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The effort will produce a new art piece for Petersburg’s library and is funded by the Petersburg Community Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.

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A half dozen artists Saturday were sketching, drilling into shells and laying out their designs for found art mobiles in a pretty nice temporary studio space near the middle harbor parking lot.

“This is a community art project,” said artist Doris Olsen. And then we’re gonna arrange all the little mobiles on the larger pieces, I’ll call them foundation branches, they’re larger branches that they’ll all hang out from.”

The effort is still looking for donations of found natural objects, everything from bones, antlers, shells, glass, driftwood moss and feathers.
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The funds will go toward the purchase of 60 more Chromebooks students can use for coding and technology.

“Pretty much every kid in our school has experience with coding,” Washington added.

Alexis Gaetano already see how coding fits into her future.

“I think I’m going to take an engineering class in high school,” she said.

That’s both vision casted for a student and goal achieved for a teacher.

“That’s the end goal is to see them take it into the real world and apply it so lots of people can use it,” Manning said.

Small fish in a big pod, Sedgefield Middle School students are ready for what’s next.

Google awarded the grant to Sedgefield Middle School in Goose Creek, which the school will use to connect more of its students with technology.

This is without a doubt a subject she feels strongly about, and she reiterates a point she has made several times in the past, including at a TEDxBarcelonaWomen talk that she gave in 2012.

“Social entrepreneurs are heroes; normal people who aim to change the world by doing something that will have a beneficial long-term impact on people’s lives,” explains the 28-year-old who was recently nominated to Forbes’ list of 30 under 30 social entrepreneurs in Europe. “Social entrepreneurs are usually motivated by a vision and work in the dark,” she adds, referring to the fact that they usually work in the shadows, hidden from the public eye.

When asked what it felt like to be on Forbes’ prestigious list, she spoke about how it could help to jumpstart a national movement: “It was a great honour to be selected with amazing people like Malala Yousafzai. Thanks to the Forbes list, skilled people, donors, administrators and media outlets have discovered my organisation Dream in Tunisia and my social enterprise project Acacias for All. It was already at this stage that Toumi began paying attention to the struggle of Bir Salah’s farmers.

Acacia trees for all

By visiting Bir Salah regularly over many years, Toumi bore witness to how the lives of farmers were slowly deteriorating as the desert started to creep in closer to the farmers’ land.

“Within ten years rich farmers became worse off and after a further ten years they became poor,” she explains. Today there are 270 farmers, men and women alike, taking part in the agricultural cooperative.

At the initial stage of Acacias For All, Toumi was nominated as a young change-maker by the global social entrepreneurship network Ashoka’s Youth Venture and received training in business plan development.

Nabli has years of experience working in the agriculture sector and is currently training Bir Salah’s farmers in organic farming.

“The recent environmental changes require an accompanying shift in farming practices to preserve the rural lands and compensate for the depleting water resources,” argues Toumi, who is hoping that acacia trees can be part of the solution. She herself experienced scrutiny and ceaseless questions when she first came to the village and can see how it limits women’s movement.

“There is little space for dreams and hope,” says Toumi.

For this reason, Toumi created Dream in Tunisia, a community space where young people can share visions and ideas without being questioned.

“Here people will listen and pull you up and not push you down,” explains Toumi.

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But aren’t costs supposed to be spiraling out of control? In the Star Tribune Jeremy Olson says, “Health spending in Minnesota rose by 3.1 percent in 2013, the fourth-lowest rate on record, but it’s unclear whether it was a positive result of medical reforms or a negative sign that Minnesotans lacked the money to spend on care.”

It smells like gun-grabbin’ to me. Don Davis at the Forum News Service says, “A new effort to require background checks on all Minnesota gun buyers began Thursday, but gun-owner groups, Republicans and some rural Democrats may have difficulty backing it.

Venture Philanthropy is a huge opportunity within the red hot life sciences community in North Carolina and throughout the Southas an alternative source of capital.

Last week, Executive Search Firm Carlyle and Conlan, among other sponsors, partnered with the North Carolina Biotechnology Center and the Center of Innovation Network to renew the Life Sciences Forum, a quarterly event for networking and trending industry discussions among Life Sciences leaders. The renewed forum discussed venture philanthropy.

Venture philanthropy is a great way to de-risk some of the early expensive research into solutions for specific patient populations that the typical life sciences investors might steer away from. And finding angel investors in the life sciences is getting harder and harder despite the potential upside.

Two of the forum panelists are distinguished executives with important foundations involved with venture philanthropy.

The Midland Community Former Offenders Advocacy and Rehabilitation program has received a $19,436 grant from the Midland Area Community Foundation.

Rob Worsley, program director of MCFOAR, said the grant will fund two new programs: Alternatives to Violence and Character First.

It also warned that in case of failure to pay the initial Rs.25 lakh, it will attach the grant of Rs.2.5 crore which the ministry of culture is supposed to pay AOL.

The order came in response to an application by AOL seeking an extension to deposit the money.

“We wish to abide by the court’s order but would require more time to deposit the money. The petitioner also claimed that a large number of birds and other “natural life” had been impacted by the work.

AOL, however, maintained that it was using eco-friendly material comprising bamboo, wood and mud at the site which would not cause any harm to the ecosystem.

“We do not have the slightest intention of causing damage to the floodplains and want to work collectively to restore the floodplains in the best possible manner,” the court was told by Saraswati Akshama Nath.

The event, which is being organized at a cost of Rs.25.63 crore, including decoration costs of Rs.10 crore, is expected to be attended by 500,000 people over a span of three days.

Home / Local News / Deadline Looms For Philanthropy Scholarship Award

ANDOVER College bound teens who go above and beyond in their community will have the opportunity to apply for a scholarship to help them take their education to the next level.

The Philanthropy Scholarship award is given annually, and nominations are due on April 1st according to Andover YMCA Director Shane Loy.

“Nominations are for teens in the area that have displayed philanthropy within the community and have shown great pride in helping others.” 1721