Lone Tree and Mno Grant Elementary Schools Art Exhibit at the Lynn House Gallery | East County Today Lone Tree and Mno Grant Elementary Schools Art Exhibit at the Lynn…

Students from two of Antioch Unified School District’s Elementary schools will showcase their original artwork at the Lynn House Gallery April 6th 23rd.

The exhibit is open to the public at no cost. In addition to sponsoring the gallery exhibit, the grant provides $500 to each participating school to be used for art and cultural supplies and educational endeavors.

For more information about each exhibit call Diane Gibson-Gray at (925) 325-9897 or email Diane@Art4Antioch.org.

The Lynn House Gallery is located in the Rivertown District at 809 W.

Rare Breed expanding homeless youth housing programRare Breed expanding homeless youth housing program

The Rare Breed on Thursday, March 24, 2016.(Photo: Nathan Papes/News-Leader)Buy Photo

Thanks to a new federal grant, The Kitchen, Inc., will be able to expand Rare Breed’s homeless youth housing program later this year.

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The Cantores de Cienfuegos choir pose after a performance in Cienfuegos, Cuba in late 2013.(Photo: Photo courtesy of KERRY CALLAHAN BRONSON)

Great Falls community activist Kerry Callahan Bronson is excited about President Barack Obamaas recent visit to Cuban and thinks there is a good possibility that Montana could become one of the first states to receive a touring group of ordinary Cubans this summer.

Callahan Bronson and her sister Maureen Wicks of Chester have visited Cuba twice on people-to-people trips with educational groups, and heard a remarkable young adult choir, Cantores de Cienfuegos, perform on their first visit in November 2013.

aThe sound of their singing was unbelievable, so good it made our jaws drop,a Bronson recalled.

The group combines classical music with an ample dose of ainfectious Afro/Latin/island music that is unique to Cuban,a she said.

Back in Montana, the sisters met with other residents who marveled after hearing the same choir perform on their own trips.

They formed a group that has asked the choir to come to Montana to take part in the International Choir Festival in Missoula in July 2016.

The director of Cantores said it would like to come but had no money for travel.

Sisters Maureen Wicks, left, and Kerry Callahan Bronson stand with an older American taxi at the Havana airport during their November 2013 visit to Cuba.

Power PlayerShould clean energy companies be held to a higher standard?Monday, March 28, 2016 – 2:55am

NRG Volunteer team celebrate “over the hump” (more than 50 percent of panels installed) on rooftop of Project Medishare maternal health clinic in Marmont on Haiti’s Central Plateau. Rarely did the two meet different confabs, different institutional investors, different trade associations but having already been a CEO of an independent power producer for more than a decade, I obviously knew many more conventional CEOs, much better and for much longer than I had known Lyndon and Ed, yet I faced no ice-bucket challenge from any of them, only from these two solar disrupters from the Bay Area.

It caused me to reflect on the following question: If you lead a company, such as Solar City or Sunrun, that you have imbued with a broader sense of purpose than just making money saving the Earth, for example are you genetically hardwired to be the kind of CEO that embraces and drives the company’s corporate philanthropy efforts?

Indeed, taking it a step further, it might be asked: If you are to wrap your for-profit company in the halo of a higher calling, are you morally obligated to do more in your community and for your chosen causes than, say, a conventional power company CEO who unapologetically pours carbon into the atmosphere?

If you lead a company that you have imbued with a broader sense of purpose than just making money, are you genetically hardwired to be the kind of CEO that embraces and drives the company’s corporate philanthropy efforts?

This is not just a philosophical question. This is because the directors and institutional investors to whom the CEO answers are usually indifferent to the company’s charitable endeavors (except the Audit Committee, which commonly reviews the company’s annual charitable giving to check up on the CEO and make sure that company funds aren’t being channeled principally to the benefit of the private schools attended by the CEO’s children which, depressingly, is actually necessary because that is too often the sum total of the CEO’s involvement in philanthropy).

With respect to the idea that charitable giving can be driven from below the C-suite, all companies have employees absolutely dedicated to doing good deeds but rarely, if ever, are those employees empowered to allocate corporate funds to giving.

Goodwin Community Health adds new opioid treament progams – News – fosters.com – Dover, NH SOMERSWORTH Goodwin Community Health (GCH) is launching two new treatment initiatives to help combat the opioid abuse crisis.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced March 11, that four health centers in New Hampshire, including Goodwin Community Health, would receive grant funding to help combat heroin and prescription opioid abuse.According Lara Willard, GCH director of marketing and community relations, DHHS awarded a total of $94 million in funding to support 271 health centers in the U.S., Goodwin received the largest award given in New Hampshire $379,167.As a result, GCH will soon begin offering Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for their patients and an Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP).Both programs are aimed at improving access to treatment and recovery to the greater Strafford County area.Janet Laatsch, CEO of Goodwin Community Health, said the grants will expand and improve availability of substance abuse treatment throughout the community.”It was 18 months of planning for MAT and IOP and then submitting the proposal to our board of directors.” The participant, counselor, and Medication Assisted Treatment provider (if applicable) will create a comprehensive and individualized treatment plan that will include goals and expectations around IOP, individual therapy, family involvement, and case management.Goodwin is also expanding health services to include a MAT program that combines behavioral therapy and medications to treat substance use disorders specifically buprenorphine, commonly known by its brand names Suboxone and Subutex, and Naltrexone, commonly known as Vivitrol. “We added dental, mental health, diabetes and obesity, and now the public health need is related to treatment and recovery so that is what we are adapting to.”Laatsch said they are grateful for this federal support as it will allow them to increase the number of patients they screen for substance use disorders and connect to treatment, increase the number of patients with access to MAT for opioid misuse and other substance use disorder treatment, and provide training and educational resources to help the staff make more informed prescribing decisions.”Support of this magnitude is greatly appreciated and will allow us to do even more to make an impact on NH’s opiate crisis that has hit Strafford County particularly hard,” said Laatsch.To learn more about the new MAT and IOP programs at Goodwin Community Health visit http://goodwinch.org/services/ or call 603-749-2346 x758. mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+mainImageData_credit+”; mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+mainImageData_caption+”; $(‘#art-main-image-credit-container_sm’).css(‘width’,smimgwidth).css(‘padding’,’3px ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding – 3)+’px 0 0’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container_sm’).css(‘width’,sm_img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding + 3)+’px’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container’).css(‘width’,img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+mainImageData_leftPadding+’px’);

Ansonia, Derby get grants to aid preschool programs

Schools in Ansonia and Derby will benefit from $225,000 in state grants to help beef up security, expand programs for preschoolers and build playgrounds for students.

Linda Gentile, D-Ansonia, announced in a press release Monday that the state Bond Commission approved $75,000 for the Ansonia School District, and $150,000 for the Derby School District.

Derby schools will receive the funding for installation of an indoor playground, improvements to windows and floors and security upgrades to its preschool program, the Little Raiders University, located at Derby High School.

“Smart Start,” which the General Assembly approved in 2014, is a competitive state grant program to reimburse local and regional school boards for capital and operating expenses related to establishing or expanding a preschool program.

Derby Superintendent of Schools Matthew Conway said the $150,000 grant is welcome news, and will specifically benefit the Little Raiders University.

Conway said the funding will enable Derby to expand the pre-K program to open it up to an additional 36 3- and 4-year-olds.

Ansonia Superintendent of Schools Carol Merlone said the state money will directly benefit the district’s “Smart Start pre-K” program at Mead School, which opened in August 2015.

Merlone said the $75,000 will pay for a new playground at Mead School, which she said currently does not have a playground that meets the national accreditation standards for preschoolers.

Jonathan Guyton is principal at Cornerstone Wealth Advisors Inc., a fee-only advisory firm in Minneapolis.

Billion-dollar charitable donations and pledges from the likes of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and now Mark Zuckerberg have been big news in recent years. But under the radar lie millions more over five million, according to Nielsen retired and soon-to-retire “affluent” households with net worth of $1 million and above.

More important than their current count is this group’s growth: faster than any other wealth cohort.

Most will follow a plan to provide for sustainable retirement income that, in all but the worst economic circumstances, will see their wealth continue to increase during this phase of life. It takes time, but most of these retirees will gradually shift from a focus on having enough money to one of realizing they have more than they will spend.

Then what?

Not surprisingly, many will leave the vast majority of their wealth to children, grandchildren, family and friends.

One grant is for body cameras for the sheriff’s office, the second is an application from the fire and rescue squad to improve technology.

The Bedford County department of Fire and Rescue gets dozens of calls each day and the grant would help replace some of the items that get worn out quickly.

The Fire and Rescue squad is requesting permission from the Board of Supervisors to apply for the grant through the VA Department of Health. It will be several months before the department learns if the grant will be provided.

Another big request that will be considered at tonight’s meeting comes from the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office. The office is applying for a grant that would provide additional body cameras.

As of today, about half of the deputies are equipped with the body camera technology. That additional money is already included in the Sheriff’s proposed budget for the upcoming year.

As the body camera technology continues to improve, the cameras are being used to keep the community and officers safe.

“Studies show that when an officer wears a body camera, assaults on police officers goes down fifty percent,” says Major Ricky Gardner.

Sightline Institute, the Northwest’s leading non-profit public policy think tank on sustainability issues, is seeking a part-time (75%) staff member for the position of development associate grant writer.

The Development Associate (Foundations & Grants) works with the Development Director to manage the foundation fundraising side of Sightline’s development program. This includes: foundation research; program planning; writing and submitting letters of intent, grant proposals, and reports. Coordinate Program Planning
Manage Sightline’s internal grant-planning calendar
In partnership with Development Director, plan, revise and strategize upcoming proposals and reports, coordinating activities, and executing plans
Conduct research to identify prospective foundation funding sources
Assist with preparation for foundation relations activities of the Executive Director and Development Director (i.e., meeting and site visit planning)
Maintain current records in database and in paper files, including grant tracking and reporting. Write, Edit & Administrate
Write letters of intent, proposals and reports, ensuring timely and high-quality submissions
Communicate conditions, expectations or restrictions established by funding sources with the Development Director, entering into the grant-planning calendar or database for future reference
Organize and maintain resource and submitted materials
Ensure that grants awarded are recorded and acknowledged in a timely manner
Preferred Qualifications/Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of two years’ experience with grant writing. 4 weeks paid vacation, 10 days paid sick leave, and 9 paid holidays (all pro-rated for part-time)
95% health care premiums paid by Sightline for employee and 50% for dependents
100% dental coverage for employee and dependents (pro-rated for part-time)
Health care flexible spending account (FSA) and dependent care FSA
Annual retirement contribution (employer contribution equal to 10% of annual salary)
Three-month paid sabbatical for every seven years worked
Professional development opportunities.

Free clinic charitable fund distributes $15,000 to area organizations – News – The Independent – Massillon, OH The Western Stark Free Clinic Charitable Fund distributed $15,0000 to four organizations. The Massillon Salvation Army was among four organizations that received a share of $15,000 in grants from The Western Stark Free Clinic Charitable Fund. The clinic’s mission continues today through its charitable fund, which distributes grants to organizations that address the health care needs of the low-income, underinsured and uninsured of western Stark County just as it once did as Western Stark Free Clinic, a press release from the Stark Community Foundation said. The foundation handles the charitable fund.Four nonprofits were awarded a grant:Salvation Army of Massillon, $3,000 to purchase hygiene kits for men and women and basic first aid kits for homeless clients.Community Hospice, $5,000 to serve 15 low-income patients in western Stark County with quality palliative care services over the next year.Mercy Medical Center, $2,000 to help Mercy Dental Services strengthen the dental safety net for the underserved and underinsured of Western Stark County.Prescription Assistance Network of Stark County, $5,000 to purchase inhalers for residents of Western Stark County and four months of membership fees for Dispensary of Hope.”I can say for certain that our decision to maximize our resources by creating a charitable fund was the right decision,” said Gary Feagles, former executive director of Western Stark Free Clinic and advisory board member of the fund. “Through this fund we’re continuing to make an impact in our community by helping this vulnerable population offset the cost of health care needs.”While it’s in a different format, I know I can speak on behalf of everyone who was involved with the clinic that we’re grateful for the opportunity to continue to serve our residents.”Contributions in any amount to the charitable fund are welcome and can be made online at www.starkcf.org or mailed to Stark Community Foundation, 400 Market Ave.