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Partnering for Change: Tips for Hosting Successful Fundraisers with Community Partners

Jevon Taylor

Sarah Konradi

By Sarah Konradi, executive director, Design Workshop Foundation, and Jevon Taylor, CEO, Green Spaces, Green Dot Coalition

Engaging with your local community takes many forms — canned food drives, volunteer events, and employee giving campaigns. Call it Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), or just plain old common sense, good business leaders know they have a commitment to driving positive change in the communities where they have roots.

Design Workshop and Design Workshop Foundation are rethinking the way we engage with the community. For the past two years, Design Workshop Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit organization with a mission to catalyze transformative change in communities, has been collaborating with Denver’s Green Dot Coalition, a…


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What do you think? County hosting community conversations on growth – Davie County Enterprise Record

What do you think? County hosting community conversations on growth

Published 2:17 pm Tuesday, October 3, 2023

By Mike Barnhardt

Enterprise Record

County commissioners have studied growth patterns in Davie County.

They’ve heard options from zoning officials on how to control, or manage that growth. They spent a couple of hours recently learning about some of those options.

Now, they want to hear from you.

County Manager Brian Barnett and County Zoning Director Johnny Easter will be among county officials having “Community Conversations” with residents:

• Thursday, Oct. 5 at EMS…


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Shared Facilities Day Brings Research Community Together on Sept. 29

Shared Facilities Day Brings Research Community Together on Sept. 29

Cincinnati Children’s will host eighth annual Research Shared Facilities Day on Sept. 29, 2023

Moved by science and inspired by collaboration, resources and support provided by our Shared Facilities help put groundbreaking research to work every day.

One of the most significant strengths at Cincinnati Children’s is its 30 state-of-the-art Shared Facilities that offer specialized technologies, tools and services to researchers within our own health system and beyond.

“In comparison to other pediatric organizations across the nation, our Shared Facilities are unmatched and support the entire spectrum of basic, clinical and translational research,” says Nicole White, PhD, director of Operations for Cincinnati Children’s Research Shared…


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Senior members of Traveller community called on to mediate after ‘shocking’ rampaging incident

SENIOR members of the Traveller community have been called on to mediate following a rampaging incident in which a man was shot and a number of vehicles and mobile homes were damaged.

Footage of the incidents, which appear to have been recorded by the perpetrators, has been widely shared on social media and WhatsApp. It shows upwards of a dozen men armed with weapons including a gun, sledgehammers and slash hooks in Ennistymon, County Clare, on Sunday.

The masked and hooded men are seen smashing the windows of cars and mobile homes, and firing shots from a gun. Shouts of “that car there” and breaking glass can be heard. 

A man, aged in his 50s, was hospitalised after a firearm was discharged in the Deerpark area of Ennistymon shortly after 6pm on…


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