Corporate Sponsorships Sought For Chickenstock – Minden Press-Herald | Minden Press-Herald

Corporate sponsorships are still being sought for the 22nd annual Chickenstock, the parish’s only arts festival.

Now in its 16th year at The Farm, the festival has had its ups and downs, executive director Chris Broussard said.

“For years, Cultural Crossroads relied on grant funding from the Decentralized Grants program set up by the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the Shreveport Arts Council,” she said. Last year, Broussard says, Cultural Crossroads underwrote a $5,000 arts program that brought the arts to more than 450 E.S. This year, Richardson was able to hire those volunteer artists to continue the program.

Today, Cultural Crossroads, the parish’s only 501c3 arts organization, faces new challenges, she said.

“Loss of grant dollars from state agencies and now a decline in local corporate support finds the organization short of their regular corporate dollars by more than $8,000,” Broussard said. A failure to complete the required reporting of expenses for last year’s festival in a timely manner left us out of this year’s cycle but eligible for 2017, a fate shared by the Scottish Tartan Festival in 2014.”

This year’s festival will be underwritten by corporate dollars from Citizens National Bank, Milbar Hydro Test of Shreveport, Minden Medical Center, Gros Trucking Company, Aeropres, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Minden and Avery’s Catering.

Friends of The Farm include Tommy and Cindy Walker, George E. Minden Press-Herald, a division of Specht Newspapers, Inc., publishes Monday through Friday with a focus on local news, sports and community headlines throughout Webster Parish.

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BROOKLYN, March 28, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The NYU Tandon School of Engineering today announced it has been awarded a highly competitive $260,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize the City Record. No other city of New York’s size and importance provides a comparable historical database.

“The City Record is one of New York City’s oldest continuously published newspapers available every weekday, except for legal holidays, without fail since June 24, 1873.

“We are pleased to acknowledge the National Endowment for the Humanities continuing support for preservation of the nation’s historical documents and applaud NYU Professor Jonathan Soffer’s commitment to making information about New York City government available. Successful completion of the project to digitize the City Record and make it available online via the City’s government publications portal will provide limitless opportunities for research into a little-known, but rich resource for the study of New York City,” said Pauline Toole, Commissioner, New York City Department of Records & Information Services.

“The enormous corpus of data produced by this project, thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, represents a major contribution to the community of researchers studying the history of New York City’s built environment. meeting minutes of the City Council and the Board of Estimate
contracts, payments, and bids for water, sewers, and streets
weekly reports on mortality and health and meteorological data
the disposition of law suits against the city,
documents on the construction of major historic buildings, such as the New York Public Library at 42d Street and the American Museum of Natural History,
thousands of documents that touch on the fabric of everyday life in New York City, such as the 1873 regulations for driving cattle through the streets of Manhattan, even the very first traffic code for automobiles (1901). In addition to programs at its main campus in downtown Brooklyn, it is closely connected to engineering programs in NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai, and it operates business incubators in downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn.

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$100,000 grant to boost Detroit mayor’s youth jobs effort – Toledo Blade $100,000 grant to boost Detroit mayor’s youth jobs effort

DETROIT The Detroit Pistons say a $100,000 grant will boost Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s effort to put 8,000 young people to work this summer.

Financial commitments by Pistons owner Tom Gores, Palace Sports Vice Chairman Arn Tellem and the Detroit Pistons Foundation will support summer youth positions at Palace Sports and The Palace of Auburn Hills, the Pistons’ home arena.

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NAMPA aA Boise-based homeless prevention organization The Jesse Tree of Idaho is looking to serve Canyon County, just as soon as it gets the necessary funding.

Outreach coordinator Sterling Williams, who lives in Nampa, said Canyon County has institutions that address homelessness, such as Charitable Assistance To Community’s Homeless and church organizations, but not homeless prevention, which is what Jesse Tree does.

Jesse Tree is a faith-based nonprofit that combats homelessness by providing a stipend of up to $500 for rent to qualifying individuals or families who are about to lose their housing.

Williams said physical characteristics like housing upkeep and rental costs indicate Canyon County is a low-income area and its residents are at risk for homeless.

aI just don’t think it should be like that,a Williams said. The stipend prevents what Williams described as the asnowball effecta of circumstances causing homelessness.

Williams also said the stipend can only be used one time so that the individual or family doesn’t become reliant on it and so it doesn’t encourage exploitation of Jesse Tree’s service.

In 2015, 36 percent of applicants, who must reside in Ada County, were low income (below 80 percent of Boise-area median income), 26 percent were very low income and 38 percent were extremely low income, according to statistics provided by Jesse Tree. Jesse Tree is working with Nampa Mayor Bob Henry to establish itself in Nampa with the Community Development Block Grant.

Jesse Tree is looking to raise sufficient funds through grants and fundraising/community donations to rent and share building space with Charitable Assistance To Community’s Homeless. Comments

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Preschoolers at five of Lincolnas grade schools will get their hands dirty this spring.

There will be purpose to the mess: to help them understand where the food they eat comes from, what it takes to go from that dirt to food on their plates and why itas so good for them.

The project is part of a $45,000 grant Lincoln Public Schools received from the U.S.

Farm to School is a growing focus for the USDA, which manages the National School Lunch Program. Thatas a 105 percent increase over 2011-12.

A survey done last year showed that 42 percent of the nationas school districts that responded had Farm to School programs in 2013-14, and another 16 percent — more than 2,000 districts — had plans to start.

In Nebraska, 29 percent — or 71 — school districts had Farm to School programs, including 458 schools and 188,637 students.

Lincoln Public Schools was among those districts, using produce from local growers when possible and contracting with a company that gets 80 percent of its milk from Nebraska cattle, said Edith Zumwalt, LPS director of nutrition services.

Using local produce has its challenges, she said.

Zumwalt also hopes to have a local food day once a month next year.

aIam for (farm to school programs) as long as I can get it for equal or less cost,” she said. But I like it because it looks really good, the kids like it, it has good flavor.

aThese local producers, I admire them, itas lots of work to produce food.a

To that end, the grant will begin to teach young children just how much work it requires.

At Arnold, Everett, Elliott, Belmont and Holmes elementary schools, teachers will work with preschool and school-age students in after-school programs to grow fresh produce.

Part of the reason LPS chose those schools is because they already had gardening beds and after-school programs.

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