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The goal is for a business plan to be finalized and an advisory board to be formed by April 30 and a director hired by June 30.

According to Autism Speaks (autismspeaks.org), an advocacy group for those with autism, autism is a group of brain disorders characterized by difficulties in social interaction and verbal and nonverbal communication.

Plans for the clinic began over a year ago and got a significant boost from a conference held in Dalton in August hosted by the Chattanooga Autism Center, on whose board Blevins serves, and sponsored by the Partnership and the elder law practice of David L.

FRAMINGHAM Walsh Middle School is going to change in the next few years, potentially leading the way for a new wave in learning.The Center for Collaborative Education chose Walsh Middle School as the epicenter for what will eventually be a district-wide – and hopefully a statewide and national – personalized learning initiative. Dan French, director of the Center for Collaborative Education, said personalized learning means tailoring education to each student instead of hoping they fit in to the traditional model.”Some kids do learn by lecture and more structured learning, and other kids do better doing projects, research, going into the field and interviewing people,” he said. French said one example might be teachers asking students to find a solution to a problem and allowing them to do that in whatever way works for them.”The teacher becomes more of a guide, a facilitator, as kids are doing the actual work of learning,” he said.Once Walsh has its plan set, French said, the hope is the center will kick in a $100,000 grant to implement it. Along the way, French said, the center will give the schools support in teaching staff different skills and coaching them on individualized learning.French said the organization chose Framingham to start the program because the entire district showed interest in individualized learning, not just one school. The hope, he said, is to roll out similar plans in the rest of Framingham’s schools so the district can act as a model for the state.”What we’re hoping to do over the next number of years is create proof points in the state and key districts that are transitioning toward the personalized learning model, in which every kid is tended to,” French said.

Why cause marketing is smart strategy – News – Gaston Gazette – Gastonia, NC In this highly accessible, real-time digital age, consumers are more in touch with companies, their brands and their causes than ever before. In a nutshell, it’s marketing that supports the company and the cause. This is your opportunity to increase your social media presence, create more advertising opportunities, sponsor events and expand your brand into new audiences. The brand gained 400,000 new fans on Facebook and 21,000 new Twitter followers; 3,600 Facebook thank-you messages were generated, and WWP received a $500,000 donation.” Your effective cause-marketing strategy can lure great employees and help you keep them.Doing good attracts investors, too. A whopping 66 percent of investors consider a company’s commitment to social causes before investing the first dollar. They’ve made their commitment to their cause an integral part of their brand culture, their brand purpose and their corporate mission. Garrison points out, “If your company’s integral values are consistent with the causes you support, then supporting a cause isn’t a marketing tactic it’s a brand characteristic [the] ’cause’ is just another component of your brand’s personality, just like its utility or accessibility.” When you align your business with the right charity and develop a consistent, results-driven strategy, you’ll get big returns on the investment.Elaine Lyerly and Melia Lyerly have more than 35 years of experience in marketing, advertising, brand strategy and public relations. 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’); $(‘#art-main-image-credit-container’).css(‘width’,img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding)+’px 0 0’);

The now Healthy Livings program has 50 grants throughout the state that combine TSET’s work in preventing and reducing both tobacco use and obesity in an effort to decrease the leading causes of death in Oklahoma, which are cancer and cardiovascular disease.

SJR71 by Sen. While recruitment of physicians and Medicaid coverage are both important and ongoing needs in Oklahoma, this approach risks the end of many TSET funded programs that directly address the most critical issues identified by stakeholders and considered to be flagship issues in the Oklahoma Health Improvement Plan www.OHIP2020.com . It is specifically set up as an independent, bi-partisan, geographically diverse board of directors to make funding decisions.

TSET has been involved in successful efforts to improve the state’s health and make Oklahoma a healthier, more economically vibrant state. For every dollar TSET invest in research, another $3 to $6 has been leveraged in federal grants and other external resources.

The City of Durant has worked extremely hard and partnered with TSET and other funders to put health-promoting policies in place and has been a leader across the state for getting involved in the TSET Healthy Community Incentive Grant Program. With a loss of funding for TSET, this will also create a lack of jobs and education to our youth about the dangers of tobacco and an unhealthy lifestyle.

Those wanting to learn more information about TSET can watch the informational video that tells the story of TSET’s creation on their webpage at www.ok.gov/TSET.

Kara Hendrickson

Director

Imagine Durant

Needier Oregonians will get first chance at $72 million in college grants | OregonLive.com

Oregon’s neediest college students will be first in line for money though the state’s largest grant program for low- and middle-income students this year.

That’s a new thing.

State cash awarded through the Oregon Opportunity Grant historically went to “whoever got in line first,” according to Bob Brew, director of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission’s Office of Student Access and Completion. That meant students who were quick to fill out their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) application would jump to the front of the line as long as they were Oregon residents and had an adjusted annual gross family income of less than $70,000.

When state money allocated for the program was gone in a given year, it was gone.

“Lower-income students tended to apply later and not get the money,” Brew said Friday.

State lawmakers did a couple things in 2015 to try and change that. (About 40,000 students currently receive the Oregon Opportunity Grant, under a program created in 1971.)

Lawmakers also approved new rules to guarantee the neediest students who qualify for the program receive preferential treatment when the state distributes an estimated $72 million in aid for the 2016-17 school year.

Students who don’t expect to receive any financial support from their family will move to the top of the list. But the administrative change could also mean some full-time students who had been receiving a maximum of $2,250 in state aide toward their tuition in recent years may learn they no longer qualify.

That dynamic has some administrators’ attention.

“We want to make sure those students aren’t further disenfranchised in their path to get a degree,” said Hans Bernard, associate vice president for state and community affairs at the University of Oregon. Those schools expect to see enrollment growth thanks to the newly created Oregon Promiset, a tuition free program that offers “last dollar” financial aid for students who enroll in community colleges.

Historically, half of Oregon Opportunity Grant recipients used the money at the state’s 17 community colleges, 40 percent went to one of the seven four-year public universities and the remaining 10 percent attended private schools.

Scott Gallagher, Portland Sate University spokesman, said the school had 1,968 students who received opportunity grants during the current academic year.

PSU expects to hear next week how many of its students qualified for grants.

— Andrew Theen
atheen@oregonian.com
503-294-4026
@andrewtheen

BNSF Grant Helps Make State Historical Society Photos Available To The Public – Yankton Press & Dakotan: Life
BNSF Grant Helps Make State Historical Society Photos Available To The Public

PIERRE a A grant from a railway foundation will help ensure that photographs of railroads and other images of South Dakota belonging to the South Dakota State Historical Society in Pierre will be available online to the public.

The South Dakota Historical Society Foundation has received a $5,000 grant from the BNSF Railway Foundation to digitize photographs from the State Historical SocietyaArchives at the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre.

aThe South Dakota State Historical Society–Archives contains more than 1 million images dating from territorial days to the present, with more photographs being added each year,a said foundation president Michael Lewis. This project is not funded by the state of South Dakota, so annual funding must be secured through grants and donations.

Copyright 2016, Yankton Press & Dakotan, Yankton, SD.

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