PANAMA CITY Nine local charity organizations received a boon recently as the Bay Health Foundation awarded $500,000 in grants.

Rebecca Pierson, the Bay Health Foundation’s community development director, cited the foundation’s mission as “promoting the health and well-being of Bay County residents.”

The foundation chose the organizations based on several criteria, including how the organization works with others in the community, how its services will “improve community health in Bay County,” focus on prevention and wellness and others.

-Avicenna Clinic, which serves uninsured patients whose gross family income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level, received $100,000 to fund staffing including a nurse practitioner, a certified nurse assistant as well as medications and supplies. PANAMA CITY Nine local charity organizations received a boon recently as the Bay Health Foundation awarded $500,000 in grants.

Rebecca Pierson, the Bay Health Foundation’s community development director, cited the foundation’s mission as “promoting the health and well-being of Bay County residents.”

The foundation chose the organizations based on several criteria, including how the organization works with others in the community, how its services will “improve community health in Bay County,” focus on prevention and wellness and others.

-Bay Cares was awarded $100,000 to fund staffing to coordinate specialty medical care services to indigent and uninsured patients in Bay County. -The Bay County Council on Aging, which helps senior adults maintain their health and independence, received $46,500 to provide facility and in-home respite care for caregivers who provide 24 hour per day care for patients suffering from Alheimer’s disease and related dementias.

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Attendance at the Headwaters Park Ice Skate Rink broke a record of 27,000 skaters. (WANE) Skates will be put away and Headwaters Park Ice Skating Rink will be dismantled after its final day of the season on Sunday.The 12th season for the rink comes to a close after having a record breaking year in attendance.

The 2015-2015 season for the rink was “exceptionally good,” said Executive Director Geoff Paddock in a press release.The rink broke its previous all-time record attendance with more than 27,000 skaters for the season as of Saturday.

“It’s a family friendly, it’s inexpensive, it’s in the center of downtown. With the help of several foundations, including the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne, the Auer Foundation, the Lincoln Financial Foundation, PNCE Charitable Trusts, and the Lupke Family Foundation, prices for the ice rink have not been raised.

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More than $60,000 in scholarships available

Ithaca, MI-Gratiot County Community Foundation announces more than $60,000 available in scholarships to support education for Gratiot County residents.

A wide-array of scholarships from more than 30 scholarship funds are available for graduating high school seniors, college students, medical students, Eagle Scouts, non-traditional students and even high school students studying art and music.

The Gratiot County Community Foundation was formed with a vision to “provide a permanent means for charitable contributions to benefit the Gratiot County community.”

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KIPP Massachusetts Schools announce
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Who we are. KIPP:MA is part of a national
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track record of preparing students in underserved communities for
success to and through college and in life. There are currently 162
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than 58,000 students and 13,000 alumni across the country.

KIPP:MA currently operates two campuses in the Greater Boston
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When you think of all the things that go into making a community great, strong leadership is one of the key components.

It takes strong leaders from business, education, law enforcement, government and the nonprofit sectors to work together to create a community that is welcoming, prosperous, safe, caring, and one that offers a wide range of recreational and cultural activities for all to enjoy.

The Porter County Community Foundation is investing in our nonprofit leaders to help them grow and become more effective. They partner with the Edward Lowe Foundation in Cassopolis, Mich., to provide their nonprofit leaders the same kind of retreat learning experiences that leading for-profit CEOs and entrepreneurs enjoy. In these sessions, the group shares issues and challenges they each may be facing and then they work together to try and develop solutions or strategies to tackle the problem.

The feedback we get from this group on both the retreat and the follow-up sessions has been incredible.

“The retreat was an amazing opportunity to meet with my professional peers”, said Jennifer Wright, CEO of Hilltop Neighborhood House.

Kris Krouse, executive director of Shirley Heinze Land Trust, said, “It was so valuable to be surrounded by exceptional leaders from Porter County, making it a great learning experience.”

We believe this is such an important initiative that we are continuing to schedule annual programs with new and innovative curriculum in addition to continuing the peer learning session support for existing and new groups. At the Porter County Community Foundation, we believe investing in the people in a position to lead their organizations so they can positively impact our communities is just about one of the best investments we can make.

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A Wissahickon High student is screened for cardiac issues by Simon’s Fund, a local nonprofit studying sudden cardiac death in children.

Simon’s Fund, the local nonprofit that highlights the dangers of sudden cardiac death in children, has invested about $200,000 to build the first national registry for adolescent hearts. It differs from traditional sources of funding for nonprofits, which most often depend on donations from foundations, corporations, and wealthy individuals.

This form of venture philanthropy garnered attention last year when the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation sold its rights to royalties from Kalydeco – a drug that helps about 4 percent of patients with the inherited disorder – for a landmark $3.3 billion.

Eventually, Aurora was acquired in a $600 million deal by Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston, which continued to develop what was then called VX-770 and in 2012 won regulatory approval to market the drug.

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation still owned the rights, which it sold two years later – for a record gain on investment by a health nonprofit – to Royalty Pharma in New York, which buys intellectual property and other rights to drugs.

National nonprofits involved in venture philanthropy include the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, Muscular Dystrophy Association, and JDRF (formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; the disease is now called type 1 diabetes).

Though experts agree venture philanthropy is likely the wave of the future, some harbor concerns about ethical conflicts that could arise from the investments.

“I do see this as a trend,” said Arthur Caplan, director of medical ethics at NYU’s Langone Medical Center. But remember that the odds of making it from mice to the pharmacy shelf is 40- to 50-to-one.”

Caplan notes that, as business partners, nonprofits may be investing with entities whose goals include helping patients but who are in it mainly to make money.

“Another question for nonprofits is privatizing research: how much to spend on research and how much on services for current patients. Kalydeco (generic name: ivacaftor) costs $300,000 a year and must be taken for life.

Though insurance and drug companies pick up much of the tab, some have questioned why a drug funded with nonprofit investment is not more reasonably priced.

“Patients may say, ‘A lot of money is coming back to the foundation, but that doesn’t help me,’ ” Caplan said.

Still, Rosqueta sees venture philanthropy as a good example of investments that yield positive social impact.

“Change has always been achieved between the private, philanthropic, public, and commercial sectors,” she said.