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In recent weeks, 10 News has distributed more than $60,000 to local charities through the Gannett Foundation grant program.

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The Avalon platform is transforming the way we produce, retain and use the complex digital content that is needed to integrate audio, video and related materials in university teaching and learning.”

The current grant will focus on developing additional features and functionality for Avalon, conducting studies of scholarly use of audio and video media, developing a business model for ongoing sustainability, and offering more flexible implementation options for institutions that prefer to utilize cloud-based rather than locally hosted software.

IU and Northwestern have successfully collaborated to release three major versions of Avalon since the development project began in October 2011 with funding from a three-year, $948,000 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and advice and support from 10 additional partner institutions. Avalon grew in part out of the Variations Project, one of the world’s first digital music libraries, developed initially in the mid-1990s at Indiana University.

Both IU and Northwestern are partners in the Hydra community, a group of 25 institutions working together to develop shared technical solutions for the management of digital content based the open source Fedora repository system.

Institutional Impacts of a New Model for Scholarly Publishing

The second of these grants, providing $181,000 to the IU Libraries and the University of Michigan Library, is a key component in a range of investigations underway to analyze the viability of alternative sustainable financial models for university presses and other nonprofit book publishers.

In the face of increasing financial pressure on academic publishing in the humanities and social sciences, this study explores alternative funding options.

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The nonprofit fundraising arm of Arizona State University gave $100,000 to a shadowy political group that spent at least $2.4 million on TV ads attacking state candidates who sided with the solar industry during last year’s election.

The Arizona State University Foundation raised more than $165 million in its 2014 fiscal year, and handed out $66 million in grants, nearly all of it to Arizona State University. The only grant the foundation made that year that didn’t go to a school or a charitable nonprofit was given to a “social welfare” nonprofit called “Save Our Future Now” identified in the foundation’s tax forms only as “SOFN” for $100,000.

Detail from the ASU Foundation’s Fiscal Year 2014 tax returns.

Save Our Future Now was one of several groups that spent heavily on last year’s election to the Arizona Corporation Commission, which has jurisdiction over state utility rules. Located on University Drive on ASU’s Tempe campus, the foundation has a mission “to ensure the success of Arizona State University” with which it is deeply entwined. Skinner’s entire explanation was that the university had given money to the dark money group “which, as part of its mission, helps generate public awareness of higher education issues and advances higher education in the State of Arizona.”

Save Our Future Now’s mission is unclear. Newly elected Governor Doug Ducey’s most recent budget would cut $75 million in state funding for the state’s university system, roughly 10 percent of its overall state money.

Last August, Sunlight identified Save Our Future Now’s president as Todd Bradford, a realtor at Homesmart who served on a local planning commission.

“Often, people who normally use power wheelchairs are able to switch to a manual or travel wheelchair for a day or two so they can go with a caregiver who doesn’t have a lift vehicle to transport the power wheelchair.”

Kid Assist is willing to loan the three Fold-and-Go brand travel wheelchairs to families. The wheelchairs are not all the same size, so it’s important to speak with Kid Assist as early as possible when planning to check one of the chairs out.

Donated garage space for the wheelchairs has been provided for Kid Assist at The Woodshed at Brookwood, Inc.

To inquire about equipment needed, or to donate equipment to Kid Assist, call Anderson at 641-521-1153 or email her at wilsand96@yahoo.com.

The deadline for 2015 Jasper Community Foundation grant applications is April 1.