Thanks to a city grant, Worthington is expected to retain private aviation company Wheels Up rather than losing the business to a nearby municipality.

If approved by the Worthington City Council at their Monday, May 16, meeting, the Venture Grant would give Wheels Up Partners LLC $58,000 over four years, helping the company move from its 450 W. Spencer purchased the space last year and is in the midst of a $2 million renovation that is already planned to provide space for a medical complex for the Central Ohio Urology Group.

Trivium was approved for a tax-increment financing district by the city last year, and received more than $600,000 in grant funding from Franklin County.

Worthington Economic Development Manager David McCorkle said Wheels Up’s proposed move to the site is an important sign of the revitalization of the corridor.

“Wheels Up is a key business within the community, and one of many pieces that are going into this new building,” he said.

Justin Rockefeller Interview – Justin Rockefeller on the Family Legacy

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I’m proud to be a part of that legacy, and I hope, through impact investing, I hope to build on top of that legacy.”

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To that end, Rockefeller co-founded The ImPact, a Silicon Valley-based organization focused on educating families about impact investing, or investing in companies that generate positive social or environmental outcomes in addition to profitable returns.

It is a very effective mechanism for community philanthropy, so having one here in your own community will be a huge benefit, not only to the community but to nonprofits that work with the community.”
Parks elaborated on some of the ways a community foundation can support local nonprofits, such as providing training or convening organizations working on similar issues to discuss where their work might overlap and how they can partner to be more impactful.
Parks described projects by the Santa Fe Community Foundation and the New Mexico Community Foundation that involved major research and data gathering followed by funding for projects that addressed the issues that research identified.
For example, if a donor wanted to leave a legacy dedicated to animal protection, the community foundation can grant the money to a shelter designated by the donor or, if that shelter should fail, see that the money goes to another organization devoted to that cause.

Economic development and health went head to head Tuesday night as members of the City Council pushed back against unwavering health officials. For more than two hours the City Council peppered local and state health officials about tobacco regulations that were implemented in 2014. She was joined by two other city councilors and the mayor in asking the Board of Health to grant the permit anyway. The Board of Health had stuck to its guns and denied the permit as part of the effort to reduce the number of tobacco retailers from the current 51 to 25. The City Council has no authority over Board of Health regulations. The health boards are required by state law and are given the authority to pass regulations that protect public health. According to Tri-Town Health Director Jim Wilusz, Pittsfield has a 23 percent smoking prevalence rate, which is higher than the state average of 17; the adult smoking prevalence is 45 percent higher than the state average; and women smoking while pregnant is 150 percent higher. The group runs compliance checks, requires employees selling the products to take an online certification, and guides the local Boards of Health in policy making decisions to combat secondhand smoke, youth smoking, and adult smoking. “The Board of Health does have the authority to pass local public health laws,” Massachusetts Association of Health Boards Senior Staff Attorney Cheryl Sbarra said. But, many city councilors disagreed that a cap on the number of establishments would make any impact on reducing youth smoking, and the health officials admitted that they have limited data to support the claim that it does. He suggested the Board of Health and the city look at other laws such as passing an ordinance that would penalize someone under the age of 18 for possessing tobacco products instead. Councilor at Large Peter White pointed out “inconsistencies” with the Board of Health’s regulations and noted municipalities were creating different rules. Ward 5 Councilor Donna Todd Rivers said the city is “sandwiched” between the needs of small businesses and public health.

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Safe Kids Grant County is offering free checks on car seats Saturday – iFIBER One News: IFIBER ONE News

; Safe Kids Grant County is offering free checks on car seats Saturday

Safe Kids Grant County is holding free child car seat inspections during the Car Seat Checkup Event.

Carving takes shape at Lansdowne school | Sarnia Observer

He was turning a design developed through a student contest at the Sarnia public school into a carving in the stump of a swamp white oak tree in the school garden.

Grade 6 teacher Trevor Bouck said students at the school raised approximately $600 for the carving project; a grant from the Awesome Foundation of Sarnia added $1,000.

“I started dabbling in it, and the next thing I know I started liking it, and started carving things I never thought I’d be able to do with a chainsaw,” he said.

Goleta Noontime Rotary Provides Global Grant for Funding Early Childhood Education in Sri Lanka
Dahlin and her husband, Hans, past president of Rotary Club of Goleta Noontime, have led efforts to fund preschool teacher education in rural parts of the island nation.

Dignitaries from around the world honored Rotary Club of Goleta Noontime’s past Club President Hans Dahlin and his wife, Helena, a local Montessori teacher and member of the One World Rotary Club, during its weekly 11:45 a.m.

The Dahlins have led 10 Rotary clubs in local District 5240 to help fund a $46,000 project that supports early childhood education by improving the skills of 320 preschool teachers training in rural Sri Lanka.

The Rotary Club of Goleta Noontime has taken the lead in obtaining Rotary global grant funds, believing that this is a project worthy of the international organization’s support, focusing on educating children in hard-to-reach rural areas.

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Lions learn about foundation grants | Webster Progress Times

By Jane Collins, Secretary Maben Lions Club

Ron Kitchens from Oxford recently brought the Maben Lions Club an interesting program on the Lions Clubs International Foundation and how it has benefited this area in the 2011 when we had a tornado.

Two grants for $10,000 each were made for the outbreak of tornadoes that hit this area and Smithville in 2011. Weather for Eupora, MS Mainly sunny.

The startup, a joint public/private partnership with Cote d’Ivoire, is prepared to help Cote d’Ivoire take a lead role in the realization of multiple Sustainable Development Goals in Africa while turning a significant profit for everyone involved at all levels of the organization.

Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire (PRWEB) May 11, 2016

AgriSmart, Inc. The startup, a joint public/private partnership with Cote d’Ivoire, is prepared to help Cote d’Ivoire take a lead role in the realization of multiple Sustainable Development Goals in Africa while turning a significant profit for everyone involved at all levels of the organization.

AgriSmart has received their first order for 1,000 metric tons of crude palm oil. Cote d’Ivoire is the second largest African producer of palm oil which greatly contributes to the reduction of poverty through the creation of jobs in an array of industries from plantation farming, raw production, and manufacturing of finished products, to the transportation and shipping of products at various stages of processing.

Along with Cote d’Ivoire being the fourth fastest growing economy in the world and considered to be the most business friendly country in Africa, the port in Abidjan is the second largest deep water port in Africa and the main port of trade for eight neighboring countries.

AgriSmart has leased over one million acres of certified forests, over half of which is savannah land, in a public/private partnership with SODEFOR Society for Development of Forests in Cote d’Ivoire. The AgriSmart venture philanthropy business model of catalytic giving based on the ethic of reciprocity includes providing housing to Cote d’Ivoire employees and their families with smart utilities, clean water, and temperature control luxuries until now known only to the financial elite of the region.

AgriSmart manifests a fundamental commitment to sustainable development by recycling left over agriculture waste to supply the manufacture of products such as fiberboard from cornstalks, wood pellets from initial land clearing remnants, and bio-diesel fuel production from palm oil.

Looking ahead, this sustainable farming international alliance is positioned for markedly high, steadily increasing returns for investors in addition to making meaningful social impact by producing an estimated annual output of 250 million bushels of corn by 2019, and an estimated annual output of 120 million gallons of crude palm oil by 2022.

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