A pair of Saanich-based youth initiatives have earned grants from the Coast Capital Savings Young Leaders Community Councils’ community grant program.

Saanich Commonwealth Place’s Youth at Risk Moving Forward has earned a $7,000 grant while the successful CanAssist-run TeenWork program (housed out of the Centre for Athletics, Recreation and Special Abilities at the University of Victoria) received $25,000.

The goal of Moving Forward is to foster positive relationships between youth at risk and their mentors and to support the creation and maintenance of healthy behaviours such as sport, exercise, volunteerism, job skills training and community engagement. TeenWork is an innovative program that puts young people with disabilities into the work place by helping them find and retain paid part-time employment with local businesses.

The money comes from the Coast Capital Savings Young Leaders Community Councils’ community grant program and was announced on March 11. The grants are reviewed by Young Leaders Community Councils and they best decide how best allocate the credit union’s community investment funding.

“The Young Leaders Community Council’s ‘for youth, by youth’ approach really sets it apart,” said Linley Faulkner, returning council member and 2016 council chair for Vancouver Island.

Parents fight to keep school open | Peterborough Examiner Peterborough parents join fight to keep Sagonaska Demonstration School open

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Justin is a special needs students attending Sagonaska Demonstration School in Belleville.

The Sagonaska Demonstration School in Belleville, as well as four other schools in Ontario, are currently under review by the provincial government as it looks to cut costs. “These schools are helping a small percentage of kids who otherwise would not get the help, and I don’t think the minister of education (Liz Sandals) is ready to put in place, in each individual school, what these children need to succeed.”

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Visions, studies and arguments over flood control on Fountain Creek have consumed attention in El Paso and Pueblo counties for the past decade.

The Colorado Water Conservation Board gave its approval this week to a $41,800 grant that will be added to $37,500 in local funds to begin evaluating potential sites for a dam or other flood control structures on Fountain Creek between Colorado Springs and Pueblo.

Like the creek itself, getting even to this point has been a meandering process, hitting snags and jumping out of the channel, as Larry Small, executive director of the Fountain Creek Watershed Flood Control and Greenway District explained to the CWCB.

After a study last year confirmed flood control on Fountain Creek could be attained without harming water rights, the district moved to the next step of identifying where structures might be located.

The water rights issue doomed an earlier grant request at the Arkansas Basin Roundtable.

“We resolved the differences between stakeholders,” Small said.

The preliminary work is needed as the Fountain Creek district prepares to receive $50 million over a five-year period specifically for flood control projects to protect Pueblo.

The $50 million is a condition of a 1041 permit issued by Pueblo County for construction of the Southern Delivery System pipeline from Pueblo Dam to the El Paso County line.

See impact investing as part of an evolution towards a fairer society: Ronald Cohen – The Economic TimesSee impact investing as part of an evolution towards a fairer society: Ronald CohenBy Dia Rekhi & Vinod Mahanta, ET Bureau | Mar 18, 2016, 11.19 AM ISTCohen believes that impact investing -which looks at both financial and social returns -can be a game changer for social development.ET SPECIAL:Love visual aspect of news? All rights reserved.

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Our Third Annual “Autism Isn’t Black & White Gala” is scheduled for April 16, 2016. SEASON OF HONOR I am holding a bowling fundraiser for Brandon Woofenden. I am holding a bowling fundraiser for Brandon Woofenden, who at age 22 passed away from stage four brain cancer. Spring Fashion Style Show featuring local stores/boutiques in Murray. The Murray Miracles will be hosting their Annual Running for a Cure 5k to benefit St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Essentials of Inductive Bible Study Workshop Murray artist, Sandy Miller Sasso, will exhibit new drawings and selected paintings at the Ruth Baggett Gallery, 1025 Jefferson in Paducah. Communication is more than just talking and listening it’s also about sending and receiving messages through attitude, tone of voice, facial expressions and body language. For centuries, we’ve known that the health of the brain and the body are connected. The Polar Plunge is one of the biggest Special Olympics fundraisers of the year. MCHS FCCLA will be hosting a formal dress sale Saturday, Jan. Featuring 25 Dealer tables with vintage and new Star Wars collectibles! Please join us for the Paducah Community Chorus Annual Holiday Concert. On exhibit is Craig Rhodes, master ceramicists who has beautiful functional and decorative art for Christmas. Every year during the Christmas season, there are always people who are facing difficult situations in their lives, whether it be physical, financial, or spiritual problems. Every year during the Christmas season, there are always people who are facing difficult situations in their lives, whether it be physical, financial, or spiritual problems. This is the 2nd of a 3-part series of conversations in the community on Teacher Efficacy and its Impact on Student Achievement. Bring the family out Thanksgiving weekend to enjoy an evening of laughs, songs, and fellowship at the “Gift of Laughter” Gospel Comedy Show starring Nashville’s own, the very witty and hillarious Tim Northern! McCracken County Civic Beautification Board hosts annual tree lighting ceremony with music provided by Concord Elementary School Honor Choir and Judge Shea Nickell and remarks by Pastor Kwang Choi of the Global Church of Paducah. 100 THANKSGIVING BASKETS County Community Career Endowment Inc., Broadway United Methodist Church, and the Oscar Cross Boys & Girls Club of Paducah.

Simulation event to give students and community members a glimpse into living in poverty – Hesston College

Area residents are invited to learn more about low economic situations faced by many families living in our communities during a poverty simulation hosted by Hesston College and Circles of Hope of Harvey County and sponsored through a grant from the Hesston Community Foundation. “It usually means that at least twice the number of people identified by the census are actually living in poverty.”

For Hesston College organizer and education faculty member Tami Keim, the poverty simulation is a useful way to help students in education and the social sciences, especially, understand situations and families with whom they may work in their future careers.

“As they move into the professional world, students will work with people from a wide variety of socioeconomic statuses,” said Keim. That kind of understanding makes students better teachers and social scientists.”
Hesston College first hosted a poverty simulation with Circles of Hope in 2013, and Keim notes that it was a time of learning and growing for many students.

“For most students, that level of poverty is a new experience, but it’s the reality for so many Americans,” Keim said.

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California Community Foundation Seeks LOIs for Immigrant Integration Program | RFPs | PND

The California Community Foundation is accepting Letters of Intent for its Immigrant Integration Program, which seeks to increase the problem-solving capacity of immigrant communities in L.A. County through initiatives that involve grassroots community members in policy advocacy and leadership; increase the involvement of immigrants in pursuing public policy solutions that address local and regional issues and lead to positive changes in systems affecting the quality of life in immigrant communities; and/or strengthen alliances and partnerships that prioritize and address the needs of immigrants in the region.

To be eligible, applicants must be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located within, and primarily serving, residents of Los Angeles County.