GLENS FALLS | Glens Falls Rotary is part of a collaborative of clubs that received the first grant under a new model for Rotary Foundation grants.

The Glens Falls club in collaboration with the Petion-ville, Haiti Rotary, and other contributing Rotary organizations, will receive a $151,000 grant for a water filtration and hygiene initiative in Trianon, Haiti.

Pure Water for the World, a Rutland, Vermont-based charity, will distribute bio-sand water filters to 930 families in Haiti and teach the families how to use them and maintain hygiene.

The Rotary Foundation matches contributions from Rotary clubs and individuals two-to-one, and matches contributions from Rotary district organizations equally.

Eighteen Rotary clubs and four Rotary districts in the United States — from New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Arizona and Texas — contributed funds, which the Rotary Foundation grant matched.

The Elk Ridge, Michigan Rotary asked the Glens Falls Rotary to take the lead on the grant, because the Glens Falls club had experience seeking grants, said Robert Rosoff, who wrote the grant application.

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Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County Awarded New Grant By Amerigroup Foundation – ThurstonTalk Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County Awarded New Grant By Amerigroup… Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County Awarded New Grant By Amerigroup Foundation

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Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County received two $5,000 Focus Grants to improve the health and wellbeing of Thurston County area youth, thanks to Amerigroup Foundation. These grants are some of dozens distributed across the country by Amerigroup Foundation to support Triple Play programming, which focuses on being healthy through the mind, body and soul.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County received two $5,000 Focus Grants to improve the health and wellbeing of Thurston County area youth, thanks to Amerigroup Foundation.

Amerigroup Foundation will be issuing a $5,000 Focus Grant to the Boys & Girls Club of Thurston County Tumwater Unit and another $5,000 Focus Grant to Lacey Branch to provide programming focused on teaching the importance of healthy eating habits and being physically active to Club members.

“Kids and teens today face a variety of challenges when it comes to eating healthy and staying physically fit. “The Triple Play program and Boys & Girls Clubs in Thurston County are working to build great futures for our kids by changing the opportunity equation to help them make healthy choices and participate in healthy activities each and every day.”

As Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s proven health and wellness program, Triple Play is a game plan for the mind, body and soul. Since the program’s inception in more than a decade ago, Triple Play has made over 10 million connections with kids and teens.

“We are incredibly grateful for the support and partnership of Amerigroup Foundation, because without their support we would not be able to impact so many kids and teens each year,” said Katya Miltimore, Executive Director, Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County. Promoting youth health and active lifestyles is an ongoing focus of the foundation.

The Triple Play grants announced today are part of a five-year, $10 million commitment from Amerigroup Foundation’s parent company foundation to Boys & Girls Clubs of America to promote healthy lifestyles.

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SUNY Ulster College President Alan Roberts with Foundation Vice Chair and champion Darlene Pfeiffer

NEW PALTZ Darlene Pfeiffer, talented entrepreneur, generous philanthropist and celebrated community member was honored earlier this month in Atlanta, Georgia with a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Association of Kentucky Fried Chicken Franchisees (AKFCF).

Darlene was the first woman in New York State to open a KFC franchise and went on to build five restaurants.

Since her childhood in Columbus, Ohio, Darlene L. Pfeiffer established the ‘Kentucky Fried Chicken Scholarship Presented by Darlene Pfeiffer’ with the Ulster Community College Foundation and later created the Darlene L. Pfeiffer Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, which supports the study and execution of entrepreneurial business development and management.

This endowed gift was the single largest gift and pledge to the College by a living donor, earning her recognition from the New York Community College Trustees with the Benefactor Vision for Tomorrow Award.

Darlene also gives six, $1,000 scholarships per year to students who demonstrate self-motivation and an entrepreneurial spirit. Darlene includes assistance to single parents in her scholarship criteria.

Every year she hosts a luncheon for the scholarship recipients at SUNY Ulster where she spreads the message that we can all help each other through giving and that philanthropy includes sharing one’s time and experience as much as one’s ability to financially support the mission.

She currently serves on the Ulster Community College Foundation Board as Vice Chair.

This year, Darlene leads economic development initiatives as the SUNY Ulster lead donor for private funding of the recently approved Pfeiffer Center for Business Innovation and Technology, a $1.4M Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Lab upgrade with connectivity to the local manufacturing industry and part of a state-wide network of research and testing labs for manufacturers.

Coveted recruits in the 2017 class are starting to figure out their top schools, and Ohio State is right in the mix.

Ohio State only has room for approximately seven more players from the 2017 class, but they are included among several of the nation’s top recruits’ favorite schools. In his most recent update, he was not shy in showing his interest in Ohio State, and it would appear as though the Buckeyes are the current favorite to land his services.

Ohio State already has one top-5 DB commit in Shaun Wade, but the Buckeyes are looking to add at least one more in this class after losing a majority of their secondary to the NFL Draft this year.

Four-star DB Jamyest Williams is another top-50 recruit to name Ohio State in their list of top schools. Williams was at Florida State over the weekend attending the school’s Junior Day, and the Seminoles will be a legitimate threat to Ohio State in Williams’ recruitment.

In the interview he mentioned Florida State as one of his top five schools, along with Ohio State, Clemson, Tennessee and Georgia.

DB last visited the Buckeyes last November, but Ohio State should still be looked at as a contender.

The Buckeyes are also a popular school among some of the best WRs of the 2017 recruiting class.

Jeudy was another recruit to attend Florida State’s junior day over the weekend and is looked at as one of the top receivers in this year’s class, no matter where you look.

Alabama is looked at as the favorite to land Jeudy’s services, but over the weekend he shared his list with TomahawkNation, SBNation’s Florida State affiliate, and Ohio State was included. It would seemingly take a lot of work for Meyer and the Buckeyes to sway Jeudy, and with the high interest the Buckeyes have with other top WR’s in the class, it would be a surprise to see him choose to play in Columbus.

Several juniors shared their thoughts on the new class.

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State education leaders hope this switch to the SAT will mean that all 40,000 11th-graders attending the state’s public high schools take the test lifting the test participation rates for the Smarter Balanced test in all districts, including those where rates were very low. Many students refused to take it, saying that the Smarter Balanced test had no relevance for them and that they were already burdened with too many tests during junior year, including the SATs, Advanced Placement Tests, and for some, the ACTs.

To lighten that load and to provide students with a test that did matter to them, legislators pushed for the switch to the SAT for juniors. In addition, the hope is that some students who might not have taken the SAT, will take it and find themselves interested in going to college.

At high schools such as Daniel Hand, where only 14 percent of 11th-graders took the Smarter Balanced test last year, Principal Anthony Salutari said he doesn’t expect many will miss the SAT test this year.

Salutari said he told juniors: “I think it’s a mistake if you don’t take this.”

At E.O. He is concerned about the unfairness of using the SAT as a state measure when wealthier families can pay for test-prep programs that poorer families can’t afford.

The state has countered that the SAT now has an arrangement with the free online tutoring service, Khan Academy, that ensures every student, regardless of income, can get personalized help on the SAT and work to improve their scores.

In Hartford, some students at the Hartford Public High School’s Academy of Engineering and Green Technology say they have been using Khan Academy and have found it helpful.

For several years, the city has been providing students with a free SAT test in October of their senior year, as well as free PSAT tests in sophomore and junior years.

Colman Long, a school counselor at the academy, said the free PSATs and SAT has provided “a cultural shift in terms of the expectations for ourselves as a school and for our students.”

For a student who isn’t sure they want to go to college, Long said, “There are enough factors in life telling them ‘No, don’t try,'” from the cost of the test to getting a ride on an early Saturday morning to a test site.

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In East Hartford, Anne Marie Mancini, assistant superintendent of schools, said the state’s decision to offer the test for free was part of the reason the district decided to seek a grant to fund SAT prep for students.

Often, students at East Hartford Public High School have excellent grades and are involved in the school, she said, but their SAT scores aren’t high enough for a competitive college.

With the help of the Dalio Foundation, 50 juniors have just completed a nine-week SAT-prep course offered for free at the school.

Leon Agyeman, a junior, said she’s hoping the class will improve her scores.

BOISE — Saint Alphonsus announced today that their national sponsor, Trinity Health, would be investing $1.5 million in a Promise Partnership between Saint Alphonsus and the United Way of Treasure Valley.

The Transforming Communities Initiative is a program that provides grants to improve health and well-being in the community.

Goals for the Treasure Valley program include the reduction of tobacco use and obesity two leading drivers of preventable chronic diseases and high health care costs in Idaho and across the United States.

“Health does not begin at the doctor’s office or at the hospital, health begins in our communities and begins where families play and live, and work, and learn, and that’s why we wanted to make sure that we are investing with community members in the communities to make a difference,” said Bechara Choucair, M.D., senior vice president for Safety Net and Community Health at Trinity Health.
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Charter schools CPS wanted closed could reopen next school year | Chicago Sun-Times

Three of four charter schools ordered closed in June by Chicago Public Schools could reopen in September, if the Illinois State Charter Commission votes Tuesday afternoon in favor of its own staff’s recommendations to grant the appeals.

Despite CPS allegations of insufficient academic progress over many years, Bronzeville Lighthouse Charter School, Betty Shabazz’ Sizemore campus and Amandla Charter School could continue next year under state oversight with some recommended conditions, including finding their own facilities by July 1.

The unprecedented overturning of CPS’ decision means a loss of state money the financially beleaguered district formerly received for each charter school student and a loss of any power over three more schools within the city’s borders.

And the timing couldn’t be worse for ongoing negotiations with the Chicago Teachers Union; in its last contract offer, CPS offered to cap the number charter schools since the commission rendered moot the public schools system’s ability to control how many charter schools the city has.

Commission staff, which made site visits to each of the South Side schools, reviewed records and held earlier hearings at each campus, recommended to the appointed nine-member commission to grant the schools’ appeals. Previously, the appointed panel evaluated the denial of applications for schools that wanted to open.

CPS, which abruptly changed its charter school quality policy earlier this school year, stood by its decision, saying that all three schools “for years have failed to provide our children with the quality education they deserve.”

“As even the most ardent supporters of charter schools have said time and again, charter schools must be held accountable,” spokesman Michael Passman said in a statement. “CPS remains hopeful that the Illinois Charter Commission will not ignore quality academic standards for charter schools and will refuse to allow these schools that are failing students to re-open.”

CPS attorney Rucchi Verma also argued that the commission can only rule on Betty Shabazz’ entire operating charter, which governs three campuses including Sizemore, not just on Sizemore. Verma also said the commission lacks the power to authorize the whole charter since CPS has decided to close a campus not pull the charter.

All three schools packed a fieldhouse at Sherman Park, which the commission had chosen as a central location that could accommodate the many expected supporters who turned up in specially printed school t-shirts: #SaveAmandla, One Vision One Team One BLCS.

Naomi Jackson, 16, rode a bus through snowy streets from Amandla, 6800 S.

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