Multicultural Resource Center, which provides after-school programming in Talbot County. Afterschool Alliance Executive Director Jodi Grant also visited lawmakers with the Maryland contingent.

Grant said members of Congress need to hear about the great work being done in after-school programs to keep kids safe and engaged in hands-on learning activities.

aAfter-school programs provide a critical service to families and communities across the country,a said Grant. aBut they face a very real funding challenge on Capitol Hill.a

Grant said face-to-face meetings are the best way to remind them of the need to keep those programs going, and to grow the federal contribution to them.

aWe think after-school advocates sent a clear and convincing message this week a one that will be hard to ignore,a Grant said.

The goal of the visits on Capitol Hill was to educate lawmakers about the unmet need for after-school programs as they set priorities for federal funding.

In addition to meeting with members of the House and Senate, Stork participated in a panel presentation before more than 50 after-school providers and advocates.

The presentation, aTaking a Close Look at Afterschool in Rural America,a highlighted local, state and national organization perspectives on the need for and the hurdles to providing high quality after-school programs in rural communities.

Stork was joined by Rich Blan, national director of policy, advocacy and development for Save the Children, and Rachel Willis, research project coordinator for the Kansas Enrichment Network/Center for Public Partnerships and Research.

In Caroline County, federal 21st Century Community Learning Centers grants support after-school and summer programs at Federalsburg, Denton and Greensboro elementary schools. Approximately 300 Caroline County students benefit from these programs, but there are other families and students in Caroline County, across Maryland and the nation who cannot access after-school programs either because of a lack of available programming or prohibitive costs.

CSUF autism researchers given a $412K grant – The Orange County Register

Charitable giving nationwide rose by 4.1 percent last year to a record total of $373.3 billion, bolstered by an ongoing national economic recovery and stabilizing household finances, according to an annual report by the Giving USA Foundation.

“The last two years represent the highest and second-highest totals for giving in the past 10 years, adjusted for inflation,” said Amir Pasic, the dean of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy in Indianapolis, which provided research for the report.

While gifts to religious groups have declined as an overall share of total giving in recent decades, last year’s amount was about the same percentage as in 2014, Giving USA said.

Among the big donations last year, according to a separate report from The Chronicle of Philanthropy, were $100 million from Roberta Buffett Elliott, a sister of financier Warren Buffett, to Northwestern University to establish the Buffett Institute for Global Studies; and $75 million from Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation to support an acute-care and trauma center.

VIDEO: 4 more years as Brown wins fifth term as Grand Forks mayor
Mayor Mike Brown and supporters toast to his victory Tuesday night. photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald5 / 5

After months of campaigning, the results are finally in.

Mayor Mike Brown won a fifth term, defeating challenger Terry Bjerke in Tuesday’s election.

In complete but unofficial results, Brown received 60.6 percent of the vote with all 19 precincts reporting Tuesday night — a margin of 5,253 to 3,405 votes, with a total 8,669 votes tallied. Brown claimed victory at home on Tuesday night, explaining his pride in his city colleagues.

“I am humbled by the vote, and I think that it’s an affirmation that I’ve assembled a good team,”he said, referring to city staff.

Brown defeated challenger Bjerke, a City Council member who had run a campaign against Brown based largely on a more efficient, fiscally leaner vision of the city.

While Bjerke attended a meeting and waited on results at the Grand Forks County Building, Mike Brown’s house was abuzz, with an election night party drawing dozens of guests, many of whom were community leaders like Kristi Mishler, executive director of the Community Foundation, and Barry Wilfahrt, president and CEO of The Chamber.

Maharashtra governemnt okays 20% grant to unaided schools in State – Free Press Journal Home / Mumbai / Maharashtra governemnt okays 20% grant to unaided schools in State

Teachers in 1,628 unaided schools to benefit from grant

Mumbai: The state cabinet on Tuesday approved in-principle 20 per cent grant to eligible permanent unaided schools. The decision will benefit 19,247 teachers from 1,628 eligible permanently unaided schools in the state. However, the opposition has criticised the decision calling it ‘meagre and unjust’.

The teachers from the permanently unaided schools had resorted to dharna agitation for the last two weeks. Nearly 50 per cent of the School Education department budget is spent on wages of teachers and non-teaching staff, the education minister said.

Commenting upon the agitation of the teachers, Tawde contended that the agitation was political. They tried to lit a bonfire of the Gujarat pattern and tried to mislead the teachers.

The decision that would help the teaching and non-teaching staff working in 2452 divisions of 1628 unaided schools to get their salaries directly from the state government covers almost 90 per cent of the unaided schools of the state, the minister said.

Meanwhile, the agitating teachers’ representatives have demanded that the government give them the copy of the Government Resolution (GR) before announcing their withdrawal of the agitation.

“We are not satisfied with this 20% grant and till a government resolution comes in this regard we cannot be sure if it will happen. But since schools have to reopen, in the interest of students we are accepting the promise,” said PrashantRedij, spokesperson of Maharashtra State Secondary and Higher Secondary School Principals’ Association.

In a statement issued here Leader of Opposition in Legislative Assembly RadhakrishnaVikhe-Patil termed the 20 per cent grant as meagre and unjust.

looks toward grant to help expand school resource officers (WEAU)– The Eau Claire Police Department hopes to boost its community policing program, with the help of a federal grant.

If selected, the department would use the money to expand the school resource officer program putting officers in local schools.

Right now, the department has officers in five schools.
If awarded the grant, they would have officers in 13 area schools.

The Community Foundation for the Alleghenies has planted a tree in Uptown Somerset to commemorate the philanthropic organization’s 25th year.

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The total figure for each of the four years equalled $17.7 million.

The foreign government donations are still not listed on the foundation’s web site despite a claim in November by the non-profit’s president, Donna Shalala, that “there is nothing to suggest that the foundation intended to conceal the receipt of government grants, which we report on our website.”

Criticism of the the latest revelation concerning Clinton Foundation tax returns came from across the political spectrum.

Leslie Lenkowski, an expert on philanthropy who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton in 1993 as a founding director of the Corporation for National and Community Service, a government-operated volunteer organization, told TheDCNF that the Clinton Foundation was “an appearance of a conflict of interest waiting to happen.”

law office of Foley & Lardner LLP who frequently represents conservative nonprofits, slammed the Clintons for “their determination to disguise what they are doing.”

During Clinton’s tenure at State, the foundation operated in at least 29 countries, including places that contained rampant corruption such as Nigeria, Uganda, Ukraine, Haiti, Mozambique, China and South Africa.

The amended Exhibit A also revealed how foreign government gifts vastly overshadowed domestic government contributions during her State Department tenure.

In the foundation’s revised 2010 filing, $7.8 million of $8.8 million in all government grants originated from foreign governments, according to the exhibit. Trump demanded that the foundation return $25 million it received from the Saudis.

Clinton defended the foundation but admitted last week in a Politico interview that in “one or two instances” some foreign donations aiming to influence her office may have “slipped through the cracks.”

A 2008 Memorandum of Understanding between the Clinton Foundation and Valerie Jarrett, then-vice-chairwoman of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team attempted to limit and in some instances to ban foreign government funds to the Clinton Foundation and its many projects.

The FBI currently has two criminal investigations involving Clinton and the foundation, with one focused on her use of a private email server located in her New York home to conduct official diplomatic business instead of a secure government communication channel.

The second investigation is reportedly focused on allegations of “pay-to-play” efforts in which Clinton traded policy or other official actions in return for contributions by foreign donors to the foundation.

DiGenova and Mitchell were also critical of Schneidermann for his inaction on the foundation’s filing.

“One has to wonder what the New York State Attorney General is doing,” DiGenova said.

She travelled for the first time from India to the United States to help make all friends of AIF aware of the large impact they have.

Planning and executing a gala this successful took months and months of hard work from many different people, including the young volunteers of AIF. They loved helping out at the AIF gala and they had a great time.”

Young volunteers are not only impactful with AIF, but in every type of philanthropy. Philanthropy is a field that relies on people coming together for a purpose, and young people, more specifically young volunteers, help immensely in creating the energy and environment that inspire people to make a change.

Another one of AIF’s volunteers, Nicole Shelton, said: “The America India Foundation has given me and other young adults the opportunity to become involved in something much bigger than ourselves. I am very grateful to the leaders of AIF for running such a charitable organization and for catalyzing not only change in India, but for catalyzing a drive of social duty that myself and the other ambassadors and volunteers of AIF carry.”

Though Richmond isn’t one of bigger chapters of AIF, the impact that this gala will have on thousands of lives is immeasurable.

In a combined effort, the Orlando Magic, Orlando City, Orlando Pride, Orlando Solar Bears and Orlando Predators joined forces to display to the nation and the world Orlando’s strength and solidarity. The Magic, Lions, Pride, Solar Bears and Predators will be selling T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan, “#OrlandoUnited” and the net proceeds will be donated to the City of Orlando’s One Orlando Fund. On Tuesday, the Magic committed $100,000 and the DeVos Family Foundations contributed $400,000 to the City of Orlando’s One Orlando Fund, a community foundation initiative to support and distribute funds and other services to individuals who were affected by Sunday morning’s tragic events. “Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to those personally affected by the loss of loved ones following this weekend’s tragedy of hate in Orlando,” Orlando Magic CEO Alex Martins said. “We are proud to join with our fellow professional sports teams to assist those impacted by this tragedy and we will continue to be in contact with the City of Orlando, Red Cross, and our partner agencies such as the Zebra Coalition to provide assistance in our community.”

The Magic have also been active in trying to help Orlando’s healing following Sunday morning’s unspeakable tragedy.

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