A $1 million grant announced by KeyBank Foundation to Susan G. Komen for the Cure® (March 31, 2011) will fund a training and outreach program potentially reaching more than 100,000 medically underserved women in selected communities that KeyBank serves. The grant, announced today by Susan G. Komen for the Cure and KeyCorp, is the Foundation's largest-ever grant at the national level and will be used to establish the Susan G. Komen Lay Health Advisors Training Program.
The program will roll out first in Northeast Ohio in Cleveland, Akron and Canton through the Northeast Ohio Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and in 2012 and 2013 will expand to Albany, NY; Bellingham, WA; Bellevue, WA; Buffalo, NY; Cincinnati, OH; Columbus, OH; Dayton, OH; Denver, CO; Indianapolis, IN; Portland, OR; Rochester, NY; Syracuse, NY; Tacoma, WA; and Toledo, OH.
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The Musical Arts Association, The Trust for Public Land, and the National Park Service announced March 16, 2011 that nearly one-third of the property of the popular Blossom Music Center, situated outside both Akron and Cleveland and entirely within the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, has been conserved as an addition to the National Park.
The Cleveland Orchestra and its governing organization, the Musical Arts Association (MAA), own and manage the 780-acre Blossom Music Center. In 2007, MAA began the process of selling upwards of 578 acres of its property to the National Park Service (NPS) for conservation and to raise funds. MAA asked the Ohio office of The Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national conservation organization, to assist with the conservation efforts, and today the partners have completed the purchase of more than 233 acres, the first of two purchases that help The Cleveland Orchestra, and also add important forest and waterway resources to Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CVNP). The $3,960,780 purchase of the 233 acres was funded entirely by a fiscal year 2010 appropriation from the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).
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