“I am delighted to see Sarah taking a more senior role at the museum.”

March 17, 2016Nevada Museum of Art Receives $1.5 Million Endowment

Trustee John Deane has given the Nevada Museum of Art a $1.5 million endowment, reports thisisreno.com. He has served as the museum’s board president, and has been involved with the institution for over four decades.

March 17, 2016Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Receives 140 Ink Paintings from Japan’s Edo Period

The estate of George Gund III, the late San Francisco philanthropist, has given the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco a gift of rare Japanese artworks: 140 ink paintings produced during Japan’s Edo period. “Because my own work increasingly straddles the border between art, documentation and activism, it’s all the more important to me that the prize is given not for photography but for creativity in general.”

March 16, 2016New Experimental School Founded on Black Mountain College Campus

North Carolina artists have founded a new school inspired by the legendary avant-garde Black Mountain College, Art in America’s Erick Lyle reports. The new school Black Mountain School cites extreme tuition costs, corporatized profit-driven learning, and a one-size-fits-all curriculum as the reasons there is a need for a school that embodies the principles that governed Black Mountain College.

The founders, Chelsea Ragan and Adam Void, first came up with the idea to establish the school on the same site as the famed college after they moved to Black Mountain in 2013.

Tornado reported in Grant Parish; Red River flooding multiple parishesTornado reported in Grant Parish; Red River flooding multiple parishes

Property by Nantachie Lake in Grant Parish, which is flooding due to water not being able to drain into the rising Red River.(Photo: Miranda Klein/The Town Talk)Buy Photo

Several Central Louisiana parishes were hit with severe weather and continued flooding caused by the Red River on Thursday.

In Grant Parish, there were reports of a possible tornado in Colfax. (Photo: Melinda Martinez/The Town Talk)

Sonya Wiley-Gremillion, director of Rapides Parish Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness, earlier in the week warned residents in Rapides who flooded or barely escaped flooding last year that they would see even more water this year.

The Avoyelles Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness also began warning residentsA inA the areas of Brouillette,A Fifth Ward,A Moncla and Vick to prepare for flooding.

Joey Frank,A homeland security director, said WednesdayA evening that those areas were already seeing several inches of water and theyA could see a couple moreA feet before the Red River crests.

Changes to the Small Business Rate Relief, additional funding for a rough sleeping social impact bond and 60m for community-led housing developments were among the key announcements relevant to the UK’s social enterprise sector in yesterday’s budget.

George Osborne announced that the government will permanently double Small Business Rate Relief from 50% to 100% and increase the thresholds to benefit a greater number of businesses.

Deputy CEO of Social Enterprise UK (SEUK) Nick Temple said in response: “Social enterprises will welcome many of the announcements aimed at helping small and medium sized businesses, whilst feeling that the Government still needs to pay more attention to delivering fairness and social justice… As announced in both the 2015 spending review and autumn statement, all energy generation activities will be excluded from the Enterprise Investment Scheme, the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme and Venture Capital Trusts from next month, as well as from Social Investment Tax Relief.

Co-CEO at Numbers for Good Dominic Llewellyn said: “It’s encouraging to see George Osborne double the size of the rough sleeping social impact bond fund which will provide crucial funding to organisations tackling homelessness to 10m.”

Temple commented: “The announcement of more money to tackle homelessness is welcome, but what is missing is the connection between policies and a focus on treating symptoms rather than tackling causes.”

The announcement that 60m will be provided to enable community-led housing developments in rural and coastal communities, including through Community Land Trusts, has been welcomed by Richard Harries from the Power to Change Research Institute, who writes in Pioneers Post today. And there’s cause for celebration among those charities working on obesity and poor-health among school-age children: the cash raised from the drinks industry will go to double the provision of sport in primary schools.”

Header photo credit: Kent Wang

From the vital role of community businesses to social investment, Richard Harries from the Power to Change Research Institute explains what he thinks the chancellor should have mentioned in yesterday’s budget.

Cuts to the Cabinet Office raise concerns about the future of the Ministry of Civil Society and 20m of support per year is allocated to social impact bonds following Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement in the UK.

The UK government has unveiled its 2016 social investment strategy in two new publications ahead of the Chancellor’s Budget announcement tomorrow. The government aims to ensure the UK remains a world leader in social investment.

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A day after hospital managers warned that Broward Health’s medical centers faced the potential shutdown of basic services, the system’s new chief executive promised Thursday to resolve a physicians’ contract backlog that was driving the crisis.

Pauline Grant, who had run the system’s 409-bed Broward Health North Medical Center, inherited a potential physician shortage, with managers at two hospitals reporting that they were close to losing the ability to provide care for trauma or stroke victims. Louis Yogel, chief of staff of Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, the system’s largest hospital, said: “Patient care at Broward Health is hanging by a thread.”

Grant said she is committed to getting the contract problem resolved, without any of the worst-case scenarios outlined at the board meeting.

Broward Health’s new interim CEO Pauline Grant, new interim CEO of Broward Health Broward Health, Courtesy (Broward Health, Courtesy / Sun Sentinel)

After the meeting Wednesday, the board demoted the district’s interim chief executive officer, Kevin Fusco, back to his old job as chief operating officer and placed general counsel Lynn Barrett, whose office is responsible for processing the contracts, on a 30-day review.

On her first full day on the job, Grant met with the system’s senior managers Thursday morning and told them her priorities: Continue to focus on patient care and resolve the contract problem.

She said she didn’t know how many physicians’ contracts were still incomplete but was working on finding out. Before coming to Broward Health, she worked as director of public health nutrition services for the Jamaican government in Kingston, as public health nutritionist for Broward County, as health care administrator for the Seminole Tribe and site manager for the Broward County Adult Primary Care Clinic.

At Broward Health, she served as manager for 14 community health centers, vice president of community health services and chief executive of the Broward Health North Medical Center, a job she has held for 13 years.

dfleshler@sunsentinel.com, 954-356-4535

Natalie Grant will be in concert Sunday evening at Niswonger Center for the Performing Arts, Van Wert. Natalie Grant will be in concert Sunday evening at Niswonger Center for the Performing Arts, Van Wert. Sunday

WHERE: Niswonger Center for the Performing Arts, 10700 SR 118 S, Van Wert

TICKETS: $20-$35, online at https://npacvw.ticketforce.com or by calling the Box Office, 419-238-6722.

When we feel out of control, our feelings don’t dictate the truth.”

Natalie Grant will be in concert Sunday evening at Niswonger Center for the Performing Arts, Van Wert.

http://limaohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/web1_natalie-grant-2.jpgNatalie Grant will be in concert Sunday evening at Niswonger Center for the Performing Arts, Van Wert. Submitted photos
Natalie Grant will be in concert Sunday evening at Niswonger Center for the Performing Arts, Van Wert.

http://limaohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/web1_natalie-grant-small.jpgNatalie Grant will be in concert Sunday evening at Niswonger Center for the Performing Arts, Van Wert. Submitted photos
Natalie Grant will be in concert Sunday evening at Niswonger Center for the Performing Arts, Van Wert.

http://limaohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/web1_natalie-grant-1.jpgNatalie Grant will be in concert Sunday evening at Niswonger Center for the Performing Arts, Van Wert. Sunday

WHERE: Niswonger Center for the Performing Arts, 10700 SR 118 S, Van Wert

TICKETS: $20-$35, online at https://npacvw.ticketforce.com or by calling the Box Office, 419-238-6722.

Reach Amy Eddings at 567-292-0379 or Twitter, @lima_eddings.

Politics

March 17, 2016 6:46 PM

Florida lawmakers opt not to change how after-school programs are funded

The state Senate proposed doling out funding through a competitive grant, instead

Critics complained that change was too drastic to implement this year

The change could still be pursued in the 2017 session

SCOTT KEELER
Tampa Bay Times

TALLAHASSEE

How Florida gives state money to organizations that provide after-school care, such as Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Boys & Girls Clubs, won’t change anytime soon.

The 2016-17 budget lawmakers approved last week maintains a decades-old funding structure that designates money to a handful of prominent organizations which means an ambitious, but controversial, reform plan pitched by Republican Senate leaders is on hold for at least another year.

Administrators of affected groups said they are glad lawmakers didn’t embrace the Senate’s idea to create a competitive grant process this year.

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Smyrna parents concerned after school bus safety equipment malfunctions | WKRN News 2 (WKRN) Some parents and passersby became concerned when they saw a school bus in Smyrna picking up children with no flashing lights or stop sign deployed.

The bus driver did not know there was a mechanical issue until another bus driver informed him.

One local driver, Greg Grant, picks does a safety check, making sure all the safety equipment, from warning lights, the stop sign, to the cross bar is in working order.

If they are not, he said that could be a safety concern.

“It doesn’t alert the other driver that you are approaching kids, and you’re going to stop and load,” Grant said.

But Grant knows the unexpected can happened at any time.

“Sometimes during a run you know mechanical issues can come up or you can make a mistake, but we just try to be alert,” Grant said.

A concerned citizen in Smyrna snapped a photo of a bus picking up children, telling News 2, neither the warning lights nor the stop sign were ever activated.

“The fact that he’s not turning on the lights is not setting that great of an example,” said bus rider Donte Villanveba.

Villanveba’s bus stop is at the entrance of the Village Lake Town Homes, on Jefferson Pike in Smyrna, where the photo was taken.

The 8th grade Smyrna Middle School student didn’t ride the bus Thursday and said he’s glad he didn’t.

“Well its hazardous because then there could be people not knowing he’s purposely stopping and they could be speeding and accidently hit someone or end up hitting the bus,” Villanveba said.

The normal procedure if a bus is having mechanical problems is the driver will radio the transportation department and let them know what the problem is.

That didn’t happen in this case.

School district officials said a parent notified their child’s school that the driver was not using lights and stop arm.

Transportation staff contacted the driver, Cecil Lee, to find out what is was going.

“Mr. Lee said he had been unaware during the route that his lights had stopped working and another driver had notified him,” schools spokesman James Evans told News 2 by email.

The problem was a faulty switch.

Lee was driving a loaner bus, and purchased a new switch and had it installed before his afternoon bus route.

Grant said its best to check and double check because the cargo bus drivers carry is precious.

“We just want to keep our kids safe,” Grant said.

Rutherford County bus drivers are contracted and not employees of the district.

Lee is a veteran driver who owns five buses.

School officials said he does not have a history of improper equipment management.

One of his buses was undergoing maintenance, so that’s why he was using the loaner bus.

MSU uses Mott grant to help improve education in Flint | MSUToday | Michigan State University

Student by day, serial digital socialiser by night – Bangalore MirrorBy Apurva VenkatApurva Venkat, Bangalore Mirror Bureau Mar 18, 2016, 04.00 AM ISTArmit (right) spends his weekdays in school and weekends running his business, Ohmega.org16-year-old has created peer-to-peer info sharing platform

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