RARE Monday Mailing-Issue 35

Tuesday Mailing

Year 19 • Issue 35 28 May 2013 1. Jordan Cove Files Formal Application for Liquefied Natural Gas Export in Coos Bay 2. Apple Pie is American, but Apple Computer Isn’t. Not Anymore.

3. The Suburbanization of Poverty 4. A Team of Academics Redesigns an Icon 5. Electric Chevrolet Spark Gets Cheap Lease Price 6. Agritourism Resources 7. Is our Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? Analytics and Measurement Techniques 8. Department of Transportation (DOT) Launched a Livable Communities Discussion Board 9. On-Demand Leadership and Management Webcasts 10. Funding Opportunities 1.

Jordan Cove Files Formal Application for Liquefied Natural Gas

Export in Coos Bay Jordan Cove Energy Project filed its formal application Tuesday with federal regulators to build a liquefied natural gas export facility on the north spit of Coos Bay.

Quote of the Week: "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." ~Andy Warhol Oregon Fast Fact #63: The total elevation, in feet, of the Three Sisters is 30,490 feet. Each of the three peaks is over 10,000 feet in elevation. The South Sister is the tallest at 10,358 feet, while the Middle and North Sisters are 10,047 and 10,085 feet respectively.

The project's developers described this week's filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as a "major milestone," though the company still has much of its permitting marathon to run.

The backers, headed by Calgary-based Veresen Inc., have sought state and local approvals for eight years, first for an import facility and now to export burgeoning supplies of U.S. and Canadian shale gas to lucrative markets in Asia.

The company has spent the last year in a pre-filing process with FERC, getting various engineering and environmental studies filed to complete its application. This week's filing starts the clock on FERC's review of the application. The company hopes the agency will have a draft environmental impact statement out later this year and will be in a position to issue a final approval within a year.

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2. Apple Pie is American, but Apple Computer Isn’t. Not Anymore.

Did you know that Apple Computer has become a foreign entity? Did you know that it’s more Irish than anything else, at least as far as taxes are concerned? Or that it pays very little in income tax, even though its products wouldn’t exist if it not for U.S. taxes?

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Apple products were designed in the United States by U.S.-educated individuals and entrepreneurs. (Even Steve Jobs, who famously dropped out of college, said he came up with essential elements of Apple’s product design by auditing courses at Reed College.)

The company’s logo is an apple, which may or may not have been inspired by the Beatles-owned company of the same name. But since then the image has become synonymous with two iconic qualities of this country’s Silicon Valley: creativity and entrepreneurial drive. And what’s more American than apple pie?

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3. The Suburbanization of Poverty There is no word more evocative in the urban vernacular than "suburb." For most of us, those two syllables conjure a very specific type of place, with a specific kind of people comfortably living there.

"We think about suburbs in one way," says Elizabeth Kneebone, a fellow at the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program. "We have a very stereotypical view of suburbs as middle-class, affluent, Leave-It-To-Beaver type places."

And yet, over the last decade, suburbs have increasingly become home to America's poor. Between 2000 and 2011, the population living in American cities below the poverty line increased by 29 percent. During that same time, across the country in the suburbs of metropolitan areas as diverse as Atlanta and Detroit and Salt Lake City, the ranks of the poor grew by 64 percent. Today, more poor people live in the suburbs (16.4 million of them) than in U.S. cities (13.4 million), despite the perception that poverty remains a uniquely urban problem.

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4. A Team of Academics Redesigns an Icon Parking lots, public bathrooms, and entry ramps all have that same familiar character. It's the blue-andwhite stick figure in a wheelchair, leaning slightly backward in comfortable repose, on signs that mean "handicapped."

The image looks passive, even helpless. For years there have been scattered efforts to replace it with a more active representation of people with physical limitations.

That may finally happen, thanks to several years of pushing by a motley collection of determined activists at Gordon College, a small Christian institution in eastern Massachusetts.

Their breakthrough is that the City of New York, in a move that could spark similar updates worldwide, has now agreed to use a Gordon-inspired logo that shows the stick figure with active arms, leaning forward, a participant rather than a dependent.

"It's such a forward-moving thing," said Victor Calise, commissioner of the New York mayor's Office for People With Disabilities, who plans this summer to begin putting the new logo all over the nation's largest city.

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5. Electric Chevrolet Spark Gets Cheap Lease Price Add another electric car to the growing list that are assigned hefty price tags, but downright cheap lease deals.

The latest comes from Chevrolet, which announced Thursday that a low mileage lease on the 2014 Spark EV can be had for as little as $199 per month. For those who want to buy the car, prices start at $27,495, including delivery charges, more than double the price of the conventionally powered model. But Chevy says state and local tax incentives could cut that price to as little as $17,495.

The lease price, with $999 down, matches Chrysler Group's lease for its new Fiat 500e electric vehicle.

As we wrote recently, these are so-called "compliance cars," built specifically to meet a California mandate for zero-polluting cars. Spark will only be sold in California and Oregon, starting next month.

Only 5,000 will be made.

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6. Agritourism Resources Creating and Hosting Events at Your Agribusiness, by Kathleen M. Kelley Publisher: Penn State University, Publish Date: August 2009, Material Type: Article (3 pages) Many consumers can remember spending time with their families visiting apple orchards for doughnuts and cider or a local farmer’s field to pick a pumpkin. These opportunities provide children and adults with an exciting and enjoyable day. This may have prompted a return trip for the family. Research indicates that consumers desire opportunities where they and their families can have an enjoyable day together, support a local business owner, and “get back to nature.” By inviting the public to help celebrate your business’s grand opening or anniversary, the season, a holiday, or other occasion, you may also be developing a relationship that will last well after the event is over.

Charting The Path Of Your Agritourism Business: The Components Of An Effective Business Plan, by Marsha Laux Publisher: Iowa State University, Publish Date: March 2009, Material Type: Presentation (41 pages) A business planning overview for agritourism operators who are contemplating or beginning the process of writing a business plan. The presentation was made to the Visit Iowa Farms conference participants in March 2009. The presentation provides direction and motivation for completing and using a written business plan as well as giving an overview of the necessary components in an effective plan.

New Program Helps Market Agritourism “Marketing Agritourism Online,” a program released by North Dakota State University and University of Nebraska-Lincoln. See another article here. (The program is available at http://go.unl.edu/agritourism)

7. Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? Analytics and Measurement Techniques To access this free eBook, click here.

8. Department of Transportation (DOT) Launched a Livable Communities Discussion Board The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has launched a Livable Communities Discussion Board. It is an online public forum for users to participate in discussion threads and engage with colleagues on questions and ideas related to livable communities. The site is an online community of practitioners in public, private, and non-profit agencies and organizations Page 3 of 5

at the local, State, and Federal levels, who are interested in helping communities provide more transportation choices, encourage access to good jobs and affordable housing, support quality schools, and promote safer streets and roads.

For more information, click here.

9. On-Demand Leadership and Management Webcasts Just because you missed the live Webinar, it doesn't mean you've missed your chance to see and hear what was presented that day. In partnership with Cisco WebEx, The Ken Blanchard Companies is now providing recordings to past webinars through Together @ WebEx—a channel dedicated to providing you with monthly access to Blanchard's thought leadership.

Check out some of our most popular past events by choosing a title from the list below: Trust: The Critical Link to a High Energy Workplace Leading in the New Business Reality Leading in a Virtual World Creating a High Performing, Values-Aligned Culture From Recovery to Prosperity: The Power of Vision and Leadership Reward & Recognition on a Limited Budget The High Cost of Doing Nothing: Quantifying the Impact of Leadership on the Bottom Line For more information, click here.

10. Funding Opportunities Rural Access to Emergency Devices Grant Program (RAED),Application deadline: Jun 17, 2013 Offers grants to rural community organizations for the purchase, placement, and training in the use of automated external defibrillators.

340B Peer-to-Peer Program, Application deadline: Jun 30, 2013. Applicants will join a network of 340B providers that will share knowledge and collaborate with peers to improve health care design and delivery.

Tribal Public Health Capacity Building and Quality Improvement, Letter of Intent (Optional): Jun 17, 2013. Application deadline: Jul 15, 2013 Provides funding to improve the infrastructure and build the capacity of tribal public health systems.

Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Implementation Funds Program, Application deadline: Jul 31, 2013 Funding to support pediatricians in the initial and/or pilot stage of implementing a community-based child health projects related to medical home access, health services to uninsured/underinsured, secondhand smoke exposure, immunization programs, and Native American child health.

Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Planning Funds Program, Application deadline: Jul 31, 2013 Grants for pediatricians to develop innovative, community-based initiatives that increase children's access to medical homes or to specific health services not otherwise available.

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Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Resident Funds Program, Application deadline: Jul 31, 2013 Grants to support pediatric residents in the planning of community-based child health initiatives.

Health Care Innovation Awards, Letter of Intent (Required): Jun 28, 2013. Application deadline: Aug 15, 2013 Funding to test new payment and service delivery models that will deliver better care and lower costs for Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollees.

Mass Mentoring Project Invites Proposals from Youth Groups for Capacity Building Projects Through the Technical Assistance Project, MMP provides resources to help organizations improve their service delivery and serve as many young people as they can in the highest quality way possible....

Deadline: August 30, 2013 HASTAC Invites Applications for Project: Connect-Youth Summer Programs Competition, Grants of up to $10,000 each will be awarded to support hands-on summer learning opportunities for youth focused on making the Web more civil, safe, and empowering for all.... Deadline: June 10, 2013 National Center for Family Literacy Invites Applications for Family Learning Literacy Programs - Grants of $175,000 will be awarded to organizations for projects that engage families in literacy and provide mentoring.... Deadline: June 24, 2013 ASPB Education Foundation Invites Applications for Projects to Advance Knowledge of Plants - Grants of up to $50,000 will be awarded for projects designed to enrich and promote youth, student, and general public understanding of the importance of plants.... Deadline: June 6, 2013 United Methodist Women Invites Applications for Financial Literacy Initiatives - Grants of up to $25,000 will be awarded to nonprofits working to empower and educate their constituents through the development of financial literacy knowledge and skills.... Deadline: June 3, 2013 Ribbons of Hope—Invest in Women Seeks Applications From Nonprofit Organizations That Benefit Women and Girls - One grant of $100,000 will be awarded to an organization that works to promote the well-being and future prospects of women and girls.... Deadline: August 1, 2013

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