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She heads the board of the Steuben County Literacy Coalition, serves on other voluntary boards, and is a world traveler and genealogy buff. A major education proponent, Tichenor is a retired educator and Trine University vice president who stays busy serving on community boards, traveling the world and researching her family through genealogy.

She further promotes learning in the community by serving on the Steuben County Community Foundation Scholarship Selection Committee, Cameron Memorial Community Foundation and Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Committee.

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MORTON Parents, alumni and school personnel have joined forces to help District 709 pay for a $4.7 million renovation of Morton High School’s outdoor athletic facilities that began this month.Build4Community is composed of representatives from the high school’s athletic boosters and band boosters, Club Sooie football alumni organization and Morton Lacrosse Club.High school athletic director Greg Prichard, marching band director Jeff Neavor and football coach Eric Lyons also are lending a hand.Neavor said the group is focusing its efforts on raising money to install and maintain artificial turf at Carper Field because so many students will benefit from the turf.”This is a united effort among organizations that don’t usually work together,” he said.Lyons agreed.”We’re all on the same team,” he said. “We enhance each other.”Tax-deductible donations can be made to the group through a fund overseen by the Morton Community Foundation.The group’s will have a fundraiser, Drive 4UR School, from 9 a.m. Saturday in the high school parking lot.Licensed drivers age 18 and older (one per household) can take a free test drive in vehicles provided by Mike Murphy Ford in Morton.Ford Motor Company will donate $20 for each test drive, up to a maximum of $6,000. Follow him on Twitter @SpartanSteve.If you goWhat: Drive 4UR School fundraiser hosted by the new Build4Community group in Morton.When: 9 a.m. Saturday.Page 2 of 2 – Where: Morton High School parking lot.Activities: Vehicle test drives; student-run car wash; grilled food in the Club Sooie Hog Trough; raffle tickets and Potter gear on sale; bouncy house for kids.Information: www.build4community.weebly.com/event. mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+mainImageData_credit+”; mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+htmlencode(mainImageData_caption)+”; $(‘#art-main-image-credit-container_sm’).css(‘width’,smimgwidth).css(‘padding’,’3px ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding – 3)+’px 0 0’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container_sm’).css(‘width’,sm_img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding + 3)+’px’); $(‘#zoom-handle’).css(‘padding-left’,(mainImageData_leftPadding + 3)+’px’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container’).css(‘width’,img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+mainImageData_leftPadding+’px’); $(‘#art-main-image-credit-container’).css(‘width’,img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding)+’px 0 0’);

Gateway skills: Our “Silicon Valley Competitiveness Project” in partnership with Community Foundation Silicon Valley reveals that more than 4 in 10 Silicon Valley 3rd Graders cannot read at grade level, and nearly 5 in 10 of 8th graders aren’t proficient in algebra, locking them out of CSU and UC systems. With volunteers like Maria Shriver and first-generation, four-time Olympian Brenda Villa volunteering, we will continue to touch the hearts of adults and the minds of our students.

Partnerships: Thanks to the leadership of Silicon Valley Hispanic Foundation CEO Ron Gonzales, a new partnership will soon be launched between our organizations to lift up Latino students eager to excel but lacking the funds for college.

Pittsburgh Public Schools’ Summer Dreamers Academy opened up a new world for the three Joos siblings, their mother said.

aWithout the program, I wouldn’t have gotten into musical theater as deeply as I did,a said Jessica Joos, a senior majoring in dance at the Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts 6a12 in the Cultural District.

The Summer Dreamers Academy, as well as programs centering on teacher effectiveness, mentoring and out-of-school activities, are Pittsburgh Public Schools initiatives run with about $90 million in grants that will expire between 2015 and September 2017.

The district has other grants, but the seven it’s losing support significant programs, officials said.

Pittsburgh Public Schools’ 2015 budget is $556.7 million, which includes an operating deficit of $26.9 million that the district will close by tapping its fund balance.

The largest of its expiring grants is the $40 million Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant, which started in September 2009 and expires in June 2016, that helps support a teacher effectiveness program.

A $1.54 million Heinz Endowments“>Heinz Endowments grant will expire in September 2017 and supports Summer Dreamers after-school programming and We Promise, a mentoring program to prepare black male students to compete for scholarships from The Pittsburgh Promise.

Pittsburgh Public Schools’ expiring grants support about 40 service contracts and 51 staff positions, Deputy Superintendent Donna Micheaux said at a school board Business and Finance Committee meeting last week.

She presented an overview of a plan to offset some of the grant losses and explore ways to preserve key portions of programs.

Although some contracts and staff positions will end when the grants end, some will be secured through the general fund in the 2016 budget and some might continue through new grants, Franklin said.

For more information on making a one-off donation to the appeal or to set up a direct debit, go to Localgiving.com/charity/neighbourhoodappeal

The Bayou Community Foundation will participate in a 24-hour fund drive May for nonprofits in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes and Grand Isle.

In a partnership with the Greater New Orleans Foundation, the local philanthropic organization will host GiveNOLA Day for the Bayou Region.

It coincides with a national philanthropic event called “Give Local America.”

More than 40 local nonprofit community service groups will benefit from donations made online during the drive.

“This is the first ever 24-hour online giving event focused on our nonprofits here in Terrebonne, Lafourche and Grand Isle,” Bayou Community Foundation Coordinator Jennifer Armand said.

A Give Bayou celebration will be held from 10 a.m. This is a great opportunity for many people to do so,” Claudet said.

Organizations that will benefit include the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program, Lafourche Arc, the United Houma Nation and the CASA programs that aid abused and neglected children in Terrebonne and Lafourche.

For a full list of the organizations that will benefit locally from GiveNOLA day, visit www.givebayou.org and click on the “Lafourche & Grand Isle” or “Terrebonne” tabs at the top of the page.

To donate, visit www.givenola.org anytime on May 5.

Staff Writer Chris LeBlanc can be reached at 857-2202.

One-day fund drive to benefit local nonprofitsApril 12, 2015 8:08 PM

The Bayou Community Foundation will participate in a 24-hour fund drive May for nonprofits in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes and Grand Isle.

In a partnership with the Greater New Orleans Foundation, the local philanthropic organization will host GiveNOLA Day for the Bayou Region.

It coincides with a national philanthropic event called “Give Local America.”

More than 40 local nonprofit community service groups will benefit from donations made online during the drive.

“This is the first ever 24-hour online giving event focused on our nonprofits here in Terrebonne, Lafourche and Grand Isle,” Bayou Community Foundation Coordinator Jennifer Armand said.

A Give Bayou celebration will be held from 10 a.m. This is a great opportunity for many people to do so,” Claudet said.

Organizations that will benefit include the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program, Lafourche Arc, the United Houma Nation and the CASA programs that aid abused and neglected children in Terrebonne and Lafourche.

For a full list of the organizations that will benefit locally from GiveNOLA day, visit www.givebayou.org and click on the “Lafourche & Grand Isle” or “Terrebonne” tabs at the top of the page.

To donate, visit www.givenola.org anytime on May 5.

Staff Writer Chris LeBlanc can be reached at 857-2202.

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She is also past president of The Temple-Congregation Ahavath Chesed.

But her most lasting legacy may be the leadership roles she played for nonprofits working to improve public education in Duval County.

In 2003 she joined the board of The Community Foundation of Northeast Florida as the philanthropy shifted focus from growing itself to growing the community.

One of the Community Foundation’s new focuses was education reform in Duval. With Edelman as a leading voice, that new focus led the foundation to establish:

In 2005, Quality Education for All, a 10-year, $2 million initiative to improve student achievement, which ended in December 2014.

In 2009, the Jacksonville Public Education Fund for research, community mobilization and advocacy.

In 2013, by the Quality Education for All Fund, which raised $37 million toward its $50 million goal to support excellence in teaching and leadership in Duval County. The Public Education Fund now manages the Quality Education for All Fund’s contracts with the Duval School Board and Teach for America, among others, with oversight by The Community Foundation.

“We were embarking on an exciting journey,” said Edelman, who has served as board member and chairwoman for both the Community Foundation and the Public Education Fund. “Since our organization was first founded, Cindy has pushed for deeper engagement of our diverse community.”

Her push also led to about 160 community conversations, called One by One, which resulted in a “set of priorities co-owned by the community and the school district,” he said.

“Without her direct involvement in JPEF and so many other education organizations in our city, our community would not have made nearly as much progress as it has over the past five years. I have never met someone that gets so much pleasure from giving, but she doesn’t like receiving.”

But her contributions warrant recognition by OneJax because her work “reflects the vision of OneJax: to be a catalyst that creates an inclusive community where difference is welcomed and celebrated,” said Nancy Broner, the nonprofit’s executive director.

“Her humble leadership style has inspired many others to become engaged in civic issues, especially public education and the arts,” Broner said.

Edelman’s husband, a managing partner at an accounting firm, said her giving has deep roots.

“Her drive for community service comes from her Jewish heritage, her upbringing and her recognition of how privileged a life we lead,” he said, “and that we should use those privileges to help others improve the lives of themselves and their children.”

The words “donor” and “philanthropist” are not interchangeable, he said.

“There is a big difference,” he said.

Former Bradford High School and Michigan State University football star Trae Waynes will be the special guest in attendance at the Mahone Fund’s Reaching for Rainbows Pursuit of Excellence gala at Carthage College on Wednesday.

Mahone Fund will be presenting eight, $4,000 college scholarships and one full-tuition Carthage College scholarship at the event that will take place in the Todd Wehr Center on the campus at 2001 Alford Park Drive. I’m really looking forward to meeting and congratulating the Mahone scholarship recipients for their outstanding achievements in high school,” he said in a Mahone Fund media release.

The Mahone Fund is a component fund of the Kenosha Community Foundation.

Corey Hoskins has been accepted to Wright State University in Ohio, North Central College in Naperville, Ill., Northern Michigan University and Hope International Business College, London.

Jacquelyn Jouett plans to attend either Ohio State University or Purdue University to study speech and hearing sciences.

Manuel Jones has been accepted to the University Wisconsin-Whitewater where he will study information technology with a business analysis emphasis.

A new priority program supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under the auspices of Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has now set itself the goal of developing the next generation of optogenetic tools and expanding their application both in basic research and also for medical purposes. In order to achieve more widespread use of optogenetics in cell biology and neurobiology, the researchers want to develop new optogenetic tools.