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FILE PHOTO: In this March 7, 2014, photo, Carol Jenkins Barnett, George Jenkins’ daughter and president of Publix Super Markets Charities, stands next to a movie poster for “Mr. Jenkins, founder on Publix Super Markets, and commissioned by Jenkins’ children.
I appreciate your Mother’s Day editorial honoring Carol Jenkins Barnett for her loving leadership and spirit of generosity. In the reflection of the bright eyes of the children she helps, Carol glows with the true meaning of philanthropy the love of humanity.
There is no doubt in the mind of anyone who knows Carol Jenkins Barnett that giving to others so they may live a better life is her pleasure. Letter: Barnett’s pleasure is givingFILE PHOTO: In this March 7, 2014, photo, Carol Jenkins Barnett, George Jenkins’ daughter and president of Publix Super Markets Charities, stands…May 9, 2016 12:02 PM
I appreciate your Mother’s Day editorial honoring Carol Jenkins Barnett for her loving leadership and spirit of generosity.
There is no doubt in the mind of anyone who knows Carol Jenkins Barnett that giving to others so they may live a better life is her pleasure.
‘Give Local’ tech provider making changes, restitution
FAIRFIELD The company that provided the technical framework of the troubled Give Local Solano campaign has said it is taking steps to make sure the kinds of problems experienced May 3 do not happen again and will make some financial amends.
Organizers behind the Give Local Solano, frustrated by the system shutting down for 11 hours during its one-day fundraiser, are confident that is true because they have no intention of using Kimbia again.
Connie Harris, executive director of the Solano Community Foundation, said the day after the inaugural Give Solano campaign that she believed the online fundraiser could be done in-house.
Kimbia, based in Austin, Texas, has reached out to the foundations and the media about changes that are taking place, most of which involve the financial impacts of the event.
“We have been in regular contact with our community partners since this incident occurred, and we are pleased to take these actions to mitigate the impact on participating organizations,” Kimbia Chief Executive Officer Daniel A. Gillett said in a statement released Monday.
“After a thorough review of events, we will be better able to communicate a specific plan to ensure that an incident of this kind will not occur in the future and our partners, nonprofits and their donors can be confident in our ability to help them achieve their goals.”
Kimbia announced that Gillett will sacrifice three months of his salary to be paid to participants across the country, though what that total is was not released. The firm also indicated it will waive approximately $370,000 in fees, which the company said is about a third of the net fees it would have received from the nationwide total.
Harris has indicated she does not plan to pay any of the 1.99 percent on the total income from the event to Kimbia.
The latest estimate from the community foundation is that more than $40,000 was raised from midnight May 3 to about noon May 4, the final 12 hours being extended by Kimbia from the original plan.
However, a fair amount of the local total was actually donated through the websites of the 29 nonprofits involved, rather than directly through the Give Local Solano site, or by people who dropped off their donations when they were not able to get through online.
Kimbia also announced that it will, over the next 30 to 45 days, provide online technology free of charge to the affected community groups for the rest of the year, “including customizable donation page, a donation form that can be embedded on their website, automatic donation receipts and donor reports.”
Kimbia also will provide free workshops to train on the technology.
The company also emphasizes that despite the problems, more than $50 million was raised nationwide.
“We will work diligently to identify the specific causes of the issues we encountered and take every step necessary to ensure robust safeguards are in place to prevent a reoccurrence,” Gillett said in the statement.
The company said the personal information of donors and those why attempted to donate was not compromised.
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It’s a federally funded program which provides money to schools, with high poverty and low performance. The goal of the program is to help these schools create after school programs geared towards helping these students of underachieving schools.
He not only thinks that the 1 million dollars over three years will help the two middle schools [Girard Middle & Honeysuckle Middle], but he’s seen it work first hand. He feels that providing positive activities after school for his students is key.
Providing schools with the necessary resources can change how an entire school functions. The way Dothan City Schools plan on spending it if they receive the grant is giving Girard and Honeysuckle $150,000 a year over three years.
The school board will know if they received the grant by July.
The Dothan City School Board on Monday approved grant applications for federal funding of Bright Key programs at Girard Middle School and Honeysuckle Middle School.
Jim Stuckey said he and his business partner, Chuck Harris, started Wholesale Wood Products in 1979 with a part-time secretary, one truck driver and a
Ashley Whitehurst joined the Alabama Air National Guard at 20 years old to keep up the family tradition, and help pay for his college education.
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Those who supported the higher tax rate said the county needs to make more investments in infrastructure and government services.
The flat-tax rate means officials on the Prince William County School Board must go back to the drawing board and figure out what they are to cut, as the flat-tax budget passed by the Board of Supervisors means the schools will see $7.2 million less in revenue than the School Board had expected.
A discussion about those forced cuts is expected to begin at Wednesday’s School Board meeting. Today, schools officials released this statement:
The cuts are needed to make up for reductions in projected revenue after the Board of County Supervisors (BOCS) voted May 6 to keep the Prince William County tax rate unchanged for the coming year. As the Board of Supervisors in the taxing authority, Supervisors members Peter Candland and Ruth Anderson want more control over how the School Board spends the money given to it by the Board of Supervisors (more than 57 percent of the entire Board of Supervisors budget is automatically transferred to the county school system)
Legally, that is not possible.
“From what I’m hearing in this room tonight, it’s like we’re [the School Board] are a bunch of criminals who spend and don’t know how to budget,” Occoquan District School Board member Lilly Jessie told the Board of Supervisors. It was a shift from last year when the grants were approved for fiscal 2016, and every year for the next five years.
“The grants were a year to year commitment,” said Acting Prince William County Executive Christopher Martino.
The Board of Supervisors must now decide if they will continue to fund the matching grants.
“The grant was a challenge match, I have no confidence that money is going to be spent where it needs to be spent,” said Occoquan District Supervisor Ruth Anderson.
Supervisor Frank Principi argued the county government in the past spent additional money, outside the 57 percent revenue split, to add turf and lights to school sports fields.
Prince William County Coles District Supervisor Willie Deutsch in an email statement says while the School Board revenues forecast fell short, the schools will end up with more cash in the long run.
The board discussed this possibility, as well as the idea of relocating Grant,A earlier in March.
“It’s a high-growth area, and things change fast,” LynchA said.
He said the likelihood of a decision Tuesday night depends on how the board’s discussion unfolds, but said he thinks the board is close to finishing its discussion.
The scenarios the board discussed in April assigned studentsA from the northernmost portionA of Lincoln Elementary’s attendance zone to Grant.A Most other Grant students would transition from the north side of Wickham Elementary’s zone.
The new Hoover, in eastern Iowa City, would gainA a majority of its students fromA Lemme and Lucas elementaries along with students in theA easternmostA portion of Longfellow Elementary’s attendance zone.
The April scenarios also included changes for Penn, Garner, Mann, Alexander, Weber and Twain elementaries.
RELATED:A School Board approves new high school boundaries
At the secondary level, the AprilA scenarios called for changes at all five comprehensive junior highs and high schools, as well asA Liberty High, opening in 2017.
Lynch said the board plans to discuss TuesdayA new information aboutA the breakdown of student subgroupsA a low-income students and those in the English Language Learner and Special Education programsA aA that would attend each secondary school.
The April scenarioA called for splitting Lincoln students between Liberty and City High.
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Create a set of guidelines and criteria for the grants processAssess each proposal (grant) and provide your recommendation to the boardOrganise selection panels and lead the marketing for corresponding eventsMaintain relationships with key Foundation stakeholders, including Vodafone NZ, Foundation alumni, and other philanthropists
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