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Education News and Notes
Sept. 4, 2007
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Comcast Foundation awarded the Citizens League a three-year, $105,000 grant to support programs that build civic capacity among Minnesota's high school students, college students and young professionals. The grants will implement and support several strategic initiatives, including Youth Action Groups, Civic Leadership Work Group, Students Speak Out and Political Leadership. |
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Bush Foundation awarded a grant of $1.2 million to Independent School District #625 – St. Paul to continue the Connected Counseling program that began in 2002; it shifts the counselors’ approach from one-on-one to group sessions that reach more students more often. Graduation rates in St. Paul have already improved from 57.2 percent in 2002 to 65.9 percent in 2006. In all, the Board approved 53 grants totaling $12,811,583.
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Complete list of grants awarded in July (PDF)
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The Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation approved a three-year, $417,000 grant to the Lutheran Educational Conference of North America in support of its Connecting Colleges and Congregational Ministry initiative, which is designed to inform those within and outside the Lutheran community about the lifelong values and benefits of attending and utilizing Lutheran colleges and universities of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
The initiative seeks to identify, solicit and train Lutheran congregational advocates among 16,000 congregations throughout the United States and inform more than 400,000 Lutheran youth about the value of Lutheran higher education.
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The Wells Fargo Community Funding Council awarded $130,000 in grants for Twin Cities nonprofit organizations, focusing on kindergarten readiness programs for children of low- to moderate-income working families. The organizations: Lifetrack Resources, Merrick Community Services, Centro Cultural Center, Independent School District #625 St. Paul Public, Independent School District #621 Mounds View Public, Common Bond Communities, Reuben Lindh Family Services, Early Childhood Resource Center, Hope Community Academy, Foundation for Early Childhood Family Services, Southside Family Nurturing Center, Catholic Charities, Lao Family Community of Minnesota, Inc., YWCA St. Paul and Richfield Lutheran Church.
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The Cooperative Foundation awarded $13,700
in four cooperative education-based grants to:
- Consumer Cooperative Management Association, to
support the 2007 CCMA Annual Conference
- Minnesota Association of Cooperatives Education
Foundation, for the seventh Annual Senior Cooperative Housing
Conference
- National Cooperative Business Association, for a
national government research project on cooperatives
- NCERA 194 Research on Cooperatives, to send six students/faculty to the
annual meeting and the Farmer Cooperatives Conference
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Students Today Leaders Forever received a $500 grant from the Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation to expand
its program in Cass and Clay Counties. The Pay it Forward Tour is the core program of the student-driven nonprofit organization, which is committed to a mission of promoting leadership development through building relationships, community engagement and service learning.
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The Travelers Foundation and the Travelers Connecticut Foundation provided almost $7 million in community support through the first half of 2007. Roughly 40 percent of the funds were given to organizations and programs related to education, nearly 40 percent to community development and almost 20 percent of the funds to arts and culture.
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The Minnesota Twins Community Fund's Diamonds and Dreams Scholarship Program awarded $1,000 scholarships to 20 Upper Midwest youth in pursuit of post-secondary education
during a pregame ceremony on the Metrodome field. In its third year, the Diamonds and Dreams Scholarship Program received more than 100 applications from high school seniors across the Upper Midwest. Scholarship recipients were selected on a variety of factors including academic achievement, community service, and participation in an organized youth baseball or softball program.
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