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Golden LEAF News - September 2009
Greetings!
The Golden LEAF Foundation, committed to the long-term advancement of tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and rural North Carolina communities, has recently developed a strategic initiative to expand local food opportunities for North Carolina farmers and businesses. The initiative focuses on increasing access for farmers and businesses to wholesale, institutional, and retail markets. Click here for more information about the Local Foods Initiative priorities and how to apply.
The Foundation’s Open Grants Program is designed to make it easier for applicants to submit a proposal to Golden LEAF and to make funding opportunities available throughout the year. Click here for more information about the Open Grants Program.
As always, visit our website www.goldenleaf.org for more news on our other initiatives.
Best,
Jenny Tinklepaugh
Program/ Communications Officer
jtinklepaugh@goldenleaf.org
www.goldenleaf.org
Featured articles in this edition of “Golden LEAF News”:
North Carolina Rising
UNC-TV – VIDEO
This UNC-TV video features a compilation of 12 North Carolina Rising features, showcasing a diverse set of economic development projects in rural North Carolina. The series examines how local communities are reinventing themselves through innovative options such as tourism, small business, alternative crops, biotechnology and biomanufacturing, food processing, military contracts, and education. North Carolina Rising is provided in part by a Golden LEAF grant.
Stanly Community College interview with Golden LEAF
Stanly Community College - VIDEO
Stanly Community College President Michael Taylor interviews Dan Gerlach and Mark Sorrells from the Golden LEAF Foundation. They discuss what the Golden LEAF Foundation is, how it was started, what Foundation focuses its funding on, and how the Foundation benefits the citizens of North Carolina and Stanly Community College.
N.C. companies land $4.7M in aerospace contracts
Triangle Business Journal
Registered state vendors have won more than 425 Defense Logistics Agency purchase orders with a value in excess of $4.7 million, according to the North Carolina Military Business Center, the North Carolina Aerospace Alliance and the Golden LEAF Foundation.
Economic Development: Local, state leaders show what Cleveland County has to offer
Shelby Star
Deputy Commerce Sec. Dale Carroll, Golden LEAF Foundation President Dan Gerlach, Assistant Sec. for Tourism, Marketing and Global Branding Lynn Minges and economic developers Peggy Anderson and Rod Forsyth and representatives from other organizations attended a meeting to discuss and see the potential for economic growth in Cleveland County.
Golden LEAF approves grants
Richmond County Daily Journal
The Golden LEAF Foundation’s Board of Directors approved Richmond County Community Assistance Initiative grant proposals at their September Board meeting. The three grants totaled just over $2 million and address key issues identified by Richmond County citizens.
More than 10 counties led Columbus in grant initiative
Whiteville Reporter
The Whiteville Reporter recounts several of Golden LEAF’s Community Assistance Initiative grants funded before reaching Columbus County. Golden LEAF is working its way through the most distressed counties in North Carolina (Tier 1).
Forget blackboards; 3-D is new teaching tool
Fayetteville Observer
Twelve high schools in the region around Fort Bragg will participate in a pilot program to introduce i3D theater systems in each of the dozen schools. The funding for this program has been provided by Golden LEAF, federal economic stimulus funding and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Chatham Co. Students Receive Laptops
NBC-17 - VIDEO
About 2200 students have received laptops in the four high schools in Chatham County, thanks in part to a Golden LEAF grant. Golden LEAF funds provided all students at Jordan-Matthews High School with new laptops as a part of the county schools’ 1:1 laptop initiative.
$2 million in the wings for county needs
Daily Herald
Halifax County has chosen its priorities for funding – economic development, education, and infrastructure. The community formed a review team to go through the applications and make recommendations, according to what the larger group set as rules.
Hospital working for leaner, better management
Jefferson Post
Ashe Memorial Hospital is working to eliminate waste and improve patient care through a new lean management system. Funding for the program is provided through a grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation.
Golden LEAF Foundation renews grant supporting Carolina College Advising Corps
UNC-Chapel Hill News
The Carolina College Advising Corps corps will have 19 advisers serving 40 high schools in 21 counties across North Carolina this school year, thanks in part to a Golden LEAF grant. The Carolina College Advising Corps helps low-income, first-generation and underrepresented students in North Carolina realize the goal of attending college.
Golden LEAF meeting offers strategy
Home in Henderson
Golden LEAF officials reviewed 22 proposals requesting over $10 million Vance County proposals submitted in the Golden LEAF Community Assistance Initiative process. Proposals were submitted in the community’s priority areas of education, economic development and emergency services.
Person Memorial introduces new electronic health record module
Courier-Times
Person Memorial Hospital is advancing further into the realm of health information technology with a new electronic health record (EHR) module, thanks in part to a Golden LEAF grant. There is a move towards computerizing all health records in the next several years.
Opportunity is knocking
Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald
Northampton County is one of the latest editions to the Golden LEAF Community Assistance Initiative process. The surrounding counties of Hertford, Bertie and Gates have already received funding through the process.
City, county schools open Tuesday
The News Reporter
Using the largest Golden LEAF grant Whiteville City Schools has ever received, the 1 to 1 program will be initiated at Whiteville High School later in the year with laptops going to all ninth and 10th graders.
A step ahead of the rest
Kinston Free Press
The Greene County Schools system started their 1:1 laptop program, funded in part by a Golden LEAF grant, to help provide the opportunity to attend college as students in affluent urban areas like Charlotte and Raleigh have to attend college. Since the program was implemented, the district’s college application rate jumped from 24 percent in 2002 to 88 percent in 2009.
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