WESTON a Lewis County Commission pledged their support to the continuation of the county’s Prevention Resource Officer program.

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“We’re down to $20,000; it used to be a lot more than that,” Cayton said.

He said he likes the idea of the program, but asked if Thompson could look into offering a 1-year contract instead.

Andrew Brown and Omeed Shams, graduate students in innovation and entrepreneurship, developed Kwest, a free app that takes its users on a digital scavenger hunt/guided tour of neighborhoods.

Two UT Dallas business school graduate students have developed an app that helps people interactively explore popular neighborhoods in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Omeed Shams and Andrew Brown, graduate students in innovation and entrepreneurship, developed Kwest in fall 2014. The app, which can be downloaded in the App Store, uses riddles, puzzles and games to guide people through neighborhoods such as Dallas’ Bishop Arts District, Uptown, Deep Ellum and even attractions like the Dallas Zoo. He also plans to develop cooperative and competitive experiences for social meet-ups, and to offer Kwest Plus, a paid-for curated night on the town.

“It will take the planning out of a date night,” Shams said.

Besides helping users explore neighborhoods, Shams also wants to develop Kwest experiences for specific attractions such as the State Fair, Perot Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art.

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Two students receive Davis Projects for Peace grant

A sophomore and freshman at the University of Rochester hope to encourage a new generation of their fellow Rwandans to remember the lessons of their country’s horrific genocide two decades ago.

The project, organized by Ian Manzi ’18, a data science major from Kigali, and Derrick Murekezi ’19, a geology major from Nyagatare, has been selected to receive a $10,000 grant from Davis Projects for Peace, a highly competitive national program that promotes peace and intercultural understanding. Manzi and Murekezi will be responsible for day-to-day activities, organizing instructors from several organizations.

There also will be pre- and post-camp activities from Manzi and Murekezi in various Rwandan high schools.

“What is summer vacation here is like Christmas vacation there, maybe two weeks,” Murekezi says.

The 1994 genocide took place over a 100-day period and resulted in the deaths of 800,000 Rwandans as Hutu extremists attempted to wipe out the Tutsi population.

Both Rochester students lost several relatives during the period, including aunts, uncles, and in Manzi’s case, his great-grandfather.

“This really hits home for us,” Manzi says.

The two met at debate competions in Rwanda about nine years ago and reconnected at Rochester.

Rochester undergraduates are eligible to participate in the program because of the University’s status as a partner in the Davis United World College Scholars Program, which includes 91 American colleges and universities.

Manzi and Murekezi were advised by the College’s Fellowships Office and nominated by a Rochester fellowships committee of faculty and administrators.

Update: Rochester’s 2015 Davis winners have received an additional $10,000 grant from the U.S. Embassy in Senegal to continue their work to explore educational alternatives for children who are forced to work as beggars in the West African national this summer.

The student leader of this project is Rose Mbaye ’16, a biomedical engineering major from Senegal.

Mbaye is working with Mame Coumba Mbodji ’17, a business major also from Dakar; Eyram Adedze ’17, an economics and psychology major from Accra, Ghana; and Boubacar Diallo ’16, a mechanical engineering major from Bignona, Senegal.

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“Growth is slowing and the wealthy are under increased scrutiny, yet significant opportunities remain for those who truly understand how to identify, engage, understand and serve this group.”

The Wealth-X Attitudes Survey, conducted with Knight Frank, surveyed more than 400 of the world’s leading private bankers and wealth advisors, who combined for the management of $500 billion across 45,000 individuals.

Bill Gates has donated more than $28 billion to his eponymous foundation, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan recently promised to give away 99 percent of their shares, or the equivalent of more than $44.5 billion.

Though the conversation in parts of the world has vilified the wealthy in recent years, two thirds of those surveyed in the Wealth-X Attitudes Survey said that over the past 10 years, clients’ philanthropic tendencies have improved, and 80 percent overall expect it to do so over the next decade. Only 2 percent suggest it would decrease.

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Fifty-two percent of respondents selected personal fulfillment as the biggest reason for giving, followed closely by “a sense of purpose” and “a sense of duty or responsibility” for 51 percent and 48 percent, respectively. This is representative of the importance affluents place on education, often giving back to their alma maters.

For comparison, general population of America donates primarily to religious organizations (32 percent), education (15 percent), human services and grant-making foundations (12 percent) and health (8 percent) (see story).

Brands regularly find creative ways to assist in consumers’ philanthropic urges.

For example, over the 2015 holiday season, LVMH-owned luxury travel retailer DFS Group has teamed with Make-A-Wish International to grant children’s wishes this holiday season.

The #JoyToYourWorld partnership furthers the gift-of-giving ideology by bringing joy to the lives of children with life-threatening medical conditions.

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SHEFFIELD >> For any resident of the Berkshires reviewing the general and school population projections for the coming years, the news is undeniably dismaying: a county-wide population dropping below 100,000 (from a high in 1970 of 150,000) by 2045, and school-age population dropping by 28 percent in only 14 short years. The center will incubate businesses that will tackle the problems we face here in the Berkshires using 21st century solutions.

New model introduced

Alongside our Impact Entrepreneur Center for Social and Environmental Innovation, we’ve introduced a new model to incentivize regional sustainable development. This model differs from traditional enterprise or economic “empowerment” zones in that they are explicitly structured to stimulate the incubation and acceleration of social and environmental impact businesses, trigger impact investments and spark the development of a regional “impact economy.”

The Impact Entrepreneur Center for Social and Environmental Innovation will be a B Corp incubator and accelerator. The establishment of the Impact Entrepreneur Center for Social and Environmental Innovation and the world’s first Public Benefit Enterprise Zone can create a vibrant regional economy that authentically reflects our forward-thinking, farm-to-table values, taps into the region’s extraordinary creative culture, and creates a replicable model of a regional impact economy that we can export to a world thirsting for life-affirming, sustainable solutions.

Working together, we can build a more inclusive economy in the Berkshires.