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Yahoo
7 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts Announces New Funding Opportunity for Community-Based Organizations Addressing Opioid Use Disorder
New York, June 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) is announcing a new Request for Proposals (RFP) to support community-based organizations (CBOs) working to reduce opioid use disorder (OUD) and overdose mortality in local communities. FORE will hold an informational webinar on June 5, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. ET to discuss the RFP and answer questions. Interested organizations can . This RFP expands FORE's Community-Driven Responses to OUD and Overdose Mortality Program, providing new funding to help CBOs: Enhance operational effectiveness, including administration, finance, human resources, and technology, to strengthen long-term sustainability and diversify funding. Improve communications to raise awareness and attract attention and resources. Strengthen and evaluate programming to expand access to evidence-based OUD services for individuals and families. Foster cross-sector collaborations with partners in education, business, courts, and healthcare to deepen community engagement and expand services. FORE invites eligible organizations to apply for up to $75,000 per year for two years (up to $150,000 total). Applicants must be a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) or have a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, have been in operation for at least two years, and have an annual operating budget between $150,000 and $7 million. Complete details and application instructions are available on FORE's Grants & Funding page. Applications must be submitted through FORE's grants management system by 11:59 p.m. PT on July 2, 2025. 'Community-based organizations are uniquely positioned to identify and respond to local needs, yet they often face barriers to securing the flexible funding they need to strengthen operations and sustain programming,' said Dr. Karen Scott, President of FORE. 'By supporting their capacity, we help ensure communities have access to effective prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and recovery services tailored to their needs.' Since 2023, FORE has supported 22 community-based organizations through capacity-building grants and remains committed to advancing community-driven, evidence-based solutions to the opioid crisis. About FOREFounded in 2018, FORE is a national 501(c)(3) grant-making foundation dedicated to addressing the nation's opioid crisis. Through strategic grantmaking, convening stakeholders, and developing informational resources, FORE supports patient-centered, innovative solutions that drive long-term change. To date, FORE has awarded 118 grants totaling $47.5 million to 101 organizations. Follow us on X (Twitter) and LinkedIn for updates. CONTACT: Myrna Manners Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts 718-986-7255 mmanners@ in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
The Age
28-04-2025
- Politics
- The Age
Liberal MP jokes that Advance Australia Fair is the ‘best Welcome to Country'
McKenzie gave an impromptu vote of thanks to all speakers and loosed off a glib comment as she praised Gulinello's singing of the national anthem. 'Rebecca, thank you for the best Welcome to Country that I am sure has been delivered,' McKenzie said, to laughter. While the aside landed successfully on the night, such gags may not travel as well beyond Portsea. When contacted afterwards, McKenzie told CBD she would not comment. 'It was a private event.' But not when CBD is in da house, Zoe! McKenzie, a former industrial lawyer and Australia Council for the Arts board member, is facing a stiff challenge from local teal independent Ben Smith, who is swamping the area with volunteers and corflutes, forcing the Liberal Party to spend big, while Dutton's unfavourability is rising in the state. One McKenzie supporter at the garden event told CBD. 'I think Zoe has a fight on her hands.' And the controversy over the fringe literary salon continues. One of the other garden party speakers, sculptor Lisa Roet, got in touch to say she did not know that McKenzie would be speaking. 'It was touted to me as a casual drink and chat in celebration of the writers festival. I am apolitical,' she told CBD. Roet said that she had no idea the garden event was being perceived as an anti-festival or a Liberal Party event, and she remained a 'staunch supporter' of the official festival. She added: 'I am an avid supporter of Indigenous rights and have always supported Welcome to Country ceremony. I believe it is an important part of our reconciliation process as a nation.' Down Sorrento way, emotions are running hot. Front row plus one Governor-General Sam Mostyn 's barrister husband, Simeon Beckett, SC, has impeccable progressive credentials, with a specialisation in human rights and anti-discrimination law, and having served as a counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse. So Beckett might be horrified to discover that he's ended up on Donald Trump 's Truth Social, the media platform created by the US president back before big tech decided to bend the knee last November. Beckett appears in a video of Trump attending Pope Francis ' funeral in the Vatican City at the weekend, seen in the background whipping out his phone to take a video of the passing commander-in-chief like an enthusiastic fan boy. Although to be fair, we'd probably have done the same. We asked Government House for some more details, but didn't hear back. Beckett attended the Pope's funeral along with Mostyn, who represented Australia at an event thrumming with world leaders and swiftly overshadowed, in geopolitical terms, by a brief meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, their first since that heated exchange in the White House earlier this year. Pre-polling day SPOTTED: At the pre-polling station on High Street, Kew, on Saturday, early voters ran the gauntlet of volunteers to enter the empty shopfront which used to be an Australia Post office. Loading Aspiring Kooyong candidate Amelia Hamer stood yarning with state Hawthorn MP John Pesutto, the former state Liberal leader facing potential bankruptcy after losing the Moira Deeming defamation case, which would oust him from parliament. Reportedly, Liberal powerbrokers are lining up to replace Pesutto with Hamer if she fails to take Kooyong from teal independent Monique Ryan. Hamer recently told The Age she regarded Pesutto as a great local member. One can only wonder what the two discussed on a dark and damp Saturday afternoon. Presumably, it's a tad too early for handover notes.
Ammon
16-03-2025
- Business
- Ammon
OpenAI's New Developer Tools Make Building AI Agents Easy
Ammon News - Earlier this week, OpenAI released two new solutions aimed at helping developers create AI-powered agents capable of going beyond just answering questions and actually taking actions, like approving refunds or buying plane tickets. Executives from OpenAI and cloud storage platform Box say these new development tools will make it much easier for businesses to take advantage of the cutting-edge tech. In a livestreamed video on Tuesday, March 11, a group of OpenAI employees introduced the Agents software development kit (SDK) as well as the Responses application programming interface (API). The SDK gives developers a framework that enables applications built with OpenAI's models to access additional tools and capabilities, like searching across files, parsing the internet, running code, or controlling a computer. The Responses API connects the company's models to applications that require those new agentic capabilities.
Yahoo
11-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Printmakers' exhibition to be hosted in relocated city-centre gallery
Trapezium Gallery, which has moved to a new location within Bradford, is set to host its first exhibition of 2025. The venue has moved premises to 54 Kirkgate in Bradford city centre - two doors down from its previous location. The exhibition, 'Responses,' is a retrospective exhibition by Inkers, who are a group of independent contemporary printmakers based in Yorkshire. Ken Woods, a co-founder of Trapezium Gallery, said: "After the disappointment of having to relocate at the end of last year, we are delighted to open our new venue with this exceptional exhibition that showcases both Bradford's printmaking talent and the region's heritage. "Our volunteers have worked tirelessly to create a space with the scope to show exciting, new exhibitions and we hope as many people as possible will make the effort to visit this and future exhibitions." Inkers' members specialise in techniques including lino & relief printing and monoprint & monotype. Pictured: work by Annie Fforde (Image: Annie Fforde) Inkers, who have been working together since 2000, consists of artists who "pursue successful independent practices as exhibiting artists, educators, and writers." They come together to collaborate, exhibit, and share their practices with one another. June Russell, a spokesperson for the group, said: "All of us are Fine Art Printmakers, and make work that is original in both concept and construction. "Between us we use a wide range of printmaking techniques, both traditional and contemporary, often in combination, and sometimes embracing non-print techniques during development and experimentation. "We have members who specialize in screen printing, collagraph, etching, drypoint, lino & relief printing, monoprint and monotype, photographic methods, and innovative mixtures of all of these." The exhibition will open to the public from Saturday, February 22. Pictured: work by Ruth Fettis (Image: Ruth Fettis) Ms Russell added: "A particular focus of our collaborative work involves working with museums and galleries, researching and responding to them and to their collections creatively through the medium of print. "We've been inspired to push the boundaries of printmaking; you'll see woven prints, layered prints, 3D constructions, artist's books and more, on a vast range of topics: landscapes, machines, mills, looms, ropes, working men and women, birds, bees, mummies - all inspired by the museums, galleries, and collections of our city, district, and region." The exhibition will be open to the public from Saturday, February 22 to Saturday, March 15, 2025. Opening times are Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday from 11am to 3pm. There will be a launch event on Saturday, February 22, from 12pm to 4pm, where people can meet the artists and enjoy refreshments. More information can be found at or by contacting art@
