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Royal Neighbors of America Launches Difference Maker Fund

/EIN News/ -- MESA, Ariz., Jan. 28, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- It pays to be good. Royal Neighbors of America, one of the oldest, women-led life insurers in the U.S., announced the launch of its Difference Maker Fund, a new program that offers Royal Neighbors members* $200 in seed money to support a community project that aligns with the life insurer's mission

Dear readers, please note that fhis post is a near-straight feed from a newswire with some comments about how the recipients will be selected and judged. The offer comes from from an all-women professional group selling life insurance with a social cause tie-in.

Every February the life insurance industry has a campaign called Insure Your Love

Royal Neighbors is reaching out to members who have a vision to help their community and a crew of family along with friends who want to help make it happen. Our new program, the Difference Maker Fund, offers members $200 of seed money to support a community project that aligns with Royal Neighbors’ mission.

 

The focus is to improve the community and cover at least one of the following purposes:

• Support a charitable cause that specifically helps women and/or girls
• Support women who organize and complete community service projects
• Provide financial literacy opportunities for women, girls, or other community groups

General Guidelines:
Projects can be a fund-raiser, service activity, or educational event. All Royal Neighbors members are eligible to apply for one grant per year. Members are encouraged to form volunteer teams of friends, family, and people in their community to help with the project. Team members do not have to be Royal Neighbors members to participate. Only 60 grants will be awarded each quarter so apply soon!

Funds are limited to seed money to get new projects started. Grants will be awarded at the sole discretion of Royal Neighbors of America and a post-event report is required. Funds cannot be used as a direct monetary contribution (re-grant), nor can multiple members apply to receive grants for the same project or event.
An Added Bonus!
Be sure to complete a post-even report! Those projects with submitted reports and the highest number of “likes” and “shares” on the Royal Neighbors' Facebook page will win a $500 prize  towards the charitable organization helped by that project.
All remaining projects with qualified final reports will be entered into a drawing for a second $500 prize, also to be awarded to the cause served by the project.
Don’t wait. Act now
http://www.royalneighbors.org/community-connections/difference-maker-fund

Sunset Galaxy Mural > Time-Lapse + Fast-Forward

Really like this artist Jesse Perry's moves, creativity and energy!
He was featured in another post here some time ago doing one of the four Retro-Eccentric Neon-Inspired Murals on the west side of what used to be The O.S. Stanley Company.
Word on the street [yours truly talked with Jesse outside of Desert Eagle Brewery on Friday] is that he might be doing another work in the New Urban DTMesa . . . stay tuned

Mesa 11 Live Stream City Council Study Session Mon 25 Jan 2016

2 Police Officer-Involved Shooting Incidents in Mesa Attract Media Attention

[Lessons in Transparency??  See previous post here on 26 Jan, two days ago] Included there is this statement from one of two open data crime map resources
The open release of datasets like CAD/RMS, use of force, arrests, officer involved shootings, and complaints give the community an ‘inside’ look of day-to-day events within an agency.
This type of transparency introduces a constructive line of communication between the community and police agencies. Problems and red flags can be identified quickly and collaboratively.

• Cities like Seattle, DC, LA, and Portland have been releasing these kinds of datasets for years.
• Albuquerque, Detroit, and New Orleans recently began releasing this data.
• Baltimore added arrest and calls for service datasets to their open data portal around the time of the Freddie Gray protests.
• NYPD recently announced the new public version of CompStat (they’re calling it CompStat 2). 

Two recent incidents, one involving a pellet gun has been the subject of 91 articles, and another one about a notice of claim filed against the Mesa Policepartment two days ago has been the subject of at least 14 articles.

We all know that that there have been repercussions from mostly racial-based episodes in Missouri, South Carolina and Chicago based on how police departments and cities have tried to handle the news - not releasing real-time videos, conflicting witness and officer reports, and withholding the names of police officers involved. In one more shocking incident here last week of child abuse and sex trafficking [that's b een the focus of 194 articles] the Mesa Police Department took to the airwaves right away with full disclosure of the crime and their fast actions and response.

One of the officer-involved shootings that's resulted in a noticed of claim for a possible lawsuit was reported yesterday in the East Valley Tribune by Shelley Ridenour.  The family of man shot and killed by Mesa police last month has filed a claim against the city, the police department, the police chief and the two involved officers.Chandler attorney Troy Hendrickson filed the notice of claim on Monday, for the “wrongful death” of Ivan Krstic.

The report goes on to state:

• Three phone calls and two emails to the city of Mesa seeking comment for this story were not returned to the East Valley Tribune.
• No information about the incident is on the police department’s crime log.

The city has 60 days from the day the notice was served to respond to the claim. If it doesn’t respond in that time, a civil lawsuit may be filed against the city, Hendrickson said.

Hendrickson said the claim identifies Police Chief John Meza, but the two involved officers are referred to as unnamed officers . . .

He said the city has refused to release the names of the officers who were involved in Krstic’s death, despite repeated requests for that information.

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/arizona/article_f5a2ffaa-c52e-11e5-8cda-3734663089a1.html

Do You Know What Time It Is??



The Doomsday Clock is an internationally recognized design that conveys how close we are to destroying our civilization with dangerous technologies of our own making. First and foremost among these are nuclear weapons, but the dangers include climate-changing technologies, emerging biotechnologies, and cybertechnology that could inflict irrevocable harm, whether by intention, miscalculation, or by accident, to our way of life and to the planet, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said Tuesday.

- See more at: http://thebulletin.org/overview#sthash.KioBn99r.dpuf

"It remains the closest it has been over the past 20 years," said Rachel Bronson, executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, during a press conference in the US capital.
Global warming, terrorism, nuclear tensions between the United States and Russia, concerns over North Korean weapons, tensions between Pakistan and India, and cyber threats remain destabilizing influences, said Lawrence Krauss, a cosmologist and professor at Arizona State University.

Doomsday Dashboard
SOME OF WHAT WE CONSIDER, WHEN WE SET THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK
http://thebulletin.org/doomsday-dashboard

Phoenix Light Rail Extensions Accelerate with Implementation of T2050

People in Mesa can imagine more than this focus in a newsflash from Valley Metro five minutes ago, but take a look at the extension plans in the works to extend light rail service.

Just imagine, by 2023, you will be able to board Valley Metro Rail from Baseline Road, travel to a concert at Talking Stick Resort Arena in downtown Phoenix and complete the evening in north Phoenix at destinations around Metrocenter Mall. A major north-south rail connection will be in service sooner as Phoenix takes its first official steps to implement Transportation 2050 (T2050), a 35-year, multi-modal transportation plan approved by Phoenix voters in August 2015.
Yesterday the Phoenix City Council approved accelerating segments of the future high-capacity/light rail transit system to advance into the Regional Transportation Plan. These changes will be forwarded to the Valley Metro Boards of Directors and the Maricopa Association of Governments Regional Council for additional discussion and final adoption into the plan this summer.

Valley Metro provides eco-friendly public transit options to residents of greater Phoenix and Maricopa County including the planning and operations of a regional bus system and the development and operations of 23 miles of light rail. In Fiscal Year 2015, total ridership for the system was 71 million passengers. Six light rail extensions are planned or are under construction that will create a 66-mile system by 2034. Valley Metro also offers transit options including alternative transportation programs for seniors and people with disabilities, commuter vanpools, online carpool matching, bus trip mapping, bicycle safety and telework assistance. Two Boards of Directors set the policy direction for the agency with the intent of advancing the regional public transit system. Get the latest news by following us on Facebook and Twitter or visiting valleymetro.org.

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