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Which are the major issues before the social impact investment?
Health and education are the two major issues which are plaguing the world and social investments. If we as social impact investors and philanthropy can replicate what we did in business and tech entrepreneurship in the social areas then we can begin to accelerate the pace of innovations.

What role could a government play?
The government has to adopt the new approaches of social entrepreneurship so that people can move more quickly. This idea is as disruptive as technology was.

How is social impact investment going to help India?
We can help through the social impact investment by helping a poor student in getting education and preventing the dropout rate, that would be the biggest help to any student and the society.

Courtesy photoBy collecting completed applications from residents, and more than the 750 checks of $40 apiece, the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce fulfilled the state Registry of Motor Vehcilesa minimum requirement for putting a new Cape Ann license plate into production.A

Courtesy photoBy collecting completed applications from residents, and more than the 750 checks of $40 apiece, the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce fulfilled the state Registry of Motor Vehcilesa minimum requirement for putting a new Cape Ann license plate into production.A

Sometime over the next two weeks, the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce will send the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles checks totaling some $32,000.

With that, the chamber will have capped a more than two-year drive to sell and promote a new Cape Ann license plate touting communities of Gloucester, Rockport, Manchester and Essex. And it will sow the first financial seeds for the chamber-related foundation that will provide money for a variety of community programs down the line, chamber CEO Ken Riehl said Monday.

aItas going to happen; itas finally going to happen,a Riehl said of seeing the Cape Ann license plate on roadways around the region, across the state and beyond.

The plate, designed by Rockport graphic artist Annalei Babson, depicts images of Gloucesteras Man at the Wheel statue, Rockportas Motif No. 1, an Essex schooner, and the Tuckas Point rotunda in Manchester as symbols of the four Cape Ann communities, along with an artistas palette to represent the entire regionas arts community.

By collecting completed applications from residents, and more than 750 checks of $40 apiece, the chamber fulfilled the registryas minimum requirement for putting the plates into production.

Riehl said the chamber has collected a few more than the 750 mandated. Riehl said once the registry receives the money and the completed applications, it then projects it will take six to eight months before the plates will be in the hands of their buyers.

aWeare hoping to have the plates a and have them on the road a for Christmas,a Riehl said. In addition, motorists will be charged a one-time registry license plate transfer fee of $25, and the registryas biannual registration or renewal fee of $60.

Of the $40 license plate cost, the registry will keep $12 to cover plate production costs, and then return $21 per plate a or an estimated $22,400 from the first batch a to the newly formed Cape Ann Community Foundation, a registered 501(c)3 organization created by the chamber to handle and distribute the money through the Cape Ann communities.

Foundation forming

The nonprofit foundation is headed by former chamber president and board member Ruth Pino, said Riehl, who is listed on the filed 501(c)3 document as the organizationas primary contact.A The filing refers to the foundation as aan independent organization or independent auxiliary.a The chamber and foundation board members areA still forming guidelines to determine how proceeds from the plate will be distributed.A

Riehl said the chamber is providing space for the foundation at its 33 Commercial St.

Bad Request

The NPS manages 409 parks, historic sites, recreation areas and related facilities, covering 84 million acres. The federal share, covering 88 percent of NPS operations, declined by 9 percent when adjusted for inflation over the period, whereas revenue from fees, donations and other sources rose by 39 percent when adjusted for inflation.

“Philanthropic partners,” they warn, likely would want much in return, from special access to parks, exclusive use of park imagery in advertising and advertising within parks.

The NPS should be able to leverage that power to increase private contributions even while strictly regulating contributors’ access, presence in parks and use of imagery.

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‘Don’t just invest in charter schools’: school board seeks help to grow L.A. ‘Don’t just invest in charter schools’: school board seeks help to grow L.A.

Two Los Angeles Unified School Board members want the district to more aggressively court big funders and outside academic partners to expand district school offerings and win an escalating school choice arms race.

Unified leaders numerous times to increase the number of seats available in the district’s popular programs to name a few: magnet and pilot schools, dual language immersion programs and International Baccalaureate tracks in hopes of reversing a decade-long decline in enrollment.

Prominent charter school backers have already begun to seek out donors to fund a broad expansion of charter school choices that, according to a plan leaked to the press last fall, would cost $135.2 million by 2023.

“The philanthropic world has given a lot of money to charter schools, and it puts the district in the disadvantage,” Rodriguez said in an interview.

Rodriguez, who co-founded the Partnership to Uplift Communities network of charter schools, said he hoped district leaders would ask charter networks who’ve expanded successful programming for guidance on how to scale up L.A.

Before these resolutions were passed, students from the organization Queer Alliance voiced their contempt for a vote by the Student Initiated Outreach Finance Committee to revoke a grant application that would help fund their 14th annual Pride Prom.

During public comment, about seven students expressed their concern that the Pride Prom, an outreach event geared toward high school students to encourage them to pursue higher education, showcase the LGBT resources offered by UC Riverside and provide a safe space for them to socialize, was not allocated $2,449.50 in funds from a grant that they applied for earlier this calendar year.

Second-year Amber McKeough, who presented the grant at the outreach committee hearing, spoke to clarify their reasoning for revoking the grant, which included a lack of educational materials in the grant and questions as to whether or not Queer Alliance made the educational portion of the event as required.

The senate voted unanimously to call for a review of the grant which will then be voted on again during the next outreach committee meeting. The outreach committee could not be reached for comment by the time of publication.

Afterward, the senate passed a resolution that condemned the hate crime committed against UCR graduate students of color and critiqued UCR administration’s response. It further stated that the email “lacked clarity regarding the violent nature of the event, failed to condemn the tearing down of the Palestinian flag, and did not address any anti-Palestinian or anti-activist rhetoric.”

Among other things, the resolution requested that campus administration “take a proactive stance towards recognizing and condemning hate crimes on our campus and throughout the UC system,” and that the chancellor appoint “a student representative approved by the Diversity Council and by the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion to review and provide input towards all communication from the Chancellor’s office.” The resolution unanimously passed with a standing vote and afterward the senate chambers erupted in applause.

A resolution to expand vegan options on campus as well as initiate a vegan awareness campaign was also passed with a vote of 9-0-1.

The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, MA NORWELL The Norwell school system has received a $113,600 state grant to help cover special-education costs.The schools had been looking at a special-education deficit of $250,000. The state grant and savings the schools were able to achieve brought the deficit figure down to $95,822.”We’re very, very encouraged to be at $95,000 and not $250,000,” School Superintendent Matthew Keegan said. Some students from Norwell are sent to schools elsewhere because the school department can’t meet their special-education needs.Warren MacCallum, the school system’s director of finance, operations and technology, said Norwell’s special-education costs have increased by more than 25 percent about $400,000 this year. That qualified the schools to apply for the state grant.”You have to do a lot of paperwork and research if you qualify,” MacCallum said.The special-education savings that have been achieved this year were attributed to things like long-term personnel leaves and new hires.School committee Chairwoman Amy Koch said replicating some of these “nip and tuck” savings won’t be possible next year.MacCallum said, “Some of the things we did this year are one-time shots, and we wouldn’t want to do again.”Offering an example, he said the long-term leaves saved the school system money, but the schools are better off having the permanent personnel working. The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, MA

Alberta Stojkovic | The Sentinel Some of the recycling equipment from the DKMM grant with from left: seventh grade science teacher, Heather Nicholson; seventh graders Haley Cross, Autumn Reeves, Joshua Sullivan, Auna Tack, Kylie Irwin, Taylor Bell and Olivia Millisor in front are Kylie Bennett, J.O.G.s student, Mykala Layer and J.O.G.

Alberta Stojkovic | The Sentinel Some of the recycling equipment from the DKMM grant with from left: seventh grade science teacher, Heather Nicholson; seventh graders Haley Cross, Autumn Reeves, Joshua Sullivan, Auna Tack, Kylie Irwin, Taylor Bell and Olivia Millisor in front are Kylie Bennett, J.O.G.s student, Mykala Layer and J.O.G.

The new equipment was purchased through a $7,200 Recycling and Market Development Grant from Delaware, Knox, Marion and Morrow (DKMM) Solid Waste District.

Seventh grade science teacher, Heather Nicholson said that learning about recycling is part of the ecology curriculum for the seventh graders.

The Mount Gilead High School Jobs for Ohio Grads (J.O.G.) class is also benefiting from the grant as part of their studies.

Seventh grade student, Haley Cross said this project is part of their Environmental Club work.

Nicholson said the curriculum goal is to learn about the materials that can be recycled as well the process and value of recycling.

J.O.G. They also thanked Mid-Ohio Sanitation Works and Earl Linder.

Alberta Stojkovic | The Sentinel Some of the recycling equipment from the DKMM grant with from left: seventh grade science teacher, Heather Nicholson; seventh graders Haley Cross, Autumn Reeves, Joshua Sullivan, Auna Tack, Kylie Irwin, Taylor Bell and Olivia Millisor in front are Kylie Bennett, J.O.G.s student, Mykala Layer and J.O.G.

http://morrowcountysentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/web1_DSCN9100.jpgAlberta Stojkovic | The Sentinel Some of the recycling equipment from the DKMM grant with from left: seventh grade science teacher, Heather Nicholson; seventh graders Haley Cross, Autumn Reeves, Joshua Sullivan, Auna Tack, Kylie Irwin, Taylor Bell and Olivia Millisor in front are Kylie Bennett, J.O.G.s student, Mykala Layer and J.O.G.

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