Veterans who travel to Veterans Affairs clinics in Fort Worth or Dallas for mental health services soon may find more help locally.

A state grant will provide case management services to Denton County military veterans and their families. And the local VA clinic is looking for space to expand its mental health services in Denton.

Tuesday morning, representatives from United Way of Denton County, Denton County Veterans Service and the Denton County MHMR Center told county commissioners the Texas Department of Health and Human Services Commission awarded the Denton County Behavioral Health Leadership Team a grant totaling $175,199.

The funding required a 100 percent match supported by the local United Way, Flow Health Care Foundation, Denton Benefit League and private donations, resulting in about $350,000 in services. In providing more access to veterans, case managers also will work remotely from facilities at the MHMR Center and Denton County Veterans Coalition.

“Having two case workers available to help guide and actually work with these veterans and their families whether it’s to get them to the coalition, to MHMR, to veterans’ court will be so vital,” said Paul Bastaich, Denton County veterans service officer.

A collaborative team supported by the Denton County MHMR, Veterans Coalition and Veterans Services Office will recruit and interview case manager candidates and make the hires as a group, said Gary Henderson, the county’s United Way president and CEO.

While a team will supervise and train case workers, United Way will serve as the hiring authority and oversee the grant, he said.

Other grant funding will be used for marketing and outreach, training for volunteers, emergency and health care financial assistance, community case management software, and general operating supplies, materials and travel for the case managers, he said.

“Ultimately, we want to wrap our arms around our veterans who live in Denton County and provide them the assistance they need to be successful, productive citizens of Denton County,” Henderson said.

People interested in serving as volunteers are encouraged to contact United Way, the MHMR Center or Denton County Veterans Service.

Space for a clinic

On Tuesday afternoon, the Denton City Council agreed to continue talks with the Behavioral Health Leadership Team and the VA on providing an interim need: clinic space to expand mental health services until the VA can build a larger clinic in Denton.

Joe Mulroy, president of the team, told city leaders the team talked with the local VA about expanding its mental health services.

Western Kansas Community Foundation celebrates 20 years | Local News | gctelegram.com

On Tuesday, the Western Kansas Community Foundation marked its 20th anniversary of service to the community with a pledge to continue working to assist area nonprofit organizations.

On Tuesday, the Western Kansas Community Foundation marked its 20th anniversary of service to the community with a pledge to continue working to assist area nonprofit organizations.

aOur anniversary year challenges us to look at new ways of thinking,a WKCF Chairman Neil Hawley said. aWKCF continues to evolve, and our board and staff made the decision to update our brand to more accurately reflect the current and future work of the Foundation, and invest additional dollars in the community through several projects and grants during this commemorative year.a

Next week, WKCF plans to give away 20 mini-grants of $100 to non-profit groups in the area which will be delivered by WKCF board members. Iam really appreciative of the learning experience, and I got to know a lot more people and organizations and feel I have my feet on the ground a little bit more.a

Bogaard said the Foundation has been able to do some really good work over the past year in the area of health care, arts and culture, and education.

aI think whatas making a difference is we are really reaching out beyond Finney County,a she said. More organizations in the outlying communities are finding us, writing grant applications, and thatas what we encourage.a

The non-profit organization will concentrate efforts on grant making and projects that address growth of its nonprofits in its 15 county service area of southwest Kansas.

One of the things the Foundation is excited about is a Match Day event on Nov. 29 designed to support area nonprofits.

Bogaard said preparations will start this summer for the event, which will be an opportunity for nonprofit organizations who already have an endowment fund with WKCF. Money raised from donors will be matched by WKCF, she said.

aThat is primarily to promote the idea that itas good to have an endowment as a future savings account, because we all know in this time and age, public funding is diminishing and itas getting harder for nonprofits,a she said.

Bogaard said one of the core activities of WKCF is building endowments, focusing on long term investments. Currently, there are around 15 nonprofits with endowments in Finney County, and a few in outlying communities.

Leading up to Match Day, Bogaard said WKCF hopes more organizations will consider starting an endowment fund, which would qualify them for the Match Day. We hope with the new marketing campaign to be much more visible in the community and to really promote the work of the Foundation and to connect the nonprofits with the donors,a she said.

In a news release, the grant committee said the schools need a grant writer to search for and complete grant applications. The 2016-2017 school budget has some money set aside to secure the services of a grant writer, who would seek out funding to support a “wish list” of proposed programs and professional development activities outside of the general operating budget.

Smith said the goal is to expand grant activities to develop “high interest” career and technical programs and offer extended learning opportunities beyond the school day and during the summer for students.

“Learning doesn’t stop when the bell rings at the end of the day, and our schools need to provide learning experiences beyond a traditional school schedule,” she said.

This summer, the United Way and Hasbro are sponsoring a summer learning program for 50 students in grades 3-5 to support reading and math skills in a fun, project-based program. In addition, Rhode Island Marine Trades Association is supporting a summer internship for 12 teens currently enrolled in the marine trades program.

Teachers for preschool through grade 2 will soon begin an 18-month, in-depth professional development program to improve foundational instruction in math thanks to a $695,000 grant awarded by the Rhode Island Department of Education.

None of the summer programs would be possible without the generosity of the organizations, said Smith.

Community members and businesses who are also willing to sponsor enrichment programs can visit http://npsd.k12.ri.us/ and click on the donate button.

Greensboro nonprofits provide arts education through Lincoln Financial Foundation support – Greensboro News & Record: Gnr Greensboro nonprofits provide arts education through Lincoln Financial Foundation support

Fourteen local nonprofit organizations are providing arts education for schoolchildren and community-building access to the arts with the help of $193,000 in recent grants made by Lincoln Financial Foundation.

Also, one nonprofit received a payment of $80,000, fulfilling a multiyear arts grant commitment.

$22,000 to Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art for the Guilford County Head Start/Title One tour and enrichment program.$20,000 to Triad Stage to provide accessibility through pay-what-you-can nights and $10 student rush tickets.$18,000 to Eastern Music Festival for the Strengthening the Community Through Music program.$18,000 to Music Academy of North Carolina to support Lessons for Life outreach opportunities for students and teachers from kindergarten through high school.$15,000 to Community Theatre of Greensboro for the Teens Downtown and OnStage programs.$15,000 to Weatherspoon Art Museum to provide education and outreach opportunities for Guilford County residents.$10,000 to Carolina Theatre to support the Carolina Kids Club.$10,000 to Elsewhere Collaborative to support the Collaborative Laboratory for youth-led media projects.$8,000 to the Center for Visual Artists for LosArtistas, a program forLatinoyouth.$7,500 to Touring Theatre for school curriculum-aligned performances of aThe Life and Times of Fannie Lou Hamer.a$5,000 to Dance Project for its communityengagementproject.$5,000 to Greensboro Ballet to support its 2015 season.$2,500 to Royal Expressions Contemporary Dance to support Hip Hop and More for prekindergartners.

Multiyear arts payments include $80,000 to ArtsGreensboro as the second payment in a three-year commitment of $240,000 for Arts Greensboro and the National Folk Festival.

ASHLAND – Life had a way of working out for 30-year-old Ashland native Kathryn Lamp, vice president for the Foundation for the Tri-State.

The musical theater graduate decided about halfway through her college career at Palm Beach Atlantic University she didn’t want to teach theater like she initially thought so she started taking different internships to figure out what she did want to do.

Drawn to nonprofit work, she said she realized the people she was working with had law degrees. So she shifted gears and left the stage for University of Kentucky College of Law.

“I thought this was a really great way to transition from my arts background into something that is marketable and useful in a field I was interested in,” Lamp said.

Lamp then worked as an estate planner with the end goal of doing some type of nonprofit work sometime in the future.

“I was in a continuing education seminar with some of my colleagues at the law firm and learned about community foundations,” Lamp said. Within six or eight months from the time I learned about them I was working here.”

Lamp started working for the foundation in April of 2013 and became vice president in September.

The Foundation of the Tri-State enables Tri-State donors to achieve their charitable goals, and support and strengthen nonprofit organizations through grants and technical assistance.

Community leaders urge area adults to mentor city’s struggling youth | Times Free Press

Participating Nonprofit Groups
100 Black Women of Greater Chattanooga

100 Black Men

Big Brothers Big Sisters

Million Women Mentors

Northside Neighborhood House

On Point

United Way of Greater Chattanooga

Benwood Foundation

Bethlehem Center

Boy Scouts

Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy

City of Chattanooga

Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga

East Chattanooga Improvement

EPB

Front Porch Alliance

Get Veterans Involved

Girl Scouts

Girls Inc.

GrassRoots MidTown

HCDE

Independent Youth Services Foundation, Inc

Jim Wert & Associates

La Paz

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Go to the Chattanooga and Hamilton County Mentoring Collective web site at www.mentorchatt.org or call Elizabeth Tallman at 423-752-0307.

Nearly 400 local children and teens have signed up for mentoring programs and remain on waitlists because local nonprofit groups, businesses, churches and government programs have been unable to recruit adults willing to help.

The Chattanooga and Hamilton County Mentoring Collective, announced Tuesday to a crowd gathered at Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy, is spearheaded by Elaine Swafford, the executive director of CGLA; Lesley Scearce, the head of the United Way of Greater Chattanooga; and Lurone Jennings, head of the Department for Family and Youth Development for the City of Chattanooga.

The leadership committee behind the effort includes representatives from Girls Inc., the Hamilton County School System, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, La Paz, the Boys and Girls Clubs, the YMCA, YCAP, UNUM, EPB, Baylor School, the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Chattanooga and several area churches. showed that almost the entire country 91 percent of counties did a better job of creating paths to high earnings for children born at the bottom than Hamilton County.

A child from a poor family in Cannon County, Tenn., would grow up to make 9 percent, or $2,440, more at age 26 than they would if they had grown up in the average American county. html += “”;

Bay Area Hospital is committed to the mission of aImproving the Health of Our Community Every Day.a To further that effort, BAH Community Foundation grants are awarded annually to local non-profit organizations that share that desire to improve the overall health and well-being of our community.

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The Thorne Bay School installed its biomass system 2012. The total cost is about $900,000, with the bulk of the funding coming from the Alaska Energy Authority.

In the past decade, Parrent said he’s seen more cities consider biomass as a viable option.

“You know, several years ago, oil prices were through the roof, and that’s when a lot of these projects got started and got funded,” Parrent said.

Although the price of oil has dropped, that interest has remained.

A $1.5 million biomass system is in the works that could heat the Haines Borough’s schools, some public facilities and a swimming pool with wood chips. That would be awesome,” Culbeck said.

In 2010, the village of Tok fired up its biomass boiler and three years later they were saving enough money to add a music teacher and school counselor.

Hydaburg and Haines’ biomass systems are expected to be completed next year.

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The Stanislaus Community Foundation and its scholarship partners awarded scholarships totaling over $57,000 to local students for the 2016-17 academic school year.

This year’s awards bring the total number of students who have received scholarships from the Stanislaus Community Foundation and its scholarship partners to nearly $550,000 since 2005. While many of these scholarship funds are chosen by their own committees, Stanislaus Community Foundation also has an independent selection committee that chooses awards for a number of scholarship funds.

“We take great pleasure in reading the applications and the wonderful transcripts and resumes that accompany them,” said Melanie Chiesa, chairman of the Foundation Scholarship Committee.

* James McClatchy Bee Employees Scholarship: Julia Predmore, Elysia Houston, Ethan James Sun Clark

* Jane Wynne Woolley Scholarship: Jaqueline Garcia Roldan

* Melinda Nielsen Sousa Scholarship: Haomin Mai

* Pat Maciel Lubeck Perpetual Memorial Scholarship: Gabriela Vargas

* Virginia Azevedo Memorial Scholarship: Ramanjeet Kaur

* Ryan Dickerson Scholarship: Esmeralda Guzman

* Trinitas Farming Scholarship: Celeste Hernandez

* Trinitas Farming Community Scholarship: Quinton Coelho, Megan Silva, Megan Silveira

* Gemperle Family Farms Scholarship: Daisy Santana, Juan Santana, Deysi Ramirez