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BBC News
16-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
New initiative aims to strengthen 15 Jersey charities
A new programme helping to strengthen health and social care charities in Jersey has been Community Foundation (JCF) said its Impact Accelerator Programme, with support from PwC Channel Islands, brings together 15 leading charities to collaborate on strategies for long-term Tuesday, 50 third sector leaders and stakeholders gathered at the National Trust Jersey Cafe for the launch of the programme, where they examined the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats charities faced on the island. Ali Cambray from PwC Channel Islands, said the programme helped charities provide a basis for attracting future and longer-term funding. "By embracing a data-driven mindset and by sharing resources and a vision for the sector, we believe this group of charities can help shape a stronger, more resilient future for social care in Jersey," she said. 'Broader movement' Mind Jersey, Les Amis, Dementia Jersey, Family Nursing and Home Care, Brighter Futures, FREEDA and Enable Jersey are just some of the charities taking part in the executive of Family Nursing and Home Care Rosemarie Finley described the event as Finley said: "The opportunity to come together, share insights and agree a common vision reminded us all that while we are individual charities, we're also part of a broader movement. "With the right support and evidence base, we stand in much better stead to secure the funding needed to meet Jersey's growing care." JCF said the new programme began following the Value of the Third Sector report last year, which revealed the charitable sector on Jersey contributed more than £230m annually to the local also revealed the sector employed 3,400 people, 12% of the workforce on the island, and mobilised more than 5,800 volunteers. "Despite this, nearly 37% of charities report operating with less than three months' reserves, making financial sustainability a top priority," the foundation chief executive Anna Terry added: "By helping charities articulate their value more clearly and encouraging collaboration across the sector, we're laying the groundwork for more sustainable long-term funding – both from private donors and government."
BBC News
22-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
States to decide on lottery funds for Jersey Sport
The States Assembly is set to decide on the redistribution of £857,410 from the Channel Islands Lottery proceeds to include Jersey Sport. Since 2020, the proceeds have been successfully managed by the Association of Jersey Charities (AJC) and the Jersey Community Foundation (JCF), supporting numerous local charities and organisations including the sports funding distribution to Jersey Sport is being proposed to reduce administrative costs and provide better access for sporting organisations to seek support, according to a proposition to the Jersey Sport and the JCF which has funded sport, support this transfer, the proposition said. Under the new allocation plan:50% (£428,705) will go to the AJC, solely for registered charities.30% (£257,223) will be directed to the JCF, with funds split between arts, culture, heritage (65-75%), and applied sciences or research (25-35%).20% (£171,482) will be allocated to Jersey Sport to support sports and active lifestyles.
Yahoo
19-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Oshkosh legislators to continue pursuit of full Municipal Services Payment program funding
OSHKOSH – Residents will likely continue subsidizing the cost of city-provided services for state-owned property exempt from property taxes. The Wisconsin Legislature won't be increasing funding to the Municipal Services Payment program after the Joint Finance Committee removed Gov. Tony Evers' proposal from the state biennial budget June 13. The decision means the state will continue to significantly underfund the program at 37.62%, just more than half of Evers' recent resolution of 72%. Dig deeper: Hintz doesn't expect state to boost Municipal Services Payment Program funding despite Evers, Oshkosh proposals The MSP program reimburses municipalities for police, fire and waste management services to property tax-exempt, state-owned facilities like UW-Oshkosh and the Oshkosh Correctional Institution. Oshkosh receives just more than $1 million from the MSP, but the city has around $900 million worth of state-owned property, putting it as the third-largest holder of such facilities in Wisconsin behind Madison and Milwaukee. As a result, taxpayers are left to make up the shortfall. In his recent biennial budget, Evers proposed adding a further $17 million to the MSP's current budget of $18.6 million, which would see the state funding the program at 72%. Oshkosh's common council recently passed a resolution asking the state legislature to fully fund the MSP at 100%, prompting a similar motion on the floor at the Joint Finance Committee. But the issue has seemingly become a partisan one, with the motion being shot down via a 12-4 vote after all 12 Republicans on the GOP-controlled JCF opposed the funding increase. This follows a recent workshop held last month with the Oshkosh Common Council during which State Rep. Nate Gustafson (R-55) said he couldn't commit to supporting the city's resolution of having the state fully fund the MSP. State Sen. Rachael Cabral-Guevara (R-19) was not present at the workshop but also would not commit to the resolution in a subsequent email to the Northwestern. In contrast, State Sen. Kristin Dassler-Alfheim (D-18) and State Rep. Lori Palmeri (D-54) said they would put forward a standalone bill if Evers' proposal failed. "The citizens of Oshkosh are being taken advantage of,' Dassler-Alfheim told the Northwestern in an interview following the JCF vote. 'It is the state's obligation to pay for their resources that are located here in Oshkosh, so the governor asked for 72% and I would have hoped for a compromise maybe at 50%, but instead we got no increase.' Emails to Cabral-Guevara and Gustafson asking about the apparent partisan nature of the MSP issue were not immediately returned. "There is nothing political about protecting the taxpayers of Oshkosh from footing the bill for services provided by municipalities to state facilities," Dassler-Alfheim said. Read more: State legislators support Oshkosh's resolution for state to fully fund Municipal Services Payment program Created in 1973, the MSP program is supposed 'to make equitable annual payment to municipalities,' yet the state hasn't fully funded it since 1981. According to a budget summary from the JFC, the highest percentage of entitlement cost covered over the last two decades was 88.1% in 2005. MSP funding was reduced for both the 2009-11 and 2011-13 budgets, with the current funding of $18.6 million being set since 2011. Despite Evers' proposal being removed from the state budget, Oshkosh may still have hopes for seeing increased state funding to the MSP. The proposal could be drafted and introduced in either the Assembly or the Senate as a standalone bill in the same language used in Oshkosh's resolution. But that bill would likely have to be referred to the same Joint Finance Committee that removed Evers' line in the budget and voted against the motion for the legislature to fully fund the MSP. 'This is falling on the backs of Oshkosh citizens and that's inappropriate, so I will keep fighting for them,' Dassler-Alfheim told the Northwestern Oshkosh City Manager Rebecca Grill explained the Joint Finance Committee's decision only further compounds the city's 2026 budget process, which starts with a budget deficit of over $3 million. Common council member DJ Nichols then made comments suggesting Oshkosh could contemplate legal action. "All options are on the table," Nichols told the Northwestern. "If the legislative branch can't solve this, maybe it's time to explore if the judicial branch can provide any relief — not just for Oshkosh, but for each of the over 360 municipalities that the JFC has betrayed." In a post on his official Facebook page, Nichols' fellow common council member Kris Larson took further issue with the situation seemingly becoming a partisan issue. 'MSP is a PERFECT example of something that all of your reps should be pushing for, for YOU, as it directly benefits YOU (and would benefit their communities ... which is literally their job),' Larson wrote. 'YOUR ability to pay the most fair property tax rate should not have anything to do with whether your representatives have an R or a D after their name ... but on this subject, it does.' The 2025-27 biennial state budget is slated to pass July 1. Contact Justin Marville at jmarville@ and follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @justinmarville. This article originally appeared on Oshkosh Northwestern: Oshkosh legislators to continue pursuit of full MSP program funding
Yahoo
18-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump's anti-DEI push threatens a huge energy bank
Beneficiaries of a $20 billion clean-energy program that the Trump administration wants to claw back might sue to keep the money, a leader of one such group told Semafor. Under the new leadership of Administrator Lee Zeldin, the US Environmental Protection Agency wants to knock down the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, citing concerns that the money — ostensibly to support low-carbon energy projects in disadvantaged communities — is being doled out 'in a rush job with reduced oversight.' 'The days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-left activist groups in the name of climate justice and environmental equity are over,' Zeldin posted on X last week. But retrieving the money won't be easy, in part because the nonprofits selected to disburse it countrywide could sue to block the effort, said Lenwood Long, Sr., chair of the board of the Justice Climate Fund, a coalition of community development nonprofits that was awarded $940 million from the GGRF. 'It is shameful that such actions are being considered,' he said. 'These are not pork-barrel projects. These are seasoned organizations that have been doing lending and housing for decades.' The GGRF was lauded by many climate advocates as an innovative approach to spurring energy investment in lower-income communities that were less likely to benefit from traditional clean energy tax credits. Its sizable budget made it one of the biggest single initiatives created by the Inflation Reduction Act, and one of the Biden administration's primary vehicles for supporting climate equity. In the Trump administration, it's hard to imagine a more glaring target, so the GGRF was always at risk. But ending the program could also undermine the administration's promise to cut household energy bills. 'I just hate to fathom that this fund would be totally eviscerated,' said Long, who is also CEO of an advocacy group for Black-led community banks. 'It's a sad day in America when we can't recognize that economic systems are not equal for Black America.' Just last week the Justice Climate Fund disbursed its first tranche of funding, giving out about $214 million to projects in mostly minority communities working on things like installing residential or community solar projects, upgrading the energy efficiency of multifamily housing units, and installing EV charging stations. These projects are meant to use the GGRF money, and the technical expertise of groups like JCF, to attract additional private investment. None of the funding has been affected yet, Long said, and JCF is continuing to work on its second tranche of projects. Compared to other caches of federal funding the Trump administration has sought to freeze or claw back, Zeldin faces a tough obstacle in that all $20 billion is already sitting in an account managed by Citibank. Zeldin has said he wants to cancel that contract and get the money back. But former EPA officials told Inside Climate Newsthat under Citibank's arrangement, funds can only be withdrawn if there's evidence of fraud on Citibank's part, which Zeldin was careful to say he has 'zero reason to suspect.' A Citibank spokesperson didn't return a request for comment. Germany's closely-watched weekend election could lead to a significant reversal of climate-friendly policies in Europe's richest economy. The center-right opposition is expected to emerge triumphant in a campaign that has made little mention of environmental issues, DW noted, with the economy and immigration taking greater prominence. Friedrich Merz, the country's likely next chancellor, has spoken disparagingly of wind turbines, and has faced growing pressure from the far-right AfD party, which has sought to curtail wind power. Budgetary constraints have already made Germany's chances of hitting its climate targets appear remote, and green policies look likely to be given short shrift. Federal clean energy lending will also be slowed by mass layoffs last week at the Department of Energy. Up to 2,000 employees were let go from DOE, including from the Loan Programs Office, a grid improvement office, and a nuclear waste management site in Washington.
Yahoo
12-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
CVRx announces new real-world evidence demonstrating significant reductions in healthcare utilization with Barostim
New real-world evidence presented at THT 2025 and published simultaneously in the Journal of Cardiac Failure (JCF) demonstrates large and statistically significant reductions in hospital visits and length of stay in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CVRx, Inc. (NASDAQ: CVRX) ('CVRx'), a commercial-stage medical device company, announced today the presentation of new real-world evidence at the Technology and Heart Failure Therapeutics (THT) conference in Boston. The study demonstrated large and statistically significant reductions in hospital visits (hospitalizations and emergency department visits) and length of stay after Barostim implantation, compared to before. The research was published simultaneously and is available now in the Journal of Cardiac Failure. 'Despite contemporary medications, the clinical and economic burden of heart failure remains unacceptably high. This new study showing significant reductions in real-world healthcare utilization associated with the Barostim implant is critically important for clinicians and payers when considering this device for their patients,' said Jacob Abraham, MD, Section Head of Advanced Heart Failure at Providence Heart Institute in Portland, Ore. 'While we know Barostim plus medications demonstrates long-term improvements in symptoms and quality of life, we now have compelling real-world evidence supporting a significant reduction in healthcare utilization as well.' This analysis was performed using data from the Premier Healthcare Database, a large all-payer database including data from more than 1,300 institutions. Three hundred and six (306) Barostim patients were identified in the data set. Comparisons were performed for the 12 months prior to Barostim implant and for an average of almost two years post-implant (1.92±1.87 years). Length of stay was found to be significantly reduced. Hospital visits (hospitalizations and emergency department visits) were categorized as all-cause, cardiovascular, and heart failure related. The analysis found: 86% reduction in all-cause hospital visits (p<0.0001) 84% reduction in cardiovascular hospital visits (p<0.0001) 85% reduction in heart-failure hospital visits (p<0.0001) 'Congratulations to Dr. Jacob Abraham and co-authors for this important real-world analysis demonstrating remarkable reductions in healthcare utilization with Barostim,' said Dr. Philip Adamson, Chief Medical Officer of CVRx. 'We believe this study adds to the growing and consistent body of evidence supporting the clinical utility of Barostim. This is another example of our commitment to further develop and disseminate a strong pipeline of clinical and economic data supporting the many benefits of this therapy.' About CVRx, is focused on the development and commercialization of the Barostim™ System, the first medical technology approved by FDA that uses neuromodulation to improve the symptoms of heart failure. Barostim is an implantable device that delivers electrical pulses to baroreceptors located in the wall of the carotid artery. Baroreceptors activate the body's baroreflex, which in turn triggers an autonomic response to the heart. The therapy is designed to restore balance to the autonomic nervous system and thereby reduce the symptoms of heart failure. Barostim received the FDA Breakthrough Device designation and is FDA-approved for use in heart failure patients in the U.S. It has also received the CE Mark for heart failure and resistant hypertension in the European Economic Area. To learn more about Barostim, visit Media Contact:Emily Meyers651.338.6204emeyers@ Investor Contact:Mark Klausner or Mike VallieICR Healthcare443.213.0501ir@ in to access your portfolio
