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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet approved changes to the 2012 budget, including funding to support free early childhood education and afternoon daycare.
Awards Will Help Build Statewide Systems of High Quality Early Education Programs
With states under pressure to cut their budgets and federal stimulus money gone, low-income working parents are facing a paradox.
Laura Merage
Photographer, sculptor, philanthropist, Founder, RedLine
Merage Foundations Executive Director, Sue Renner, joins Mayor Hancock's Early Childhood Education Commission in Denver, Co.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), Prevention Services Division is pleased to release a summary of the 2011 Colorado Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Report.
Tel Aviv's fringe music scene relocates to the Negev this weekend for annual inDnegev.
David Merage is scheduled to present "Making Ben Gurion’s Dream a Reality: The Negev from Now to 2020" at the 2011 General Assembly in Denver, Colorado on Nov. 7th.
Colorado's Lieutenant Governor has boarded a "literacy bus" to begin a listening tour in hopes of boosting up childhood literacy in our state.
When Laura and Brian Kim purchased Parker Learning Center last October, they quickly realized the magnitude of their impending challenge. The 25-year-old Aurora day-care facility was in need of new equipment, new curricula and new business procedures. Compounding the challenge was the fact that the Kims were newcomers to the child-care industry. "I was up at 3 in the morning, trying to make sense of what we needed to do," Laura Kim said.
ELV is proud to announce a partnership with a new Alliance: Mile High Montessori Early Learning Centers in Denver, Co. Mile High Montessori (MHM) is one of the oldest and largest providers of subsidized quality early childhood care and education, serving thousands of Denver’s vulnerable children every year since 1970.
“We declare the establishment of 11 permanent settlements in the Negev and the Galilee and we vow to bring 300 families to these locations within 60 days,” Ayalim CEO Matan Dahan announced today. “The answer to the housing problem lies in settling the Negev and the Galilee.”
On June 29th, the Mile High United Way (MHUW) held its annual Celebration at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to honor those people, companies, and organizations whose commitment and dedication to the community advances the common good and demonstrates what it means to LIVE UNITED.
David Merage was born in Teheran to a Jewish family, and at the age of fifteen he immigrated to England and afterwards to the USA. His family followed him and made a fortune. Today the Merage Foundation donates 10 million dollars a year to projects for developing the Negev. In an interview with Mamon he said: “We want to fulfill Ben Gurion’s vision. Never before has there been such a spirit of cooperation for the south. We threw the stone into the water, and now the ripples are growing.”
Artist and philanthropist aims to connect community and culture through her nonprofit gallery. Laura Merage takes five minutes out of her busy day at Denver's RedLine gallery to quietly reflect on her life.
There's long been a disconnect between art and the artist who creates it. Walking into a gallery, it's easy to admire a photo, painting, or sculpture without really understanding the inspiration and work that went into it.
While the richest 10 percent of the world's population enjoys the vast majority of consumer goods and services, many people struggle to gain access to the things they need.
On Tuesday, June 28, 2011, Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia toured two
Early Learning Ventures Alliance at Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council affiliate child care programs in Aurora, Co.
Of the world’s nearly seven billion people, 90 percent have little or no access to most of the products and services many of us take for granted. In fact, nearly half do not have regular access to food, clean water, shelter and other basic needs. Yet, the vast majority of designers have traditionally developed products aimed at the wealthiest 10 percent of the planet’s population.
The better part of America is composed of entrepreneurs who seek a challenge, innovation, risk and investment. In fact, entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of the American economy.
Research shows that when children receive high-quality early care and education, they are better prepared to succeed in school, and ultimately in life. But, when early care and education providers are bogged down with the business of running their child care business, quality often suffers.
It began with him resigning as Denver's mayor at the City and County building. Hours later, he was sworn in as Colorado's 42nd governor on the west steps of the state capitol. By the evening, 3,000 supporters joined him at the Fillmore Auditorium for dinner, before an inaugural concert lasting until nearly midnight just blocks away at the Ogden Theater.
The House of Representatives passed a sweeping child nutrition bill Thursday designed to promote better eating habits in part by giving the federal government more authority to set standards for food sold in vending machines and other venues on school grounds.
The Children’s Movement of Florida was started to change the priorities of our state, always with the hope that our message would ultimately resonate across the nation. This would be a clear sign that Americans were beginning to understand the importance of early childhood education, and were now willing to do something about it.
Denver, CO - EPIC (Executives Partnering to Invest in Children), an organization comprised of business leaders, nonprofits and foundations advocating for quality investments in early childhood development, announced today that Mary Atchison has been named executive director, effective 11/29/2010.
On Saturday, Oct. 23, Mayor John Hickenlooper joins hundreds of Denverites in this affair to celebrate RedLine’s studio artists, community programs and education outreach to help form this city’s future.
RedLine, celebrating its second anniversary this fall, is a center for contemporary art that combines an artist residency program with project-based community engagement in the arts. The gala will raise money and memberships to keep RedLine vibrant and its programs effective within the Denver community.
Parents sometimes flee Denver for suburban school districts. Jennifer Aguilar goes the opposite direction.
The discerning mom hunts for the best programs for each child, even if it means driving four daughters to schools in three Colorado districts: Denver, Littleton, and Jefferson County. What gets her to drive 10 miles from her Littleton home to take her 4-year-old daughter to Gust Elementary in southwest Denver is advanced kindergarten.
I am concluding my series on Shared Services Alliances in the Early Childhood Education (ECE) industry with this fourth posting on the National Shared Services Technical Conference which I attended in Philadelphia, Sept. 20-21st. This conference drew about 200 participants from all over the country, including intermediaries, government representatives, private donors, and of course, ECE agencies and family businesses, from New Hampshire to Washington state, Mississippi to Michigan, and everywhere between. Participants included newcomers to the concept of Shared Service Alliances, and people steeped in the experience. The first question people usually asked each other was: Are you forming an alliance in your community?
This month I want to share the story of the David and Laura Merage Foundation, based in Colorado, and their efforts to strengthen the Early Care and Education (ECE) industry by creating an innovative shared service infrastructure called Early Learning Ventures Alliances. This community-based partnership model involves small ECE providers working together to share costs and deliver services efficiently.
You can now sign up for RedLine's Membership & Annual Sponsorship. There are four different levels at which you can sign up and receive different membership benefits.
Capital funding for The Merage Medical Center was provided by the David and Laura Merage Foundation & Andre and Katherine Merage Foundation.
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Kadima MK and former defense minister Minister Shaul Mofaz, along with the head of the IDF's Personnel Directorate Avi Zamir, praised the sacrifices of these lone soldiers at an event in Tel Aviv Wednesday celebrating five years of the Jewish Agency's Wings program. Kadima MK and former defense minister Minister Shaul Mofaz, along with the head of the IDF's Personnel Directorate Avi Zamir, praised the sacrifices of these lone soldiers at an event in Tel Aviv Wednesday celebrating five years of the Jewish Agency's Wings program.
To celebrate Wings fifth anniversary, the Jewish Agency held an all-day conference on December 30, 2009, in Tel Aviv. David Merage of Denver, whose vision and support makes Wings possible, was in attendance along with his wife, Laura, and mother, Katherine. Also present were Eli Cohen, Director-General of the Jewish Agency's Department of Aliyah and Absorption, Shaul Mofaz, Kadima MK and former defense minister, Professor Dan Ben David, executive director of Tel Aviv University's Taub Center for Social Policy Studies, and Avi Zamir, head of the IDF's Personnel Directorate. Special guest included Tal Brody, former basketball star and chairman of the Spirit of Israel for the Jewish Agency.
We are gathered here today to imagine a world without racism, without bigotry and without hatred," Hickenlooper told the crowd. "We are here to imagine a day when you won't see swastikas painted on the side of a synagogue or a home, and a swastika will only exist between the covers of a history book. We imagine a day when green grass covers a hole left by burning a cross, a day when any form of a hate crime becomes a thing of a past.