CPEX earns grant to assist way of life initiative
Baton Rouge’s Heart for Planning Excellence has earned a grant from a nationwide walkable neighborhood group to assist considered one of its wholesome way of life initiatives.
The $1,500 award from America Walks’ Group Change Grant program shall be used to advertise CPEX’s 20-Minute Neighborhood Bingo, a public well being initiative that encourages neighborhoods to advertise walkability for its residents. The thought is that each one mandatory companies — comparable to purchasing, colleges, well being care services and parks — needs to be accessible inside a 20-minute stroll or bicycle journey for each neighborhood.
The Group Change Grant program helps advocates and organizations which are working to advance walkability by way of revolutionary, community-level applications.
“This is a superb alternative for residents to discover their neighborhood and determine challenges and alternatives for mobility infrastructure enhancements that promote wholesome dwelling, a way of belonging and place, and accessibility to communal property and on a regular basis wants such a park and grocery retailer,” Jeannette Dubinin, CPEX’s director of resilience and adaptation, stated in a press release.
CPEX coordinates city, rural and regional planning efforts in Louisiana to enhance high quality of place and create extra resilient communities.
American Most cancers Society, OLOL announce partnership
The American Most cancers Society and Our Woman of the Lake Most cancers Institute have shaped a complete partnership, aimed toward lowering the variety of most cancers deaths in Louisiana.
The three-year funding features a marketing campaign to extend most cancers screening charges, affected person training and collateral, worker engagement alternatives, and Presenting Sponsor rights for the American Most cancers Society Excel Baton Rouge Greatest Dressed Ball.
Whereas the most cancers society companions with each hospital system for issues comparable to affected person transportation and lodging grants, the settlement with Our Woman of the Lake is on the most complete stage and exhibits the direct alignment between the 2 organizations.
BRECO Federal Credit score Union expands its subject of membership
BRECO Federal Credit score Union is opening its doorways to extra potential members, after the Nationwide Credit score Union Administration lately authorised the addition of an underserved space to its subject of membership.
This enables BRECO to supply its companies to anybody who lives, works, worships, attends faculty and companies situated in elements of Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana parishes.
BRECO was first chartered in 1934 by a gaggle of utility workers from the Baton Rouge Electrical Co., which merged with Gulf States Utilities in 1938 and with Entergy in 1994.
Signup interval open for water high quality program
The U.S. Division of Agriculture stated the signup interval for its Clear Lakes, Estuaries, And Rivers initiative (CLEAR30) is open.
Producers might apply for CLEAR30 by way of Aug. 5.
This system is a nationwide alternative for landowners and agricultural producers at present implementing water high quality practices by way of the Conservation Reserve Program to enroll in 30-year contracts, extending the lifespan and strengthening the advantages of necessary water high quality practices on their land.
Annual rental funds for landowners who enroll in CLEAR30 shall be equal to the present Steady CRP annual fee price plus a 20% water high quality incentive fee and an annual rental price adjustment of 27.5%.
To join CLEAR30, landowners and producers ought to contact their native USDA Service Heart. Contact data could be discovered at farmers.gov/service-locator. Moreover, truth sheets and different sources can be found at fsa.usda.gov/crp.
