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J. Floyd Dixon Memorial Fund accepting grant applications to Benefit Jackson County a 2016 – The Jackson County Times-Journal: Community
Floyd Dixon Memorial Fund accepting grant applications to Benefit Jackson County a 2016 Floyd Dixon Memorial Fund is currently accepting applications for its 2016 grant program.
Each year, the fund awards grants to nonprofit organizations located in Jackson County that focus primarily on education or health issues.
Last yearas recipients included: Easter Seals Central and Southeast Ohio, Inc.; Health Recovery Services, Inc.; Jackson City Schools; Jackson County Board on Aging, Inc.; Jackson County Health Department; Jackson-Vinton Community Action, Inc.; Oak Hill Union Local School District; Oaks United Inc.; Stargazey’s Equine Therapy; Wellston City Schools; and Jackson Area YMCA.
The fund is named for Professor Floyd Dixon, who was raised on a farm in Jackson County near Oak Hill. Dixon’s service to the area schools continued in 1920 with his appointment as superintendent of schools for Jackson County. Dixon worked to pass a tax levy vital to the long-term success of Jackson schools, and was instrumental in creating two new high schools, Bloomfield Township and Scioto Township.
Copyright 2016, The Jackson County Times-Journal, Jackson, OH
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P-CCS creates art for charityP-CCS holds art event for charity.
Representatives from P-CCSa Student Leadership Council show their art.(Photo: Submitted by Taryn Reid)
Plymouth-Canton Community Schoolsa student leadership council partnered with Abrakadoodle of Wayne County on March 18 to prepare artwork with the intention of raising money for local homeless families.
When the student leadership council learned of the homelessness issue affecting students and families in their community, they chose to partner with Abrakadoodle, an education company whose programs inspire childrenas imaginations by immersing them in art to setup a creative service project for the school year to help bring attention and hope to these families.
Together, they planned a creative art experience that yielded finished canvases, which will be auctioned in May and donated to benefit St.
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By Hassan Khalifeh | Thursday, 03.24.2016, 11:08 PM
One hundred Arab American women fundraised $8,000 for cancer research.
TROY The Foundation for Women’s Cancer was awarded $8,000 to fund cancer research by The Center for Arab American Philanthropy (CAAP).
CAAP founder Maha Freij said the 100 Arab American Women Who Care’s third annual event provides an opportunity for a group to combine funds to support a cause and is a part of a larger goal to better communities through Arab American giving.
“When you deal with the Center for Arab American philanthropy, it provides Arab Americans, no matter who they are, with the tools that allow them to be strategic in their giving,” Freij said.
Most noteworthy, Freij said, is the diversity of the Arab American women who donated to the award.
ZTE Teamed Up with the Golden State Warriors to Launch Phone Drive | Business Wire ZTE Teamed Up with the Golden State Warriors to Launch Phone Drive Benefiting Warriors Community Foundation’s Hoops for Kids Program Warriors and asked Bay Area residents to donate used phones, tablets and phone drive resulted in active donations to benefit the Warriors communities and supporting the Warriors Community Foundation and Hoops devices at participating carrier stores in support of the phone drive. Consumers who donated devices had the chance to meet Warriors Community “For a second year, ZTE’s phone drive will help improve the quality of ZTE USA (www.zteusa.com),
But researchers at the University of South Carolina want to reverse the long-term effects the disease has on some patients who have trouble communicating with others.
USC Professor Julius Fridriksson is taking on the challenge with the aid of an $11 million, five-year grant for stroke recovery research awarded by the National Institute of Health.
USC Professor Julius Fridriksson was awarded an $11 million grant to study aphasia and stroke recovery. Blood flow and brain activity related to stroke can be seen in the scans.
Stroke patients also will be able to undergo various speech, writing and behavioral therapies at the university’s rehabilitation centers to discover the best course of treatment for their aphasia.
The NIH grant will focus on four areas:
Measure the effects of treatment on chronic patients to see who responds well or poorly to therapy.
Assess those who have just had a stroke and use aphasia therapy and electrical brain stimulation to find the best ways to enhance patient outcomes in the days and weeks immediately following a stroke.
Study the brain and nervous system, as well as their effects on a person’s cognition and behavior, to build a statistical model of who is most likely to recover from aphasia and who is not.
Compare the influence of the brain and the nervous system on speech and language in normal people versus those recovering from stroke.
Undergraduate and graduate students from USC’s public health, psychology and exercise science departments will be able to participate in the study, Fridriksson said. Souvik Sen, professor and chairman of the Department of Neurology at USC’s medical school and medical director for the Palmetto Health Stroke Center.
“Palmetto Health is crucial because they get so many stroke patients,” Fridriksson said. That year, stroke caused more than 14,500 hospitalizations and more than 2,300 deaths sin the state, according to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.
Fridriksson said poor diets, smoking and other bad habits could be some of the causes of the increasing number of younger stroke patients he sees, identifying most of those as being in their 30s and 40s.
“Stroke rate has actually gone down a little bit amongst the older population,” he said, “but we have a very distinct moniker in South Carolina that half of all stroke patients here are under 60.”
Fridriksson’s study on stroke and aphasia will begin April 1. Souvik Sen, Johns Hopkins University, Julius Fridrikkson, McCausland Center for Brain Imaging, Medical University of South Carolina, National Institutes of Health, Palmetto Health Hospital, Palmetto Health Stroke Center, stroke, stroke recovery, the University of California Irvine, University of South Carolina
health board cuts 4 more positions – Toledo Blade health board cuts 4 more positions Department of Health and Human Services and was awarded health center status.
The board also eliminated three positions last month a physician and that individual’s team that will save about $200,000, and more job losses are likely in the months ahead, Mr. With the cuts so far, the health department should end the year with a zero balance.
The problem, however, is the department needs to end the year with a carry-over balance of $1.2 million, to meet expenses in the first quarter of 2017, he said.
The health board also hired Hans Schmalzried, a former board member, to lead the restructuring effort as a special assistant to health commissioner Dr.
He’ll work at the health department two afternoons a week, while continuing to teach part-time at BGSU and serving as the interim coordinator of the Allied Health program, a new online campus program.
The health department has received five applications for Mr. Schmalzried’s role will be to determine if the department should keep the deputy director position, Mr. health board cuts 4 more positions “; var description = “The Toledo-Lucas County Health Department is preparing to make deep cuts in personnel and operating expenses.
On Thursday, March 17, The Woman’s Club of Greenwich held their Annual Philanthropies Tea to distribute awards to local Greenwich organizations and local scholarships.
Every year, the members of The Woman’s Club of Greenwich volunteer much time and effort to fundraising in order to reach out and help our community.
The recipients of this year’s awards from The Woman’s Club of Greenwich are:
Greenwich Scholarship Association
River House Adult Day Center
Call-A-Ride
Greenwich Campership Program
Greenwich Symphony Young Peoples Concerts
Lions Low Vision Centers
Kids in Crisis
Neighbor to Neighbor
The recipients of this year’s awards from The Woman’s Club Gardeners’ are:
Greenwich Community Gardens (Armstrong Ct. and Bible St.)
Audubon Summer Campership Program
Greenwich Youth Conservation Project
Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut Scholarship Program
The Putnam Cottage Herb Garden Maintenance
We are thankful for the hard work, support and contributions that enable the The Woman’s Club of Greenwich to give these generous gifts to our community.
UK will be celebrating its first national celebration of social enterprises dubbed as Social Saturday. World famous celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who founded the Fifteen restaurant chain.