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Foundation seeking grant applications from HPSD staff

The Hattiesburg Public School District Foundation will begin accepting applications for classroom enrichment grants Monday for district faculty and staff.

The grants will be awarded in four areas: STEM-related, literacy, high school graduation and staff development programming.

The foundation plans to award up to four grants in each category for a maximum of $500 each.

The grants are primarily designed for classroom enrichment efforts.

Staples Associate Directs $5,000 to St. Louis Modern Chinese School (SLMCS) under a program that lets Staples associates direct donations.

The grant is part of a philanthropic initiative created by the Staples Foundation which allows Staples associates around the world to direct funding to non-profit organizations that are focused on education or job skills. In 2013, associates globally directed more than $2.5 million of Staples Foundation grants to 434 local non-profit organizations in 49 states.

Through its community and giving efforts, Staples and Staples Foundation have helped more than 6,500 organizations in 26 countries.

NSF grant will support SLCC students, in particular minorities and women, who are committed to completing STEM-related degrees.

Salt Lake City, Utah (PRWEB) February 25, 2015

Salt Lake Community College was recently awarded a $604,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) program.

The Foundation’s program supports scholarships for academically talented students demonstrating a financial need, enabling them to enter the workforce following completion of an associate or bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline. The outcome is expected to be a doubling of the number of graduates in SLCC’s STEM programs over the course of the five-year project.

Salt Lake Community College is an accredited, student-focused, urban college meeting the diverse needs of the Salt Lake community. SLCC is also the largest supplier of transfer students to Utah’s four-year institutions and a perennial Top 10 college nationally for total associate degrees awarded.

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MIT Libraries’ Program on Information Science awarded Sloan Foundation grant | MIT News It aims to leverage ongoing multidisciplinary collaborations and theoretical advances in computation, statistics, law, and social science to improve reuse and replicability in empirical social science, promoting archiving of, and access to, large-scale confidential data. The work contributes to the capacity of the libraries to support researchers in managing confidential information.

“Both academic research and information services are increasingly based on detailed digital information about people and their behavior,” Altman says. This project will provide understandable, usable tools and policies for managing confidential research data.”

Altman is joined in the 30-month project by four Harvard collaborators: Merce Crosas, director of data science at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science; Urs Gasser, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society; Gary King the Albert J. This collaboration builds upon a previous successful project supported by a National Science Foundation Frontier grant.

For more information see the Program on Information Science website.

(WANE) It’s been another record setting year for attendance at the Headwaters Park Ice Skating Rink. The 12th season of skating will wrap-up on Sunday, March 1 at 8 pm.

The previous attendance record of 26,106 skaters set during the 2011-2012 season was broken this past Saturday, and Geoff Paddock, Executive Director of the Headwaters Park Alliance hopes to crack the 27,000 skater mark. If that were to happen, since the rink opened in November of 2003, all-time attendance would be about 258,000.

Thanks to a number of foundations, including the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne, the Auer Foundation, the Lincoln Financial Foundation, PNC Charitable Trusts, and the Lupke Family Foundation, the rink has not raised rates since it opened in 2003.

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Santa Clara supervisors approve $1.8 million to help undocumented immigrants – San Jose Mercury NewsSanta Clara supervisors approve $1.8 million to help undocumented immigrantsPosted: 02/25/2015 09:46:25 AM PST

The Santa Clara Board of Supervisors today unanimously approved $1.8 million for undocumented immigrants eligible for administrative relief in the immigration process.

A new report from the Lilly School of Philanthropy projects a healthy increase in giving over 2015 and 2016, and the increases, if they occur, are nothing to sneeze at on the surface.

That said, this first report projects an increase in charitable giving of 4.8% in 2015 and of 4.9% in 2016, spread in the manner exhibited below:

Itemized giving, however, is projected to increase at an average 6% rate through 2016.

“Greater positive growth in giving by corporations for the years 2015 and 2016 will be offset by slight growth in employment rates in preceding years.

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A Nonprofit Roundup A volunteer and staffer for Austin Bat Cave since 2008, Katie Angermeier Haab was named the organizationas executive director in late January. A Nonprofit Roundup Austin Community Foundation in late January awarded Austin Diaper Bank $5,000 to help pay rent on the diaper bank facility. Updates about Austinas philanthropic efforts

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