9 students awarded scholarships from local foundation – Laredo Morning Times: Local News
Picture from left are Pete Garza, foundation board member, Marisela Jacaman, foundation vice chair, Vanessa Vela, Early College High School recipient, Maria Roxanne Vasquez, Cigarroa High School recipient, Raul Ruiz, Zapata High School recipient, Isidro R. Alaniz, foundation chair, Jazmine PeA a, Martin High School recipient, Christina Aidee Limon, United High School recipient, Samantha Hernandez, LBJ High School recipient, Sissy de los Reyes, Alexander High School recipient, Ana AguiA a, United South High School recipient, David Sanchez, foundation treasurer, and Cecilia Garcia, foundation secretary.

The Webb County Better Community Foundation awarded an academic collegiate scholarship to nine local high school seniors during a special ceremony held at the Webb County 406th District Court on Wednesday.

The foundation reviewed hundreds of applicants from every high school. The recipients chosen were students who demonstrated a commitment to excellence throughout their high school career in academics, athletics, extracurricular activities as well as community involvement. The $1,000 scholarship will aid high school seniors with financial assistance to students wanting to pursue a college degree in any field.

Ana AguiA a, United South High SchoolSissy de los Reyes, Alexander High SchoolOmar Garcia, Nixon High SchoolSamantha Hernandez, LBJ High SchoolChristina Aidee Limon, United High SchoolJazmine PeA a, Martin High SchoolRaul Ruiz, Zapata High SchoolMaria Roxanne Vasquez, Cigarroa High SchoolVanessa Vela, Early College High School

A proposal to collect financial contributions from every city and town in Marin over the next three years to help pay for expanding the county’s winter shelter program has already won the support of six municipalities, the minimum deemed necessary to implement the plan.

Councils in Larkspur and Fairfax approved the scheme Wednesday.

The winter program is known as the “rotating emergency shelter team” or REST program because churches and synagogues take turns sheltering homeless men; homeless women are housed at the county’s Health and Wellness Campus in San Rafael. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin County for the last seven years.

The Marin County Council of Mayors and Councilmembers is attempting to collect half of the needed funds, $180,000, from Marin’s 11 municipalities.

Three-year pledge

Cities and towns that join the effort commit to making the financial contribution for at least three years, but the mayors and council members’ council hopes to build an ongoing community homeless fund that can be used for additional future projects.

The council has said it expects the county of Marin and the Marin Community Foundation to jointly supply the other $180,000 needed to operate an expanded REST program this year.

Thomas Peters, president of the Marin Community Foundation, said that the foundation will contribute $250,000 to the program again this year.

“I’m happy to be the purveyor of good news,” Peters said.

The Community Homeless Fund has the support of the Marin Organizing Committee, a group of nonprofits and faith-based organizations that helped create the REST program. It asked all of Marin’s cities and towns to jointly foot 20 percent of the estimated $1.25 million cost; the committee had also hoped the county of Marin would contribute $500,000 and the Marin Community Foundation about $250,000.

She said creation of the Community Homeless Fund will “give us some breathing room to figure out what it’s really going to take to make this 24-7 shelter a reality.”

Colin said in the future the Community Homeless Fund might be used to help fund the creation of a 24-7 shelter; however, not during the three-year funding cycle that municipalities are now committing to.

“The 24-7 shelter concept really needs to be led by the county of Marin,” Colin said.

Conservancy makes deal to protect North Tonawanda wetlands – City & Region – The Buffalo News Conservancy makes deal to protect North Tonawanda wetlands

NORTH TONAWANDA The Western New York Land Conservancy announced Friday it has made an agreement with the Buffalo Audubon Society to protect most of the Klydel Wetlands in North Tonawanda.

The sides agreed to a conservation easement for about 28 acres of the 36-acre wetland zone owned by the Audubon Society, which officially calls it the North Tonawanda Audubon Nature Preserve. The Land Conservancy has been able to use conservation easements to protect some other parcels of land in the region.

“Klydel Wetlands is an incredibly important natural asset for everyone in North Tonawanda,” said Liz Kaszubski, founder of Citizens for a Green North Tonawanda, a community group that spearheaded efforts to create the preserve.

The site includes mature forests intermingled with seasonal pools and hosts numerous species of wildlife, including the small Eastern Screech Owl, which nests in tree cavities there. In short, protecting places like the Klydel Wetlands is an investment in the future of our region,” Smith said.

Another type of investment came in the form of grants to the conservancy this week by two local foundations, contributing to its $3.2 million plan to purchase land along the Niagara River in Lewiston from the Sisters of St. The Land Conservancy has now received more than $2.9 million of the more than $3.2 million needed to create the Stella Niagara Preserve.

In February, the conservancy received a $200,000 challenge gift from Pamela and Joe Priest of Lewiston, and when it is matched, the project’s fundraising goal will have been met, but the deadline is June 1, and more donations are being sought.

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GiveChoose on May 5 raised more than $136,000 for 48 local charities, including Loudoun Interfaith Relief, which was awarded $34,000 in the day-long event.

The event boasted twice the amount of funds raised compared to last year’s event. GiveChoose helps local organizations raise needed funding, while also connecting individuals with charities in their backyardasome of whom are only just learning about our local charities and the critical roles or quality of life needs they address here at home.a

As the top performer of the day, Loudoun Interfaith Relief Executive Director Jennifer Montgomery said approximately 65 percent of their donors were new, never before having made a gift to a food pantry.

Of the funds the LIF raised, $6,000 was from a series of prizes awarded throughout the day, a pool of funds to help incentivize both charity and its donors created by GiveChoose sponsors Backflow Technology, Middleburg Bank, Toth Financial Advisory, the Hillsdale Fund, the Loudoun Chamber of Commerce, Mitchell & Company, McCandlish Lillard and Alpha Graphics Loudoun.

The 53 graduates comprise the third group of students to be graduated from the new Lilly Family School of Philanthropy since its founding in 2012 and the largest since the 1987 founding of the school’s predecessor, the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. The Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, the nation’s first school dedicated to research and teaching about philanthropy, will hold a school graduation ceremony immediately following the IUPUI commencement. Aaron Dorfman, executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) and an alumnus of the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, will keynote the school’s event. Four Lilly Family School of Philanthropy graduates or students have been honored on the IU Graduate and Professional School’s Elite 50 students list: Frank Essien, Lijun He, Wyatt Jackson and Xiaonan Kou. Learn more information about the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy graduates and their plans and aspirations at Meet our Graduates.

The Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy is dedicated to improving philanthropy to improve the world by training and empowering students and professionals to be innovators and leaders who create positive and lasting change in the world. The school offers a comprehensive approach to philanthropy through its academic, research and international programs and through The Fund Raising School, Lake Institute on Faith & Giving and the Women’s Philanthropy Institute.

The Luca John Foundation Sock Hop – Shore News Today: Calendar

Trenton, NJ, April 24, 2015- The Luca John Foundation will host a Sock Hop Dance Night Saturday, May 9 from 6 p.m.

Founded in 2006 by Kevin and Nickie Baranowski, who lost their infant son, Luca, to a rare form of skeletal dysplasia, the Luca John Foundation is one of the only national non-profits that provides emotional and financial support for families who have lost a child under the age of 12 months.

American Ireland Fund raises 3.8m at New York event

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The American Ireland Fund, the philanthropic organisation that raises money for Irish causes, made $4.3 million ( 3.8 million) at its 40th annual New York gala on Thursday evening.

The organisation has now raised more than $500 million since its inception. The gala dinner itself, started in 1976 by Sir Anthony O’Reilly and former US ambassador to Ireland Dan Rooney, has raised more than $50 million in support of the fund’s philanthropic work.

On Thursday, the fund paid tribute to Senator George Mitchell, the special guest at the event, for his efforts at advancing peace in Northern Ireland resulting in the Belfast Agreement of 1998.

The family of Leslie Quick, the late co-founder of the Wall Street brokerage Quick & Reilly, and his wife Regina were honoured for their philanthropic work across Ireland, receiving the Bird and Bell Award.

The award’s past recipients include the late Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, actor Liam Neeson and former president Mary McAleese.

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Bloomfield grad Brandi Blakley chosen as IUPUI Commencement speaker
Friday, May 8, 2015

IUPUI Senior Brandy Blakley, a graduate of Bloomfield High School, is graduating from IUPUI and has been chosen to speak at the commencement ceremony on Sunday. Indianapolis — Indiana University Purdue University of Indianapolis (IUPUI) senior Brandi Blakley has been selected as the 2015 Graduation Commencement Speaker.

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IUPUI Chancellor Charles Bantz, left, and Brandi Blakley, right, at the school’s “Commitment to Service Dinner,” an acknowledgment dinner and reception honoring Blakley for all her philanthropy at the school.

To understand more about Blakley’s story, watch a video online that aired in a news broadcast by News Channel 13 in Indianapolis, Unlocking the Past.

Blakley has spent her entire college career dedicated to her school and the community.

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