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LUBBOCK, TX (PRESS RELEASE) — The Texas Bar Foundation is pleased to announce a $2,500 grant to the Lubbock County Drug Court Foundation.

Since its inception in 1965, the Texas Bar Foundation has awarded more than $16 million in grants to law-related programs. Supported by members of the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Bar Foundation is the nation’s largest charitably-funded bar foundation.

Started in 2004, more than 125 convicted drug users have completed the Drug Court program, which helps them gain skills to stay drug free, enter the workforce, and establish a stable home life.

Eligible drug-addicted persons may be sent to Drug Court in lieu of the traditional justice system. Drug Courts keep individuals in treatment for 18 24 months, with close supervision.

“We are grateful to the Texas Bar Foundation for this generous donation,” said LCDCF President Delbert McDougal. “Every dollar of this grant will go directly to the graduates who have committed to changing their lives.”

Eighty one percent of graduates from the Lubbock program do not re-offend.

The Lubbock County Drug Court Foundation has been supported by numerous local individuals and companies.

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Knight Foundation, is joining Arizona State University as the innovation chief of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Newton, who will hold the faculty rank of professor of practice, will work closely with the school’s leadership to drive new, cutting-edge ideas and initiatives at Cronkite News, the school’s multiplatform daily-news operation. If we are successful, we will do things in journalism education the likes of which the world has never seen.”

Newton developed grants for groundbreaking initiatives such as Poynter Institute’s News University, the largest online journalism training portal in the world, and Sunshine Week, an annual national observance of the importance of open government.

His work was central to the creation of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education, a high-visibility consortium of leading journalism schools dedicated to transforming journalism education at the university level.

The initiative produced the landmark News21 program, headquartered at the Cronkite School, in which top journalism students from across the country investigate issues of national significance. Since its inception in 2006, nearly 500 journalism students have produced investigations that have captured numerous professional and collegiate awards and appeared in major outlets including the Washington Post, USA Today and NBC News.

In his new role at Cronkite, he will lead innovation projects at Cronkite News, the news organization that includes 15 full-time faculty editors and hundreds of students. Cronkite News includes a nightly television news broadcast on Arizona PBS; digital reporting bureaus in Phoenix, Washington and Los Angeles; a business reporting bureau; an entrepreneurial digital innovation lab; a digital production bureau; and a newsgathering and civic journalism bureau.

“Eric is an internationally recognized leader in the digital transformation of journalism over the past 30 years,” said Christopher Callahan, dean of the Cronkite School and CEO of Arizona PBS.

Awarded by Dorland Health, Patient Advocate Foundation is the proud recipient of awards in both the Case Management in Managed Care Programs and the Case Management Specialty Program category under their Case in Point Platinum awards.

HAMPTON, Va., May 27, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping patients overcome healthcare barriers, has been awarded two Case in Point Platinum Awards by Dorland Health for its outstanding case management. PAF received the top award in the category of Case Management in Managed Care Programs-Utilization Management which recognized PAF case managers who navigated complex healthcare issues to provide patients with the best possible resolution and care, with a concentration on debt relief as it applies to denials and appeals assistance. Dorland Health’s Case Management Specialty Programs: Social Work Case Management Program award category acknowledges those organizations providing responsive, adaptive healthcare access initiatives to rapidly emerging health crises.

Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Announces 2015 Lilly Endowment Community Scholars | Local | Journal Gazette
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The following was released on Wednesday, May 27, 2015 by the Community Foundation:

Fort Wayne (May 27, 2015) Five Allen County students will receive full-tuition, four-year scholarships as the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne 2015 Lilly Endowment Community Scholars.

The following students have been selected to receive a scholarship to an Indiana college of their choice and a $900 yearly book stipend for required books and equipment:

Victoria Cook, Woodlan Jr/Sr High School, plans to attend Butler University to pursue a degree in Biology. Cheyney Rose, South Side High School, will attend Indiana University to pursue degree in Photo Journalism and Spanish.

Fifty-nine students applied to their high school and 24 applications were forwarded for review by the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Selection Committee at the Community Foundation.

Inmate Population In The US: 20 Jail Systems Receive MacArthur Foundation Grants To Release Offenders Inmate Population In The US: 20 Jail Systems Receive MacArthur Foundation Grants To Release Offenders MacArthur Foundation this week announced it planned to give 20 jail systems of varied sizes $150,000 each to develop new strategies for who is jailed and who is offered alternatives.

The foundation’s president said the grants are the first step in the Chicago-based charity’s plan to spend $75 million over five years to bring about reforms in the jails. Many county jail systems are pre-trial detention centers, where those who are too poor to afford bail can be kept for months awaiting for their cases to be resolved.

The foundation has asked the selected jail systems to work with experts, judges, prosecutors, court administrators, police and corrections officials to design plans that make their systems run more efficiently, Stasch told the Associated Press. Out of the 20 jail systems, half will be picked next year for a second round of funding ranging from $500,000 to $2 million to implement the plans.

MacArthur’s list of jails includes systems in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia as well as New Orleans, Louisiana, which has the nation’s highest rate of incarceration.

The revelation was greeted with applause by the state governor who commended Dangote Foundation, its founder, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, and the management for their interest in seeing that Kano State is transformed in line with the policy direction of the government

The philanthropic works being undertaken by the Dangote Foundation to support the Kano State Government has hit the mark of N4.2 billion, the Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation, Zouera Youssoufou, has disclosed.

Of this amount, a whopping sum of N1.2 billion is spent annually on a feeding project, a special purpose vehicle designed by the Foundation to reduce hunger and extreme poverty among the down trodden in the state.

The Foundation’s CEO made these disclosures at a meeting with the state Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso, during a working visit to Kano State.

The revelation was greeted with applause by the state governor who commended Dangote Foundation, its founder, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, and the management for their interest in seeing that Kano State is transformed in line with the policy direction of the government.

Youssoufou explained that the her team was in Kano to monitor the various on-going projects being undertaken by the Foundation, assess their stages of completion and ensure they are in conformity with design and expectation of the people they are meant for.

She assured Kwankwaso that Dangote Foundation is a global institution and would not but ensure that all the projects are of international standard, adding that some of the projects are being redesigned in line with new developments and realities.

According to Youssoufou, the Foundation’s Micro-Grant pogramme for empowerment for women and other vulnerable groups in the state has gulped about N880 million, with 88,000 women so far benefitting from it while the Animal Traction Programme executed through a Revolving Loan to farmers, has cost the Foundation some N160 million.

In the areas of provision of clean water, the CEO explained that the Dangote Foundation has contracted out the construction of Borehole facilities for 220 communities across the 44 Local Government Areas of the State at the cost of N110 million.

So far, she stated, the first set of 66 boreholes across six local government areas have being completed for the use of the people of the areas.

While extolling the developmental strides of the Kano State Government, Youssoufou expressed happiness that the collaboration between Dangote Foundation and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Routine Immunization and Polio Eradication in the state has turned out fruitful.

On the partnership, Youssoufou disclosed that Dangote Foundation contributed over N600 million to strengthen Routine Immunization and Primary Health Care over the last three years.

In addition, about N72 million contract has been awarded for the construction of 11 units of Primary Health Care Centres across 11 Local Government Areas of Kano State.

In an interview with newsmen, the Foundation boss said it has also done a lot in education section in the state, pointing out that the Foundation had expended N55 million in the ongoing construction of Hostels at the Kano University of Technology Wudil while in the same vein, the ongoing construction of the Business School in Bayero University, Kano, is gulping N524 million from the Foundation purse.

“We have commenced the construction of a State-of-the-Art Operating Theatre and Diagnostic Centre at the Murtala Muhammad hospital, Kano and is estimated at N440million. For Students of the University in Wudil, we are currently building hostels that will cost us N55 million,” she noted.

While reiterating the Foundation’s commitment to the development of Kano State, she said the Dangote Foundation has been partnering with the Kano State Government on several other development projects not captured in the catalogue of projects being reeled out.

Kwankwaso was full of appreciation to the Foundation for its development agenda for the state and assured the Foundation that all the projects when completed would be adequately maintained.

He said the Dangote Foundation has done so much for Kano State in the last four years, especially in the area of polio eradication, which the state is grateful for.

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A group of committed West Fargo school supporters are bringing the West Fargo Educational Foundation back to life.

The Foundation was started following a school reunion in the 1980s by a group of graduates who wanted to give something back to the district, said Alison Otteson, current Foundation president.

Otteson, a 1997 graduate took charge and with the help of other alumni, is moving forward to reinvigorate the foundation.

Earlier this year, the Foundation awarded $5,000 mini grants to 10 district teachers.

The group hopes to help secure funding for preschool and other programs for which West Fargo School District receives no state or federal financial support.

“We have some big goals,” Otteson said. This year the district had 9,000 students enrolled with predictions of over 14,000 within 10 years, Otteson said.

“The Foundation hopes to assist the district in keeping with the values of educational excellence as the district continues to grow at unprecedented rates,” Otteson said.

Otteson, a former West Fargo athlete had an early example of the community support that can exist in West Fargo.

“Packer Backers were a huge influence. “I have a passion for West Fargo.”

The Foundation also plans to help provide access to more after-school programming by helping provide a transportation system to assist those who can’t currently find ways to participate in after-school activities, she said.

The Foundation would also like to help provide after-school tutoring and job resume programs, Otteson said.

There are currently 12 people on the Foundation.