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Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, talks to residents about the cancellation of the TV series Manhattan and the health surveys they are circulating around the community.(Photo: Tara Melton/Daily News)

TULAROSAA aA The Tularosa Basin Downwinders are on a mission to gather health surveys from New Mexico residents toA detailing their personal andA family history with cancer.

TheA Downwinders, who believe the Trinity test changed the gene pools of residents in surrounding communities, leaving a cluster of cancer and illness in the descendants of those who witnessed the atomic bomb, have already collected 650 health surveys from the Tularosa and Alamogordo area.

BROOKLYN Brooklyn is facing another shortfall in state funding for special education costs. For the second year in a row it appears the town may get less than it anticipated for the excess cost grant, which the state offers to mitigate the cost to municipalities for the most expensive special needs cases. The excess cost grant is supposed to pay 100 percent of the costs of education for any special needs child whose services are 4.5 times higher than the average per pupil cost in a district, said Sheila McKay, senior staff associate for government relations for CABE. After talking with a staff member at the state Department of Education Holmes said she learned the state only funds about 80.8 percent of the costs to a district. School districts are expected to send the state their special education costs on Dec. 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’);

Infosys Foundation grants Rs 8 crore to Asia Heart Foundation to promote robotic surgery – Times of IndiaInfosys Foundation grants Rs 8 crore to Asia Heart Foundation to promote robotic surgeryRanjani AyyarInfosys Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Infosys, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Asia Heart Foundation, to enable the adoption of robotics in healthcare. | TNN | Mar 17, 2016, 03.57 PM ISTCHENNAI: Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Infosys, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Asia Heart Foundation, to enable the adoption of robotics in healthcare.

As part of the MoU, the foundation has granted Rs 8 crore to Asia Heart Foundation.

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We also expect to see increased interaction and cooperation among social enterprise accelerators, as they work together to help more social entrepreneurs achieve their goals and dreams of positive social and environmental impact.

So what are the factors that enable good social enterprises?

Social enterprises differ from traditional businesses in their goals and priorities: they are committed to effecting social or environmental change especially among the world’s poor rather than simply generating as much profit as possible. During those 13 years, we have learned a lot about the characteristics and capabilities that determine social enterprise accelerator excellence.

We have identified three dynamic, interactive attributes important for effective acceleration of social enterprises:

Actively selecting social entrepreneurs, including assessing their stage of development
Offering a range of programs suited to different developmental stages
Providing in-depth, long-term support by executive-level mentors

Let’s look at each of these attributes more closely.

Social entrepreneur selection

Accelerators need a clear idea of the social entrepreneurs they want to work with. In our case, we focus on social enterprises that are ‘social impact first’, meaning that their primary mission is to deliver goods and services to those in need.

Using the Monitor Group’s “Blueprint to Scale” study, we assess prospective social enterprises to determine where they fit along the developmental spectrum of: Blueprint > Validate > Prepare > Scale.

‘Blueprint’ is the seed or ideating stage; ‘validate’ is the start-up stage, usually one to three years in business; and ‘prepare’ is the growth stage where enterprises are beginning to scale. At the end of the in-residence training, entrepreneurs pitch their business plans to an audience of impact investors.

Executive-level mentoring

One of the most important attributes of a great social enterprise accelerator is the quality of its mentoring program.

It takes time for a mentor to get to know and understand the intricacies of any social enterprise; to figure out what gaps exist between the enterprise’s goals and its capabilities; and to motivate the social entrepreneur to navigate the challenges of their chosen path.

Earl Ray Tomblin signed a bill this week that, according to state School Building Authority officials, will cut by $4 million the SBA’s grants to counties for school construction and renovation projects. Because the amount of funding school systems request in each annual grant cycle usually far exceeds the SBA’s available dollars, counties compete to persuade the SBA staff and board which projects are the most needed.

SBA Executive Director David Sneed said SB 400 will cut $1 million from the agency’s “major improvement program” grant fund next fiscal year, which begins July 1.

The agency can approve awards of up to $1 million from the fund, which typically has about $5 million to distribute each year.

Sneed said the bill will cut $3 million from the SBA’s “needs” fund, which bankrolls larger projects and typically has about, in Sneed’s “conservative” estimate, $50 million a year. That cut took $2 million out of the major improvement program fund and $6 million out of the needs fund, and the decreases aren’t cumulative from this fiscal year to the next, so next fiscal year’s cut is actually lower.

Sneed said major improvement program funds were previously distributed in December, but the SBA board is delaying its vote until June this year to combine the undistributed, $3 million in funding from this fiscal year with next fiscal year’s $4 million in order to give out $7 million all at once.

BlackburnNews.com – Funding For Youth Hub Denied Home / Sarnia Lambton Ontario / Sarnia News / Funding For Youth Hub Denied

Sarnia’s Mayor is disappointed the creation of a local multi-service youth hub has been delayed by a year or more.

Wednesday, Mike Bradley was one of the few Lambton County Councillors voting to support a grant request of $321,000 to help Sarnia-Lambton Rebound with the project.

The hub for 16/17 year-old youth in Sarnia-Lambton would localize resources from its 20 community partners under one roof.

Mayor Bradley says the group can make another grant request next year.

“This was a collaborative effort by a number of agencies in the community that came together and said we’re all doing our best but there’s a gap here and we need to address this with a certain segment of young people,” says Bradley. Contact BlackburnNews.com is a network of local newsrooms providing timely, accurate multimedia coverage of Southwestern and Midwestern Ontario.

BlackburnNews.com – Funding For Youth Hub Denied Home / Sarnia Lambton Ontario / Sarnia News / Funding For Youth Hub Denied

Sarnia’s Mayor is disappointed the creation of a local multi-service youth hub has been delayed by a year or more.

Wednesday, Mike Bradley was one of the few Lambton County Councillors voting to support a grant request of $321,000 to help Sarnia-Lambton Rebound with the project.

The hub for 16/17 year-old youth in Sarnia-Lambton would localize resources from its 20 community partners under one roof.

Mayor Bradley says the group can make another grant request next year.

“This was a collaborative effort by a number of agencies in the community that came together and said we’re all doing our best but there’s a gap here and we need to address this with a certain segment of young people,” says Bradley. Contact BlackburnNews.com is a network of local newsrooms providing timely, accurate multimedia coverage of Southwestern and Midwestern Ontario.

Nutt; praised as “consummate professional” and “kind and generous man.”

Charlie Nutt, former publisher of The Courier News and several other Gannett properties was found dead Wednesday.(Photo: ~File)

Charles W. In his 36 years with Gannett, he was anA editor of three of its daily newspapers, and publisher of two, including the Courier News and the Daily Journal in Vineland.A Early in his career he was also an editor for The New York Times.

The news organizationA that Nutt led for the last threeA years has been left in shock by his death.

aWe are deeply saddened by the loss of our publisher,a said Eva Moore, acting managing editor of Free Times, said in a statement.A aWe ask that you respect the privacy of Charlieas family at this time.a

Nutt, a native of Morris County, began his career as reporter for the Courier News, and throughout his nearlyA 44A years as a journalist, held many roles, including reporter, copy editor, executive editor, president and publisher.A Nutt touched many lives as a colleague, mentorA and friend.

Former Somerset County Chamber of Commerce PresidentA Rich Reitman remembers Nutt as having a major impact onA the community he covered as a journalist.

“I remember him as one of the editors who got out of the office and got into the community,” Reitman said. paper he later oversaw as business editor and news editor until 1979,A then as executive editor fromA March 1981 to January 1990 and again asA president and publisher for seven years beginning in 2000.A In the 30 years, in between his tenures at The Courier News,A Nutt also worked at the ExpressA (now Express-Times) of Easton, Pennsylvania,A was the editor of the Star-Gazette in Elmira, New York, and was editor and publisher for the Daily Journal in Vineland.

Nutt alsoA taught journalism classes at Rutgers University and early in his career wasA an editor on the Metropolitan Desk of The New York Times.A There he also wrote aA weekly column for the Times’A regional section.

While executive editor at The Courier News,A he founded the new Sunday edition and at the Star-Gazette,A he led the newspaper to aA “Most Improved Newspaper” award in first year as editor. He will be missed by all who knew him.a

At the time of his death, he was a member of the executive committee of the South Carolina Press Association and the board of directors of the Central Carolina Community Foundation, and was the secretary and member of the executive committee of the Center City Partnership.

He is survived by Deborah Nutt, his wife of 45 years; his brother William Nutt of Hackettstown; sons Jason Nutt of Los Angeles and David Nutt of Ithaca, New York; daughters Megan Nutt Hitpas of Califon, and Emily Nutt of Philadelphia; four grandchildren; and a niece and nephew.

Funeral services will be private.

TOMS RIVER, NJ — Toms River school district officials are crossing their fingers after the district was invited to apply for a fourth round of Community Development Block Grant Essential Service grant funding, district Superintendent David Healy said Wednesday night.

The announcement came as Healy discussed the district’s tentative budget, which the Toms River Regional Board of Education approved for submission to Interim Executive Ocean County Schools Superintendent Todd Flora.

Specifics of the budget were not discussed; Healy said there is a Citizens Budget Advisory Committee meeting scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 23 in the media center at Toms River High School North, where the proposed budget will be discussed in detail.

The Essential Services Grant funding, of $14.5 million, was announced March 9 by the Christie administration as part of a $51 million allocation of Superstorm Sandy recovery funding, according to the state Department of Community Affairs. The funds would be allocated to communities still struggling to recover from Sandy, the DCA said.

Healy said the district was notified about the potential funding last week, and on Friday received a packet from the state including an application for the grant funding, which Business Administrator William Doering is working feverishly to complete.

“It’s very promising for this community and for the district,” Healy said.

The district had appealed to the Christie administration for help bridging a gap that remains as Toms River continues to rebuild from Sandy, which destroyed $4 billion in ratables in Ocean County, with more than half of that in Toms River.

While the township is recovering, the return of ratables hasn’t happened as quickly as officials hoped, he said.

The tentative budget for the 2016-17 school year — which includes a tax levy of almost $154 million, including $6.5 million in debt service — was constructed with the loss of the CDBG funding in mind, Healy said. But there’s some good news (with word of the possible grant funding) and I’ll remain optimistic.”

The state will hold a public hearing on the CDBG proposal March 22; Healy said if the district receives funds, the award likely won’t come until at least the end of April.

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