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PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: Community Foundation scholarships inspire and empower | Gwinnett Daily Post PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: Community Foundation scholarships inspire and empower

This time of year students are actively seeking scholarships to help offset the ever-increasing costs for higher education.

The Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia has a multitude of generous donors that are very passionate about education and are excited to fund scholarships annually that help others follow their dreams.

Recently some scholarships were established here at the Foundation that leave a lasting legacy in memory of three great young men in our community that lost their lives.

The Taylor Burdette Scholarship was established in loving memory of Taylor Reece Burdette who would have been a 2009 graduate of North Gwinnett High School.

Taylor dreamed of pursuing a career in architecture and his family and friends established this scholarship in his memory to assist a graduating North Gwinnett student with similar aspirations. This scholarship is funded each year from the proceeds of the Taylor Reece Burdette Memorial Golf Tournament, the “Big T 150”, held at Sugar Hill Golf Club.

The Cooper O’Brien Scholarship Fund was established in loving memory of North Gwinnett Middle School eighth-grader, Cooper O’Brien, who lost his battle to a rare form of cancer called Clear Cell Sarcoma in the summer of 2014.

The Alan Rust Memorial Scholarship Fund is a tribute to the life of Robert Alan Rust who lost his life in a tragic tractor accident in the summer of 2014 while working as part of the grounds crew at Smoke Rise Country Club.

These are just a few examples of how people are helping people via the Community Foundation.

If you’d like to learn more about how you can create a scholarship fund, contact us at www.cfneg.org.

People Helping People is a publication of the Gwinnett Coalition for Health & Human Services.

(BEDFORD) – A key exchange ceremony at the Lawrence County Museum marked the official transfer of ownership of
the historic Elks Lodge building located at 1102 15th Street to the Bedford Urban Enterprise Association (BUEA).

Joey was determined to insure that the Elks Lodge remain a central part of historic downtown Bedford and he enlisted the help of Larry Shaver, who has served in several leadership roles within the Elks Organization including Elks State President.

“Less than a handful of other Elks Lodge buildings have been donated within the United States but national Elks leaders were willing to donate the building to a local non-profit or governmental entity” was the news shared by Larry after his communications with national Elks leaders.

Entities that expressed support of the donation include BRI (Bedford Revitalization, Inc.), the Lawrence County Community Foundation, Lawrence County Economic Growth Council, City of Bedford, Bedford Federal Savings Bank, Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce, Lawrence County Museum, BUEA, as well as others.

“This is a day of mixed emotions as it marks the absence of an active Elks Lodge in Bedford but I am thrilled that the historic Elks building has a caretaker that will insure that it remains a part of our community for many years to come” stated Joey Elliott.

The amount distributed each year will be determined by the Greater Pike Community Foundation Board of Directors and based on the return on the fund’s investments and a formula recommended by Snyder.

“Dick made it clear that not only did he not want the principal distributed, but he wanted a portion of the income to be added to the principal each year, in order for the endowment to keep pace with inflation,” noted Jim Pedranti, who chairs the Greater Pike Community Foundation board of directors. Snyder Endowment Fund believed to be the largest single gift ever made for the benefit of Pike County charitable and not-for-profit organizations has been lauded as a landmark in the development of long-term civic stewardship for Pike County.

Barbara Buchanan, who also serves on Greater Pike’s board of directors and established Greater Pike’s first donor-advised fund, remembered Snyder fondly, “He was a kind man who knew how to get things done.

Lake Mills foundation provides grants in 2014 – Watertown Daily Times Online : Local News

This is a commercial proposition.”

Those two sets of facts the underlying financial information provided to the IRS by the Clinton Foundation and the testimony of its own executive are crucial in determining whether the Clinton Foundation is primarily engaged in charitable activities. When a Clinton Executive, especially one who serves as CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, openly brags that his organization’s efforts are commercial rather charitable in nature, I’m inclined to believe him.

The “Mostly False” declaration of PunditFact’s Louis Jacobson is even more fascinating given that he was not aware until I told him so that the Clinton Foundation annual report and the Clinton Foundation’s tax filings are not apples-to-apples comparisons. The annual report lumps together numerous distinct non-profit entities, whereas the tax filings were related to a single tax-exempt entity, the Clinton Foundation, also referred to as the Bill, Hillary, & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

“I didn’t re-run your calculations, but I entirely agree that the 990s paint a different picture than what the foundation says (such as in its annual report),” Jacobson told me in his initial e-mail to me. Jacobson simply doesn’t like the implications of the fact that the Clinton Foundation spent less than 10 percent of its budgets on charitable grants in 2013. He doesn’t like the fact that the two single largest “charitable” initiatives of the Clinton Foundation by its own admission are the Clinton Presidential Library, which exists solely to put a positive spin on the 42nd president’s term in office, and the Clinton Global Initiative, which the New York Times characterized as a “glitzy annual gathering of chief executives, heads of state, and celebrities.” If hanging out with celebrities at glitzy dinners is the height of charity, then it’s time to beatify the Kardashian sisters.

“[T]he foundation says it does most of its charitable work in-house,” Jacobson writes, “and it’s not credible to think that the foundation spent zero dollars beyond grants on any charitable work, which is what it would take for Limbaugh to be correct.”

Actually, no. Fortunately, Jacobson gives us a hint as to his intent.

According to Jacobson, the notion that all non-charitable grant money must be considered as “in-house” charity expenditures “depends on trusting the Clinton foundation’s characterization of its expenditures.”

Goizueta Foundation, Project Lead The Way donate $1 Million to Atlanta schools for STEM programs – Atlanta Business Chronicle

Project Lead The Way (PLTW) awarded grants to 45 Atlanta-area elementary and middle schools to implement science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs in 2015-2016.

PLTW, a Indianapolis-based nonprofit, said the grant was made possible by The Goizueta Foundation, which committed $1 million to the non-profit to expand STEM education in a 10-county Atlanta area.

In December, PLTW announced a grant competition for the funds. PLTW selected 31 elementary schools and 14 middle schools from Atlanta Public Schools, Cobb County School District, Douglas County School District, Fayette County Public Schools, Fulton County Schools, and Rockdale County Public Schools.

PLTW will host another grant competition in fall 2015 to allocate remaining funding and support additional PLTW implementations.

Each grant is for two years and will assist in covering costs associated with starting and sustaining the PLTW Launch (elementary) and PLTW Gateway (middle school) programs, including annual program participation fees, teacher professional development, and classroom equipment and supplies.

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Home > News > Business/Technology > Swedish American employees raise over $61,000 for families affected by tornado

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Swedish American, a division of UW Health, raised over $61,000 for families devastated by the tornadoes on April 9 thanks to the help of employees and the Swedish American Foundation.

Employees were asked to make monetary donations April 13 through April 17, with the Swedish American Foundation and Swedish American Hospital matching all funds raised.

The Foundation split the donations between the Rochelle Community Foundation and DeKalb Community foundation and presented the money on Wednesday.

“Our employees have some of the biggest hearts around and we are so thrilled to announce we collected more than $61,000 for individuals and families who need it most,” says Laura Wilkinson, director of the Swedish American Foundation. “Swedish American strongly cares for its community and this is just one way we can help our neighbors recover and rebuild after tragedy.”

In addition to the monetary donations Swedish American’s Rochelle Clinic served as a drop off site for donated items.

The Swedish American Foundation, which was founded in 1981, raises and distributes funds to advance Swedish American and its mission to care for the community.

For more information on Swedish American’s community efforts, contact Community Relations Specialist Katryna Kirby at 815-489-4340.

During the summer of 2014 Tellus Mater became one of the first foundations in the UK to sign up to Divest/Invest – an climate change movement which commits to divesting from companies which use fossil fuels, and invest in green technology.

We continue to be active members of the coalition committed to investing in line with a two degree world.

The Divest/Invest movement has been tremendously successful at raising awareness, creating a narrative and encouraging impactful action around the risks of ‘stranded assets’, or a devaluation that will negatively affect the shareholders of these companies.

As a climate change foundation dedicated to using capital markets as an important lever for environmental protection, we strongly believe in aligning our endowment with our mission.

We also feel that active engagement with fossil fuel companies is a critically important element of an effective global divest/invest strategy.

Over and above the ethical and the scientific reasons why we must limit the amount of fossil fuels coming out of the ground, this research makes a strong financial argument that there is significant value at risk to ALL portfolios if we don’t drive the entire economy towards the adoption of two degree business plans.

We feel that this is such an important issue that we have dedicated all of our grant funding for the next three years to systemic interventions that can drive capital markets towards the adoption of two degree investment portfolios.

The May issue of Charity Finance magazine contains a series of articles on divestment from fossil fuels.