...Grant Morrison, famed comic book writer/enthusiast, automatically has extrinsic ethos. This is because he is an internationally famous authority on comics, which is the ideal credibility to have when writing Supergods. Morrison, being well-versed in comics, describes these with such detail and personal-opinion that the reader can’t help but feel they are in the time period. For example Morrison says, “With the world on the verge of war, readers couldn’t get enough of the superheroes, especially in the comic books.” (SG47) Morrison speaks from almost a first person view of what was transpiring. Morrison creates his sense of good moral character through his countless examples and descriptions throughout the novel. “During the years of the Second...
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...being un-supervised. Other people in the community speed over the limit posted and children play there and may be hit or injured. Even though the children play in the street it cause a safety risk to drivers that don’t speed or drive wreck less do to the children running in and out of the streets without looking for cars. The children are our future and they need to be protected. When a person is looking to buy a future home they want to see a nice neighborhood that looks respectable and not as if it’s a bad neighborhood. The appearance of a home in my belief can say a lot about the people who live there. Someone who takes care of their home for example pressure washing, not trash in yard, paint nicely applied. Also there are some resident that don’t have the money but the residents should do as much as they can. To give an example of this a resident in my neighborhood has fixed the garage door which is tilted half way closed and it’s not very appealing. The appearance of a residents lawn as well as home its self make a community. A yard or lawn care should at the minimum have the grass mowed. The plants should be not over grown or deceased. Living in Florida the grass isn’t always...
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...The poor people usually depends of this places for basic things like food or sleep,without that help some of them don`t survive winter. Most of these institutions exist thanks to donations made it by average people and not government assistance. Every day there is more people living on the streets and the help is simply not enough, even when these kind of institutions exist. The people which suffer of poverty even when we see them like a kind of dog in the street, they are human and they want a decent life like normal people. Is normal to say that those poor people are living on the streets by their own choice, but like I said before, that is ignorance. That people suffer a lot of things, even things that we never going to feel, for example the hungry . The sad of these situations is that most of these people is...
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...In this quote from the story, Grant Wiggins talks about racism. There is a lot of different quotes in the book that talk about racism, but this is one of my favorites. This is only a snip it of where Grant talks about the struggles he’s been going through the past few days because he is a black man. He talks about how when he goes to visit Jefferson in prison they make him take everything out of his pockets, and he stands waiting for hours as the white men finish having dinner, and etc. He then goes on to say “But he didn't tell me that my aunt would help them do it.” Which in my eyes was a very important part. His aunt sent him to school to be able to learn more, and protect him from the racism. Yet, here she is forcing him go to the prison...
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...Grant Participation Part II 2 Grant Participation Part II The Salvation Army’s Alegria Program provides services to families who have a member living with HIV/AIDS and do not have any other housing options. Initially the program is set up in three phases. The first phase is emergency housing, and if need be clients then transfer into the transitional housing phase, and upon further stabilization (as well as vacancies) families then move into the third phase, which is permanent housing. The Salvation Army was seeking to fund 16 transitional housing units, and as a result applied for a government grant through LAHSA (The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority). The role of this writer was to contact appropriate departments in order to obtain certain documents so that they may be submitted along with the RFP. This was somewhat challenging because departments were inundated with requests from other programs due to the submission of grant renewals and quarterly reports . This writer had to make several attempts to obtain some of the paperwork. Departments contacted included: the finance department, in order to request copies of financial audit reports, as well as assurances, IRS paperwork demonstrating proof of nonprofit status, the development department in order to obtain information on current donations from donors, etc. This writer also had to communicate with the grants manager as well as the executive director of social services, and the executive director of...
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...MINISTRY OF EDUCATION A NEW FUNDING FRAMEWORK: HOW GOVERNMENT GRANTS ARE ALLOCATED TO PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Income sources of public higher education institutions The new funding framework: an overview Division of the government budget for higher education into categories of grants Teaching input grants Teaching output grants Research output grants Institutional factor grants Moving from current to the new funding framework February 2004 1 INCOME SOURCES OF PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS The diagram below offers a broad summary of the ways in which funds flow to public universities and technikons in South Africa. Diagram 1: Sources of funds of public higher education institutions Government grants 50% Student tuition & other fees 25% Annual funds for public higher education 100% Other private income 25% The proportions reflected in the diagram are averages for the system as a whole. These proportions can differ widely between institutions. For example, government grants as a proportion of total income can be as low as 35% if an institution is able to raise large amounts of private funds through research contracts, donations and investments and can be as high as 65% in the case of institutions which are not able to generate substantial amounts of private income. The Ministry of Education has direct control over only government grants to public universities and technikons. The Ministry furthermore takes no...
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...Grant Writing FOR DUMmIES 3RD ‰ EDITION by Dr. Beverly A. Browning, MPA, DBA Grant Writing For Dummies® 3rd Edition , Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River St. Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400, fax 978-646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should e addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201)748-6008, or online at http:// www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Trademarks: Wiley, the Wiley Publishing logo, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, A Reference for the Rest of Us!, The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and Easy Way, Dummies.com, Making Everything Easier, and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and/ or its affiliates in the United States and other countries, and...
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...> Implementation Guidance 55-2 The accounting and reporting of grants, membership dues, and sponsorships is determined by the underlying substance of the transaction.Those terms are broadly used to refer not only to contributions but also to assets transferred in exchange transactions.A grant, sponsorship, or membership may be entirely a contribution, entirely an exchange, or a combination of the two; therefore, care must be taken in evaluating each grant, sponsorship, or membership agreement.In addition, those resource transfers may also have the characteristics of agency transactions. 55-2A The implementation guidance is organized as follows: a. Distinguishing contributions from exchange transactions (see paragraphs 958-605-55-3 through 55-8 : ) b. Distinguishing the contribution portion of membership dues (see paragraphs 958-605-55-9 through 55-12 : ) c. Distinguishing contributions from agency transactions (see paragraph 958-605-55-13 : ). > > Distinguishing Contributions from Exchange Transactions 55-3 Some transfers of assets that are exchange transactions may appear to be contributions if the services or other assets given in exchange are perceived to be a sacrifice of little value and the exchanges are compatible with the recipient's mission. 55-4 Foundations, business entities, and other types of entities may provide resources to not-for-profit entities (NFPs) under programs referred to as grants, awards, or sponsorships.Those asset transfers are contributions...
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...Exam 3 1. According to Carl Stenberg, what are the major types of federal grants and what are the distinctions between them? How have block grants in particular evolved over time? What are the major concerns that state, local, and federal officials have regarding block grants? According to Carl Stenberg, there are two types of federal grants: categorical aid, which is specified for a specific use or program; and block grants, which are less specific and are designed to reduce the federal burden or responsibilities on certain programs. Block grants are used as a tool for redistributing power and accountably by using devolution and decentralization of authority (Conlan and Posner, 2008, 264). Sternberg has divided block grants into three distinct approaches: full devolution, partial devolution, and intergovernmental decentralization. Full devolution is the total removal and redistribution of federal policy, funding, regulatory, and administrative responsibilities (Conlan and Posner, 2008, 264). In the 1990s, this was referred to as “devolution revolution” and consisted of rhetoric proposing to push more power away from the federal government and down to the state and local levels. Full devolution was not popular and was only successful a few times, using legislative, executive, and administrative devolution to shift functional responsibilities from the federal level to state governments, for example, the regulation of marine port pilots, insurance, interstate horse racing, shipping...
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...no longer qualify for federal grants, so I am looking for a way to pay for college. School is very important to me and I enjoy learning. I am a mother of 3, with a child on the way. My Fiancé works at Mt Mariah Baptist Church in Matthews NC and does not bring home much. I work at Time Warner Cable and also do not bring home enough to afford school without financial assistance. My classes for the Fall semester is about a thousand dollars and that does not include the four books that I have to buy, which will average out to about $150 a book. I decided to go back to school after taking a good look at my future at the current company that I work for. All the advancement opportunities require a bachelor degree or better. I plan on transferring to UNC and completing my bachelor there. It seems like the most logical way to go, instead of wasting all that money on all these new online schools that credits most likely won’t transfer. I have tried to go to online schools like Strayer University, ECPI, and Kaplan. Even though I was focused and determine, I eventually realized that these types of classroom settings was not for me and that the cost of these schools were too expansive. They swallowed up all my grant money and I still had to get loans to cover the remaining balance of school. That is why I decided to go back to community college. It is accessible and they too have online classes. Not only that, but it is also affordable. The Federal Grants cover all cost and fees. This...
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...Stakeholder Influences HSM/270 October 4. 2012 Stakeholder Influences In the field of human services one of the most influential stakeholders when it comes to program planning and evaluation is the funding source. Often times the funding source has a specific set of requirements that the program and agency must meet in order to obtain or maintain funding. The program planning and evaluation process is greatly affected by this. The needs and expectations of the stakeholders influence program planning and evaluation because they must adhere to specific restrictions placed upon them by the IRS and other government agencies. The funding source usually wants to proposed program to have similar goals and objectives along with similar values. The program planning may be changed in order to line up with the values of the funding source. The Madison Children’s Hospital seeks to start a program which research is done to look into the issue of chronic illness in adolescents ages 8-21. The funding source for this program is the National Institute of Health Care. The National Institute of Health Care seeks to fund research to improve self-management and quality of life for children with chronic illness. The needs and expectations of the hospital are to address the concerns of a lack in self-management of chronic illness. The hospital is interested in researching the causes for the lack of self-management which is causing an increase in complications as well as a lack of school...
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...THE UNIVERSITY OF DODOMA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MBA-EXECUTIVE PROGRAMME 2009/2010 RESEARCH PROPOSAL By KIBIKI YUSTIN, L.M TITLE: MANAGEMENT OF CAPITATION GRANTS IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF TANZANIA: A CASE OF KIGOMA DISTRICT COUNCIL PROPOSED SUPERVISOR: DR MBOGORO DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS –UDOM 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Problem Sound Economic Governance is essential for the achievement of the desired reduction in poverty levels and improvements in economic growth in Tanzania. Good Public Financial Management (PFM) is important for efficient, effective and equitable utilization of scarce national resources (REF). Whilst the extent to which policy makers are held accountable to their constituents is an excellent indicator of good governance. Accountability and transparency go hand in hand in developing open and participatory decision-making processes. In 2005, the government of Tanzania reviewed the financial management practices and processes at the central government level. In 2006, the focus has shifted to local government, which now accounts for an increasing proportion of expenditures and is primarily responsible for service delivery in sectors such as primary education and primary health (URT, 2004). This kind of study is therefore wanting to provide a snapshot of how the resource allocation, resource management and control, resource utilization and accountability processes take place...
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...SPEA – V558 Fund Development for Nonprofits Jamie Levy Assessment of BBYO Development Program The above graph (not to scale) is a reflection of the development program at BBYO, Inc. BBYO is an independent, pluralistic, Jewish youth movement that recently (2002) became independent of its parent body, B’nai B’rith (a Jewish fraternal and social service agency). Since this time, BBYO has worked very hard to court a number of major donors. However, it seems that the donative spectrum is too heavily skewed towards a number of major donors; while small to medium size gifts are a relatively small part of the revenue stream. I believe this is a most unwelcome development. The reasons why I believe this phenomenon to be problematic are two-fold. Any organization that becomes dependent on a small subset of donors for over 91% of its revenue runs the risk of losing operational and mission-related control of the organization. Additionally, it seems that a great deal of donative income is “left on the table.” The organization has apparently expended far too little effort searching for small to midsize donations. I believe that a great deal of untapped development potential is waiting to be realized. BBYO is an 85 year old Jewish Youth Movement that has an alumni base of over 35,000 individuals. When one considers that this number does not reflect the parents of alumni, one can only conclude that this very large donor base has mainly gone untapped. It would be interesting to compare...
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...All About Florida First Time Home Buyer Grants Home buyers in Florida can find a host of websites the tell them all about Florida first time home buyer grants, but ask for money up front before providing the information. There are, however, a few non-profit organizations along with the State of Florida that will help home buyers will winning one of the many grants provided for Florida residents. The Florida Department of Community Affairs is the first place a first time home buyer should go to learn about all the grants available. The department has several programs available for buyers wanting to receive a grant to help them with the initial cost of buying and then closing on their first home. The main grant provided by the department is the Community Development Block Grant or the Low Income Home Energy Assistance grant. The state outlines what it takes to qualify for each one of these grants and buyers should diligently seek out what needs to be done and if they are eligible for the funding. In many circumstances, the department will have loans available to first time home buyers to be used for the down payment. On the department’s website, individuals will find the procedures and forms that need to be submitted in order to receive this money. The site also has a listing of numbers and individuals who will gladly assist the buyers in filling out the forms so they are down correctly. It is highly recommended that this assistance is taken because if the procedures...
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...raising taxes to cover these items, the time is now to get out in front of the issues by forming a fundraising committee or looking for an established nonprofit agency to help search for grants to help the city and the police department. The city needs to look for a grant, or grants, to pay for police equipment and computer training for the entire force. The police badly need four (4) new computers, twelve (12) bulletproof vests, eight (8) telephones and two (2) motorcycles (or horses) to catch criminals on foot. Once an agency is selected or a committee is formed internally, the township will also need funding for eighteen (18) street lights for a high-crime neighborhood and there is a suggestion to form a task force to count the broken windows in another neighborhood and begin the process of getting those repaired or replaced. This morning, someone else added that the fire department would soon need a new fire truck. For this assignment, pretend that you work for a nonprofit organization in this township and you are already on a standing committee for community development. You have just heard about the city’s needs, and you have approached the Director to ask if you can work on this project. The director has given you this approval, if your agency can get the computer training portion of the grant monies. The director mentioned that there may be a person in the community who may be willing to donate a motorcycle to the city through your nonprofit agency. Your committee does not...
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