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Volunteering kept me going but now austerity has killed my museum

I fought to keep my local museum open for the staff, volunteers, community, and children but my voice was ignored

Related: Who runs local museums and how are they surviving the funding crisis?

The council has suggested that volunteers will still be involved in handling the part of the collection that is to be moved to the central library. I believe that untrained volunteers can do more harm than good to museum objects, and with no museum staff and loss of museum accreditation, volunteers would not be able to access many funding and training courses.

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Orange County Arts Commission spring grant applications deadline set | The Chapel Hill Herald | heraldsun.com Orange County Arts Commission spring grant applications deadline set

HILLSBOROUGH a The Orange County Arts Commission recently announced a May 31 deadline for receipt of grant applications for the spring cycle. Arts grants are available to nonprofit organizations, schools and individual artists.

Applications must be received by 5 p.m., May 31, 2016, at the Orange County Arts Commission office, 131 W. Margaret Lane (Room 216) in Hillsborough (this is not a apostmarked bya deadline).

Applications are available at the Arts Commission office, at all Orange County Public Libraries, at the Chapel Hill Public Library and online atartsorange.org

Spring Arts Grant categories are as follows:

a General Arts Support Grant: Funds up to $5,000 available to Orange County nonprofit arts organizations (whose primary purpose is to create, produce, present or support music, dance, theatre, literature or visual arts) that consistently provide high-quality arts programs. To apply, organizations must have received an Orange County Arts Commission grant in each of the three previous years.

a Arts Program Grant: Funds up to $1,500 to nonprofit organizations coordinating arts projects benefiting the citizens of Orange County

a Arts in Education Grant: Funds up to $1,000 to public or private schools or parent/teacher organizations in Orange County coordinating arts programs

a Arts in Education Coalition: Funds up to $5,000 to a coalition of three or more public or private schools, or parent/teacher organizations in Orange County coordinating arts programs

a Artist Project Grant: Funds up to $1,000 to professional artists coordinating arts projects benefiting the citizens of Orange County

a Information Session: The Orange County Arts Commission will hold a free grant writing workshop on Monday, April 4 from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

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PANAJI: The government will implement from the academic year 2016-17 the educational scheme formulated to encourage the aided Marathi as well as Konkani primary schools, which proposes to provide a special grant of Rs 400 per student per month, enrolled in such schools.

The particular scheme, announced by Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar in his recent budget speech, replaces the three-year old scheme that provided incentives to the primary schools imparting education in mother tongue, with onetime initial special grant of Rs 12 lakh and Rs 1 lakh per annum for next five years in order to improve necessary infrastructure and provide resources to the school.

Addressing a press conference in the assembly complex on Saturday along with director of education G P Bhat and chairman of the Goa Education Development Corporation Shripad ‘Kanta’ Patnekar, Parsekar said the new scheme is an annual scheme, and would be implemented from the academic year 2016-17.

“The estimated financial requirement for the scheme in the first year is Rs 40 crore, and the government has made a provision of Rs 25 crore in the budget,” he added, pointing out that the remaining amount would be raised through the supplementary demand.

Parsekar, who holds the education portfolio, said that every beneficiary school would receive Rs 400 for each student enrolled by it, and the department of education would start implementation of the scheme at the end of June, based on the enrolment strength of the Marathi and Konkani primary schools at that point of time.

“These schools will receive the grants quarterly, for a 11-month period,” he added, informing that the eligibility of such schools would be checked every month.

The Chief Minister also said the unaided schools, which are presently conducting the primary education with English as the medium of instruction, are free to switch over to Marathi or Konkani and take benefit of the new scheme.

“The parent-teachers associations can hold meetings with managements of such schools and take a decision, now that there is sufficient time before the schools reopen in June,” he observed.

Mentioning that the funds received by the Marathi and Konkani primary schools under the scheme would have to be used for strengthening their resources including infrastructure, Parsekar said the earlier scheme posed difficulties before the schools desiring to avail it.

“The schools, under that scheme, were required to carry out a lot of paperwork, including obtaining no-objection certificates from various departments, and hence out of the 40 applicant schools only two could complete the entire documentation process,” he revealed.

In Goa, presently there are 15,583 students studying in aided primary schools conducting education in local languages, including 11,349 in Marathi, 3,917 in Konkani and 317 in Urdu.

Parsekar also brushed aside the apprehension that the government primary schools would lose their students to the aided Marathi and Konkani primary schools, due to the particular scheme.

“We have improved the infrastructure of the government primary schools, given relaxation to their teachers, and provided free uniform, books and raincoat to the students of these schools,” he noted.

There are presently 853 government primary schools conducting classes with Marathi and Konkani as the medium of instruction.

Replying to a question, the Chief Minister said the select committee of the state legislative assembly handling the medium of instruction issue is yet to reach a conclusion on the Goa school education (amendment) bill 2014. Select Month March 2016 (1141) February 2016 (1248) January 2016 (1335) December 2015 (1210) November 2015 (1229) October 2015 (1428) September 2015 (1159) August 2015 (1502) July 2015 (1467) June 2015 (1337) May 2015 (1371) April 2015 (1406) March 2015 (1365) February 2015 (1223) January 2015 (1379) December 2014 (1021) November 2014 (1173) October 2014 (1527) September 2014 (1407) August 2014 (1119) July 2014 (1175) June 2014 (706) May 2014 (1010) April 2014 (1064) March 2014 (1215) February 2014 (883) January 2014 (890) December 2013 (826) November 2013 (935) October 2013 (980) September 2013 (863) August 2013 (1031) July 2013 (943) June 2013 (911) May 2013 (898) April 2013 (893) March 2013 (889) February 2013 (792) January 2013 (986) December 2012 (916) November 2012 (1063) October 2012 (1123) September 2012 (973) August 2012 (1101) July 2012 (1138) June 2012 (1080) May 2012 (1215) April 2012 (1297) March 2012 (1200) February 2012 (1087) January 2012 (1178) December 2011 (1024) November 2011 (1180) October 2011 (1086) September 2011 (1025) August 2011 (1173) July 2011 (1165) June 2011 (1092) May 2011 (1213) April 2011 (1192) March 2011 (1084) February 2011 (945) January 2011 (1172) December 2010 (1126) November 2010 (1036) October 2010 (1342) September 2010 (1123) August 2010 (1246) July 2010 (1246) June 2010 (1104) May 2010 (1213) April 2010 (1123) March 2010 (545)

Four Southern California health organizations receive grant to combat opioid and heroin abuse – Imperial Valley Press Online: News Four Southern California health organizations receive grant to combat opioid and heroin abuse Department of Health and Human Services has been distributed among health organizations in Southern California to improve and expand substance abuse services.

Three of the organizations are in the San Diego area, and locally ClA nicas de Salud del Pueblo will benefit from these resources.

The four organizations are part of the Health Center Partners, which is a consortium of primary care of centers and administers the grants. These funds are part of a $94 million from the Affordable Care Act to fund 271 health centers throughout the United States to help treat opioid and heroin abuse, a rising epidemic and serious health concern in the country.

aSubstance abuse is one of the most pressing challenges facing the health of our communities today,a said Henry Tuttle, chief executive officer of Health Center Partners. aStudies have shown that a holistic approach to health care, one that combines substance abuse services, behavioral health and primary health care under one roof, is most effective in increasing overall patient health.a

Out of the four organizations receiving funding, ClA nicas de Salud del Pueblo is receiving the largest chunk of monies with more than $400,000.

aOur collaboration with Health Center Partners continues to be invaluable in terms of advocating for the health care needs of the asafety neta population in our communities, and ensuring we have access to federal financial resources to respond to emerging medical issues in our region,a said Zara Marselian, chief executive officer of La Maestra Community Health Centers.

Health Quality Partners, a subsidiary of Health Center Partners, has worked with health centers on integrated behavioral health for the last nine years.

aWe applaud our health center membersa success in bringing millions of dollars in federal funding to San Diego, Imperial and Riverside counties and look forward to continued cooperation, facilitated in part through our subsidiary, Health Quality Partners, to help treat substance use disorders and reach even more lives,a Tuttle said.

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“Sitting Skull” by Arlen Blue Thunder is on display as part of a printmaking project with Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts and Nixyaawii Community School through June 15 at Maryhill Museum of Art in Goldendale, Washington.

This untitled print by Teata Oatman is on display as part of a printmaking project with Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts and Nixyaawii Community School through June 15 at Maryhill Museum of Art in Goldendale, Washington.

“Eternal Love” by Ella Mae Looney is on display as part of a printmaking project with Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts and Nixyaawii Community School through June 15 at Maryhill Museum of Art in Goldendale, Washington.

Printmaking artwork by a number of students from Nixyaawii Community School are currently on display at Maryhill Museum of Art.

In February 2015, Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts in Mission embarked on a collaborative project with Nixyaawii to introduce local students to printmaking. Over the past year a select group of art students has been learning printmaking in the Crow’s Shadow studio under the direction of Frank Janzen, Crow’s Shadow master printer.

The collaborative project is funded through a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission Arts Build Communities Fund.

Maryhill Museum invited prints from this program to be exhibited in the M.J.

“I am so excited to have the students at Crow’s Shadow learning about printmaking and working in a professional arts studio,” said Michelle Van Pelt, arts coordinator at Nixyaawii.

Renowned local painter James Lavadour founded Crow’s Shadow in 1992 to provide a creative conduit for educational, social and economic opportunities for American Indians through artistic development.

“This project helps to strengthen the relationship between Crow’s Shadow and Nixyaawii High School and extend our outreach to a new generation of artists from the local community,” Davis said.

Maryhill Museum of Art is open daily from 10 a.m.

“So what is a community foundation?”

Having joined Kern Community Foundation almost one year ago, this is the question that comes up most frequently in conversations.

The community foundation model was born more than 100 years ago by banker Frederic Goff in Cleveland, who realized the value of creating a permanent fund that would benefit citizens in his community for generations to come. One effort even helped create a system of public parks and open spaces that increased access to nature for all city residents.

Today, more than 800 community foundations around the country help build and strengthen their communities and bring together people and organizations that want to make a difference in the world. They are tax-exempt public charities that guide philanthropy and are dedicated to improving the quality of life in the areas they serve.

Individuals, families, businesses and organizations work with community foundations to create permanent charitable funds that help meet community challenges.

For donors, community foundations offer a range of charitable giving options that provide tax benefits and strategic advice about philanthropy. For the geographic region they serve, community foundations provide leadership, expertise and capital to address social issues and serve as a resource for nonprofit, civic, government and philanthropic organizations.

For the past 16 years, Kern Community Foundation has worked to bring together people and organizations that want to make a difference in the community. The donors behind these funds represent a rich and diverse cross section of our population from newly married couples and working professionals to community icons, civic-minded groups and even publicly traded corporations. Clearly something we are quite proud of and hopefully something that more folks can realistically see in their future.

In coming months, I look forward to sharing more about the Kern Community Foundation and the importance of community philanthropy so that one day, people will know their community foundation as a resource for organized, impactful giving, making our community a better place to live, to work and to visit.

Kristen Barnes is the president and CEO at Kern Community Foundation.

Contact her at Kristen@kernfoundation.org or 616-2601.