Northern New York Community Foundation offers $30,000 in scholarships to St.

The Northern New York Community Foundation is giving $30,000 in yearly scholarships to St. Lawrence County students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) fields.

The Evergreen STEM Scholarship Fund, in partnership with Massena and Gouverneur residents Charles and Higouhi Owens will be administered by the foundation in perpetuity in collaboration with representatives from school districts throughout St.

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Health Records Billionaire Judy Faulkner, Chobani Yogurt Founder, 8 Others Join The Giving Pledge – Forbes

Electronic health records entrepreneur Judy Faulkner.

The Giving Pledge was launched in 2010 by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates to encourage billionaires to give the majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes. Others who just signed onto the pledge include Chobani yogurt founder Hamdi Ulukaya, former Cleveland Cavaliers owner Gordon Gund and his wife Llura, Indian education entrepreneur Sunny Varkey and his wife Sherly, Brazilian property developer (formerly on Forbes World’s Billionaires list) Elie Horn and his wife Susy, Chicago technology investor and entrepreneur Brad Keywell and his wife Kim, and oil services billionaire Sir Ian Wood of the U.K.

Faulkner said in her Giving Pledge letter that she plans to give away 99% of her wealth. My goal in pledging 99% of my wealth to philanthropy is to help others with roots food, warmth, shelter, healthcare, education so they too can have wings,” Faulkner wrote.

Hamdi Ulukaya, who was born in Turkey and has built a $1.4 billion fortune making Chobani yogurt in the U.S., wrote in his Giving Pledge letter that, “I dedicate the signing of the Giving Pledge to my mother and I am publicly committing the majority of my personal wealth along with everything else I can do to to help refugees and help bring an end to this humanitarian crisis.”

Those who sign the Giving Pledge meet throughout the year to discuss challenges and successes and how to be smarter about giving. The Giving Pledge organizers said topics discussed at this year’s annual gathering, which just wrapped up, included leveraging philanthropy to drive women’s economic opportunities, solving environmental issues and philanthropy’s role in scientific and medical research.

The larger goal of the Giving Pledge is to change the way charitable giving takes place. “Over the long term, the Giving Pledge hopes to help shift the social norms of philanthropy toward giving more, giving sooner and giving smarter,” the Giving Pledge organization said in a statement. So far less than 8% of the 1,826 billionaires Forbes found for our 2015 list of the World’s Billionaires have signed on to the pledge, although plenty of billionaires do make charitable contributions on their own, without joining the Pledge.

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These kids are usually accompanied by a group of toothy pals who help hold up makeshift signs to draw curbside attention.

But this season, I’ve met a group of business-minded middle school and elementary students who have taken the concept of running a lemonade stand to a whole other level.

Business savvy Frisco tween Kendal Webb, along with her partners Alexis and Alyssa Rollings, developed their own deliciously organic lemonade blend and launched a mobile storefront called Lemon-A-Peel.

The girls got their start at the National Lemonade Day, which was held at NorthPark Center early May.

As part of this entrepreneurial experience, the Lemon-A-Peel team learned how to start, own and operate their own business a lemonade stand.

During the local Lemonade Day event, the girls competed with kids from across North Texas and put their business skills they learned into practice.

Kendal, Alexis and Alyssa learned the ins-and-outs of business operations ranging from buying supplies, to marketing, to picking their perfect selling location.

The girls also enlisted their parents to help sort out some of the details, like the cost of supplies right down to the number of cups they needed to help maximize profit.

Lemonade work is tough business

The dads lent a hand with some of the heavy lifting, design and construction of the glammed-out mobile storefront unit. Wright Foundation; Clint Bruce, former Navy SEAL and founder of the national charity Carry the Load; Carl Dorvil, founder of Dallas-based tutoring company Group Excellence and 10-year-old Mikaila Ulmer, whose Lemonade Day experience led her to launch her own BeeSweet lemonade brand and subsequently net a $60,000 investment from appearing on the TV show Shark Tank.

After winning the People’s Choice Award title at the competition, I recently caught up with the Lemon-A-Peel team hard at work in front of the Kroger at the Legacy Ranch Retail Center in Frisco.

The girls told me that they learned a lot about not only what it takes to make a profit. It also plants community vegetable gardens to offer food security and income for families, as well as to provide school lunches.

That’s a pretty impressive goal for these fledgling entrepreneurs.

So next time you pass an overly enthusiastic group of kids waving signs to get you to stop and buy their lemonade, just remember that’s not just a cup of flavored water.

It could be a “cup of hope” that might make a lasting impact on a child.

Running a lemonade stand, no matter how big or small, can teach kids like the Lemon-A-Peel team, business skills and principles which follow them into adulthood.

Whether they become entrepreneurs or not, the life skills learned from this perennial summer pastime today, can help develop strong community leaders tomorrow.

To learn Lemon-A-Peel or to support their lemonade stand to benefit the Rollings Foundation, email Lemonapeel2015@gmail.com.

Carla Meadows is a Far North Dallas wife and mother of two tween girls.

SEATTLE, June 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Today the Giving Pledge announced the addition of ten new individuals and families to the pledge since May 2014, bringing the current total of signatories to 137. Launched in 2010 and now in its fifth year, the Giving Pledge is a multi-generational, global initiative created by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates that encourages billionaires to give the majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes.

The ten new signatories announced today are: Judy Faulkner, Harold Grinspoon and Diane Troderman, Gordon and Llura Gund, Elie and Susy Horn, John W. Jordan II “Jay”, Brad and Kim Keywell, Ruth and Bill Scott, Hamdi Ulukaya, Sunny and Sherly Varkey, and Sir Ian Wood.

Globally, signatories represent 14 countries: Australia, Brazil, Germany, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, UAE, United Kingdom, and United States. In the United States, they are from 26 states and the District of Columbia, with the largest contingents from California and New York. With a BS in Mathematics from Dickinson College, an MS and a Doctorate of Science (honorary) from the University of Wisconsin and a Doctorate of Science (honorary) from Mount Sinai, NY, she taught computer science for several years in the UW system and then worked as a healthcare software developer, creating one of the first databases organized around a patient record.

Harold Grinspoon and Diane Troderman
Harold Grinspoon is the founder and Chairman of the Board of a private multifamily investment and management company, which is one of the fifty largest apartment owners in the country.

Gordon and Llura Gund
Gordon Gund is the Chairman and CEO of Gund Investment Corporation, a Princeton, NJ firm founded in 1968 that oversees a broad range of investment activities.

He is a co-founder and Chairman of the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) of Columbia, MD. Lulie retired in 2013 as Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the George Gund Foundation in Cleveland, OH, after 29 years on its Board.

Elie and Susy Horn
Low-profile real estate builder Elie Horn founded Cyrela Brazil Realty in 1978 and built it into the largest publicly traded developer of high-end residential buildings in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Horn was born in Syria, arrived in Brazil when he was 11, and started working when he was 19.

Ruth and Bill Scott
An Ashland, Nebraska native, Bill Scott joined Buffett Partnership in 1959 and Berkshire Hathaway in 1970, where he remained until he retired in the early 1990s. Ruth Scott also grew up in Ashland.

Hamdi Ulukaya
Hamdi Ulukaya founded Chobani in upstate New York in 2005 and launched Chobani Greek Yogurt in 2007.

Hamdi sits on the boards of the American Turkish Council, Turkish American Society, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Pathfinder Village for down syndrome.

Sir Ian Wood
Born and educated in Aberdeen, Ian Wood graduated from Aberdeen University in 1964 with a First Class Honours Degree in Psychology. He is Chairman of The Wood Foundation, a Scottish-based charity with a global outlook including significant activities in supporting smallholder farmers in the tea industries in Tanzania and Rwanda.

A new charity fund has been formed to honor the memory and work of Beau Biden, who died Saturday after a losing battle with brain cancer.

The Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children is being created by Beau’s wife Hallie and the Delaware Community Foundation to raise money for children affected by domestic violence and abuse.

While serving as state attorney general, Biden considered a 2010 run for the US Senate seat vacated by his father in 2008, but decided against that so he could better focus on the prosecution of child molester Earl Bradley.

DCF president and CEO Fred Sears a longtime family friend of the Bidens said the Bradley case had a life-changing effect on Beau as he continued to advocate for the rights of victims of abuse through his professional and personal life.

“And I’m just honored to be able to play some role in remembering his legacy as just an outstanding young man and unfortunately a true leader that we really didn’t get to see everything he was going to be able to do in Delaware,” said Sears.

Sears adds Biden’s dedication to Delaware’s youth went beyond his job, noting he went out of his way to talk to kids about online predators and mentor young people.

“If I called his office and talked to him and said ‘Would somebody come over here and talk to these high school seniors?’

TeleTech Community Foundation Makes Impact on Global Basis Foundation Donated Half a Million Dollars to 86 Educational Organizations Around the World; Contributed Modern Technology to Students in Colorado and Helped Build a Philippines School’s First Library a leading provider of customer experience, engagement and growth solutions, today shared that the TeleTech Community Foundation (the Foundation) donated more than $500,000 to charitable organizations globally in 2014 and has been able to impact schools, libraries, after-school groups, museums and more, in the Philippines, Mexico, Haiti, Brazil, UK, and across the U.S. By focusing efforts on improving the educational experience for those in the most need, the Foundation reflects two of TeleTech’s six corporate values “do the right thing” and “reach for amazing.” In addition, the Foundation donated iPads worth $50,000 to University Preparatory School in Denver, Colorado, as well as computers, printers, projectors, smart boards and more. With support from the Foundation and the TeleTech facilities team, the school was rebuilt and furnished to accommodate the more than 250 students who occupy the building today. And finally, in the U.S., 40 employees from corporate headquarters in Colorado volunteered to read to 125 students at University Preparatory School through our Book Trust partnership, which funds at-home libraries for students.

“The TeleTech Community Foundation was founded on the principle that education is the key to a successful community,” said Richard Herbst, vice president of the TeleTech Community Foundation. “Each year, the Foundation impacts the global communities where our employees live and work by providing funds, volunteers, services in-kind, and equipment donations that help transform the educational experiences for students of the greatest need.”

The TeleTech Community Foundation by the numbers can be viewed in its 2014 Giving Impact report. Using customer-centric strategy, technology, processes and operations, TeleTech partners with business leadership across marketing, sales and customer care to design and deliver a simple, more human customer experience across every interaction channel. To learn more about how TeleTech is bringing humanity to the customer experience visit TeleTech.com.

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The founder of the million-dollar Global Teacher Prize is to become the first education entrepreneur to sign up for Bill Gates’s campaign for philanthropic donations.

Sunny Varkey, the Indian-born founder of the Gems education business, is joining the Giving Pledge.

This is a commitment made by the extremely wealthy to give away most of their money to philanthropic causes.

Mr Varkey said he wanted to support the “vital cause” of education.

The Giving Pledge was set up five years ago by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffet as a way for the mega-rich to use their wealth for good causes.

Tech billionaires

So far, 136 individuals or families have made this commitment to give at least half of their money to philanthropic projects – including Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Richard Branson of Virgin and one of the wealthiest technology entrepreneurs in the US, Larry Ellison.

Bradford’s fifth grade teacher Jessica Loeffler has spent 12 weeks on the wide-ranging project that’s led to the stuffed toy menagerie.

Theron Chandler, a fifth grader at Bradford Elementary School, shows the teddy bear he made for a child who needs to take an ambulance in the Upper Valley. Credit Charlotte Albright / VPR

“Students have gone through a lot of research, they’ve researched non-profits in in the Upper Valley, they’ve presented both within their fifth grade and to the entire school. Now this is culminating in this project, that they’ve brainstormed what we should do to give back to Upper Valley Ambulance,” Loeffler said.

The ambulance service is also one of three non-profits the kids chose to compete for a $500 prize half collected from local merchants and half from the coffers of Inspiring Kids, which also solicits donations.

At the end of the school day, students filed into the auditorium to hear which non-profit garnered the most votes the ambulance, a food pantry, or David’s House, a temporary residence for families of kids getting treated at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Two teachers, a musical duo called Wild Roots, strummed a two-tapping processional and told the kids that were going to give a benefit concert that night for the food bank.

“Students have gone through a lot of research, they’ve researched non-profits in in the Upper Valley … – Jessica Loeffler, teacher at Bradford Elementary School

A few fifth graders marched to the front of the room holding sign covered with fabric.

“And the winner is David’s House!”