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BALTIMORE, Feb. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, tomorrow will launch its 5th annual community-wide Book Drive in support of the Baltimore Elementary and Middle School Library Project.

Just $7 will buy a brand new, hardcover book for one of the Baltimore City Public Schools libraries that will be renovated this year as part of the Library Project.

Book collection bins will also be available at select Baltimore businesses, organizations, and schools.

Weinberg Foundation“>The Weinberg Foundation has committed $10 million to build or transform up to 24 Baltimore City Public Schools libraries in an effort to strengthen academic achievement among students.

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private charitable foundations in the United States, provides approximately $100 million in annual grants to nonprofits that provide direct services to low-income and vulnerable individuals and families, primarily in the US and Israel. Grants are focused on meeting basic needs and enhancing an individual’s ability to meet those needs with emphasis on older adults, the Jewish community, and our hometown communities of Maryland, Northeastern Pennsylvania, and Hawaii. The trustees, some of whom also serve as executive officers of the Foundation, are Donn Weinberg, Barry Schloss, Robert T. Kelly, Jr., Alvin Awaya, and Board Chair Ellen M.

Media Contact: Craig Demchak, 443-738-1159, cdemchak@hjweinberg.org

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The Hive: Co-op and social enterprise development hub launchesCo-operatives UK and the Co-operative Bank have launched The Hive co-op development hubThe Hive: Co-op and social enterprise development hub launches

In 2015, the Bank committed 1m towards co-operative development, in a deal that would see Co-operatives UK delivering a range of programmes.

The Hive, which launches today (29 February), is aimed at people wanting to set up co-operative or community enterprises, and will also support the development of the existing 7,000 independent UK co-op businesses. There are also tools, templates and checklists for organisations to work through, from Business Planning to Buyouts and Conversions, and a list of preferred providers who offer one-to-one and group advice for the Hive programme.

“This is just phase one of the programme, but alongside training and advice, it already offers what we think may be the most comprehensive online guide to starting and growing a co-operative out there,” said Ed Mayo, secretary general at Co-operatives UK.

An online co-operative community launching in April will further unite member-owned businesses across the country by creating networking and business development opportunities.

The launch of the Hive comes as research from Co-operatives UK highlights evidence of people’s discontentment with the amount of control they have over the economy, their workplaces and their local communities.

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The Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce has enough buyers lined up to get its Cape Ann license plates on the road.

It also has a new foundation in place to handle and distribute the net dollars realized from the sale of the plates back into Cape Ann’s four communities.

Now, CEO Ken Riehl says, the chamber needs the completed applications a and the cash to see the project through.

Riehl said this week the Chamber has more than 900 people signed up to get the plates, which is more than the 750 required by the Registry of Motor Vehicles to begin production under the new guidelines agreed to by the Legislature last year. But, as Riehl had noted at the time, the Chamber allowed residents or visitors to turn in applications for the plates without including a check to cover the $60 cost.

To receive the specialty plates, designed by Rockport graphic artist Annalei Babson, car owners will need to pay a one-time registry plate transfer fee of $25, and the RMV’s regular biannual renewal fee of $60 when the new plates arrive.

The plates, which Babson crafted as part of a Chamber contest when the project began in May 2014, feature four small panels depicting Gloucesteras Man At The Wheel, Rockportas Motif No. Checks should be made out to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, he said.

Community role

The role of the Gloucester mayor’s office in serving as a drop-off point spotlights the community role the Chamber’s license plate project is expected to serve.

From the start, Chamber officials have emphasized that any money raised beyond the RMV fee and other costs will be steered back into the communities of Gloucester, Rockport, Manchester and Essex, with an eye toward regional promotion, economic development and local education.

To that end, the Chamber has now created the Cape Ann Community Foundation to meet the state requirements that any such project have a separate, federally recognized 501(c)(3) organization to manage and distribute any incoming money. The foundation, Riehl said, will have a board of directors comprised of representatives from each of the communities, and will be poised to move as proceeds become realized.

All of that, Riehl said, means the Chamber is prepared to reel in the plate fees and see the plates on Cape Ann’s and other roadways later this year.

“The Registry needs four to six months (for creating and delivering the plates),” Riehl said, “but if we can submit the minimum 750 completed applications and checks by (late) March, we’ll be seeing these plates on the road by the latter part of summer.

“That,” he said, “will be great to see.”

Staff writer Ray Lamont can be reached at 978-675-2705 or via email at rlamont@gloucestertimes.com.

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ClearlySo, the United Kingdom’s leading impact investment intermediary, announced today that Matthew Vickerstaff has been hired as head of investment banking. He brings a wealth of advisory, bank financing, fixed income and capital markets, project finance and other structured finance experience, as well as broad sector knowledge and expertise; which will be highly valuable for ClearlySo’s clients and investors.

The addition of Vickerstaff comes on the heels of ClearlySo’s announcement that capital raising activity for their clients has surpassed 100 million and the firm gears up for further growth as impact investing rises to prominence.

Matthew Vickerstaff, head of investment banking, stated: “I am delighted to join ClearlySo at what is such an exciting and dynamic time for impact investing, and for such a recognised leader in the market.” We are confident that Matthew shares deeply the values which underpin this field, and it says a great deal about Matthew that he saw the opportunity to use his valuable skills to change the world.”

Vickerstaff joins three other members of ClearlySo’s management team, comprising Head of Impact Services Lindsay Smart, ex-Vigeo UK/US head, Chief Marketing Officer John Lloyd, who recently arrived from Fintech leader Traiana, which successfully exited in a trade sale to ICAP in 2007, and Founder and CEO Rodney Schwartz.

For more information and interview requests, please contact: zoe.tabacek@clearlyso.com

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About ClearlySo

ClearlySo is the United Kingdom’s leading impact investment intermediary, working exclusively with

businesses and funds delivering social and/or environmental impact as well as financial return.

Originally founded in 2008, ClearlySo has helped more than 75 businesses raise more than 105 million in

impact investment, including over 5 million investment into early-stage businesses from Clearly Social

Angels, the UK’s largest impact orientated angel investor network.

John William Pope Foundation President John Hood praises Safelight’s Dandelion Eatery, which received a $100,000 grant to expand its commercial kitchen. If we can help people help themselves and break that cycle and be productive citizens there’s nothing more beautiful than that.”
Pope Foundation president John Hood praised the Dandelion for its solution-based program that hires domestic violence victims as interns and by training them as cooks and servers helps them break the cycle of dependence and abuse.
The Dandelion project is “not just something that is benefiting one community but we hope a program that will inspire others to do similar things in their community,” Hood said. “We have some ideas about how that might work but we know there’s a lot we don’t know, and one of the purposes of the Joy Pope Memorial Grant was to discover ideas, to support them, to nurture them and to make other people aware of them across the state.”
Safelight’s mission to “make hope real” is a fitting match for the Pope Foundation’s mission to find and spread the word about nongovernment human services solutions that work.
“That is a mission we are privileged to invest in,” Hood added.

The Citi Foundation Helps India Prepare To Be World’s Youngest Population By 2020 | Justmeans The initiative is called ‘Skill India’, with the tagline – ‘Kaushal Bharat, Kushal Bharat’, which means ‘Skilled India, Successful India.’ India is set to experience a dynamic transformation as the population burden of the past turns into a demographic dividend, but the benefits will be tempered with social and regional inequalities.

Supporting the India’s national agenda of ‘Skill India’ will be the Citi Foundation’s India Innovation Grant Program (IIGP), which is a first-of-its-kind initiative in India, launched in 2014 to encourage non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to develop innovative, sustainable financial education and inclusion models. Now in its third year, IIGP will expand to focus on investing in the skills of the youth across the country and prepare them for and connect them with economic opportunities, which in turn, will propel economic progress and inclusion in India.

In India, the Citi Foundation’s overall grant program is focused on addressing the socio-economic challenges with innovative and strategic grants, which will help enhance and grow financial inclusion, promote responsible financial behavior via increased financial literacy and create new income-generating opportunities in low income communities.

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