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Community foundation grants scholarships
Moorpark Acorn, June 25, 2010
Young people who have been in foster care as well as students preparing for public-service careers received inaugural awards from two new scholarship funds during the Ventura County Community Foundation’s Scholarship Awards Reception in June…
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Oxnard Alive With The Arts
By Hugh Ralston
Ventura County Star, June 19, 2010
For the tourist driving across Ventura County from east to west, the arts might seem to bookend at our borders — from the Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks to Ventura, which calls itself “California’s newest art city…”
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Ventura County Community Foundation Expands Scholarships for Foster Children, Future Public Servants
Fillmore Gazette, June 16, 2010
Nearly $1 million awarded to local students at annual event…
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Arts Live Grants Benefit Ojai Artists
Santa Barbara Independent, June 15, 2010
What do an area hospital, at-risk youth, and threatened wildlife have in common? They will all benefit from the grants given by the Ventura County Arts Council last Thursday evening to eight local artists…
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Ojai Artists Win Grants from ArtsLIVE in Ventura
By linda Harmon
The Ojai Post, June 14, 2010
What do an area hospital, at-risk-youth, and threatened wildlife have in common? They will all benefit from grants given by the Ventura County Arts Council last Thursday evening to three of our very own Ojai artists…
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Museums Taught About Marketing, Lecture covers self-promotion
By Mark Storer
Ventura County Star, May 28, 2010
Local museum officials learned this week how to use their museums to boost tourism, customer traffic and marketing opportunities…
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The Healing Power of the Arts
By Barbara Hirsch
Ventura County Star, May 5, 2010
I was fortunate to live in Manhattan for four years in the 1960s, while raising three small children. During the middle of the day, I often was able to slip away and, as a special gift to myself, visit many art galleries…
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Spread the World on Local Artists
Ventura County Star, May 5, 2010
Back in 1999, my wife introduced me to her grandmother, Gertrude Smith, an 80-something visual artist from a small town deep in the middle of Mississippi…
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Most Deserving Academic Stars
Ventura County Star, April 29, 2010
It was the perfect hilltop setting to see some of the county’s brightest stars…
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Love of Learning Brought Teen Through Hard Times, Student overcame family strife, time on streets
By Marjorie Hernandez
Ventura County Star, April 28, 2010
For Cheyenne Summers, graduating and moving on to college means more than just improving her education. It’s a means of survival…
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Young Poets Will Read Their Works At Special Dinner
By Alicia Doyle
Ventura County Star, April 27, 2010
To celebrate National Poetry Month and the recent publication of an anthology of poems by Ventura County children called “They Speak the Names of the Mysterious Rainbow,” local elementary and middle school students will read their work during a dinner to benefit California Poets in the Schools/ArtsLIVE…
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Beyond the perfect storm
By Hugh Ralston
January 16-22, 2009
Sometimes the phrase "perfect storm" is not strong enough to describe the challenges.
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Tough times require priorities, focus on mission
By Hugh Ralston
November 13-19, 2009
I once read of a board chairman of a nonprofit who
claimed his proudest achievement in his three-year term
was to ensure every board member knew the mission of
the organization so well that if awakened at 3 a.m. in a hotel
fire, each could articulate the mission in the stairwell
as they evacuated in their pajamas.
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Giving local students a helping hand on their next journey
By Mary L. Schwabauer
Thursday, December 11, 2008
We all have memories associated with the calendar — back to school in September, family gatherings at Thanksgiving and Christmas, heading to the beach to enjoy the warm weather of summer.
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Support of nonprofits continues
By Pierre Tada
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Re: your Oct. 15 article, "Local nonprofits face huge losses — Demand for services grows as investments, donations dwindle."
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VCCF builds community
By Hugh J. Ralston
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
The old challenge "may you live in interesting times" has taken on more resonance this fall than ever before. We are living through historic times — financial panics, markets seizing up, institutions failing or consolidating and government interventions at unprecedented levels.
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