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LOS ANGELES, May 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Three-time Academy Award nominated actress Laura Linney, cancer survivor, producer and actress Christina Simpkins, and renowned oncologist Dr. Fred Rosenfelt will be honored for their commitment to raising awareness about cancer, and ending the disease at Tower Cancer Research Foundation’s Tower of Hope Gala on Thursday, May 19, 2016. The evening is designed to bring attention to cancer and raise funding for Tower, a leading donor-directed, specialized cancer research foundation focused on funding Southern California initiatives with a global impact.

The Tower of Hope Gala marks the 20th anniversary of Tower Cancer Research Foundation. Over the course of the last twenty years, Tower has raised well over $30 million, funding that supports a multitude of different scientific grants from one-year $100,000 Career Development Grants to five year $500,000 Senior Investigator Grants to $1,000,000 Multi-disciplinary Discovery Funds. Tower has participated in funding more than 200 clinical trials, and provided over $2 million in seed money for young cancer researchers from the Southern California community via the organization’s Career Development Grants.

Tower also supports a variety of Southern California community partners who bring vital cancer programs to underserved populations throughout Los Angeles.

ABOUT TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION : Tower has been the Southern California cancer patient’s greatest ally since 1996. Tower provides grants for innovative research, caring patient support and community education to promote more effective treatments for cancer.

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(Versailles, Ind.) A digital learning effort at South Ripley Elementary School is being recognized as one of Indiana’s most promising teaching tools.

The Indiana Department of Education has named South Ripley’s Blended Learning Spaces as a Promising Practice. South Ripley is a 1:1 device to student school, using Google Classroom as its learning management system.

Another space is a digital art studio where students can create anything from videos to 3-D art projects made tangible with a 3-D printer.

“We are committed to providing our students with the skills needed to be successful in our 21st century world, and maximizing our use of technology helps us achieve that mission,” says South Ripley Community Schools Superintendent Rob Moorhead.

With 78 of the 200 Promising Practices named by the IDOE so far this year, South Ripley’s Blended Learning Spaces is the first in southeast Indiana to gain the designation.

Moorhead says South Ripley’s Sandbox SR technology room was equipped using grants from the Rising Sun Regional Foundation and the Ripley County Community Foundation.

Remarking on the IDOE’s Promising Practices recognitions, Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz said South Ripley and other schools’ practices are student-centered and focus on positively impacting students through innovative programming and activities that provide high-quality learning environments and experiences.

“Since day one, my top priority has been to ensure that every student has access to high-quality education and support no matter where they live or attend school,” said Ritz.

Lawsuit Alleges Flint Mayor Diverted Water Crisis Funds to Her Personal Account Lawsuit Alleges Flint Mayor Diverted Water Crisis Funds to Her Personal Account District Court, claiming she was fired from her position after asking the city attorney’s office to investigate claims Weaver may have been telling city staff and volunteers to send potential water crisis donors to her own personal account, rather than the official fund managed by the Community Foundation of Greater Flint.

The suit alleges that Weaver’s executive assistant, Maxine Murray, told Henderson in early February “she feared going to jail” after the mayor instructed her to divert donations from the Community Foundation of Greater Flint‘s Safe Water/Safe Home Fund to a fund called “Karenabout Flint.”

The lawsuit claims Murray allegedly told Henderson that she was specifically directed to tell donors and potential donors step-by-step how to donate to the Karenabout Flint fund through its website, rather than instruct them in the steps to donate to the Community Foundation’s fund.

The Safe Water, Safe Homes Campaign Fund was set up by the city to accept donations for the upkeep and maintenance of the Flint water distribution infrastructure.

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Great Places 2020: Plans revealed Tuesday to transform three Indy neighborhoods | CBS 4 – Indianapolis News, Weather, Traffic and Sports | WTTV People living in three neighborhoods in Indianapolis will find out Tuesday how their communities will transform in the coming years.

Great Places 2020 gives a neighborhood already working to better itself the leg up it needs.

“These are all neighborhoods that have been working over the last several years to organize themselves through quality of life plans and based on that, they came forward and said, we think we are uniquely prepared to really drill down and create this strong center for our community,” said Bill Taft, Executive Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation in Indianapolis.

A group of nearly 50 community civic leaders reviewed applications from ten neighborhoods and picked the areas of West Michigan and King, East Washington and Oxford, and 38th and Illinois.

Check out video updates on each area here.

“Over the last year, each of these three neighborhoods have worked with consultants as well as hundreds of neighborhood residents, churches, organizations and businesses to set out to create a very specific plan for how to create a strong neighborhood center.”

Those plans will be revealed Tuesday from 4-6 p.m. at James Whitcomb Riley School #43.

“It’s physical development of new buildings, attracting new businesses, creation of new parks and greenspace, job training for new residents, better quality schools, a wide range of things both on the physical and human development side of the agenda for each of these neighborhoods.”

“In the plan 2020 process a year ago, the city identified the need for mixed-use neighborhood villages as something that Indianapolis lacked. Each one of these plans for Great Places is actually creating a neighborhood village center for each one of those three neighborhoods that would be walkable, that people would want to live near, would want to spend time shopping in, to spend time recreating in.”

“Most neighborhoods had those at one time.

Why community foundation is offering $10K for programs promoting diversity, youth | MLive.com Why community foundation is offering $10K for programs promoting diversity, youth

MUSKEGON, MI The Community Foundation for Muskegon County is offering a $10,000 grant to help support a program that makes Muskegon a better place to live.

The Celebrate Community prize is meant to highlight, support and reward an organization in the community that is doing outstanding work in three key areas:

Creating an inclusive community, promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion. Enhancing relationships among diverse populations so that everyone can fully participate in all Muskegon County area has to offer.
Creating hope and opportunity for Muskegon County’s youth.
Promote efficient use of community resources, collaboration, and sharing among schools, nonprofit organizations, and units of government, with a goal of strengthening service provision and avoiding unnecessary duplication.

“We’re pleased to be able to launch the Celebrate Community Prize,” said Chris McGuigan, community foundation president/CEO. “As we set our sights on these three strategic leadership goals, we want to start by learning about and supporting the exemplary work that is already being done in our community.

Any nonprofit, religious organization or unit of government doing work in any of the three focus area may apply to the prize.

Organizations should submit a compelling, one-page summary of existing programs and activities that work towards one of the three focus areas listed above.

The nomination should be in Microsoft Word or PDF format, and should be sent electronically to grants@cffmc.org with the subject “Celebrate Community! Selected nominees will be notified by Friday, June 3, and further details will be provided at that time.

The selected organizations will be invited to give a presentation at the Foundation’s Annual Gathering at the Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, June 28.

The final winner of the $10,000 Celebrate Community!

Grant Leep becomes Seattle Pacific men’s basketball coach | The Seattle Times Grant Leep becomes Seattle Pacific men’s basketball coach Grant Leep has been appointed as the Seattle Pacific’s head men’s basketball coach on Monday.

Grant Leep, who served seven seasons as an assistant at Seattle Pacific, has been appointed as the school’s head men’s basketball coach Monday.

Leep, 36, has strong basketball connections throughout the Northwest. His coaching resume includes stops at Eastern Washington and a pair of community colleges.

“It was an honor offering Grant the position because he is ready to be a head coach and displays the personal character that Seattle Pacific values so highly,” AD Tom Box said.

On May 3, Leep was named SPU’s interim head coach to fill the vacancy created by the departure of Ryan Looney, who left after seven years to assume the head coaching role at Point Loma Nazarene University.

“We have a special group of young men here at SPU and I welcome the opportunity to serve them and guide them in this new role,” Leep said.

Leep becomes the 12th coach in the 72-year history of the storied program that owns the longest active playoff streak among NCAA Division II men’s basketball programs.

Finalists in the Wirral Third Sector Business Awards 2016 are:

Green Enterprise Award, sponsored by Wirral Council’s Neighbourhoods & Engagement and Waste & Recycling Teams: Tomorrow’s Women Wirral; Autism Together; Wirral Wildlife.

Community Enterprise of the Year Award, sponsored by Wirral Radio: Safe Families for Children (Mersey Hub); Tomorrow’s Women Wirral; Colour My World.

Letter: Tiverton Library funding in jeopardy – Opinion – The Herald News, Fall River, MA – Fall River, MA The Tiverton Town Financial Referendum will take place on Saturday, May 21 at Tiverton High School. It’s important that the voters of Tiverton pay close attention to the consequences of their vote since it can have profound repercussions, especially for the library.The Fiscal 2016 town budget gave $540,000 to the library.According to Rhode Island Statutes Title 29, the library has to get as much as it got in Fiscal 2016 in order to receive the state library grant in aid which was $100,382.In addition if the library does not receive as much as it got in Fiscal 2016 the town will lose the state library reimbursement money to pay for the library bond. Without the reimbursement money the town will have to cover the whole cost.Together the state grant in aid and the state reimbursement come to $428,081.The Town Budget Committee recommends that the library get $556,500 which is over the $540,000 and guarantees the state grant in aid and also the state reimbursement for the library bond.Budget 3 only gives the library $500,000 which is less than was received for Fiscal 2016 and would result in the loss of $428,081 to the town. For $40,000 the town would lose almost a half million dollars if that budget were approved.Budget 2 cuts even more from the town but leaves it up to the budget committee to come up with how the cuts are made. It’s questionable as to whether the town could absorb cuts of almost a million dollars, and the library will be at risk.The big concern is the loss of the state grant in aid and the state reimbursement money. Loss of state reimbursement money would result in the town having to find the additional money and pay the full $537,750.This would be a disaster for the library and the town.For a little over a year Tiverton has had a new library. The town now uses the Community Room for the Municipal Court and various town commissions use its rooms for their meetings.We’ve worked long and hard for a library we can all be proud of.