Event Type: Partner Event, Member Event, Park Academy, Fundraising

The Marine Mammal Center, the California Academy of Sciences, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and the Point Reyes National Seashore Association cordially invite you to a reception and presentation:

Volunteers and Philanthropy (or Why Volunteerism Matters)
with Greg Lassonde, philanthropy consultant

This special event is being co-hosted by the Parks Conservancy, the California Academy of Sciences, The Marine Mammal Center, and Point Reyes National Seashore Association, and the featured speaker is philanthropy speaker Greg Lassonde.

Interested in making change through social entrepreneurship? Georgian College invites South Georgian Bay-area non-profits to take part in Changemaker Days March 22 The Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Georgian College, together with the Social Enterprise Network of Central Ontario, is hosting South Georgian Bay Changemaker Days at the South Georgian Bay Campus in Collingwood on Tuesday, March 22 from 10 a.m.

The free professional development events include “Localized Coffee Conversations” and an introductory social enterprise and changemaking workshop.

The event is sponsored by Georgian College’s Centre for Social Entrepreneurship using RECODE grant funding from the J.W.

Join SEJ’s social producer Caitlin Rulien to learn the basics of social media management and organization and acquire the skills and tools you need to engage with your audience on a more personal level.

Whether you are looking to make sales, drive email subscribers, or increase donations, social media can be a valuable tool in your tool belt.

With more than five years of experience working in social media, and as the Director of Communications & Development for the non-profit organization Squalor to Scholar, Caitlin is able to offer a unique insight into the struggles of small businesses and non-profits.

This presentation will include must-have tools and best practices to make social media the cherry-on-top of your small business or non-profit marketing strategy.

If you’re interested in boosting the social impact for your small business, grassroots campaign, or non-profit and have limited resources this is a webinar you don’t want to miss!

Join Us!

Register now for this free webinar on April 6th at 1 pm Eastern.

Grant brings NCAA to Clay County to discuss student-athlete standards
Thursday, March 17, 2016
By IVY JACOBS, Times Reporter

Ivy Jacobs photo
Indiana State University NCAA Compliance Coordinator Tonya Sawyer spoke to a large audience of students, parents and faculty members during the NCAA “Get the Word Out” presentation at Northview High School Wednesday evening.

Indiana State University NCAA Compliance Coordinator Tonya Sawyer worked with basketball coach Clint Weddle, Principal Chris Mauk, Assistant Principal Debbie Zimmerman, athletic directors Charley Jackson and Scot Buell, and Scott McDonald, the school’s NCAA representative.

Sawyer said attaining the goals should be easy if a student stays on course during their time in high school.

Sawyer warned students that social media — even for high school students — can be a problem not only when applying for NCAA eligibility, but also during college and future job searches.

According to Weddle, the athletic departments had been going over the NCAA materials with the students for a while and made sure parents were aware of the program coming to the school.

The students received laminated NCAA quick reference guides and other materials for compliance, supplemental information from the Indiana State University Compliance Department and a NCAA stress ball for their participation.

Plans for a hip co-working and business incubator space in Richmond’s downtown corridor received a large funding boost Wednesday.

It was one of two projects that won big at Chevron’s Project Pitch contest at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts.

The contest, which loosely resembled ABC’s popular TV show Shark Tank, had nonprofits attempt to convince a panel of six local industry experts that their proposed projects would create jobs, grow small businesses and expand job training opportunities in the Richmond area.

The panel of experts (pictured below in front row), which included a venture capitalist and a bank executive, chose two winners, with each receiving Chevron grants of up to $1 million over three years. ABC7 News anchor Dan Ashley (back row, on right) emceed the event.

The winners include the Richmond Main Street Initiative (RMSI) in partnership with Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, who will team on an initiative to improve downtown, and Pogo Park, which employs Iron Triangle residents for the purpose of turning dilapidated spaces into vibrant parks.

RMSI plans to use its Chevron grant to launch Co-Biz Richmond in the heart of the city’s downtown at the corner of Harbour Way and Macdonald Avenue. “Along with funding projects that are going to make a real difference, Project Pitch brought some of the community’s best resource providers into one room with the ultimate goal of tapping their greatest resource of all: local residents.”

Funds for the grant are one part of Chevron’s eQuip Richmond, an Economic Revitalization Initiative (ERI) that includes a $10 million investment to improve the lives of residents in Richmond and North Richmond.

The courses are free, and enrollment is growing.

At Central Falls high school, English teacher Deloris Grant hands out copies of Robert Browning’s poem, “My Last Duchess.”

“You’re going to have to read the poem at least two or three times,” Grant said to the class.

Grant teaches a college level literature course to a room full of high school seniors. The class is part of a push championed by Governor Gina Raimondo to get more students ready for college.

“When you get your poem next year when you are in school, in college, the professor is not going to go through the poem with you,” said Grant. “To begin analyzing difficult text on their own, and asking questions.”

Some of the students in Grant’s class will be the first in their families to attend college, if they continue their studies after high school. They meet with college professors at the beginning of every school year as they plan their lessons.

Holly Shodoian oversees the dual enrollment program for Rhode Island College.

“One might think that, well oh, because they are taking it in high school, that everyone gets an A,” said Shodoian. There’s a broad range of grades in terms of what students earn, or the level that they’ve achieved.”

RIC and other public colleges in Rhode Island have agreed to give credit to students taking these courses in their high schools. Shodoian hoped the experience will encourage more high school students to make college the next step.

“I think sometimes for a student to be able to say, ‘I finished this course.’ “So yeah, I feel prepared.”

Whether Nousek is prepared will be a question for his college professors to answer next year.

But a study out of Columbia University found high schoolers who take dual enrollment courses are more likely to succeed when they get to college.

The Rhode Island program currently enrolls more than 3,000 students.

Foundation seeks technology grant applications – The Shippensburg News-Chronicle: Community News

Last yearas Innovative Technology Grant recipients were, from left: John Root of Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School, Mathern Mellott of Fannett-Metal High School, Erin Martin and Rick Burkett of James Buchanan High School, and Krystal Johnson of Shippensburg Area Middle School (not pictured: Betsy Riep of Shippensburg Area Middle School).

Sonal Shah and Lily Cole consider potential impact of social enterprise | The Social Enterprise Magazine – Pioneers Post Many of the social entrepreneurs in the running for the prize money were present in the audience.

Amongst the guests wrestling with the critical question was Sonal Shah, from the Beeck Centre for Social Impact and Innovation, based at Georgetown University in Washington. Shah is also the ex-director of the office of social innovation at the White House, established under the Obama administration.

Alongside Shah was former model turned social entrepreneur Lily Cole of Impossible.com, described on the site as ‘A global community who help each other out. From a social enterprise angle, maybe what’s more impactful is lots and lots of small enterprises doing very, very well.”

Investment

Moderator Daniela Papi-Thornton (from the Said Business School) cited the oft-quoted obstacles to growing a social enterprise; lack of access to funding, lack of government support and red tape. If you’re not getting funding you need to look at whether your business proposal is the right kind of business proposal and is that why you’re not getting funding?”

Davies pointed out that raising money for any business was challenging and said he had the utmost respect for social enterprises trying to fundraise: “What you’re doing is narrowing the group of investors that will be interested in you because what you’re looking for is an investor that is looking for a return but also looking for the social value out of that.”

To naively try and have social impact and not have sustainability is a suicidal path

Cole was asked why she thought it was harder to raise money for a social venture.

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The Community Foundation of Washington County on Tuesday presented $125,130 in unrestricted grants to 32 local nonprofit groups for 2016.

The following is the list of grant recipients, the program to be funded and the amount received:

a Big Brothers Big Sisters a Site-based mentoring program, $5,000

a Barbara Ingram School for the Arts a Black Box Theatre event, $1,500

a Brave HEART, or Heroes Equine Adventure and Riding Therapy a Help Light the Way for Our Military Families, $3,000

a Brook Lane Foundation a Mental-health first-aid training, $6,000

a Community Foundation of Washington County Imagination Library a Books to children birth to age 5, $5,000

a Children in Need a Client monthly visits and school supplies, $5,000

a Diakon Adult Day Services a 2016 Caregiver Support Initiative, $8,000

a Discovery Station a Exhibit enhancements and upgrades, $2,500

a Farmers & Hunters Feeding the Hungry a Venison donation for hunger relief, $2,500

a Fort Ritchie Community Center a Summer boating adventure, $3,520

a Fountaindale Elementary School a Lego robotics after-school academy, $1,750

a Girls Inc. a Therapeutic horseback riding for girls, $6,250

a Girls on the Run a Volunteer coach coordination program, $3,000

a Hagerstown Area Religious Council a Micahas Backpack meal program, $2,500

a Hagerstown Ice Amateur Athletic Association a Kodiaks sled hockey team, $5,160

a Hagerstown YMCA a Summer Camp for All, $8,000

a HEAL a Healthy video series, $5,000

a Interfaith Service Coalition a Client emergency assistance, $3,000

a Leadership Washington County a Nonprofit scholarships, $1,200

a Maryland Symphony Orchestra a Ensembles in the Schools education program, $2,500

a Mason-Dixon Council, Boy Scouts of America a STEM, or Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, Scouting for at-risk youth, $2,000

a Mediation Center a Washington County Youth Conflict-to-Peace Initiative, $5,000

a REACH of Washington County a Cold weather shelter a $5,000

a Salvation Army a MANNA feeding program, $2,500

a Salvation Army a Shelter for women and children, $7,500

a Star Community a Sensory walking trail station, $2,500

a Tabithaas Table a Fresh fruits and vegetables for clients, $3,000

a Together With Families Inc.
(Mike Lewis/ Reporter/ Recorded on March 17, 2016)