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The Arc Washington County’s mission is to enable persons of all ages with disabilities to live as contributing, valued members of the community by creating partnerships that foster nurturing communities where people with disabilities can live their vision of a valued life.
We are a non-profit service organization, chartered in 1961 and affiliated with the Arc Tennessee as well as the Arc U.S. Our agency is dedicated to promoting the growth of nurturing communities where all people have the opportunity to join in fellowship and valued contribution to family, friends, neighborhood, work, spiritual, and community life.
saffron strands and spray paint on a plastic bottle
the second most expensive commodity in the world (after white truffles) combined with a plastic bottle from the recycling waste
Anne is pictured here with Tim Haywood, Group Finance Director and Head of Sustainability at Interserve.
Photos by Andy Sillett, On Sight Photographic
10:20 am - 11:10 am
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
David L. Cohen, Christina Paxson, Robert Zimmer
Moderator: Dan Porterfield
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Dan Bayer
Child Care Providers Should not Waste a Crisis
Home Owners Should Not Waste a Crisis
Starting a discussion of the economics we should get in place.
You get to opt out at the end, but don't
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USA VALUES, INC - Woodbury, MN -612-968-1579
To whom it may concern:
We wish to talk to you about the new money
for Guaranteed Early Reading Skills Delivery
We are aware there is no real extra money in
the systems for at risk children-
2 years is nothing in a 0-6 year cycle
when 2 million at-risk children are born each year
Tell us the 4 Billion per year is forever,
that would fix 10% of the problem
if all the money we spend can be leveraged
into a guaranteed delivery to the schools
There would be monetary value in a readiness
guarantee to schools!
This would deliver new footings of learning capacity.
It would allow districts to re-plan the K-8 resources.
To whom this might concern: We must find new money. We must engage private
equity. We have to size the problem at 20-40 billion. Here is a mind
twister-what do excess mortgage rates have to do with funding Child Care
OTHER THAN THE VALUE OF THE EXCESS IS WAY GREATER THAN 40 BILLION and both
issues are on Main Street.
Outside of describing two national priorities not being dealt with directly
in Washington, DC which is reason to complain and blame and say the Thomas
Friedman has it right. I wonder if you can help me put these two issues
together with your thoughts. Friedman describes moods of being not willing
to take on big projects and being dumb as we want to be that have invaded
our Nation. He also describes a local bubbling trend of nation building at
the local level that will address many issues in spite of the Washington DC
leadership. I know our New President says he is different but the following
are very specific issues with the power bases stacked against change. The
two issues that I want to be related are. Question is how we relate them
together.
1. We need a 3% Mortgage Interest Rate and a free refinance as a National
Priority to recover the value of our housing stock and the economy's
momentum. Main Street needs its appropriate share of the stimulus package or
all of it considering where our real wealth and future prospects are
located. If banks can have a .25% interest rate a homeowner in good
standing or not should get a 3-5% loan reflecting that rate. We don't get
those rates because of greed and a concept that we don't deserve it,
including a moral twist to the story of giving or getting something from
ourselves for nothing. But, with these rates there would be fewer local
financial problems, and the future would be bright again, all without a
recorded cost and maybe a boost to the market value of the 401K.
National Momentum requires the spending power of Main Street. Lets notice
that Washington DC. is not paying attention to those who can do the most
with the money. In this case the New Money has already been doled out and
Main Street was shorted. This is a lot of money to be shorted and because we
are short who is long? Who put us in the hole? Where is the moral argument?
Who is looking out for you? My bankers tell me they do not have widespread
access to the no cost bargain money. Have we already seen some of it used
for an acquisition that will put more people out of work? I am hoping you
can easily see this as a focal point for fairness and integrity lacking in
our collective representation. Our representation is draining local
resources and giving them away without reference to the real stimulation
required.
2. 100% Delivery of Children to kindergarten ready to read, count and
understand positive direction. The 100% delivery of our children to
kindergarten ready is a National Priority to stop wasting the brain power of
the nation and incurring higher costs than required in the subsequent K-12
education processes. 100% is used in the context of a quality process of
continuous improvement from guaranteed doing first things first right the
first time. This is real in any real economic system. In this case the
wasted brain power is coming of interest to our national leaders and they
may not attach the same importance to it as they have attached to other
national critical capacities.
They have not set out to create a System of Strategic National Resource and
Brain Development Capacity that requires very local private equity financing
to be certain that the capacity developed meets the real requirements. We
could easily make this "private capacity" look and feel like the first level
of private use for a return on investment from our public schools. This
would just copy what goes on in our economy with our national transportation
systems, the farm systems, the space program systems, the military systems,
the housing systems, the post office systems, flood control systems, the
water reserve systems, the strategic oil reserve systems, and yes repeating
the public school systems on the post side of grade 12, and etc. There are
about 100 of these capacities that get special national consideration. And
I do not know them all. Brain capacity is part of the economic system.
Again, I am hoping you can easily see this as a focal point for fairness and
integrity lacking in our collective representation. This is draining local
resources and wasting them away without reference to the real stimulation
required.
We have to change at least the above in the concept of lower total costs;
saving waste, more throughput, growth and defining the real all inclusive
total cost before and after will help get the economics right. The local
economy wins first when this is done.
Main Street Real Estate Values are the first thing to benefit in both power
struggles, and who is representing you?
If you don't opt out I will send you an email discussion of this with school
districts and another one to large and small businesses. Then we can start
talking about how to PERSONALLY monetize our network so we can start making
this happen.
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The NHS Values Summit brings together a diverse range of people and perspectives to create a greater understanding of how people’s differences, social status and cultural expectations can affect their experiences of health and care.
It challenges and inspires people to think about the role of ethical leadership in improving the health and wellbeing of local communities, staff and patients and how the NHS can increase the social value of its activities.
Welcoming representatives from health and social care, alongside more than 20 partners from the voluntary and community sector, this event (in Leeds, Yorkshire) was a template for future NHS Values Summits, which will be held twice a year in different locations across the country. Each event will explore a different theme relating to equality, health inequalities and human rights. The next gathering will take place in May 2013.
The annual PowerPlex User Conference is packed wall-to-wall with value content. We spend a few days filling our heads with best practices, new ideas and more capabilities. So at the end of the day, we like to unplug our brains for a few hours and have some fun. We call it “PartyPlex”. It’s a chance to hang-out with all the Plex users and Plexians, engage in some friendly competition and raise money for one of our favorite charities.
This year’s PartyPlex took place at the new Dallara IndyCar Racing Experience in Speedway, Indiana. Attendees experienced the thrill of racing with laps in the cockpit of a street legal IndyCar, behind the wheel of racing simulator games and around the minicar track. There was plenty of good food, drink and music to go around.
This year’s focus charity was the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan. Make-A-Wish grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with joy. We think it’s a remarkable organization. We were delighted to raise more than $21,000 to support their efforts with the PartyPlex Silent Auction and games.
Learn more about the Make-A-Wish Foundation at www.wishmich.org
The event was sponsored by Plex Systems and Plante Moran. Please visit them at plex.com and plantemoran.com
Incite Director, Jonathon Hanks (left) with participants at Incite's Shared Value workshop at Nestle's head office in Manila on Thursday 31 March 2016. Participants are using Incite's Shard Value Innovator cards and SV Innovator Canvas to identify innovative, yet practical, strategic opportunities for shared value in their organisations.