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Community foundation opens new downtown office

March 9, 2016 1:48 am Published by

Community foundation opens new downtown officeCommunity foundation opens new downtown office Bob Gross, Times Herald 3:56 p.m. The total cost, with renovations and additions, was close to $1 million, said Mike Cansfield of Michigan Mutual andA foundationA vice-chairman.

“None of that money was taken from the grants the foundation gives out,” Cansfield said, noting money for the new headquarters was set aside by previous boards.

“There was one large donation from the Acheson Foundation in memory of Doug Austin,” he said.

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Jackie Hanton, left, and Mike Cansfield talk in the Doug Austin Center of the new Community Foundation of St.

Waynesboro Schools receive cybercamp grant

March 9, 2016 1:48 am Published by

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WAYNESBORO a Waynesboro was one of 38A school divisions to receive a grant from the Virginia Department of Education to fund a cybercamp this summer.

The goal of the programs is to raise student awareness of career opportunities in the rapidly growing field of cybersecurity and help achieve Governor Terry McAuliffeas goal of making Virginia the acybersecurity capital of the nation,” according to a press release.

aThe camps will introduce students to the field of cybersecurity and the cybersecurity-related credentials they can earn through local career and technical education programs,a said Steven Staples, superintendent of instruction.

Forge new corporate gigs with social intrapreneurship

March 9, 2016 1:37 am Published by

Intrapreneurship opportunities are especially growing in the area of social intrapreneurship.

Much like their social entrepreneur counterparts, social intrapreneurs can be found at companies all over the U.S. Here’s how:

Help your company create a social good program

Millennials prefer cause-based products, are willing to pay more for them and demonstrate strong brand loyalty to companies who weave social good into their stories. 10 percent of sales go back to a charitable cause).

If your company isn’t into social intrapreneurship, it may be time to jump ship

Here are some options:

B Corps Jobs Board B Corps Certification is the ‘certified organic’ seal for social good companies. Their job board is one of the most comprehensive lists available to the aspiring social intrapreneur.
Mashable’s list of social good job boards This article links to 11 different social good job boards. Check it out to see what intrapreneurship opportunities might be out there for you.
Search for social intrapreneurship opportunities via job title. Popular keyword searches include corporate social responsibility, impact investing, cause marketing, cause branding, employee volunteering and corporate sustainability

Contract your way into intrapreneurship

This one requires some outside-the-box thinking, but the reality is that many jobs today are contract- or contingency-based.

Grant Program Fosters Stronger Team-based Primary Care

March 9, 2016 1:26 am Published by

Grant Program Fosters Stronger Team-based Primary Care

For the next three years nine institutional faculty teams will participate in a project called Professionals Accelerating Clinical and Educational Redesign (PACER),(pcpacer.org) which supports transformation initiatives leading to more collaborative care.

PACER is dedicated to teaching faculty members in primary care residencies and other health professions to work in teams with their peers and continue to teach trainees the value of team-based care. Story Highlights
For the next three years nine institutional faculty teams will participate in a project called Professionals Accelerating Clinical and Educational Redesign, (PACER) which supports transformation initiatives leading to more collaborative care.
PACER expands on a successful pilot program by bringing together an inter-professional team of faculty members. “These teams have the opportunity to create a shared primary care vision that supports a model of care that meets the needs of our patients, families and communities.”

PACER expands on a successful pilot program by bringing together an inter-professional team of faculty including physicians, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists and behavioral health specialists. Each team earned its slot in a competitive application process.

“Our vision is that PACER will help family medicine, internal medicine and pediatric residencies transform their continuity clinic sites into inter-professional collaborative practices and foster more collaboration among all primary care health professionals,” Eiff said.

Each of the nine participating institutions is sending a 10-person team with at least two faculty members from family medicine, two from internal medicine and two from pediatrics, as well as faculty members from other health professions. The teams will have their first face-to-face training in Denver on April 4-5, 2016.

“Working together as a unified primary care force can help strengthen family medicine residencies within their sponsoring institutions,” Eiff said.

Although the overall project is not tracking patient outcomes, the teams will focus on improving the quality of care in their own redesign of practices and training programs. They are intended to host annual conferences, provide faculty development training, share resources and foster collaboration among primary care training programs. An added potential benefit is that by creating better inter-professional collaborative practices in primary care, the new model could be a recruiting tool for future medical students.

“If PACER is successful in catalyzing their work to create a high-functioning clinical training environment, then it will be attractive to students who want to practice in that model of care,” Eiff said.

By learning to collaborate consistently, the three primary care specialties could approach their hospital system leaders and speak with one voice about needs that often do not receive adequate support, Eiff said. Or they could approach their electronic health record vendor as a unified group, given that most primary care practices seek the same type of data from patient reports.

A pilot project, the Primary Care Faculty Development Initiative that ended in 2014, was composed of four institutional teams and included primary care residency faculty but not other training programs for health professionals.

PACER is funded by the American Board of Family Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine, American Board of Pediatrics, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the Josiah Macy Jr.

Cleveland Jewish philanthropy in spotlight March 16

March 9, 2016 1:26 am Published by

Historian David Hammack plans to contextualize the Jewish figures that put Cleveland on the national philanthropic map at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage March 16.

aItas a community thatas been large enough and active enough to have been a factor nationally in the development of Jewish communities,a Hammack said, noting the Jewish Federation of Cleveland ahas had a reputation of developing leaders for Jewish communities over a considerable period of time.a

Since 1900, there have been consequential Reform, Conservative and Orthodox contributions and the Cleveland community has been nationally significant. Jewish philanthropists aworked with others very creatively to cooperate in social welfare, community healthcare and education, concerns that were shared across the community.a

Although he isnat Jewish, Hammack has been interested in the role of Jews in American civil society since the 1980s, when he published his first book, aPower and Society: Greater New York at the Turn of the Century.a In researching the forces that shaped that version of New York, he came across Jewish groups among those contending for influence. Some were competitive, some cooperative.

Hammackas talk is the second in the Cleveland Jewish History & Public Policy Series sponsored by the Cleveland Jewish News Foundation, Teaching Cleveland Digital, the Maltz Museum and the Laura & Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University.

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Foundation Supports Local Police

March 9, 2016 1:15 am Published by

Foundation Supports Local Police – Aransas Pass Progress: News

The Coastal Bend Foundation in Aransas Pass supports local departments, organizations and schools, and most recently, the CBF donated money to the Aransas Pass and Ingleside Police Departments to upgrade their automated external defibrillators.

Each year CBF donates a percentage of their funds to different organizations outside of the scholarships they give out to Aransas Pass High School seniors.

In 1980, two hospitals were located in Aransas Pass, and Ben Pate, who was the administrator of one of the hospitals, decided it was time to combine the hospitals and build a new hospital. The CBF was originally known as the Coastal Bend Hospital Foundation back in the 1980s when two hospitals were located in Aransas Pass.

The original foundation was known as the Coastal Bend Hospital Foundation which was created to raise funds to build a new hospital. The board of directors for the Coastal Bend Hospital Foundation adopted a bond resolution of $9 million for the new hospital. After the hospital foundation reached a buy-sell agreement for LifeMark Corporation to purchase the assets of the hospital for over $10 million, the foundation removed the word hospital.

Since 1984, the foundation has granted over $2.1 million in donations, contributions and grants to Aransas Pass, Ingleside and the surrounding communities.

Sarah Burton Appointed as Project Manager for Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and Marshall …

March 9, 2016 1:03 am Published by

Sarah Burton Appointed as Project Manager for Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and Marshall Institute at LSE Joint Project on Europe’s Philanthropy Sector

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) and the Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics and Political Science announce the appointment of Sarah Burton as Project Officer on a joint research effort called Theory of the Foundation.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors is a leading nonprofit service for global philanthropy, engaged in consulting, foundation management, project incubation, research and publishing.

Created in 2015 with the assistance of a 30 million donation from Paul Marshall, the Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship aims to improve the impact and effectiveness of private contributions to the public good. In December 2015, RPA and the Marshall Institute announced their collaboration to adapt the Theory of the Foundation initiative for European philanthropy.

The Wellmark Foundation Accepting MATCH Grant Proposals

March 8, 2016 11:56 pm Published by

The Wellmark Foundation is accepting proposals for the Matching Assets to Community Health (MATCH) grant. The term “matching grant” means an organization is required to raise some amount of money to “match” the grant amount.

The Wellmark Foundation supports sustainable projects and initiatives that can help individuals, families and communities achieve better health through environmental changes that encourage being active and consumption of nutritious foods.

“The Wellmark Foundation believes that everyone deserves to live, work, learn and play in an environment that provides the opportunity to make healthy choices,” said Becky Wampler, The Wellmark Foundation executive director. It is not designed to fund temporary food assistance or disease management programs.

Previous MATCH grant projects that were funded by The Wellmark Foundation included trail development, playground construction and healthy eating initiatives such as large scale community gardens.

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Most private schools can’t prove they spend government funds appropriately: watchdog

March 8, 2016 11:56 pm Published by

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The state’s financial watchdog has lifted the lid on the government’s method of funding private schools, warning there is little evidence that millions of dollars in government money is being used appropriately.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in education department grants are being given to private schools with no measures to track how the money is being spent, an auditor-general’s report has found.

The state’s financial watchdog has found little evidence that the money, estimated to be $676 million this year, is being used appropriately by the schools.

More than a third of Victorian students go to private schools.

In a scathing report, acting Auditor-General Dr Peter Frost said the education department had “weak” funding agreements with the schools, no performance measurement or targets, and that the schools were unable to prove funds were spent as they were intended.

“My audit found that there is limited assurance that grants are used for their intended purpose or are achieving intended outcomes,” Dr Frost said in the Grants to Non-Government Schools report, which was abled in Parliament on Wednesday.

“The absence of clear, appropriate governance by [the education department] has led to poor grant administration, including inadequate monitoring … of whether grants are used as intended.”

In a sample audit of 22 schools, none could prove that their funding was not used on capital works, which is forbidden.

And only 20 per cent of schools receiving student disability grants could prove that they were used for the purpose that they were intended.

The audit revealed that due to a funding model that relates only to Catholic schools, some wealthier Catholic schools received substantially more in government grants than they would have under the department’s funding arrangement, while poorer schools received less.

Government funding for Victoria’s nearly 500 Catholic schools is distributed by the Catholic Education Commission Victoria.

The Catholic Education Office’s chief executive, Stephen Elder, said the audit was “limited in scope” and the auditor-general was trying to endorse previous criticisms it had made to media about school government grants.

“It is hard not to conclude that the scope was intentionally designed to serve this purpose, given that a broader scope would have challenged many of VAGO’s findings,” Mr Elder said.

Dr Frost rejected the criticism, saying that the audit “may not have been the one the CECV [Catholic Education Commission of Victoria] wanted”.

The auditor-general investigated more than $640 million in non-competitive grants given to private schools in 2014 and found most of it was “untagged”.

The report made a range of recommendations to the education department, advising that it improve its record keeping and reporting requirements.

Independent Schools Victoria’s chief executive, Michelle Green, pledged to work with the department to improve the administration of grants.

“The public has a right to know how taxpayers’ money is spent,” she said.

An education department spokeswoman said the department accepted all of the recommendations presented, and would “work closely with the non-government schools sector to deliver greater clarity, transparency and accountability for state funding”.

A spokesman for Education Minister James Merlino said the government “has already undertaken significant reforms” to strengthen reporting and accountability requirements for private schools.

Woman tells royal commission of the night she realised her husband Grant Davies was a paedophile

March 8, 2016 11:11 pm Published by

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The former wife of dance teacher Grant Davies fought back tears as she told a royal commission about the night she discovered her husband of more than a decade was a paedophile.

The woman, given the pseudonym BZB, gave evidence that she was at home with the couple’s young daughter in April 2013 when she checked Davies’ computer.

She found messages he sent to a student, then aged about 13, and photos the student sent to him.

“The content of the messages was sexually explicit,” she said.

“There were messages in which Grant was saying ‘Delete the messages so your mum doesn’t see’. He is in custody awaiting sentencing in May.

BZB told the commission Davies was violent towards her during their marriage and was the subject of two apprehended violence orders but, before her discovery of the material on his computer, she did not believe he would sexually abuse children.

“Even though I knew he was emotionally and physically abusing me, I never once through that Grant was capable of harming a child,” she said.

“He convinced me that he was a loving father, that he genuinely cared for his students and that he could be relied upon to have these children’s best interests at heart.”

She accused police and the Department of Family and Community Services of failing to properly address allegations about Davies which first surfaced in 2007 after parents complained he sent sexually explicit messages to teenage students.

“I believe that the authorities who had knowledge of both his domestic violence and the full nature of the allegations laid against him in 2007 did not do enough to protect those around him,” she said.

“I believe that the system failed us by not informing us of the danger he posed.”

Representatives from NSW Police and the Department of Family and Community Services are due to give evidence at the hearing into performing arts schools later this week.

BZB, a primary school teacher who used to perform comedy routines with Davies, said he would belittle her if she questioned his behaviour with students.

“I ended up feeling like I was the crazy one,” she said. “I ended up feeling like I was being silly.”

BZB divorced Davies in the middle of last year.

Rebecca Davies told the commission she could have done more to protect children at the school.

“I failed to do the right thing in seeing [Davies’ behaviour] as a red flag of paedophilia,” she said.

The inquiry before Justice Jennifer Coate continues.

For help or information call Lifeline 13 11 14; Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800 or the Royal Commission 1800 099 340.


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