NEW ALBANY a The cityas list of projects for its Community Development Block Grants was approved for public release at Tuesdayas meeting of the New Albany Redevelopment Commission.

The $694,240 plan includes 16 projects in four different categories, but the biggest ticket items in each one are concentrated code enforcement for $70,000; sidewalk spot improvements for $225,000; New Albany Parks Department Youth Enrichment Program for $23,445; and planning activities and general administration for $95,200.

David Duggins, director of redevelopment, said another important piece of the grant is to upgrade facilities at some parks throughout the city.

UTPB awarded large teacher quality grant – Odessa American: News

The grant will fund professional development workshops for 60 fourth through eighth-grade math teachers at UTPB STEM Academy and Ector, Midland, Presidio and Marfa independent school districts, a news release said.

The Teacher Quality Grants Program for higher education is a federally funded initiative that provides grants to promote improved instruction in math and science by providing professional development to teachers, the release said.

The grant officially started with planning in February. aWeall start recruiting teachers here over the next month or so and the actual workshops will start this summer,a Ratheal-Burnett said.

Along with Ratheal-Burnett, members of her team are co-directors Christopher Hiatt, associate professor of mathematics at UTPB, Warren Koepp, director of the UTPB Ingenuity Center, Yolanda Salgado, associate professor of bilingual education, and Jared Despain, technology specialist, the release said.

The project will offer the teacher-participants a minimum of 120 hours of professional development which includes training sessions in instructional strategies and mathematics content, an iPad, $2,000 stipends, and a TI calculator and manipulatives for training purposes, the release said.

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You’ve got aid from your state, a grant from the school, student loans, and a private, outside scholarship. It might seem like the puzzle of paying for the first year of college is complete.

Unfortunately, it’s not.

Depending on the college you choose and its private, outside scholarship policy, when you tell the school about the scholarships you’ve received which you must do it might take away the state grant and its own grant.

Suddenly, despite all of your hard work to gain scholarships, you no longer have the puzzle solved. This is what’s called “scholarship award displacement” when one form of financial aid (in this case, a private, outside scholarship) results in a reduction of other forms of financial aid. This can also happen when you have an unsubsidized student loan that you use to pay for your expected family contribution (EFC) and the total amount of your need-based and non-need-based aid exceeds the school’s cost of attendance.

What you can do

If your financial aid package must be reduced, the kind of reduction you should prefer (and request) is for the school to take away the loans, not its grant.

Understanding how various types of student financial aid, such as federal and state grants, student loans, part-time employment, and scholarships, affect one another is important so you know exactly how much money you will have to pay for college and living costs.

Make sure the school is a good financial fit for you by taking these steps:

Research the college’s position on private, outside scholarships. This means they will reduce their grants or scholarships before they reduce student loans.
Find out if the school requires a “minimum student contribution” or “summer work expectation” that cannot be covered by a private, outside scholarship. If that’s not possible and you can’t afford the contribution, you may want to consider attending another college with a more generous private, outside scholarship policy.
Understand any restrictions placed on your private, outside scholarship by talking with the scholarship provider to find out what the scholarship can cover. If the scholarship is restricted, you can ask the provider to “bank” the scholarship for a future year when your financial need may increase, apply the funds toward other school-related expenses, or apply the scholarship toward your student loans after you graduate.

The professionals at your private, outside scholarship provider and the financial aid administrators at your school want to help you complete the puzzle of paying for college.

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Home Business Indian Social Entrepreneur Shaffi Matheras new venture wins the Startup of the Year award at Startup Grind!
As winner, Startup Grind will work with MUrgency to plug into the Startup Grind network across the world.

Brain child of Indian social entrepreneur, Shaffi Mather, MUrgency is a mobile app which connects people who need emergency response in real time saving precious lives and time. Powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, Startup Grind is a global startup community aggressively educating, inspiring and connecting entrepreneurs.

aThe experience we have gained following the discussions from leaders in Silicon Valley has been our greatest take away from the Startup Grind program. CONTACT US India New England

VALDOSTA a The Childrenas Advocacy Center has taken another step toward its goal of helping more abuse victims with an approved rezoning request for the organizationas proposed new site of operation on Skipper Bridge Road.

The Lowndes County Commission voted to approve the CACas request to rezone about one acre of land from residential-agricultural to office-institutional at the commission meeting Tuesday.

aThe main motivation behind the request,a according to documents, ais to allow for the relocation from their existing main office a to a newly constructed facility on the subject property.a

The land originally belonged to the Vallotton family of Valdosta who donated it to the CAC following a 2015 call of communal support for the county to win a Community Development Block Grant from the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.

The block grant required applicants have a dedicated parcel of land, officials said.

The GDCA awarded Lowndes County the $500,000 grant earmarked for a new 4,300-square-foot CAC facility.A

The organization had outgrown its Moore Street facility and sought new land in order to serve both an ever-growing number of abuse victims and law-enforcement officials in Lowndes, Cook, Lanier and Echols counties.A

During the public participation portion of the meeting, no one spoke in opposition of the CACas request and one person, CAC Board Member Lee Tarpley, spoke in favor of the request.

Tarpley took less than a minute to thank the commission for its support while the CAC sought the GDCAas grant and to thank the Vallotton family for its donation.

County Commissioner Joyce Evans recused herself from the vote because she is a CAC board member.

Jason Stewart is a reporter for the Valdosta Daily Times

More than 60 educators from Muscogee County, Chattahoochee County, Fort Benning, Harris County, Russell County, Phenix City schools, and Lee County, Alabama are expected to participate in the first Elevating and Celebrating Effective Teaching and Teachers (ECET2) Regional Convening for Columbus, Georgia, March 11 12, 2016, in Pine Mountain, Georgia.

The event and workshops are scheduled at the Marriott Lodge and Spa at Callaway Gardens, 4500 Southern Pine Drive. Since then, energized teachers have worked to organize a regional convening to inform and inspire colleagues at home, develop leadership potential and help teachers hone their craft.

The convening agenda features workshops focused on teacher leadership and innovative instructional practices to support great teaching practice to help support students.

ECET2 seeks to realize a teacher’s potential by ensuring each convening aligns with its six key beliefs:

(1) Nurturing Trust Among Teachers
(2) Focusing on Each Teacher’s Potential for Growth
(3) Inspiring Intellect and Passion that Drives Teachers in Their Work
(4) Providing Time for Collaboration and Learning
(5) Putting Teachers in the Lead
(6) Recognizing Teachers as Talented Professionals

Teachers were nominated by school principals and selected by the ECET2 Columbus committee. More Headlines

Max e Grants are open again this year for schools and preschools to support disadvantaged children in their schooling.

The initiative is to provide financial and educational support to disadvantaged children between age four to 18.

Max e Grants aims to support individual children or groups of children experiencing major disadvantage so they can join in activities at school.

Pukehina School received a grant of $5000 last year to remodel their uniforms, but the grant achieved much more than just a new look on the children.

The grant, by Max e Grants in conjunction with Office Max and Barnados, helped rebrand the school and principal Robert Reid says it lifted the students’ self-esteem.

“It just never looked nice, but our new one now looks stunning, it looks great.”

During the last five years, 39 Bay of Plenty schools have received Max e Grants, with the money going towards vital school supplies and field trips.

Pukehina School, a low decile school, received a $5000 Max e Grant in 2015, and put the money towards funding new uniforms.

Robert says the old uniforms had been around for “quite a while”.

“It was made out of an old material and it stained. I don’t think we ever had all of our kids in school uniform one day because they didn’t want to wear it.

“Since we’ve got the new school uniform, the kids have got a lot more self-esteem, their confidence has improved.”

Roger wears the uniform shirt himself, and says he gets comments all the time of “oh nice uniform”.

The school rebranded to an extent, and the new uniforms have the schools motto printed on them, says Roger, and it is a “replication of our values”.

Schools, kindergartens and daycare centres can nominate children experiencing economic disadvantages for grants of up to $5000, with the money go to essential school supplies and extra-curricular activities.

OfficeMax New Zealand’s national manager of government and education Blair Horsfall says the programme is now more important than ever.

“With the cost of living rising it’s becoming harder for families to cover all those extra school expenses such as uniforms, books, and camps.

“Even in a free public education system these quickly add up, and this is where our Max e Grants programme can really help.

“In five years we’ve really helped more than 11,000 children gain access to the education they deserve.”

More than $530,000 has been donated, with the grants paying for extra hours of teaching aide and support, stationery and textbooks, excursions, sporting equipment and extracurricular activities.

Applications for 2016 close March 18.

Youth groups benefit from council grants | Basingstoke Observer

The county council has committed over 470,000 in extra funding to support vulnerable young people across Hampshire.

A grant of 164,205 has been awarded to charity Basingstoke Voluntary Action as part of the move to provide help for services that support children in the county.

Basingstoke-based group Breakout Youth, which provides confidential support for youngsters who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) have also been handed 14,000 to continue their good work.

A total of 24 different organisations from Hampshire will benefit from the grants, at a time when the county council is consulting on cutting 43 of its 54 children’s centres to save the authority 8.5million.

Executive lead member for children’s services Cllr Keith Mans said: “These organisations play an important role in supporting our commitment to helping to improve the lives of all children and young people and, in particular those who are vulnerable and in need of help and protection.

“We want to do the very best we can for those vulnerable young people, to help them to be healthy, stay safe and to achieve beyond their expectations.”

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UB medical school receives grant to improve Alzheimer’s disease care in Western New York UB medical school receives grant to improve Alzheimer’s disease care in Western New York

UB’s medical school recently received a five-year grant of $2.35 million from New York State to develop a Center of Excellence that intends to improve diagnostic and treatment plans for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other memory disorders across Western New York.

The grant builds upon the preexisting Alzheimer’s Disease Assistance Center (ADAC) of Western New York and is anchored by UB’s Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorder Center.

Bruce R. Troen, MD, professor of medicine and co-principal investigator of the grant, described the Center of Excellence as “the next step in an evolving service-based mission to provide education and awareness, and subsequently better treatment options for both the medical and patient communities.”

The Center of Excellence’s primary mission is to enhance early screening and diagnostic practices of Alzheimer’s.