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Paws Pet Adoption is the pet adoption agency at the Plainview animal shelter and has a mission of finding loving homes for animals that come into the Plainview animal shelter, reducing the number of unwanted animals in the community, and educating the public on responsible pet ownership.

Top model Karlie Kloss goes philanthropic with a new scholarship fund – National Fashion | Examiner.com

Model Karlie Kloss at the height of her social media and fashion world popularity has founded a scholarship to empower women through the STEM field of coding. After enrolling in a two-week class, Klass was inspired enough to start a scholarship to send more women to coding school, code named #KodeWithKarlie.

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“The #KodeWithKarlie Scholarship is official!
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Approximately $2.3 million of the quarterly grant total came from the foundation’s donor-advised funds. $(‘#mce-‘+resp.result+’-response’).show(); $(‘#mce-‘+resp.result+’-response’).html(msg); $(‘#mce-‘+resp.result+’-response’).html(msg); Tampa shopping center gets big bounce

Brandon Crossings, the 300,000-square-foot shopping center on Adamo Drive east of Tampa, has jumped to full occupancy by welcoming Sky Zone Indoor Trampoline to the Tampa Bay area.

Community Foundation Grant Helps Energize Dark Sky Lighting Plan – Leesburg Today OnlineaDaily News Coverage of Loudoun County, Leesburg, Ashburn: Middleburg Life Community Foundation Grant Helps Energize Dark Sky Lighting Plan

The Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties has approved a $13,270 grant to the Town of Middleburg that will go toward the new Dark Sky Lighting renovations along Washington Street.

The funds support a long-planned project within the village to upgrade sidewalks, cross-walks and improve the public lighting to adark skya standards spanning from The Plains Road to Liberty Street.

According to Town Manager Martha Semmes, the Community Foundation grant as well as other donated funds were leveraged to meet the 20 per cent matching requirements in order to assure state funds for community improvement projects for a $207,000 grant received for the $500,000 project.

Amy Owen, executive director of the Community Foundation, said the funds were donated in 2013 by two local donorsaCasey Crane and Chandler Van Voorhisawho wanted to invest in reduced light pollution and glare in the town of Middleburg.

It reduces light pollution and makes the lighting more efficient.

Construction on the new streetlights is scheduled to begin in late summer, and will be a part of the townas ongoing project to improve sidewalks and crosswalks, as well as adding a new and improved water line.

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GRANTS: Community First Responder Teams, pictured here with Penny Reeves, the former chairwoman of Monmouthshire Building Society Charitable Foundation, received A 5,000. MONMOUTHSHIRE Building Society Charitable Foundation is giving community groups and organisations the opportunity to apply for a one-off funding award of up to A 5,000.

aWe invite any local organisation who meets our eligibility criteria to apply for this award of up to A 5,000.a

Hamilton Air Force Association receives grant to fix roof

Ole Miss Pi Phis, Betas Team Up for Easter Egg Hunt at Boys and Girls Club | HottyToddy.com Home / Headlines / Ole Miss Pi Phis, Betas Team Up for Easter Egg Hunt at Boys and Girls Club

Pi Beta Phi and Beta Theta Pi joined together April 1 to host an Easter egg hunt for the kids at the Boys and Girls Club of Oxford.

“The Boys and Girls Club welcomed Beta and Pi Phi very warmly.

We all know Steve Nash’s incredible gift as an athlete. In 2001, he formed the Steve Nash Foundation, a charity aimed at helping aunderserved childrena in British Columbia and around the world:

Dedicated to assisting underserved children in their health, personal development, education and enjoyment of life, the Steve Nash Foundation operates globally to increase access to critical needs resources for children affected by poverty, illness, abuse or neglect. Through its own initiatives, as well as grants to child-focused non-profits, the Foundation builds healthy communities by growing health in kids.

The Foundation focuses its work in Arizona (Educare Arizona, an early learning initiative), British Columbia (BC Grants), nationally across Canada (a child abuse prevention strategy in cooperation with the University of Victoria), the USA (Child Abuse Research and Education initiative), and overseas in Paraguay (Support Hope, providing for critical needs health and community resources).

Through its aBC Grantsa program, the foundation has awarded more than $800,000 to non-profit organizations throughout the province that focus on child health and education services.

The foundation has also contributed significantly toward two hospitals in Paraguay: building a new pediatric cardiac centre in one, and a centre specializing in cervical cancer treatment in another.

And in Arizona a where Mr. To date, the foundation has contributed more than $2-million toward the program.

In 2006, he was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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He said major volunteer efforts have included the Grace Church aBig Serve,a the Foundation for Eden Prairie Schools’ Taste of Eden Prairie and elementary school carnivals.

The number of hours is already over 9,000 with projects coming up in the next few weeks, including the city’s park clean-up day.

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