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“The grants are designed to allow teachers to do new and innovative things that increase student achievement that are not funded by their building budgets,” said Kim Barbour, who manages public relations for the foundation.

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For students like Jason Rivera, February is about more than giving gifts on Valentine ‘s Day; it is actually a month put aside for giving back to those who make a Seton Hall education possible- our donors.

Something new was introduced this year in the form of a student loyalty recognition program, True Blue for Students, which had a kick-off reception, open to all students, at the University Center on Feb. For students like Jason Rivera, February is about more than giving gifts on Valentine ‘s Day; it is actually a month put aside for…

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A hidden Alisal community garden blossoms

Raquel Villalta at the door of Green Rescue’s greenhouse.(Photo: Jay Dunn/The Salinas Californian)

aRescate Verdea (Green Rescue) is in an unlikely location, almost invisible behind the Morelias 99A store in Salinas.

Foundation, food bank team up to bring 1 million pounds of food to Fayetteville – Fayetteville Observer: Local News Foundation, food bank team up to bring 1 million pounds of food to Fayetteville Foundation, food bank team up to bring 1 million pounds of food to Fayetteville Foundation, food bank team up to bring 1 million pounds of food to Fayetteville

The community has rallied in support of a mission to bring at least 1 million pounds of food to the Second Harvest Food Bank.

“Anything anyone donates, it’ll increase the food distributed here through the Second Harvest Food Bank.”

Ron Pringle, the food bank’s director, said transportation costs are among the food bank’s largest expenses.

Second Harvest distributes food to about 250 churches and nonprofits that operate food pantries in Bladen, Cumberland, Duplin, Harnett, Hoke, Robeson and Sampson counties. The food bank has a fleet of vehicles, including one tractor-trailer and two 26-foot box trucks, but it’s pretty much at capacity picking up food locally.

“We don’t want to just bring any food, but our focus is healthy, nutritious food, making that available and then educating our community about how to prepare that food,” Pringle said.

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His older sister and her kids are at the family’s $31 million Central Park West apartment in New York City, so instead Low and his public relations aide meet FORBES ASIA in the 35th-floor presidential suite at the Park Lane Hotel on Central Park South, acquired in one of the latest real estate deals he’s inked. He wants people to know the real Jho Low his mama’s favorite (he’s the youngest of three), who trained and showed a pet bull terrier as a child.

That year Low and his brother, Szen, set up Hong Kong-registered Jynwel Capital, an advisory firm for the family’s investments. Their dad, Low Hock Peng, or Larry Low, expanded the family’s Asian property holdings to New Zealand, the U.S. Jho Low got his start in real estate deals and leveraged buyouts, bringing in Middle Eastern money from friends he made while at Harrow and then as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. All this has added to the pile built by the first and second generations Low’s lawyers supplied financial statements to FORBES backing up the $1.8 billion estimate of the family fortune. But because the wealth is widely dispersed the grandfather had 7 children and 15 grandchildren, and there are now more than 50 members of the extended family and is held jointly in various trusts, no individual in the Low family qualifies for our annual list of Malaysia’s richest.

It’s his wheeling and dealing that is putting Low on front pages these days. Now the opposition in Malaysia wants Prime Minister Najib Razak to come clean on his family’s connections to Low and with Low’s dealings with the debt-ridden, state-owned investment fund, 1Malaysia Development Bhd. Low was an advisor to the fund that preceded 1MDB but hasn’t been on the board or in any official position at the new fund.

From the community: South Suburban Family Shelter Receives Grant from the Walmart Foundation for their School Prevention Program South Suburban Family Shelter Receives Grant from the Walmart Foundation for their School Prevention Program

The South Suburban Family Shelter recently received a $25,000 contribution to support the organization’s school-based prevention program. The Walmart Foundation State Giving Program strives to award grants that have a long-lasting, positive impact on communities across the U.S.

In Illinois in 2013, Walmart and the Walmart Foundation awarded more than $35.6 million in cash and in-kind donations to local organizations.

To be considered for support, perspective grantee organizations must submit applications through the Walmart Foundation State Giving Program’s online grant application.

They include the Scouts, the AESS culinary program, the Agassiz-Harrison Historical Society, Agassiz-Harrison Senior Peer Support, The Harrison Festival Society, the Agassiz-Harrison Swim Club and the Kent-Harrison Arts Council. That brings the foundation’s total donated up to $134,640 since the foundation started distributing grants in 2001.

“We had a diverse group of applicants this year,” says Judy Croft, treasurer and chair of the committee to select this year’s recipients.

Executive director Robby Robertson says they are pleased to offer grants to local organizations that do so much for the community. By letting the community know just what the foundation does, the board members want to encourage more involvement in terms of volunteering, financial support or grant applications.

The foundation, whose motto is Creating Opportunity Today and Tomorrow, celebrated their 20th anniversary last year. The donation from the Kent-Harrison Foundation is earmarked to help cover the costs of the main performer for Children’s Day.

“It’s wonderful to get this local support from the area,” says Andy Hillhouse, executive director at the Harrison Festival Society. This is their second time to get a grant from the foundation and they are thrilled.

“Theirs was such a worthwhile project,” says Robertson.

The funding for the Senior peer support group is to help cover the costs of the senior / teen lunches that take place every two months.

To address the national and local shortage of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals, Indiana University Northwest recently applied for and was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to attract and graduate students interested in pursuing these fields. The grant, totaling more than $600,000, will be used to provide scholarships and academic support to local students interested in studying science, math or technology at IU Northwest. Lowe said the award is a “significant recognition of the high quality of the science, technology and mathematics disciplines at IU Northwest and the importance of scholarships and academic support for qualified students” that will strengthen degree completion in STEM fields throughout the Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland region.

David Malik, Ph.D., IU Northwest’s Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, said the program will provide talented students with an invaluable opportunity to receive a high-quality STEM education at little or no cost.

In addition to scholarship support, the AIMS initiative will provide strong educational support to incoming STEM students through a cohort-style system that includes a one-week STEM orientation prior to the fall semester, a first-year STEM seminar, peer-led instructional and leadership opportunities, and support for joint STEM club activities.

The AIMS project, which has set the goal of increasing STEM graduates by 10 percent over a five-year period, was proposed to the NSF by a group of faculty at IU Northwest in response to the Foundation’s request for proposals to address the national shortage of STEM graduates.

Principal Communications, Sky Advisory Form New Pact | Variety

Principal Communications Group, a top media and entertainment communications firm, will join with political and social responsibility shop Sky Advisory in a partnership designed to attend to the ever-expanding intersection of politics, philanthropy and business in Hollywood.

The development, announced Wednesday by Principal Communications managing partners Paul Pflug and Melissa Zukerman and Sky Advisory Group’s president Lindsay Rachelefsky, creates a one-stop operation for clients tending to both their entertainment assets and their commitments to various candidates and causes.

The partnership will help clients integrate personal and company profiles with fundraising, social action and candidate campaigns. “The teams’ combined services will include identifying giving priorities for clients based on their values, ideas and long term goals, while developing and executing on a communications strategy in tandem with the philanthropic organizations supported,” the announcement said.

Veteran Hollywood hands Zukerman and Pflug first worked with Rachelefsky last summer on President Obama’s fundraiser at the home of Live Nation chief executive Michael Rapino. Pflug and Zukerman said they “look forward to collaborating with some of the industry’s greatest cause champions to make the most of their contributions.”

Among those who have already signed on with the partnership are Rob Friedman, co-chair of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group (though not for business services); Peter Chernin’s wife, Megan; and Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter and wife Laura, for philanthropic endeavors.

Principal Communications Group (PCG) has a long list of clients that includes The Chernin Group, Marvel, Legendary, Wasserman Media Group, Live Nation and IMAX.