Brattleboro dog park gets grant – Brattleboro ReformerBrattleboro dog park gets grantWith more fundraising in mind, organizers hope to reach the $17,000 needed

BRATTLEBORO >> A dog park is one step closer to becoming a reality.

Organizers behind the efforts recently learned of an award of $1,000 through the Vermont Community Foundation‘s Small and Inspiring grant program.

“That was our first grant that we had submitted for and the first that we were awarded,” said Rachel Selsky, who along with her husband is coordinating the project.

Last summer, a spot adjacent from the proposed skatepark at an upper section of Living Memorial Park was identified and approved as the location for the dog park. A contribution of $250 or more can get a person or business a sign at the park’s entrance.

A Facebook page, found by searching Brattleboro Dog Park, features updates on the project.

New grants for adding life to the city – InDaily

Renewal SA is calling for applications for a new round of “City Makers” grants for people who want to remake their corner of the city or bring their ideas to life.

Nola’s Joshua Talbot and Oliver Brown – recipients of a previous round of City Makers grants.

Georgina Vasilevski, general manager of people and place management at Renewal SA, said the grants were up to $5000 for “placemaking” activities and $10,000 for building compliance work.

“There is a huge community want to help Adelaide reach its potential as a vibrant and exciting place and City Makers is a great opportunity to showcase Adelaide’s creative talents,” she said.

Previous rounds of the grants program have aided start-ups such as NOLA Bar and helping art collectives from the SALA Festival.

“Past rounds have provided funding assistance for placemaking initiatives and helped to overcome costly building compliance matters such as noise, safety and accessibility,” Vasilenski said.

One of the previous successful applicants from the second round in 2015, Mama Jambo Cafe in Adelaide’s West End, says the grants helped to add live music to the venue.

‘The grant we got from City Makers has given us a big helping hand towards our ambition to have live music in our venue’, co-owner Connie Fiala Mmadike said.

“A sound engineer’s report is required to get approval for live entertainment, and this is costly, so thanks to City Makers we are now able to host live music events on site.”

Another second round recipient Dr Alan Stewart hosts ‘Conversare’ a monthly social dining event at the Central Market after hours.

“Funding from the City Makers grants enabled us to film and document the lively conversations that participants hold over a shared meal with strangers,” he said.

Applicants need be to based with the CBD, and can be either entrepreneurs, sole traders, registered businesses, artists (in entertainment and performance spaces and studios), community groups or partnerships.

Eligible projects for City Makers include public art, innovative “activation” concepts, street furniture or fittings, or addressing accessibility issues, fire safety issues or noise attenuation requirements including acoustic reports.

Applications are open to midnight on the 20th of June 2016, and can be lodged here.

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The $327,000 charge relates to Drake’s largest reported grant, the $1.7 million Spin-Up grant.

The grant is used to encourage high school and college students to pursue STEM science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.

John Reutter, Drake’s former dean of research and grant administrator, was placed on leave in December and retired in March. It was very difficult to account for all the details.”

Reutter said those problems were compounded by the accounting software malfunctions.

“We encountered many issues during the conversion of data,” he said, “transactions were improperly coded and moved into the wrong accounts, and it really created some problems for us in ascertaining exactly what was going on with the data.

“Unfortunately some of this data then ended up being reviewed by the National Science Foundation before all the corrections had taken place in the transactions.”

The National Science Foundation’s inspector general is also reviewing a second federal grant at Drake. Reutter said the program won several awards.

The grant was finished two years ago, Reutter said.

The National Science subpoenaed Drake in February seeking a number of documents related to that grant.

An attorney for the two-year college system told WHNT News 19 the inquiry into the grants has focused on documentation.

“There have been no stated issues about the quality of the programs Drake State offered to the community under these grants,” the attorney said.

“Although we have not received any notice of the specific points of inquiry from the NSF related to the DIGITEC Grant, we expect that similar matters may be reviewed. The College is cooperating fully with the NSF review.”

Sources have told WHNT News 19 that protocols for the handling of grant money have been tightened since McAlpine was placed on leave.

Kemba Chambers, the interim president, is also being credited by some in the Drake community for communicating what has been going in with the grant inquiries.

It’s not clear how serious the problems with the National Science Foundation had become, but multiple sources told WHNT News 19 federal investigators were close to “locking the doors” at the school in late November. The denial also raised new questions about what’s going on at Drake.

The attorney cited a FOIA exemption, explaining the records are exempt from disclosure, if “the production of such law enforcement records or information could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings.”

NOHFC grant boosts LU bio-mining research | Sudbury Star

MPP Glenn Thibeault was on hand at the Vale Living With Lakes Centre to announce funding of $630,000 from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund to create a five-year research chair position on Monday.

“It’s time to hand over the job to another generation of technology,” said the centre’s director John Gunn at a press conference Monday announcing $630,000 in Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation funding for a new five-year industrial research chair in bio-mining, bio-remediation and science communication at Laurentian University.

Laurentian’s vice-president of research, Rui Wang, said the new research chair will be “a valuable addition” to the university’s research family and also serve as a “catalyst” for the new mining fields of bio-mining and bio-remediation.

During the five-year research period, the new research chair will be partnering with various industrial partners including Vale, Glencore and Denison Environmental.

Clay County Community Foundation assists with therapeutic playground
Monday, May 9, 2016

A contribution from the Clay County Community Foundation will add $5,000 toward the building of a therapeutic playground at Autumn’s Center in Spencer.
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Seasons Center for Behavioral Health received $5,000 from the Clay County Community Foundation to help fund a therapeutic playground at Autumn’s Center.

Autumn’s Center, the first of its kind regional children’s center, will house rooms and offices designated to care for children’s behavioral health, including areas for psychiatric services, outpatient therapy, psychological testing, behavioral health intervention services, substance abuse counseling, parent education, and care coordination services.

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lawmakers disclose links to groups that received Assembly grants – News – providencejournal.com – Providence, RI Until his abrupt resignation last week from the House of Representatives, then-House Finance Committee Chairman Raymond Gallison was the only known lawmaker on the payroll of any of the nonprofit groups receiving General Assembly-approved grants.But he was not the only Rhode Island lawmaker with an affiliation paid or unpaid with one of the groups, large and small, in line for the money, which includes $2.2 million this year in “legislative grants” and another $11.6 million in “community-service grants.” “I assure you my ‘membership’ is solely that of a dues paying member.”Only one of the lawmakers who responded acknowledged a paid connection: House Majority Leader John DeSimone, D-Providence.Last week, DeSimone, a lawyer, acknowledged his 2011 role as the “registered agent” for United Providence, a now-defunct venture between the Providence Teachers Union, for which he still works, and the Providence School Department to promote “innovation” in struggling schools. is an unpaid board member of the Mount Pleasant Little League, which received $4,500 in grants this year, including a $2,500 “House” grant he sponsored.The Journal posed this question via email to all 113 lawmakers: Are you or any member of your immediate family affiliated in any way, paid or unpaid, with any entity receiving a legislative or community-service grant? .”House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello’s response via a spokesman: “Neither he nor any member of his immediate family are affiliated in any way, paid or unpaid, with any entity receiving a legislative or community service grant.””Everyone in my family works in private industry. Senate Finance Chairman Daniel DaPonte sponsored a $1,000 grant for International Charter School, which he acknowledges his two children attend, and a $1,500 grant for The Portuguese Learning Center of East Providence, which his children also attend.

Holy Holy lead the musical charge of recipients with a singular $40,000 projects grant, though Northeast Party House have snagged two separate grants valued at a total of more than $50,000 (a $27,734 projects grant and a $23,626 development grant).

Along with music, the Australia Council issued grants in the fields of literature, dance, theatre, Indigenous arts, emerging and experimental arts, community arts and development, artists with disabilities, visual arts, multi-artform and others.
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