DES MOINES a Diamond Vogel Paint and Keep Iowa Beautiful announced the grant awards for the 2016 Paint Iowa Beautiful program. The program is administered through Keep Iowa Beautiful with the paint provided by the Diamond Vogel Paint Company.

Local winners include Corydon/Wayne County Fair for the show ring and arena bleachers and Moravia/Moravia Betterment Committee for the park shelters, benches, court lines, backboards and parking poles.

“Governor Branstad is signing a proclamation this week designating April as Keep Iowa Beautiful month and we are pleased to do our part by awarding paint to 81 community projects in Iowa,” said Doug Vogel, vice president, Trade Marketing, of the Iowa based company. “The partnership with Keep Iowa Beautiful allows Diamond Vogel Paint to assist and work with the many local volunteers that help build stronger Iowa communities.” Gerald Schnepf, executive director of Keep Iowa Beautiful added, “The Paint Iowa Beautiful program helps us increase our assistance to neighborhoods, communities, historic projects and other public service organizations in improving the attractiveness and beauty of our home areas. In the 13 year partnership with KIB, Diamond Vogel has provided over 8,260 gallons of paint for 585 community projects in Iowa.About Diamond Vogel PaintDiamond Vogel is an Iowa based, family owned company started in 1926 by Andrew Vogel.

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By LOU WILIN
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Community leaders are slogging along in their effort to end a worker shortage that threatens to cripple Findlay and Hancock County’s economy and force companies to leave.
About 1,600 workers need to be added to Hancock County’s workforce each year over the next few years to replace retiring baby boomers, Anthony Iriti, Findlay-Hancock County Economic Development director, told the Findlay Rotary Club on Monday.
And that’s just talking about the needs of companies already here. The effort includes Findlay and Hancock County government, area schools and businesses, United Way, the Community Foundation, career Explorer programs, Camp Fire, University of Findlay and others.
A full-time executive director is being sought for the community workforce effort, which has been named Raise the Bar.
Among the players will be local mental health and substance abuse counselors. “The reality is, they failed the drug test at company A, and the next day go to company B and fail it again.”
“Can we intervene with mental health and substance abuse services before they apply again for a job?” The quality of work also suffers and consequently the company risks losing customers.
One company at Tall Timbers Industrial Park has a 30 percent worker turnover per month, Sheaffer said.
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Pacific Life donates $18,500 to 6 Bluffs schools – The Daily Nonpareil – Council Bluffs, Iowa: Local News

Employees of Pacific Life gave checks to Council Bluffs Community School District buildings recently, awarding grants of $3,000 each to Thomas Jefferson High School, Wilson Middle School and Roosevelt Elementary School.

Employees of Pacific Life gave checks to Council Bluffs Community School District buildings recently, awarding grants of $3,000 each to Thomas Jefferson High School, Wilson Middle School and Roosevelt Elementary School.

Employees of Pacific Life gave checks to Council Bluffs Community School District buildings recently, awarding grants of $3,000 each to Thomas Jefferson High School, Wilson Middle School and Roosevelt Elementary School.

Employees of Pacific Life with children in the Council Bluffs Community School District a Crystal Donnelly, Beth Butler, Norma Fearnside and Frank Islam a presented checks to Thomas Jefferson High School, Wilson Middle School and Roosevelt Elementary School, each worth $3,000.

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Six schools overall in Council Bluffs received grants for 2016, along with 16 other metropolitan area schools. Login required

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For student-parents like second-year law student Edward Fleming, child care costs add enormous expenses to already tight budgets. The University’s Professional Student Government is working to ease the financial strain many graduate student-parents face by asking state legislators to expand an existing Minnesota Office of Higher Education child care grant to include graduate students. Currently, the OHE grant which gives out an average of about $2,000 a year per student only covers undergraduate students’ child care expenses. Murid Amini, an expecting father and second-year Master of Business Administration student at Carlson School of Management, testified that the additional support would make going to school easier and would help students enter the workforce more quickly. Since graduate students take fewer classes than undergraduates, the grant would provide enough support to cover child care costs during graduate students’ class time.

This has resulted in a significant cost reduction, coupled with a crucial infusion of new federal funding from the Obama administration, to allow the project to proceed.

Now, DEP can finally award a contract to reclaim this unsightly and hazardous abandoned coal refuse pile, extinguish the fire and greatly reduce stream pollution.

Plus, our reclamation plans include improved drainage, tree plantings and the development of a recreational park on a portion of the site, due to its location along the Path of the Flood Trail, commemorating the 1889 Johnstown Flood.

An extremely important benefit of this project is that the contract that we are awarding enables Rosebud Mining to recall 40 recently laid-off miners to complete the reclamation work. It leverages significant federal funding for investment in a community a and in jobs that pay for working families a that needs it most.

A majority of the funding for this project is provided throughA PennsylvaniaasA 2016 federal Abandoned Mine Land Grant, derived from a fee on coal production.

And it involves collaboration with community partners. DEP is working with local legislators, the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies, the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds, the Cambria County Conservation and Recreation Authority, the Stonycreek-Conemaugh River Improvement Project, the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, the Forest Hills Regional Alliance, Ehrenfeld Borough, Croyle Township,A South Fork BoroughA and the American Chestnut Foundation.

The Ehrenfeld project is the epitome of government that works.

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The Midco Foundation, the charitable arm of the Midco families of companies, has awarded more than $100,000 in grants.

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Midco Foundation awards $100K in grants CDT March 29, 2016

The Midco Foundation, the charitable arm of the Midco families of companies, has awarded more than $100,000 in grants to nonprofits, schools and government organizations in South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota.

aWe had a large number of applications for our spring 2016 round of grants,a said Tom Simmons, senior vice president and chief of staff at Midco and chairman of the board for the Midco Foundation. a Sioux Falls: Sioux Falls Area CASA Program, $1,000
a Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls Whitewater Park, $1,000