CEDAR FALLS a Over a period of 24 hours, the University of Northern Iowa Foundation received $42,000 in donations from 324 donors to cap off its second Day of Giving campaign.

aIt was a pretty good day,a said Kyle Soldwisch, stewardship and communications coordinator for UNIas Advancement Services.

While the total number of donors and funds raised were down from UNIas first Day of Giving campaign, Soldwisch said the two are as different as apples and oranges.

aWe kind of call it the Panther family coming together, but a students are a big part of that,a Soldwisch said.

“As a Fulbright research scholar, I plan to work collaboratively with my faculty colleagues in Bengaluru to evaluate the impact of simulation use in bachelor of science in nursing and general nurse midwife programs in India.”

Nurses in India participate in a workshop as faculty from Baylor University’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing teach a module on “Helping Babies Breathe.”

Shelley Conroy, dean of the Louise Herrington School of Nursing, expressed pride in Garner’s recognition, saying she has embraced the school’s mission “to serve both God and the world through educational excellence, built upon the Christian faith.”

Their goal was to coordinate and present a workshop for the nursing faculty at the Rebekah Ann Naylor School of Nursing in India.

On that trip, Garner heard the Indian nursing school’s principal, Leena Raj, describe the challenges nurses and nursing educators face in her country.

The Rebekah Ann Naylor School of Nursing, owned by Bangalore Baptist Hospital, is a faith-based nursing school founded by Baylor alumna Rebekah Ann Naylor, who served as a missionary surgeon in India 35 years.

Following her trip to India, Garner led two research studies with colleagues in Dallas and India, exploring the challenges and brainstorming strategies to improve the nursing shortage in India.

“Through this research, we discovered nurses in India have a desire for increased opportunities for continuing education and empowerment to use health care technology,” Garner said. The grant will allow Baylor to partner with Bangalore Baptist Hospital to build a four-story Simulation Education and Research Centre for Nursing Excellence in Bengaluru.

These efforts typically require health care data so that opportunities to empower patients, improve care, and control costs can be identified.

With this in mind, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is providing PatientsLikeMe an online patient network with a $900,000 grant so as to extend a research platform to create or enhance performance measures that give patients a voice and put them at the center of the clinical research process. PatientsLikeMe will partner with the National Quality Forum to develop, test, and facilitate broader use of patient-reported outcome measures and ensure that they can be used alongside clinician-reported measures to assess clinical performance.

Over the past several years, numerous entities have made impressive strides in measuring and reporting provider performance data to detect where improvement is needed. Including information reported directly by patients themselves makes performance data more useful to consumers as they seek care and empowers patients, families, and clinicians to make health care more patient-centered.

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Princeton Man Among Newest Princeton Area Community Foundation Board Members

Princeton, NJ — A Princeton man is among four new members of the Princeton Area Community Foundation‘s Board of Trustees, the group announced this week.

William Harla, a partner at DeCotiis, FitzPatrick & Cole and a member of the law firm’s Executive Committee, was voted onto the board at its Feb. Herring, the Community Foundation’s Chair of the Board of Trustees, said.

“The new trustees are well-regarded in their professional fields and well-respected in the community,” Jeffrey M.

He is a long-time Associate Counsel of the New Jersey League of Municipalities.

He is also a member of the Board of Directors of both The Arts Council of Princeton and Dress for Success for Mercer County, as well as the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Professional Responsibility Rules Committee.

All four new board members are Mercer County residents who have a broad range of experience, with expertise in the law, wealth management, foundations and nonprofits.

McNeilly, of West Windsor, is a Senior Director of Wealth Management with BNY Mellon Wealth Management. Before entering the field of wealth management, Betsy spent a decade as a Senior Vice President and Team Leader in the Corporate Banking Division of JPMorgan Chase, focusing on financing privately owned businesses in New Jersey and New York.

She is the former Director of Education for the Financial Planning Association of New Jersey, a YWCA Twin Award winner and a member of the Fund for Women and Girls Leadership Team.

Sapoch, of Hopewell Borough, has more than 30 years of non-profit leadership experience at the national, state, and local levels, including as Executive Director for the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association.

As an independent consultant since 1998, she has helped raise over $75 million in capital, operating and endowment support for a variety of environmental, cultural, and community-based organizations. Ryan, the Founder and former Chairman of Hopewell Valley Community Bank.

They are leaving the board after completing their terms of service.

The attached image of William Harla was provided by the Princeton Area Community Foundation

Pat Henry students commit to walk for health | The Lawton Constitution

Pat Henry Elementary School students have been participating in a monthly walk-to-school program in conjunction with a program created through the efforts of Lawton Public Schools, the Lawton Police Department and Comanche County Memorial Hospital.

Nancy Lombardo, public information officer for the Lawton Police Department, said Pat Henry counselor Marty McKelvey incorporated the idea of making the walk like a “scavenger hunt” with clues the kids would have to solve to find where in the neighborhood he would be meeting them. Sandy Foster of Comanche County Memorial Hospital’s Healthy Living Program thought it would a great thing to promote for her Healthy Living Program by encouraging students to get more exercise by walking to school.

Memorial was awarded a TSET Healthy Living Program grant.

The idea seems to be panning out as the organization not only runs a successful business, but also hosts book clubs and events that seem to be attracting people from far and wide.

“Our Movie Lovers Book Club is one of our most successful and longest running,” said Janis Glover one of the organizers for the bookstore.

For several years the Movie Lovers Book Club has been offering a local residents the chance to come in pick out a book among their group and the watch the movie.

“There have been a wide assortment of books and movies read and watched over the years,” Glover said. Other than purchasing the book, there is no cost to be a member of the club and Glover said that everyone is welcome to join no matter if they are from Pittsburg.

Filled with comfortable chairs and sofas, the lounge area at the bookstore was designed specifically in mind for groups like the Movie Lovers Book Club to come in and enjoy the use of the bookstore.

While there are other book and writing clubs that meet at the bookstore, Glover said the Railroad Book Depot is hoping to encourage more groups to come in and use the facility for their book club. All book clubs that use the facility receive a 20 percent discount on books purchased at the Railroad Book Depot.

“We’re looking for clubs that cater to young and old,” Glover said.

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The devices were purchased through a three-year grant from Apple.(Photo: Leigh Guidry/The Town Talk)Buy Photo

Six Alexandria schools are “stepping into the 21st century with style,” district officials said Monday as they celebrated a three-year ConnectED grant from Apple that will provide an iPad for every student and teacher at receiving schools.

“With over 2,000 proposals submitted, and 114 awarded grants, our district receiving six of those grants is nothing short of amazing,” Superintendent of Rapides schools Nason “Tony” Authement said. “We believe (the technology) will open up avenues these children would never be exposed to.”

District grant writer Bethanie Herrick wrote and submitted the grant proposals.

“This was a monumental task and without her efforts this would not have become a reality,” Authement said.

Faculty will receive training from Apple duringA 17 professional development days over the next year, Herrick said.A Each school has a plan for sustainability that includes a budget to replace devices as needed after the grant expires.

As technology and the needs of the district change, the grant could evolve, she said.

“It’s a living grant that will move and change as we need it to,” Herrick said.

Monday’s kickoff event was one way to encourage teachers to embrace the new technology and allow it to enhance their instruction, she said.

“The future is theirs to write,” Herrick said.

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Through the efforts of the Tullahoma Wellness Council, the city was awarded a $5,000 Healthier Tennessee Community Grant from The Governoras Foundation for Health and Wellness on Feb. aBoth are available online and are designed to give helpful ideas and tips for creating effective congregational and workplace wellness programs.a

Both programs and the GoNoodle app encourage participants to move even more, eat healthier, and abstain from tobacco use, said Brooks.

Nothing is more important than the health and well-being of the community, according to Mayor Lane Curlee.

aBy being designated a Healthier Tennessee Community, we are improving the lives of many through encouraging physical activity, better nutrition and tobacco abstinence,a said Curlee.

In Tennessee, one in four adult smokes, and one in five high school student uses tobacco, said Brooks.

aApproximately 31 percent of the population is classified as obese and an additional 34 percent is overweight, and Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure are at epidemic levels,a said Brooks. aThe Healthier Tennessee Communities initiative takes a local approach to improving Tennesseansa health by engaging citizens and local leaders in cities, towns, counties and neighborhoods across the state.a

To be designated a Healthier Tennessee Community, Tullahoma must initiate and sustain community-wide events and activities that support physical activity, healthy eating and tobacco abstinence, and then track and measure outputs and accomplishments of the program, said Brooks.

Counties such as Bedford, Benton, Bradley, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Gibson, Giles, Grundy, Hickman, Lauderdale, Loudon, Macon, Maury, Marshall, McMinn, Obion, Polk, Rhea, Weakley and Wilson counties are currently working to become Healthier Tennessee Communities, said Brooks.

Aside from Tullahoma, cities such as Arlington, Clarksville, Collegedale, Cookeville, Crossville, Franklin, Germantown, and Kingsport are currently working to become Healthier Tennessee Communities.

aWe are pleased to present this grant to Tullahoma in recognition of the great work being done there and with the belief that it will boost efforts to improve the health of local citizens and the overall quality of life in the community,a Governoras Foundation CEO Richard Johnson said.

For more information about the Healthier Tennessee Community program and other Healthier Tennessee initiatives, visit www.healthiertn.com.

Jacqui Atkielski can be contacted via email at tnrept09@lcs.net.