of New York ($1 million), FlintNOW Foundation ($10 million), Ford Foundation ($1 million), the Hagerman Foundation ($1 million), the Kresge Foundation (up to $2.5 million), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($1 million), Ruth Mott Foundation ($1 million), Skillman Foundation ($500,000 immediately, with up to an additional $1.5 million in the future) and W.K. Kellogg Foundation (up to $5 million).

Additional partners are expected to announce their support soon, organizers said.

“Quite honestly, we felt like this was a crisis in our backyard and we had a civic and moral responsibility to respond to support the residents in Flint,” Tonya Allen, Skillman’s president and CEO, said in an interview.

Overall, foundation leaders identified six areas where they believe their funds can help: ensuring safe drinking water; meeting health needs; supporting early education; building a robust non-profit sector; promoting community engagement and revitalizing the city’s ailing economy.

As one part, there will be a dollar-for-dollar match of up to $5 million on donations made to the Flint Child Health & Development Fundthrough Dec. “This is a tremendous effort by organizations well known for their philanthropic support of communities and people around the state.”

In some ways, the joint philanthropic effort appears to echo the kind of coalition behind the so-called grand bargain assembled to speed Detroit’s exit from municipal bankruptcy.

The centerpiece of Detroit’s bankruptcy blueprint was an $816 million investment by the State of Michigan, some of the nation’s leading foundations and the Detroit Institute of Arts to preserve the city-owned art museum collection in exchange for helping to pay down the city’s crushing employee pension debt.

“I can’t say that the grand bargain was something that I didn’t think about as we started to have these conversations,” White said of Mott’s effort to bring together the group of foundations. It’s not trying to replace what government should do.”

The cash infusion from the collection of foundations for Flint, a poverty-stricken city long suffering from population loss and disinvestment, is not meant to replace government funds that have been proposed to replace lead pipes and provide basic health care, according to foundation leaders.

Instead, the funding is designed to augment funding that philanthropic officials argue should be provided quickly.

Elected leaders “need to respond and they need to respond immediately,” said La June Montgomery Tabron, president and CEO of the Kellogg Foundation, which committed up to $5 million over the next year to support children’s education, health and well-being in Flint. But the body has yet to approve the bulk of the nearly $200-million aid package proposed by Snyder earlier this year.

The Legislature approved $9.3 million in October to help Flint reconnect to the Detroit water and sewerage system, $28 million in January for a variety of services and $30 million in February to help pay for water bills for residents who were being charged for water that they couldn’t drink because of lead contamination.
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Tri-state health officials prep for Zika – THonline.com: Dubuque News Tri-state health officials prep for Zika

Pubic health officials say there is a remote chance mosquitoes linked to the Zika virus could find their way to the tri-states.

aWith some mosquito-borne illnesses such as La Crosse encephalitis already known to be in our area, and the possibility of the mosquito carrying the Zika virus migrating closer to our state, mosquito monitoring and control efforts are very important for protecting public health,a said Grant County, Wis., Health Department Director Jeff Kindrai.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is coordinating efforts in southern Wisconsin to conduct a surveillance for the mosquitoes that could potentially carry the virus.

There have been no cases of Zika reported in Wisconsin, and the two species of mosquitoes that carry it have not been found in the state or in Iowa. There have been no reports of Zika infections in Wisconsin travelers, according to state public health officials.

While state public health officials donat expect the mosquitoes that carry the virus ato make it this far,a local public health officials will be participating in an Iowa Department of Public Health webinar Thursday to learn more about Zika, said Dubuque County Health Department Executive Director Patrice Lambert.

Jo Daviess County, Ill., health officials currently test mosquitoes for the presence of West Nile under a state grant. Whether it would get funding to test for Zika is unknown, said Lori Stangl, director of clinical service for the Jo Daviess County Health Department.

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Owners Rich and Roseann Para worked for six months with the DeKalb County Farm Bureau, DeKalb County Community Foundation and the Sycamore Chamber of Commerce to design a line of local souvenirs.

SYCAMORE Visitors now can take home a piece of DeKalb County thanks to a line of historical, American-made souvenirs available at Sweet Earth in Sycamore.

The shop, at 341 W. We have people in the area there’s a lot of international travel, and people come here because they want to get a gift for someone that was made here and that represents us, so that’s nice.”

From concept to realization, getting the souvenirs in the store was a six-month collaboration involving Sweet Earth, the DeKalb County Farm Bureau, Sycamore Chamber of Commerce and the DeKalb County Community Foundation.

“I felt like we were all kind of working together,” Roseann Para said. We have wanted to have something for people to take home from Sycamore for so many years.”

Sweet Earth’s souvenirs feature photos from the Joiner History Room, Sycamore Chamber of Commerce and the county’s farm bureau and community foundation.

10 Grant Makers Commit Nearly $125 Million to Help Flint Recover From Water Crisis – The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Ten grant makers announced today they plan to spend $125 million to help residents of Flint, Mich., recover from the harm they have suffered from the city’s water crisis.

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, based in Flint, spearheaded the…