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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Please scroll down and open the Bill and Melinda Gates Annual Letter to get an idea of what the largest philanthropy initiative is working on. Very, very interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva";color:#1F497D">Dr. Linda Mason<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Coordinator of Grant Writing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:lmason@osrhe.edu">lmason@osrhe.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Do not be afraid to give your time to writing grant proposals. Time given to planning proposals is never time lost, but is rather time gained, so that our research, our programs, our collaborations
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 27, 2015 1:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mason, Linda<br>
<b>Subject:</b> This Week in PND: Richest 1% own as much as the rest; Bill and Melinda Gates release annual letter; more….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">"The more global citizens there are, and the more active and effective they are, the more progress the world will make....[W]e believe that people can
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<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">— Bill & Melinda Gates, co-chairs, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Annual Letter 01/21/2015)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Annual Letter Sees Progress on Global Health, Poverty</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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their 2015 <a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn53" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">annual letter</span></a> (28 pages, PDF or HTML), Bill and Melinda Gates highlight advances made over the last few decades in the areas of global health, agriculture, financial inclusion, and education and predict
that, with innovation in technology, the pace of progress will accelerate over the next fifteen years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">The
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn52" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation</span></a> co-chairs argue in the letter that, by 2030, investments in health care in the poorest countries and the development and deployment of new vaccines and treatments will
reduce child mortality rates globally from 4.6 percent today to 2.3 percent; reduce the number of women who die in childbirth by two-thirds; and eradicate polio, guinea worm, elephantiasis, and river blindness, while significantly curbing the spread of malaria
and HIV. The Gateses also predict that innovations in farming techniques, including drought-resistant seeds and fertilizers as well as mobile access to information about weather, crop rotation, and market prices, will help boost crop yields in Africa from
32.6 bushels of maize per acre to 48.9 bushels, improving farmers' income and, in turn, their children's nutrition and health....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><a name="news-516540"></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn31" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">MasterCard
Foundation Launches Fund for Africa's Rural Poor</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn59" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Mastercard Foundation</span></a> has announced the launch of a $50 million fund aimed at bringing financial services to businesses and smallholder farmers in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">To be managed by KPMG International Advisory Services, the
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn60" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">MasterCard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity</span></a> will provide $15 million to support ideas for new products, services, and processes that increase access to financial services among the rural poor.
The remaining $35 million will support efforts to scale ideas or pilots with the potential to drive financial inclusion for smallholder farmers....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn31" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">More</span></b></a> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#E35B00">»<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><a name="news-517559"></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn34" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Rotary
International Awards $34.8 Million for Polio Eradication</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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International</span></a> has announced grants totaling $34.8 million in support of polio immunization and monitoring activities in ten countries, including Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan, the three countries where transmission of the virus has never been
interrupted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">To be used by the
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn79" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">World Health Organization</span></a> and
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn78" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">UNICEF</span></a>, the grants include $8.1 million in support of a final push to eradicate the disease in Nigeria, where the number of polio cases dropped nearly 90 percent on a year-over basis and which has
not registered a single new case in the last six months. "Nigeria has managed an incredible feat," said Tunji Funsho, Rotary's PolioPlus chair for the country. "However, now we must be more vigilant than ever, as our progress is fragile...."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn34" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">More</span></b></a> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#E35B00">»<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><a name="news-516711"></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn22" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">European
Partnership Funds Projects for Ebola Vaccines, Diagnostics</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn54" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Innovative Medicines Initiative</span></a>, a partnership between the European Union and the European pharmaceutical industry, has announced the launch of eight projects aimed at speeding up the development,
manufacture, and deployment of Ebola vaccines and diagnostics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Funded by
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn7" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Horizon 2020</span></a>, the EU's research and innovation program, and in-kind contributions from members of the
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn49" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations</span></a>, the initiative's Ebola+ program announced an initial round of grants to three projects focused on vaccine development, a project to
scale up vaccine manufacture and another that will investigate innovative ways to promote compliance with vaccine regimens, and three projects focused on the development of rapid diagnostic tests. The combined budget of the eight projects is roughly € 215
million ($248 million)....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><a name="news-516539"></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn37" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">World's
Richest 1 Percent Will Own More Than All the Rest by 2016</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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combined wealth of the richest 1 percent of the world's population will be greater than that of the other 99 percent by 2016, a report from
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn66" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Oxfam International</span></a> finds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Based in part on data from the
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn80" target="_self">
<i><span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Credit Suisse Global Wealth Datebook</span></i></a>, the report,
<i><a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn67" target="_self"><span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Wealth: Having It All and Wanting More</span></a></i> (12 pages, PDF), found that the share of global wealth held
by the richest 1 percent increased from 44 percent in 2009 to 48 percent in 2014 and is on track to exceed 50 percent by 2016. What's more, nearly all (46 percent) of the remaining wealth is owned by the rest of the richest 20 percent of the world's population.
The other 80 percent of the population share just 5.5 percent of the planet's wealth, or an average of $3,851 per adult — about 0.12 percent of the $2.7 million per adult held by the richest 1 percent. The report also found that the combined wealth of the
eighty richest people in the world now equals the collective wealth of the poorest half of the global population, or some 3.5 billion people....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Majority of Public School Students Live in Low-Income Families</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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the first time in at least fifty years, more than half of all U.S. public school students come from low-income families, a research brief from the
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn76" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Southern Education Foundation</span></a> finds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Based on an analysis of 2013 data collected by the
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn11" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">National Center for Education Statistics</span></a>, the brief,
<i><a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn77" target="_self"><span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Low Income Students Now a Majority in the Nation's Public Schools</span></a></i> (6 pages, PDF), found that 51 percent
of pre-K-12 students in the nation's public schools were eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. The analysis also found that in forty states, low-income children made up no less than 40 percent of the public school population and constituted a majority
of public school students in twenty-one states — thirteen of which were in the South and six in the West. Mississippi had the highest proportion of low-income students (71 percent), followed by New Mexico (68 percent) and Louisiana (65 percent), while New
Hampshire (27 percent), North Dakota (30 percent), and Vermont (36 percent) had the lowest proportion. The share of students who are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches reached the 51 percent level in the South in 2006 and, in 2013, stood at 57 percent,
well above the percentage in the West (51 percent), the Midwest (44 percent), and the Northeast (42 percent)....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Philanthropies, Partners Launch Clean Energy Initiative</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Philanthropies</span></a> and the Heising-Simons family have announced the launch of an initiative to help states transition to clean, reliable energy systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">The Clean Energy Initiative will provide $48 million in grant funding to encourage utilities to adopt solar, wind, and LED technologies and help states
take advantage of clean-energy technologies. More than half the funding will be directed to some two dozen state and local partners, including the
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn55" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Institute for Energy Innovation</span></a> and the
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn57" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Respiratory Health Association</span></a>, while additional funds will support national organizations such as the
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn4" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Center for the New Energy Economy</span></a>, the
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn48" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Environmental Defense Fund</span></a>, and the
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn64" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Natural Resources Defense Council</span></a>....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn17"><b><span style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">More</span></b></a> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#E35B00">»<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><a name="news-517601"></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn26" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Grassley
Calls on Nonprofit Hospitals to Stop Suing Poor Patients</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has issued a warning to a nonprofit hospital in Missouri that it could be breaking the law when it sues poor patients over unpaid bills,
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn70" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">ProPublica</span></a> and <a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn63" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">National Public Radio</span></a> report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Citing an earlier ProPublica/NPR
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn69" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">report</span></a> which found that Heartland Regional Medical Center, a nonprofit hospital in St. Joseph, Missouri, had garnished the wages of thousands of low-income patients who were unable to pay their medical
bills, Grassley sent the hospital â€" which recently was rebranded as <a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn83" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Mosaic Life Care</span></a> â€" a
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn71" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">letter</span></a> last week warning that it "may not be meeting the requirements to be a nonprofit, tax-exempt hospital." The letter included a series of questions about the hospital's treatment of low-income
patients, its debt collection practices, and its financial assistance program....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn26" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">More</span></b></a> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#E35B00">»<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><a name="news-517180"></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn20" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Community
Foundation Update (1/24/15)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1035" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="article image" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:103.5pt;height:99pt;z-index:251667456;mso-wrap-distance-left:3.75pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:3.75pt;mso-wrap-distance-right:3.75pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:3.75pt;mso-position-horizontal:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f">
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<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">The
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn74" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Silicon Valley Community Foundation</span></a> has named C.S. Park, former chair and CEO of Maxtor Corp, to chair its board of directors and added Marie Oh Huber, Julie Miraglia Kwon, and Wade W. Loo to its board.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Connecticut</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">The
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn58" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Main Street Community Foundation</span></a> in Bristol has announced that its Women and Girls' Fund awarded grants totaling $36,650 to twelve organizations in 2014. Recipients included the Bristol Early Childhood
Alliance, Central Connecticut Senior Health Services, Living in Safe Alternatives, and Plainville Community Pantry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Colorado</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">The
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn68" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Pikes Peak Community Foundation</span></a> has named Trudy Strewler Hodges as its new CEO.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">New York</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">The
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn65" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">New York Community Trust</span></a> has announced that it is partnering with the Baruch College School of Public Affairs to offer a comprehensive, multifaceted professional development opportunity to the school's
recent grantees. The New York Community Trust Leadership Fellows Program will work to equip mid-career practitioners with the competencies, skills, and talents to be more effective managers and leaders; help fellows develop a deeper overall understanding of
the nonprofit sector and its subsectors; foster an alumni network of leaders who can learn and find support from their counterparts in the future; connect fellows with current leaders and policy makers in the metropolitan New York City area; and provide fellows
with the opportunity to design and implement initiatives for their organizations. The first cohort of leadership fellows will start the twelve-week program in March, with a second cohort to follow in August.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Ohio</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">The
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn47" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Dayton Foundation</span></a> has announced that during 2014 it surpassed $750 million in total giving. Established in 1921, the foundation has awarded more than 290,000 grants from more than 3,300 funds. In December,
it announced grants totaling more than $250,000 in support of arts and culture, education, health, human services, and other community-building efforts. Recent recipients include the Dayton Playhouse, Kids in New Directions, the Miami Valley Chapter of the
Alzheimer's Association, and Hannah's Treasure Chest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">The
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn46" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Columbus Foundation</span></a> has announced grants totaling $679,795 to thirty-six organizations. Recipients include the Community Shelter Board, the Ohio Association of Foodbanks, Buckeye Ranch, and Amethyst.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Pennsylvania</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">The
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn50" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Erie Community Foundation</span></a> has announced that the
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn44" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Erie Summer Jam</span></a>, which it sponsors, will once again include a Youth Summer Job Fair. Approximately one hundred and forty youth registered for last year's event, with more than a hundred participating
in the job-seeker orientation and roughly sixty securing a summer job.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Wyoming</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">The
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn56" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Lander Community Foundation</span></a> has awarded grants totaling $15,000 to seventeen organizations, which is nearly double the amount the foundation awarded in 2014, County 10 reports. Recipients include the
Central Wyoming Climber's Alliance, Expedition Yellowstone, Lander Community Concert Association, and Lander Pet Connection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn20" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">More</span></b></a> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#E35B00">»<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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in the News (1/25/15): Appointments and Promotions</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn45" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Chicago Foundation for Women</span></a> has announced the appointment of AGNES MENESES as director of strategic initiatives, effective February 16.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">The
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn51" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Ford Foundation</span></a> has announced that its president, DARREN WALKER, has been appointed chair of the
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn61" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">U.S. National Advisory Board on Impact Investing</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">The
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn73" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Screen Actors Guild Foundation</span></a> has announced the appointment of LAINIE STROUSE as director of development.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">The
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn75" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Alfred P. Sloan Foundation</span></a> has announced the appointment of FRANCINE BERMAN to its board.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">The
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn73" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Morris Animal Foundation</span></a> has announced the elections of JAMES A. KUTSCH, JR., ROBERT C. GAIN, WALTER N. GEORGE III, and CLINTON A. LEWIS to its board.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn72" target="_self"><span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">Purple Heart
Homes</span></a>, an organization that provides housing solutions for service-disabled veterans, has announced the appointments of DALE BEATTY as chief development officer and GARRETT GARLAND as board chair.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">In other news, the
<a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn62" target="_self">
<span style="color:#0169B2;text-decoration:none">National League of Cities</span></a> has announced that the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials has selected CLEOPHUS KING and ROMAL D. BULLOCK as fellows for a year-long mentored leadership program
for elected officials from diverse communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><a href="http://e.foundationcenter.org/a/hBUx$hNB8ixfdB8-BFHAAA834yF/pndn32" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">More</span></b></a> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#E35B00">»<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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