During its most recent meeting in June, The Cameron Foundation’s board approved $2,745,482 in new grant funding for 25 nonprofits throughout the Tri-Cities and Southside Virginia. This is the Foundation’s second of three grant cycles in 2008, with the third to conclude in October.

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What do you get when you mix art, windows, and downtown Petersburg? Stories-n-Storefronts! Petersburg’s new initiative, which helps to clean, restore and decorate the windows of vacant buildings, is expected to take the city by storm.  The grand unveiling of the first phase of the project on Upper Sycamore Street will take place this Friday, July 11 in conjunction with Friday for the Arts!, beginning at 6pm at the Downtown Express Building, 110 N. Sycamore Street.  Come out and watch the story unfold!

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The July 2008 edition of Richmond Magazine features a story on LISC and their efforts to help bring affordable housing (among other things) to Petersburg: Extreme Makeover - Petersburg’s revitalization plans take shape. Page 145.

Also featured in the July issue of Richmond Magazine: Petersburg Tees Off, by Cliff Davis, page 135, on the new Dogwood Trace Golf Course.

Cameron Foundation-sponsored Focus INC workshops offered in July are as follows:
Thursday, July 10th - Strategic Planning: Phase I
Wednesday, July 16th - Selling Ideas: The Art of Influence and Negotiation
Monday, July 21st - Program Evaluation 101: To Prove or Improve Something
Thursday, July 31st - Nonprofit Retirement Plans

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The Hearts of Gold Campaign welcomes your unwanted or broken gold items during our June fundraiser for The James House. Call 804-458-2704 for more information on this program to help create escape, safety, healing and support for people who have experienced domestic or sexual violence.  The James House serves lower Chesterfield county south to Emporia. From that area, over 1,000 abused children and women were helped in 2007. Believe in a brighter day. Share your unwanted gold.

Thirty undergraduate and graduate students from throughout Virginia arrive in Petersburg this week for the start of the Phoenix Project’s 2008 Nonprofit Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship Program (NLP). The students will live and work in Petersburg for the next six weeks and gain the knowledge, skills and connections to succeed as the next generation of nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs for Virginia.

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If your organization has not yet been nominated for the Cleveland A. Wright Award for Outstanding Community Service now is the time to remind your staff, volunteers, board members, clients, and others in the community that the deadline for this nomination is June 20th.

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Are you a board or senior staff member of a nonprofit/community organization?  If so, do you:

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Focus INC, the Cameron Foundation initiative established to provide affordable, flexible, and pertinent educational sessions for nonprofit, community, and faith-based organizations in the Tri-Cities and Southside areas, offers the following June sessions:

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The National Kidney Foundation of the Virginias will hold a free kidney health screening on Saturday, May 31, 10:00am - 2:00pm at Southside Regional Medical Center (801 South Adams St., Petersburg, VA, 23803). Physicians and nurses will be on site to conduct testing and answer questions about kidney disease prevention. Referrals for follow-up care will be provided to those who appear to be at risk.

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The Cameron Foundation has announced that it is soliciting nominations for its two annual recognition award programs. The awards total $80,000 for nonprofit organizations within the Foundation’s service area of Petersburg, Colonial Heights, Hopewell and the counties of Dinwiddie, Prince George, Sussex and the portion of Chesterfield County lying south of Rt. 10. The awards will be presented annually at The Cameron Foundation’s October Grants Award Ceremony.

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The American Cancer Society Relay for Life presents “Celebration of Life”. This is the 25th year of bringing communities together under the stars. The walk begins at 6pm at A. J. White Field on the campus of Petersburg High School.

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From the folks at JustChildren of the Legal Aid Justice Center: The Virginia Department of Education’s Draft Special Education Regulations make major cuts to parents’ rights to partner with schools. In addition to putting up barriers to family involvement, the draft regulations also create unfair rules and propose changes which will hurt the success of students with disabilities. The voices of families, teachers, students, and others who care about children with disabilities need to be heard at upcoming public hearings to ensure the draft regulations go back to the drawing board! Virginia needs to continue current protections and improve students’ opportunities for long-term success.

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The Historic Petersburg Foundation, Inc. announced its new officers and trustees to the board at its annual meeting on Sunday, April 27, 2008 at the Pathways building on West Washington Street. Officers for the 2008-2009 fiscal year are: Larry Tucker, President; Guy Becker, III, First Vice President; Patty Pritchett, Second Vice President; Ann Morriss, Secretary; and LTC Garland Tompkins, Treasurer.

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Focus INC, the Cameron Foundation initiative established to provide affordable, flexible, and pertinent educational sessions for nonprofit, community, and faith-based organizations in the Tri-Cities and Southside areas, offer the following May sessions:

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Over 250 people packed the hall at 1200 W. Washington St. to take part in Pathways’ Open House and Dedication Ceremony on April 6. The event attracted residents, donors, volunteers and city officials alike. As people were still arriving, the main hall was filled with the melodic sound of the Celestial Messengers, a local acapella ensemble. Dwala Ferrell, Executive Director of Pathways, told of the humble beginnings of the non-profit community development corporation, housed in a rented warehouse for the last eight years.

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Tri-Cities Habitat for Humanity is holding a Volunteer Orientation on April 17, 6pm, at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Colonial Heights (directions).

As a recipient of grants from both the Cameron Foundation and the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the Legal Information Network for Cancer is expanding its service territory to the Crater Health District. This grant allows LINC to provide services to residents of the Petersburg area as well as Colonial Heights, Hopewell, Dinwiddie, Prince George, Sussex and the portion of Chesterfield County that lies south of Route 10.

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Focus INC, the Cameron Foundation initiative established to provide affordable, flexible, and pertinent educational sessions for nonprofit, community, and faith-based organizations in the Tri-Cities and Southside areas, will offer the following sessions in upcoming weeks:
1) Program Planning 102: Designing Programs That Work (April 17)
2) QuickBooks and You (April 22)
3) Working with Consultants (April 26)

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On Sat. April 12, from 9am-3pm, the Virginia Supportive Housing’s Financial Foundation will present the above workshop at Pathways (1200 W. Washington St.).

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In today’s P-I, DPI President Joe Tedesco communicates that DPI is alive, busy with the tasks of searching for a new Exec. Director, searching for a new office, and identifying its scope of project focus (named: beautification of Old Towne, Halifax Triangle; R/UDAT; Army Community Heritage Partnership).

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Cliff Davis writes on 1) what Lee Memorial Park could look like in 10 yrs (here), and 2) finding paradise in the heart of Petersburg (here).

Willie Graham, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s Curator of Architecture, will lead a free walking tour through Old Towne Petersburg’s historic architecture explaining how the popular frame and brick technology changed and developed over the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The tour is sponsored by the Historic Petersburg Foundation (HPF) and will take place at 10 a.m., Saturday, April 12.

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VCU’s Division of Community Engagement is hosting a series of classes for nonprofit leaders. Seriously, the options are many and diverse. Read below for the class schedule and contact info.

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