A few nice grants for business images I found:
McCormick County Library Awarded ,000 Grant
Image by South Carolina State Library
McCormick, S.C. – Dr Pepper Snapple Group and national non-profit KaBOOM! have awarded the McCormick County Library a ,000 Let’s Play Playground Construction grant.
The grants are part of the first Let’s Play initiative introduced in November of last year – a million, three-year commitment from Dr. Pepper Snapple Group to KaBOOM!, the national non-profit saving play by ensuring there is a great place to play within walking distance of every child. Together through Let’s Play, Dr Pepper Snapple Group and KaBOOM! will build or improve 2,000 playgrounds by the end of 2013, benefiting an estimated five million children across North America.
The McCormick County Library submitted a grant application to Dr Pepper Snapple Group and KaBOOM! in October and was one of 35 organizations to receive a grant from a pool of hundreds of applicants.
The grant will be used toward the purchase of playground equipment in the new park being constructed at the library. Fundraising for this playground is ongoing and the library hopes to soon reach its goal. The library has pursued the playground project in order to attract more young children and their families into the library, make the best use of its existing property, and provide a much needed community space.
Consumers are encouraged to visit Let’s Play on Facebook at www.facebook.com/letsplay to join the conversation and learn how to apply for grants.
For more information about the McCormick County Library, visit mccormickcountylibrary.org/.
For more information about the grant, contact Paul Brown, McCormick County Library, 864-852-2821 mccormicklibrary@hotmail.com; Ally Gellert, Ketchum, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, 646-935-3924, ally.gellert@ketchum.com ; Mike Vietti, KaBOOM!, 785-320-2137, mvietti@kaboom.org.
About Grantee
The purpose of the McCormick County Library is to obtain, organize and provide access to ideas and information representing a wide diversity of views and expressions and to meet the informational, recreational, and lifelong learning needs of all its users.
About Dr Pepper Snapple Group
Dr Pepper Snapple Group (NYSE: DPS) is the leading producer of flavored beverages in North America and the Caribbean. Our success is fueled by more than 50 brands that are synonymous with refreshment, fun and flavor. We have 6 of the top 10 non-cola soft drinks, and 9 of our 12 leading brands are No. 1 in their flavor categories. In addition to our flagship Dr Pepper and Snapple brands, our portfolio includes Sunkist soda, 7UP, A&W, Canada Dry, Crush, Mott's, Squirt, Hawaiian Punch, Penafiel, Clamato, Schweppes, Venom Energy, Rose's and Mr & Mrs T mixers. To learn more about our iconic brands and Plano, Texas-based company, please visit www.drpeppersnapple.com.
About Let’s Play
Let’s Play is a community partnership led by Dr Pepper Snapple Group (NYSE: DPS) to get kids and families active nationwide. The first Let’s Play initiative is a million, three-year commitment to KaBOOM!, the national non-profit that’s saving play. Together, through Let’s Play, DPS and KaBOOM! will build or fix up 2,000 playgrounds by the end of 2013, benefiting an estimated five million children across North America. For more information, visit Let’s Play on Facebook at www.facebook.com/letsplay or online at www.LetsPlay.com.
About KaBOOM!
KaBOOM! is the national non-profit dedicated to saving play. Children today spend less time playing outdoors than any previous generation, a fact that is having disastrous consequences on their health, achievement levels, and overall well-being. To fight this Play Deficit, social entrepreneur Darell Hammond founded non-profit KaBOOM! 15 years ago in Washington, D.C. with a vision of creating a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America. Since then, KaBOOM! has mapped over 85,000 places to play, built more than 2,000 playgrounds, and successfully advocated for play policies in hundreds of cities across the country. KaBOOM! also provides communities with online tools to self-organize and take action to support play on both a local and national level. Hammond chronicles the founding of the organization and the importance of the cause of play in his The New York Times Best Seller KaBOOM!: How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play. The book details how businesses and communities can work together to save play for children across the country. All author proceeds support KaBOOM!. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., KaBOOM! also has offices in Chicago and San Mateo, Calif. For more information, visit www.kaboom.org.
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About the S.C. State Library
The South Carolina State Library is the primary administrator of federal and state support for the state’s libraries. The Library is a national model for innovation, collaboration, leadership and effectiveness. The Library’s mission is to optimize South Carolina’s investment in library and information services. In 1969, as the result of action by the General Assembly, the State Library Board was redesignated as the South Carolina State Library and assumed responsibility for public library development, library service for state institutions, service for the blind and physically handicapped, and library service to state government agencies. Headquartered in Columbia, S.C., the Library is funded by the state of South Carolina, by the federal government through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and other sources. For more information, visit www.statelibrary.sc.gov or call 803-734-8666.
Baroness Wilcox - New Business Mentors Investment
Image by bisgovuk
Baroness Wilcox, Parliamentary Secretary for Business, Innovation and Skills (left) at the British Library for the announcement of new investment to recruit and train an additional 10,000 volunteers to become business mentors.
With funding to recruit and train a further 5,000 mentors as part of a package of support for female entrepreneurs announced earlier this month, as well as almost 11,000 business mentors already available through mentorsme.co.uk , this investment will bring the total number of business mentors available to around 26,000.
New grant funding of £1.2m will support the Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative (SFEDI)'s new Get Mentoring scheme to recruit 10,000 business volunteers from small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
Mentorsme.co.uk allows you to use a single, easy-to-use search engine to locate organisations that provide mentor services. The government and the BBA are working to give users access to existing mentoring organisations and networks under one umbrella.
Small Business Summit 2012 Photo 044
Image by Grant Wickes
Event details for small business conference at SmallBizSummit.
Picture by Grant Wickes principal of Wickpoint Management Services and currently VP Businss Development Wasp Barcode Technologies.
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