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“We Are P Ville” is an after school tutoring program using volunteers from the community.

“Masterpiece Fridays” is a pilot program that teaches eighth graders about life and career skills.

Assistant Principal Lindsay Brett came up with Masterpiece Fridays.

“We teach them how to garden, we teach them how to build, how to use mathematical skills and angles, to build things, therefore, when they are older they are not dependent on someone else , they can do things for themselves, and they go into an interview with skills, we also teach them how to interview,” Brett said.

Other community wide activities are planned throughout the year to raise money to help fund the programs.

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National Public Safety discussion takes place in Indianapolis During the discussions Carter gave details on what mistakes the Ferguson Police Department made after the deadly shooting.

“Public information, public information, public information the Ferguson Police Department was soundly criticized, adequately so, for not releasing information about the shooting,” Carter said.

Riggs led a discussion with Denver Police Department Chief R.C. White, who has 40 years of police experience with five different police departments, explained what ensured the protest would stay a peaceful demonstration.

“Against the suggestion of my entire command staff, I went in the middle of one of these Wall Street demonstrations and sat down and had a conversations and invited them back to police headquarters where we sat down and had a conversation,” White said.

The forum didn’t cost tax payers a dime. Marion County News

Trump’s donations to LGBT groups were part of reality TV show, not private philanthropy

March 9, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Donald Trump donated tens of thousands of dollars to homosexual lobbying organizations but the donations were dictated by the terms of his reality TV show “Celebrity Apprentice.”

Trump Foundation donated $30,000 to two LGBT groups, including a national organization dedicated to teaching homosexuality in the public schools beginning kindergarten and promoting “fisting” to children in middle school.

However, those donations came as part of Trump’s role in his reality television show, which allowed celebrities to earmark money for charities of their choice, and Trump would make a matching donation.

A spokesperson for Gay Men’s Health Crisis also told The Advocate that its Trump Foundation donation came because comedienne Lisa Lampanelli “raised $130,000 on the show for GMHC, with a $10,000 match from Trump, a routine part of the show during its respective seasons.”

Angelo, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, an LGBT Republican group, said the circumstances of the donations don’t change the fact that it was made.

He similarly critiqued LGBT organizations that tried to minimize Trump’s role in donating to their cause.

The Log Cabin Republicans has asked Trump to clarify his stance on same-sex “marriage,” although Trump has consistently said he opposes redefining marriage since he considered running for the Reform Party presidential nomination in 1999.

Trump Foundation did not respond to LifeSiteNews’ requests for comment before the original story was published.

Carly Fiorina endorses ‘true conservative’ Ted Cruz for president: criticizes ‘liberal’ Trump

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MIAMI, Florida, March 9, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Former presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has endorsed Ted Cruz for president.

“I ran for president because I believe it is time to take our country back,” Fiorina said during a speech introducing Cruz in Miami.

Just days after giving a rousing speech at CPAC, Fiorina joins the leading evangelical, marriage, and conservative activists who have endorsed Cruz for the Republican nomination.

Several moderate Republicans have begun to grouse that they may have to coalesce around Cruz, long the bane of his fellow senators for his opposition to Beltway compromises that he believed sold out the GOP’s conservative base.

Some in our party are saying they’d prefer a liberal like Donald Trump because he is a deal maker. Donald Trump buys politicians like Hillary Clinton and then we are surprised when Washington continues only to serve the big, the powerful, the wealthy, and the well-connected. These are the same Republicans who tell us Ted is just too conservative, that they don’t like it when he won’t back down from a fight, that they wish he would quit making their jobs harder by forcing them to do what voters elected them to do.

Of course, there are also many Republicans who are now horrified at the prospect of Donald Trump as our nominee. The only way to beat Donald Trump is to beat him at the ballot box. And guess what, the only guy who can beat Donald Trump, who has beaten Donald Trump is Ted Cruz.

If we want to defeat Donald Trump, we must defeat him by offering citizens conservative solutions to the problems in their lives.

Ted Cruz has done that, Ted Cruz is doing that and Ted Cruz will continue to do that. We need a real conservative to beat Donald Trump.

County selects new public health director – Victoria Advocate – Victoria, TX March 9, 2016 at 8:31 p.m.
Updated March 10, 2016 at 6 a.m.

Victoria County officials announced the hiring of a new public health director Wednesday. Neal, the current public health director for the City of Abilene and Taylor County, is expected to start April 11. “We know he will hit the ground running in Victoria and we’re eager for him to begin next month.”

Some of Neal’s listed accomplishments include across the board grant increases of 35 percent and developing a strategic plan to help lead the Abilene-Taylor County Public Health District to accreditation.

The Houston Department of Health and Tarrant County Public Health are the only public health departments accredited in the state. He will oversee all aspects of the public health department for the city, county and public health district, which includes DeWitt County.

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Erik Ragsdale, an IU biologist, has been awarded a $750,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation.

His research will focus on identifying a genetic mechanism that allows genetically identical species to develop totally different characteristics based on their environment.

The worm species in the IU study, Pristionchus pacificus, can develop different types of mouths, despite possessing the same genome, based on their environment.

Likewise, if they live and grow in an overcrowded or starved environment with limited resources, they will grow a wide mouth with large, moveable teeth, which allows them to consume other worms.

As a postdoctoral researcher at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in 2013, Ragsdale was part of the team that first discovered the gene that acts as the switch in these worms, according to an IU press release, triggering the “irreversible decision” determining how the worms will feed during their lifespan. Both groups will get the chance to contribute to the research through the Jim Holland Summer Science Research ProgramTT, an intensive, weeklong research training program for underrepresented high school students pursuing careers in STEM, and the IU Biology Summer Science Institute, which pairs high school science teachers with IU researchers to develop classroom curriculum based on University research.

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And, conducting a social media audit is the perfect way to get the ball rolling on that.

A social media audit? An audit of that nature involves analyzing your financial accounts.

However, a social media audit is really quite similar except that it involves your social media accounts.

It’s essentially a step-by-step process that allows you to look at your current social media operations and online presence and determine how well things are working for you. This will allow you to clearly see the big picture of your current social media presence.

Create a column for the type of account, the profile name, the URL, number of followers, and the date of your last activity on that specific profile.You’ll end up with something that looks like this:

This exercise alone will start to clearly show you where you’re doing well, as well as where you could devote some extra time and attention.

However, this is also an important step to help you determine if there are any accounts you should eliminate altogether. Sit down and identify what exactly your nonprofit’s goals with social media are.

Do you want to use social media to increase awareness of your organization as a whole?

Do you want to use your accounts to recruit more volunteers?

Are you hoping to use them to drive more traffic to your donations page?

Clearly outline exactly what social media should accomplish for your nonprofit.

Next, it’s time to determine a specific mission for each of your accounts. What really resonates with them?

Finally, you should also do a quick Google search of your nonprofit’s name to see which social media accounts show up.

Not only will this allow you to see which of your accounts are ranking in that space, but also if there are any imposter accounts that were set up that you need to request be shut down.

When you put a lot of effort into your social strategies, you don’t want a poser out there that could undo all of your hard work with a few foul posts or crude tweets.

Step Four: Make Necessary Updates

Chances are, you change things here and there when it comes to your social media accounts but then neglect to make the same update across the board.

This results in a hodgepodge of branding across all of your different platforms. So, analyzing your competitors is also a great exercise for determining if there are any new platforms you should be a part of.

New networks are constantly cropping up (like Periscope or Blab, for instance), and you’d hate to be missing out on an opportunity to share your message in a innovative and fitting new way particularly if your direct competitors are active in that space.

Wrapping Up: Where Do You Go From Here?

Now that you’ve put in the legwork by going through your existing accounts and strategies with a fine-tooth comb, you’re armed with the knowledge you need to pull together a solid nonprofit social media strategy for this year.

Creating your overall strategy is a separate process from your comprehensive social media audit but the two rely heavily on each other.

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