Balasubramaniam (Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement).

Scaling up

India has many wonderful examples of social entrepreneurs who have improved the lives of people. A question often asked is: What about learning from the corporate sector, about how small start-ups grow into large enterprises, and how large corporations are run?

There is a fundamental difference in the concept of scale between the business-corporate and social enterprise sectors. Whereas the success of social enterprises must be measured by the impact they have on the lives of others. This concept applies to government too: minimum government, maximum impact.

The objective of the social entrepreneur must be to release the power within people at the bottom of the pyramid.

Collaboration

Another insight from the mentors is the power of collaboration among the intended beneficiaries of the social enterprises.

A principal thrust of enterprises to remove poverty must be to increase incomes for the people, by enabling them to form income-generating enterprises. The mindset seems to be to make the people partners in the government’s and social enterprise’s programme, rather than the government and social enterprise becoming partners in a programme owned by the community. On top are the “quick wins” and at the bottom are the fundamental institutional capabilities required to support a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem of social enterprises and SMEs.

Each of these institutions must focus on their own partnerships with the communities in the centre and win their trust.

‘Project Intonation’ gets grant – YourGV.com: A&E

The Halifax County Middle School Band received a Halifax County Public Schools Education Foundation teacher mini-grant of $400 for the school year 2015-2016 to purchase new tuners for Project Intonation.

Roy Wilson, DTE Energy President and Chief Operating Officer Steve Kurmas, and several students.

The $1.4 million grant will be awarded as follows:

$1.2 million to the College of Engineering to support the DTE Energy Foundation Eos Program for Student Success, a pilot program for all aspiring engineers. (Eos is the Greek goddess of the dawn.)
$100,000 to the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies’ Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) to help incoming first-generation college students succeed in core classes and smoothly transition to college-level academics.
$48,000 to Wayne State’s Mike Ilitch School of Business for scholarships that will alleviate tuition costs and help students stay in school until graduation.

“Our partnership with the DTE Energy Foundation supports Wayne State’s mission of providing students with access and opportunity,” said Wayne State University President M. “Assisting students today benefits Michigan’s workforce and all of our communities tomorrow.”

Funding for the DTE Energy Foundation Eos Program for Student Success will establish an academic and financial assistance program for first- and second-year engineering students to help students build an academic support network, promoting success through a difficult phase of college.

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CCCR Receives $15K Grant From Community Foundation of Collier – Naples Herald Eileen Connolly-Keesler of the Community Foundation of Collier County presented a grant check to Niccole Howard of Collier Child Care Resources, Inc for $15,000.

The Community foundation of Collier County just made life a little easier for many low-income families by donating $15,000 from the Alfred & Vera Goodman Fund directly to Collier Child Care Resources(CCCR).

The generous grants, will open the door for many children who come from low-income families by providing partial tuition for those enrolled at the NCEF Early Childhood Education Center, which is operated by CCCR.

Serving over 275 children annually, CCCR’s mission is to provide high quality early childhood care, education and endless resources to children, families and early learning professionals in Collier County.

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Nicest Job in Britain seeks 40 charities for 2016 version | Third Sector Nicest Job in Britain seeks 40 charities for 2016 version

The manager will be provided by the Nicest Job in Britain scheme, which is in its second year.

Luke Cameron, a former clothes company assistant who took part in the scheme in 2015 when it was run by the energy consultancy Utility Aid, relaunched the Nicest Job in Britain as a not-for-profit initiative earlier this year.

Cameron, who has secured sponsorship to part-fund this year’s initiative from the charity auctions website Givergy, said the biggest benefit to the 45 charities that took part in last year’s programme which included Guide Dogs, Help for Heroes and the Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity was the media exposure they received.

To find out more about the Nicest Job in Britain and the PR benefits secured by charities in 2015, see this month’s Communications Good Practice in Third Sector magazine.

They of course would receive sympathetic hearing from the trust’s grant makers given the long history and the intense involvement of both the city of New Haven and the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven in the sale deal.

Under law, however, the bank could not simply funnel money to the clubs or the Friends without treating them the way they would any applicant, he said

The preparation of those grant applications is being facilitated by Jackie Downing of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. Until now they didn’t have to fundraise” Downing said.

Bayer pointed out that of the three entities, the Friends and the two clubs, only one is in possession of formal charitable 501(c)3 status.

Judge Forgione asked the status of the Friends’ non-profit credentials.

The Friends at this point raises and receive funds using the fiscal sponsorship of the Community Foundation, replied Friends’ attorney Ronald Pacacha.

“We’d hope that for the first few years, it would be a non-competitive process,” said Downing.

Bayer pointed out that the trust, which now must shift from an operating to a non-operating basis, but still give away 5 percent of its principal every year, would have about $38,000 to distribute.

If most of that were given to the clubs and the Friends, how should the trust respond, Bayer posed the hypothetical, if the city of New Haven sough support for a great new arts venture?

Several other participants reminded the court that the Friends had assembled more than 1,200 signatures for support, that the city is behind the group, as is the Community Foundation.

These issues, along with details of the closing, are to be discussed at the next status hearing, the seventh, scheduled in Judge Forgione’s court for March 24.

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Bozrah’s history emerging on school’s wall – News – The Bulletin – Norwich, CT Students from all grades as well as members of the community are being asked to contribute to the mural, which will depict the history of Bozrah. History is unfolding on a wall at Fields Memorial School in Bozrah, thanks to a collaboration between the school’s students and a local muralist.Three days each week, Faith Satterfield and the children take paintbrushes to the wall of the school’s multipurpose room, which is also an auditorium, and work on slowly transforming the blank wall into scenes depicting the town’s history, from its 1786 founding to the present.”It’s exciting. This is the first piece of public art Bozrah has ever had,” Satterfield said as she spent Friday morning with seventh-graders Sierra Vann and Kyra Adcock and eighth-grader Julia Citro applying some of the landscape, such as trees, hills and the Yantic River.The painting will involve all students in the school, which includes kindergarten through grade 8, as well as members of the community.”We’re starting with eighth-grade because they’re the tallest,” Satterfield said. Satterfield said she’s thankful for the assistance from teacher and local historian Evelyn Brown.”She has been so invaluable to me with getting correct dates and other facts that go into this,” Satterfield said.The mural became possible through a grant to the school’s PTO from the Department of Economic and Community Development and Connecticut Office of the Arts. It’s administered by the Southeastern Connecticut Cultural Coalition.”The stipulations of the grant are that the project must involve every student in the school and members of the community, and that it must depict the history and culture of the town,” Satterfield said.Local parent Miria Toth, who is co-chairwoman of the PTO and has children at the school, is excited to see the results of the collaboration between the muralist and students. mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+mainImageData_credit+”; mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+mainImageData_caption+”; $(‘#art-main-image-credit-container_sm’).css(‘width’,smimgwidth).css(‘padding’,’3px ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding – 3)+’px 0 0’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container_sm’).css(‘width’,sm_img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding + 3)+’px’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container’).css(‘width’,img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+mainImageData_leftPadding+’px’); $(‘#art-main-image-credit-container’).css(‘width’,img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding)+’px 0 0’);

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