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CONTACT INFO:
SARAH
REID
CITY OF REEDLEY
100 N. EAST AVE
REEDLEY, CA 93654
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TRAINING &
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District VII
General Scholarship
Deadline: November 30, 2007
Sarah Reid, City of Reedley
100 N. East Avenue
Reedley, CA 93657
sarah.reid@reedley.com
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California Foundation for
Parks & Recreation
Information Sheet
Application Form
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Aging
Section Conference
Registration Form
November 7 - 9, 2007
Bass Lake
Deadline: September 28
Contact: Darryl Kim |
CPRS Aging Section Scholarship
(Letter,
Reference Form,
Check List)
Gonzaga da Gama, Ph.D.
408-924-3009,
gonzaga@casa.sjsu.edu
Marie Crawford
562-989-7330
mcrawford@cityofsignalhill.org
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Park
Management and Development Institute
Friday, January 11, 2008
Woodland Community and Senior Center
(~20 minutes from the Sacramento airport)
Michael T.
Shellito
City of Roseville
311 Vernon Street
(916) 774-5131
mshellito@roseville.ca.us
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Vendor's Faire & Rodeo
Friday, November 2, 2007
Prosperity Sports Park
City of Tulare
Donnie Moore
City of Tulare
559-782-7461
dmoore@ci.porterville.ca.us |
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Grants for Community, Health and Education Projects
The RGK Foundation is offering grants up to $25,000 for
community, education and health projects including youth
development, community improvement, abuse prevention and educational
enrichment programs.
Learn more >>
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Grants for Afterschool and Community Projects
Hamburger Helper is sponsoring My Hometown Helper grants to help
fund community projects such as books for literacy programs,
playground equipment, and tutoring programs. Awards will be based on
the merit of the project as well as its impact and support within
the community.
Learn more >>
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U.S. Soccer Foundation Opens Online Application Process for 2008
Grants Program
The 2008 Annual Grants Program will emphasize programs or
projects that have a significant impact on furthering the
Foundation's mission to enhance, assist and grow the sport of soccer
in the U.S. A preference will be given to those projects or
programs in economically disadvantaged urban areas encompassing
populations of 50,000 or more. Application can be made for: a
Program Grant to support the development of players, coaches or
referees; a Field Enhancement Grant to improve a field with new
goals, irrigation or lighting; or an All Conditions Fields Grant to
help build a synthetic grass field. Applications will be
accepted from August 2 through October 15 (5:00 PM Eastern Time),
2007. All online applications and mandatory documents, whether
mailed to the Foundation's office or uploaded electronically, must
be received by the closing date and time to be eligible for further
consideration.
Learn more >>
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Bikes
Belong Offers Funding For Bicycle Advocacy and Facilities
Deadline for Applications: November 26, 2007
Bikes Belong is a
national coalition of bicycle suppliers and retailers working
together to put more people on bicycles more often. Bikes Belong
welcomes grant applications from organizations and agencies within
the United States that are committed to "putting more people on
bicycles more often." The Bikes Belong Grants Program funds projects
in two categories: 1) facilities and 2) advocacy. For the facility
category, Bikes Belong will accept applications from nonprofit
organizations, public agencies, and departments at the national,
state, regional, and local levels. For the advocacy category, Bikes
Belong will only fund organizations whose mission is expressly
related to bicycle advocacy. Bikes Belong reviews applications on a
quarterly cycle. Applications must be postmarked by the due date to
receive consideration for the ensuing decision date. Upcoming
application deadline is
November 26, 2007.
Learn more >>
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Excellence in Building Healthy Communities
for Active Aging Now Taking Applications:
This award recognizes communities for their outstanding
comprehensive approaches to implementing principles of smart growth,
as well as strategies that support active aging.
http://epa.gov/aging/bhc/awards/bhc-awards.htm
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The Power of Play:
David Elkind takes child's play very seriously; His new
book underscores a disturbing fact of modern childhood: America's
children enjoy less time for creative play than their parents'
generation.
http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/dacapo/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0738210536
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The national organization Common
Good is so disturbed by vanishing playtime and the rise in child
obesity that they have organized a national campaign (www.cgood.org)
to raise awareness.
Philip K. Howard, founder of Common
Good and author of The Death of Common Sense (Grand Central
Publishing, $13.95), recommends that parents create play-friendly
lives and fight schools trying to cut back on recess.
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Active Living Research
Introduces User Friendly Website:
http://www.activelivingresearch.org/
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Out-of-School Resources:
Child Trends, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research
organization providing social science research to those who serve
children and youth, has just released four new research briefs aimed
at out-of-school-time providers.
They join an
already lengthy list of articles for out-of-school-time providers on
the organization's website, available for download at
http://www.childtrends.org/_portalcat.cfm?LID=C6CEDAFE-34FF-4DFD-9CD745899CE5D128&CFID=275110&CFTOKEN=12730976.
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Clearinghouse on Nutrition Resources:
The School of the 21st Century and the Rudd Center for Food
Policy and Obesity, both at Yale University, have developed a
compilation of the best online resources for program implementation
relating to healthy lifestyles, nutrition and physical activity. The
document, which features links to all the top sites, is available at
http://www.yale.edu/21c/documents/2007_Spring_IssueBrief_Nutrition.pdf.
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Effective Management of
Afterschool Programs:
The Philadelphia-based Public/Private Ventures has
released, "Quality Time After School: What Instructors Can Do to
Enhance Learning."
http://www.ppv.org/ppv/youth/youth_publications.asp?section_id=8#pub217
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Healthy
Fresno:
Your family’s health
history plays a role in your health and the types of conditions you
may be at risk for developing. But medical experts say lifestyle
decisions – choices you make about the foods you eat, the amount of
exercise (and rest!) you get, and other behaviors like smoking – can
play a big role too.
http://www.healthyfresno.org/healthyliving/
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Childhood Obesity: The
incidence of childhood obesity is rapidly rising throughout the
world. The obesity epidemic is especially evident in industrialized
nations where many people live sedentary lives and eat more
convenience foods, which are typically high in calories and low in
nutritional value. In just two decades, the prevalence of overweight
doubled for U.S. children ages 6 to 11 — and tripled for American
teenagers.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/childhood-obesity/DS00698
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Adolescent obesity is a serious
health and societal problem that is rising at exceedingly extreme
rates; one might call it an epidemic. Our children and adolescents
are facing more serious health problems, peer pressure, societal
difficulty, and psychological trauma due to obesity than in the
past.
http://www.obesityhelp.com/morbidobesity/information/childhood-obesity/
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"Cyberbullying
and Cyberthreats:
Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Aggression, Threats,
and Distress." Cyberbullying is emerging as
one of the more challenging issues facing educators and parents as
young people embrace the Internet and other mobile communication
technologies.
http://cyberbully.org
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i-SAFE is a non-profit foundation
dedicated to protecting the online experiences of youth everywhere.
i-SAFE incorporates classroom curriculum with dynamic community
outreach to empower students, teachers, parents, law enforcement,
and concerned adults to make the Internet a safer place.
http://www.isafe.org
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The Stop Bullying Now! Activities Guide
The U.S. Department of Health recently released the
Stop
Bullying Now! Activities Guide, a handbook of ideas for
putting the Stop Bullying Now! Campaign to work in your community.
Also available are a DVD video toolkit featuring webisodes, public
service announcements, and video workshops. To view or download this
guide and connect to web-based resources for the prevention of
bullying.
http://www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/adult/indexAdult.asp
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