HC Website Update- What's
New?
-- Information on Community Mini-Grants
-- Register Online for the 11th Annual Healthy
Carolinians Conference
-- Dowload your own copy of the Community Assessment
Guidebook
-- New Weblinks
Upcoming Events:
Saturday, May 18th, 8:00am-3:00pm, in Pittsboro
The North Carolina Chapter of the March of Dimes
is conducting an implementation training for agencies and organizations
interested in our Comenzando bien Prenatal Education
Program for Hispanic/Latina Women. The training itself is free
(the curriculum costs $45), and will be taught in Spanish.
June 12, 2002
"The North Carolina Asthma Summit 2002: National,
State, and Local Perspectives"
William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center,
Chapel Hill, NC
No Cost, for more info visit http://www.sph.unc.edu/oce
and click on "North Carolina Asthma Summit"
Friday, October 12, 2002
11th Annual Healthy Carolinians Conference
Marroitt Crabtree, Raleigh NC
Cost: $50
Freebies!
Free Software
http://www.completelyfreesoftware.com/
Interesting Websites:
http://www.thebreastcancersite.com
Make a contribution to fund mammograms by just
visiting this site.
www.NCHealthySchools.org
2001 N.C. Youth Risk Behavior Survey data is now available online
Funding Opportunities:
Community Service
Deadline: November 1, 2002
Administered by the Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of America, Inc., Target All-Around Scholarships for Students are awarded each year to high school seniors and college students who are committed to community service and education. Target will award four $10,000 and over 2,100 $1,000 scholarships for higher education (two per Target store). Awards are offered for institution costs and fees for full-time, post-secondary, undergraduate educational programs.High school seniors, high school graduates, and current college students who are legal U.S. residents (age 24 and under) are eligible for the scholarships. Applicants must enroll in a full-time undergraduate course of study no later than the fall term of 2003-2004 school year at an accredited two- or four-year college, university, or vocational-technical school in the U.S. (Previous recipients and employees of Target Corporation are not eligible. The program is not currently offered in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or outside the United States.)
Final selection of awards will be based on the following criteria: number of community volunteer service hours; applicant's list of volunteer leadership awards and honors; appraisal form completed by volunteer supervisor or leader; applicant's short essay on volunteer service; and a grade point average of C/2.0 level or higher. Preference in the selection of recipients will be given to students who reside in a community where a Target store is located.
Contact:
Target All-Around Scholarships for Students
Tel: (800) 316-6142
http://www.target.com/target_group/community/community_scholarships.jhtml
The Yale School of Management, the Goldman Sachs Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts have joined together to form the Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures. The Partnership is currently accepting entries for its National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations, which will award grants and technical assistance to nonprofits seeking to start or expand successful profit-making ventures. The competition will award $100,000 to four grand-prize winners, and $25,000 to four semi-finalists. In addition to cash awards, winners will receive technical business planning consultations to assist their organizations in moving their earned-income ventures forward.
To be eligible, nonprofit organizations must: have established 501(c)(3) status; be headquartered in the United States; be in the planning stages of establishing an earned-income business venture, or have an earned-income venture in operation for no more than twenty-four months as of August 30, 2002. The applicant venture may be a nonprofit subsidiary, a for-profit subsidiary, or a program of a nonprofit organization. Entrants may operate or seek to operate various types of business ventures including: service-related (fee for service); product- related (manufacturing and/or sales); cause-related marketing; or renting or leasing property. Nonprofit organizations of all types are invited to enter and there is no minimum or maximum annual budget requirement. Individuals are not eligible to enter the competition.
For more info, visit website at http://ventures.yale.edu/aboutcompetition.asp
Respectfully,
Fiorella Horna-Guerra
Coordinator for Training and Resource Development
Office of Healthy Carolinians