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Our History
AIHA was established in 1992 by leading US health sector organizations to support international collaboration and technical assistance. Our mission is to advance global public health by helping countries with limited resources to build locally driven and locally sustainable institutional and human resource capacity. Through twinning partnerships and other initiatives, we provide technical assistance using the knowledge and skills of experienced health and allied professionals to mobilize communities and strengthen overburdened health systems. Learn about how we've grown and expanded through the years!
The American International Health Alliance is established by a consortium of major healthcare provider associations and professional medical education organizations to help the nations of the former Soviet Union build much-needed health system capacity. Funded through a series of cooperative agreements with USAID, the first partnerships linking US hospitals with their counterparts in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan are formed.
The hospital partnership program is expanded to Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. Partnerships focus on broad issues such as infection control, nursing, women's health, neonatal resuscitation, and emergency medicine, as well as hospital finance and administration and specific topics targeted by each institution.
Building on its early programmatic successes, the partnership model is introduced in Moldova and Tajikistan. The first Central European partnerships are formed in Croatia and Estonia, while more are added in countries in the former Soviet Union.
While hospital partnerships continue to be formed in countries such as Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine, AIHA's first Healthy Communities partnerships are established to focus on specific health and wellness issues ranging from substance abuse and intimate partner violence to smoking cessation and cardiovascular disease.
Bosnia-Herzegovina joins AIHA's expanding network of partnership countries and more Healthy Communities partnerships are established in Central Europe. AIHA's first Health Management Education partnerships are established in the Czech Republic, Romania, and Slovakia.
AIHA enters into a second series of cooperative agreements with USAID and begins establishing the first of nearly 30 partnerships designed to create community-based primary healthcare centers. Some of these partnerships also decide to establish Women's Wellness Centers to provide comprehensive clinical services and primary prevention programs to women of all ages.
In response to the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in the region, AIHA launches a pilot program to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Odessa, Ukraine, one of the hardest-hit cities in all of Europe. AIHA launches the EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network to improve access to timely, evidence-based clinical research and resources in Russian and other regional languages.
AIHA establishes its first intra-regional partnership, linking former partners in Bucharest, Romania, with the Institute of Public Health in Tirana, Albania.
AIHA celebrates 10 years of partnership programs. Through a grant from the Library of Congress, AIHA establishes its Open World/Community Leadership Development Program. AIHA joins forces with March of Dimes to help prevent birth defects in Ukraine and other countries in Eastern Europe.
AIHA continues expanding its partnership programs, particularly in the fields of primary healthcare and health professions education while at the same time creating new initiatives to improve breast health in the region with funding from the Susan G. Komen Foundation. The Southern Ukraine AIDS Education Center opens in Odessa, Ukraine, to provide training based on AIHA's highly effective PMTCT model. AIHA launches the USAID-funded "Strengthening Tuberculosis Control in Moldova" project and the year is rounded out by the announcement that AIHA will be the primary implementing partner of a WHO/GTZ project to establish the Regional Knowledge Hub for the Care and Treatment of HIV/AIDS in Eurasia.
The Kyiv-based Regional Knowledge Hub for the Care and Treatment of HIV/AIDS in Eurasia officially opens its doors to provide skills-based training to clinicians and other caregivers in Ukraine and other nations in the region. AIHA co-sponsors an HIV/AIDS stigma conference in Zagreb, Croatia, and launches four new HIV/AIDS care and treatment partnerships in Russia. In Central Asia, region-wide projects in medical education, nursing education, and community-oriented primary care commence, as does a primary care and health management project in Turkmenistan. In Romania, the Radiology Quality Improvement Program is launched to improve breast cancer screening and diagnostics. AIHA is awarded a grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration to establish an HIV/AIDS Twinning Center in support of the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
AIHA continues to expand its work in HIV/AIDS, TB, health professions education, and community-oriented primary care in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Africa, opening its first Twinning Center field office in Pretoria, South Africa. With USAID support, AIHA launches a project to scale up PMTCT services in Ukraine, while its women's health project with Doctors of the World in Kosovo comes to a close.
With more than 125 partnerships established and dozens of successful capacity-building programs in nearly 30 countries, AIHA's programs and initiatives remain at the vanguard of healthcare reform efforts in developing and transitioning nations around the world. In cooperation with USAID, the Russian Ministry of Health and Social Development, and the St. Petersburg Medical Academy for Post Graduate Studies, AIHA opens the St. Petersburg AIDS Training and Education Center. Operations in the Central Asia region conclude while new programs in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Moldova, and Zambia are launched. AIHA opens country offices in Ethiopia and Tanzania to manage its growing HIV/AIDS Twinning Center partnerships in both countries. The Volunteer Healthcare Corps, a component of the Twinning Center, begins placing clinicians and other skilled professionals in long-term volunteer assignments in Ethiopia.
AIHA joins forces with the Russian Red Cross to implement a pilot training program designed to improve reproductive health services for women inmates of three prison settlements in Irkutsk Oblast. Also in Russia, two public-private partnerships are established: the Volga River AIDS Alliance in cooperation with AIDS Healthcare Foundation and the Russia Professional Development in HIV Medicine Program in cooperation with GlaxoSmithKline. With funding from USAID, AIHA kicks off the Strategic Health Partnership Initiative in cooperation with Russia's Ministry of Health and Social Development. This innovative three-year program expands on the 2005 Bratislava Initiatives, a joint Russian-American presidential agreement designed to strengthen cooperation on a number of cross-cutting issues, including the global fight against HIV/AIDS. A new health management education program is launched in Georgia, while our highly successful TB control project in Moldova and PMTCT scale up project in Ukraine come to a close. New Twinning Center partnerships are established in Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia, and the program is also expanded to include Botswana, Cote d'Ivoire, and Namibia. The Volunteer Healthcare Corps places its first volunteers in Tanzania and begins recruiting for opportunities in South Africa.
AIHA's HIV/AIDS Twinning Center launches its first "triangle" partnership, linking schools of social work in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and the United States to improve care and support to orphans and vulnerable children by building institutional and human resource capacity and developing a para social worker training program for community-based caregivers. AIHA establishes a country office in Mozambique to support partnership activities there. Nigeria joins the Twinning Center's network of partnership countries, while 10-year USAID cooperative agreements for health partnership programs in the Caucasus and Russia, as well as NIS region-wide support programs, come to a close. USAID's Preventing HIV and Hepatitis B and C in Moldova Project, for which AIHA managed the blood safety component, also concludes. In Russia, AIHA joins forces with St. Petersburg City AIDS Center, Pavlov State Medical University, the Republican Infectious Disease Hospital at Ust-Izhora, and other strategic partners to establish the Baltic AIDS Training and Education Center. This new center is an affiliate of the Regional Knowledge Hub for the Care and Treatment of HIV/AIDS in Eurasia, which relocates this year from Kyiv to Moscow.
AIHA's HIV/AIDS Twinning Center is awarded a second cooperative agreement from HRSA, ensuring funding for the program through 2014. AIHA establishes a small country office in Enugu, Nigeria, to support partnership activities in the West African nation. With USAID support, AIHA launches a new 3-year project to improve maternal and child health in Kosovo. Working closely with Russia's Ministry of Health and Social Development and USAID/Russia, as well as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the ministries of health in Botswana, Ethiopia, and Tanzania, AIHA places nine Russian lab experts through the Strategic Health Partnership Initiative. These long-term mentorships are designed to build targeted laboratory and human resource capacity in the three African nations. The Twinning Center hosts a strategic planning meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for partners focusing on improving care to orphans and families made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS by providing social work training to community-based caregivers. In addition, the Twinning Center launches a new partnership, linking Addis Ababa University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison to strengthen emergency medical services in Ethiopia. The Volunteer Healthcare Corps expands, now offering skilled professionals long-term volunteer opportunities in Botswana and Mozambique, as well as the original focus countries of Ethiopia, South Africa, and Tanzania. The Regional Knowledge Hub and its affiliates celebrate training more than 5,000 clinicians and other caregivers in the provision of high quality HIV treatment and support.
AIHA's HIV/AIDS Twinning Center establishes two new university-to-university partnerships to help expand Clinical Associates Programs in South Africa. In February, AIHA hosts country meetings for its partners in Ethiopia and Zambia to share experiences and plan for future collaboration. Russian SHPI mentors placed at the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute facilitate development and initial trials of a locally produced rabies vaccine in line with international standards. The Russian experts also prepare draft legislation in support of the Ministry of Health's efforts to more effectively address this serious public health problem through implementation of a national rabies control program. Also in Ethiopia, partners from Addis Ababa University Faculty of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison open the first Emergency Medicine Training Center at Black Lion Hospital and commence training healthcare practitioners, medical students, and other first responders. AIHA partners in the Russian Federation conduct a series of clinical trainings designed to improve care and treatment services available to people living with HIV thanks to ongoing capacity-building programs supported by USAID and PEPFAR, as well as through a public-private partnership with ViiV Healthcare. A new country office is established in Lusaka to support Twinning Center partnerships in Zambia. AIHA and Twinning Center programs are showcased at the AIDS 2010 Conference in Vienna, Austria, and at the Ryan White Care Act Grantee Meeting in Washington, DC. In collaboration with the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) and St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing, Twinning Center partners at the Mozambican National Nurses Association launch the first of three Nursing Leadership Institutes planned for the coming year. The intensive program is designed to bolster capacity of nursing as a profession in Mozambique. AIHA is awarded a follow-on cooperative agreement from USAID/Russia to continue its highly successful Strategic Health Partnership Initiative while Twinning Center partnerships in Cote d'Ivoire graduated from the program. In Kosovo, AIHA continues to expand its USAID-funded project to improve maternal and child health.
AIHA adds a third Clinical Associates partnership to its Twinning Center portfolio in South Africa and begins fostering targeted collaboration among all three alliances to better support this emerging mid-level health profession. A series of country meetings are conducted to provide Twinning Center partners with an opportunity to learn about local programs, activities, and accomplishments, as well as plan for future cross-partnership collaboration. AIHA welcomes Kelly Wolfe to its headquarters staff as Director of the HIV/AIDS Twinning Center. Johannesburg, South Africa, is the venue for an exciting meeting that brought together more than 100 Twinning Center partners from eight African nations and the US whose focus is one health and social service professions education. AIHA ramps up evidence-based medicine programming among Twinning Center partners through its dynamic Learning Resource Center (LRC) Project. US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius visits Twinning Center partners at Muhimbili University in Dar es Salaam, where she learns what AIHA's Tanzania Nursing Initiative is doing to strengthen the nursing profession through curriculum and faculty development, institutional capacity building – particularly in the area of evidence-based resources and clinical skills building, advocacy, and association strengthening. AIHA's Russian programs are showcased at a series of high-level events, including the MDG-6 Forum in Moscow. Activities and accomplishments, as well as a host of new clinical training materials developed through the Strategic Health Partnership Initiative and the public-private partnership with ViiV Healthcare, were highlighted. The Council on Social Work Education honors AIHA with its "Partners in Advancing Education for International Social Work (PIE)" award in recognition of our achievements in international social work, particularly in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Kazakhstan. AIHA participates in the 2011 Caribbean AIDS Conference with an eye toward expanding Twinning Center programming to the region. AIHA plays an important role in ICASA 2011 – held in December in Addis Ababa – with staff serving on the organizing committee and VHC volunteers fielded in key leadership positions. Several abstracts submitted by partners were part of the ICASA program and AIHA shared information with some 7,000 participants at a booth in the exhibition hall, as well as through a satellite titled "Institutional Twinning Partnerships as a Mechanism for Health Systems Strengthening and Sustainable Development of Human Resources for Health" that was conducted jointly with ESTHER France.
AIHA celebrates its 20th year of health systems strengthening through volunteer-driven twinning partnerships and initiatives! The year also marks the graduation of several partnerships from the HIV/AIDS Twinning Center's technical assistance program, including highly successful alliances in Botswana, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Russia. AIHA launches an exciting new Twinning Center partnership focusing on biomedical engineering in Ethiopia and expands into the Caribbean Region with the creation of a partnership that is working to establish an infectious disease fellowship program at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. The model Para Social Worker Training Program developed by Twinning Center partners in Tanzania is showcased during several meetings and workshops for organizations that provide OVC care and support. AIHA participates in the 2012 International AIDS Society Conference in Washington, DC. Several partnerships are showcased during poster sessions at the event, which was attended by more than 25,000 people. AIHA distributes materials and hosts two "Books at the Booth" events featuring the editors of key HIV/AIDS textbooks. In conjunction with ESTHER France, AIHA also hosts a satellite session on twinning where both organizations highlight successful examples of capacity-building partnerships. AIHA celebrates the award of a new CDC-funded blood safety project that will provide technical support to selected countries in Asia and Eastern Europe. Sadly, AIHA receives notice of the closure of all USAID-supported activities in the Russian Federation and ceases its operations in the country at the end of the year.
AIHA's new CDC-funded blood safety project kicks off in earnest with a series of assessments and other capacity building activities in Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, and Cambodia. Through the HIV/AIDS Twinning Center, AIHA launches two new partnerships in Ethiopia – one focusing on training biomedical engineers and technologists and one working to establish an obstetrics and gynecology residency program. A third partnership is later established in South Africa to strengthen a training program for mid-level pharmacy technicians. AIHA partners with Save the Children on two new social welfare workforce strengthening projects funded by USAID in Nigeria and Zambia, applying our highly successful Para Social Worker training model to local efforts to provide care and support to orphans and vulnerable children in both countries. As of December 2013, AIHA's development portfolio includes more than 170 partnerships established in 35 countries, including 51 through the HIV/AIDS Twinning Center. Through these programs, AIHA manages $301 million in USG grants and awards, accompanied by $274 million in in-kind contributions by our US twinning partners since 1992. AIHA's Volunteer Healthcare Corps (VHC) continues to be an important mechanism for placing skilled professionals in long-term placements in targeted PEPFAR countries. To date, AIHA has placed 105 long term volunteers in five African countries. These skilled professionals have contributed more than 24,500 days to strengthen health system capacity in their host countries.
HRSA awards AIHA a new 5-Year cooperative agreement for the HIV/AIDS Twinning Center Program, allowing us to expand our current activities in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean Region to support PEPFAR's strategic vision to create an AIDS-free generation. AIHA manages a total of 41 partnerships through the Twinning Center Program and our partner institutions overseas graduate more than 5,200 individuals from pre-service training programs, along with another 4,900 from in-service programs. AIHA collaborates with Tanzania's Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to pilot the use of low-cost tablet devices to advance nursing education, setting the stage for a nationwide roll out. AIHA and the Tanzanian Association of Social Workers continue ongoing efforts to pass a Social Work Act that will lead to the establishment of a national Social Work Council. AIHA's CDC-supported blood safety project continues providing technical assistance in Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, and Ukraine, with a focus on quality improvement, management, financial systems and costing, and donor systems. AIHA launches activities in Tajikistan through the CDC project and AIHA secures World Bank funding through Kazakhstan's Ministry of Health to initiate blood safety trainings there. Building on our highly successful Emergency Medicine Training Center model piloted in Eurasia and successfully adapted to the Ethiopian context in 2010, AIHA spearheads a collaboration between the African Federation of Emergency Medicine and the Zambia Defense Forces School of Health Sciences to adapt and implement an emergency medicine curriculum tailored to the local context, with a particular focus on HIV-related complications and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV during obstetric emergencies. Through AIHA's longstanding laboratory quality improvement partnership with Tanzania's Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Temeke Hospital Laboratory in Dar es Salaam becomes the first lab in the country to earn a 3-Star rating on WHO /Africa's SLIPTA scale; three other regional labs participating in the project earn a 1-star rating. AIHA supports a total of 23 skilled volunteers placed through our Volunteer Healthcare Corps. These highly qualified professionals collectively contributed 2,245 days of in-kind time to building healthcare capacity in their host countries of Ethiopia, South Africa, and Zambia. Since inception, AIHA has managed more than $320 million in awards, coupled with over $285 million in in-kind contributions of professional time and material resources donated by our U.S. partners.
2015 marks a year of transition for AIHA as we celebrate the February retirement of our founding Executive Director, James P. Smith, and welcome on board our new President & CEO, David Greeley. Responding rapidly to newly emerging PEPFAR 3.0 priorities, AIHA increases funding for the HIV/AIDS Twinning Center Program by nearly 50 percent. Through the Twinning Center, AIHA and our partners provided pre- and in-service training to more than 50,000 health and allied caregivers over the past decade. Armed with new or expanded skills, these healthcare professionals are contributing to efforts to combat HIV and ensure access to care for all! AIHA celebrates a new partnership with Chemonics, the prime of USAID's global HRH 2030, as well as new DREAMS funding to strengthen HIV prevention, care, and support services for girls and young women in Western Kenya. AIHA successfully concluded a year-long contract with the Kazakh Ministry of Health and Social Development to strengthen blood safety under the Health Sector Technology Transfer and Institutional Reform Project funded by the World Bank. Over the course of the year, AIHA staff and partners showcase the impact twinning has made, making 34 presentations at international conferences, as well as authoring two articles published in professional journals and two book chapters. The organization also made a strong showing at ICASA 2015 in Harare, Zimbabwe, where partners and staff made five poster presentations on topics ranging from telemedicine to the role of clinical associates in the provision of quality VMMC services.
AIHA started the year off strong, launching two new biomedical engineering an technology partnerships to strengthen local capacity to train this critical allied health cadre in Uganda and Kenya, and expanding our existing biomedical partnership in Ethiopia. Managed through our HIV/AIDS Twinning Center Program, these projects — coupled with new partnerships focusing on improving access to care and treatment for key populations in Zambia, adolescent disclosure of HIV status in Mozambique, and injection safety in Cambodia — represent a new era of growth and expansion for this HRSA-funded program. AIHA's DREAMS Initiative project in Western Kenya expanded greatly during the year, engaging 21,848 community members in gender norms sensitization activities and 13,394 girls between the ages of 10-14 in Safe Space activities to date, as well as referring 8,848 girls to medical care (including HIV counseling and testing) and providing education subsidies and support to 4,442 girls in need. AIHA staff and partners showcased their work, making more than 20 presentations at national, regional, and international conferences and events throughout the year, including four at the AIDS 2016 Conference in Durban, South Africa. Other notable accomplishments include graduation of the first cohort from St. Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College's new ob/gyn residency program in Ethiopia; publication of "The Southern African Pharmacy Technician Training Manual" by our partners at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Department of Pharmacy and St. Louis College of Pharmacy; and improved access to HIV prevention, care, and treatment in underserved communities in Tanzania through targeted training of nurses and social welfare workers in support of task-sharing. Through AIHA's CDC-funded blood safety project, national guidelines on clinical use of blood were developed and approved by Kyrgyzstan's Ministry of Health; Tajikistan subsequently approved these guidelines and they are currently being reviewed for adoption in Ukraine. As a result AIHA's ongoing work on quality management systems under the blood safety project, our partners at all project sites in Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine conducted self-assessments of blood services and developed quality plans for improvement that mark a critical step toward international accreditation.


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Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that it's a "dodge of people who are defending Trump" to say say, "[Y]ou're denigrating Trump supporters" in response to criticisms of Trump, and that no one views criticisms of Bernie Sanders' policies as attacks on his supporters on Monday's on the Fox News Channel.
Krauthammer began by responding to O'Reilly's "Talking Points" segment, which he agreed with except where he broke with O'Reilly by arguing, "the whole National Review edition, all of the articles and the editorial, nobody is attacking Donald Trump's right to say what he thinks, explain what he wants to do and to do it in his own way. It's not a matter of right. the question is, is this a healthy political philosophy, is it a good ideal to elect a man of this temperament and of these inclinations?"
O'Reilly responded that he wasn't criticizing National Review, but was actually sticking up for them, and that they have a perfect right to write what they wrote, but that Trump supporters "are also denigrated every single, by an elitist media."
Krauthammer replied, "[T]here's something a little bit ironic about attacking, particularly the anti-Trump people, for their intolerance. One of the reasons people are upset about Donald Trump, you take Michael Gerson, for example, a speechwriter for George W. Bush, a very serious guy, you might say, kind of a Christian conservative, compassionate conservative. And he is apoplectic over the fact that the Republican Party might be led by and led into an election by, a guy who says he doesn't want to allow Muslims into the country. Yes, he says it's temporary but he'll decide when the temporary ends. and a guy who says that Mexicans are rapists, and wants to deport 11 million people. That is, I think that's a guy who's sincerely expressing his views about what conservatism and Republicanism ought to be." He added that he thinks this is a "cogent point."
O'Reilly said that Gerson does have every right to make this point, but that Krauthammer "mischaracterized what Trump said about Mexican rapists."
Krauthammer asked, "He said nicer things about Mexican rapists? Did I miss that?" O'Reilly answered, "[H]is point was that the human traffickers, who bring the poor people up through the border, are raping and pillaging, and the government of Mexico allows them to do that, and that's true."
Krauthammer argued that that isn't what Trump said, and was doing the same thing he did when he criticized Senator John McCain's (R-AZ) war record, where "He says and then he pulls back."
O'Reilly then turned back to the initial point, which was that people can have whatever opinion about Trump unless such opinions are "dishonest" or "based on fallacious information."
Krauthammer then said, "You know, that's always the dodge of people who are defending Trump. They say 'Oh, you're denigrating Trump supporters.' Let me ask you, when you talk about the ideas and the proposals of [Democratic presidential candidate Senator] Bernie Sanders (I-VT), which you oppose. You are not a socialist and you think it would damage america the way that socialism damaged so many countries around the world, are you denigrating the sanders people? No. You're simply — you're stating a position that says his ideas don't work, are discredited, and I oppose them. you are saying nothing but his followers."
O'Reilly agreed with this, saying that while he disagrees with Socialism, people who are ardent Socialists are entitled to their opinions. He re-iterated that Trump critics, such as National Review, and Krauthammer himself have the right to express their sincerely held beliefs without getting attacked personally.
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MAP provides support for Post, District, and Department interaction with the local military community. MAP is the bridge between the VFW and Active Duty, Guard, and Reserve military units.
MAP offers grants to VFW Posts who participate in military unit functions such as sponsoring Farewell and Welcome Home activities and family readiness group events. MAP provided over $634,488 during fiscal year 2006-07 in sponsorship of 234 projects.
Adopt-A-Unit is intended to forge a connection between VFW members and their local military community. By adopting a unit the Post can establish and sustain a long-term friendship with those serving stateside and abroad.
Memorial Commendations are available through the MAP office for a service member killed in action. The Memorial Commendation comes framed and matted in the colors of the service member's branch of service and is intended to be presented to the service member's family by a VFW representative.
Operation Uplink
Operation Uplink has connected over 8,500,000 active duty military and hospitalized veterans with their family and friends since 1996. 1,056,512 connections were made through VFW communication efforts in fiscal year 2006-07. These include the distribution of phone cards and the Free Call days at 200 + Internet cafes in Iraq. Free Call days provide 24 hours of free calling at the cafes during holidays.
Both international and domestic cards are available and will provide 15 minutes of talk time and are valued at $6.50 and $1.50. All card requests should be made through the Department Chairman and must include the unit designation, head count and a POC. Since the program is funded solely by donations the cards are limited to 1 per deployed every 60 days.
Unmet Needs
Through Unmet Needs the VFW can provide grants up to $2,500 to eligible service members and their families. Since the program began Unmet Needs has assisted 1146 families facing a hardship due to deployment or military service with $1,640,308 in grant funds. For fiscal year 2006–07 Unmet Needs assisted 385 families in grants totaling over $562,000. A new application is now available which when completed and returned to the office can speed up the process time.
Eligibility Criteria
Active duty within 36 months of applying
Can receive funds only once every 18 months
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Vanessa Kerry, MD, is the CEO and co-founder of Seed Global Health. A practicing physician, Dr. Kerry's more than a decade of work in resource‐limited settings has focused on addressing health inequities in communities around the world, and the shortage of skilled, local health providers that contributes to those inequities. Through Seed, Dr. Kerry works towards a future in which in‐country health professionals have the training, support, and confidence to not only provide care and save lives, but also to serve as faculty training a pipeline of future health care professionals.
Concurrent with her role as CEO, Dr. Kerry is a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and serves as the Associate Director of Partnerships and Global Initiatives at MGH Global Health. She also directs the Global Public Policy and Social Change program in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, with a focus on links between health and security.
Dr. Kerry has been featured on NPR's Tell Me More and Goats and Soda, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports and Morning Joe, the Huffington Post, Slate.com, BBC, Devex, and Boston Magazine's Power of Ideas. She has published on her work in Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine and Academic Medicine. She is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Social Entrepreneur. A graduate of Yale University summa cum laude and Harvard Medical School cum laude, Dr. Kerry completed her Internal Medicine residency and Critical Care fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. She earned her Master's in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing from the London Schools of Economics and of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.


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Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson says he hasn't asked for a contract extension beyond next season but reiterated that he'd like to remain in Toronto.
The 2015 American League MVP, who is set to become a free agent in 2019, took to Twitter Thursday to chastise a report from baseball reporter Jon Heyman suggesting Donaldson may be asking for too much money.
Heyman, in a column published Thursday on Fanragsports.com, said Donaldson "is believed to be seeking a monster payday, according to friends.
"And while he may not hit his goal (some think he may be shooting too high), he benefits from Manny Machado's move to shortstop since he'd become the top third base option if Machado stays at shortstop as a free agent," Heyman continued.
Donaldson replied to Heyman with a two-part tweet.
"I respect what you do for a living, but you don't know my friends. Nor do my friends know what I want, because there is still information to be gathered. I havn't asked for anything. What I have said is I would like to stay," Donaldson wrote on his verified Twitter account.
"I would listen to an offer, but I havnt had one to listen to so it's been pretty easy. Thanks for your concern about my future and next time I hope you put a name by it, because you are using my name in a manner I don't appreciate."
Donaldson and the Blue Jays avoided arbitration last month by agreeing on a US$23 million, one-year contact — the largest one-year deal for an arbitration-eligible player.
The contract gives Donaldson a $6 million raise while also making the three-time all star the highest paid player on the Jays' roster.
Donaldson rebounded from an injury-slowed 2017 to hit .270 last season with 33 homers and 78 runs batted in over 113 games. The sure-handed infielder missed time from April 14 through May 25 with a calf injury, which also hampered him during spring training.
He was coming off a $28.65 million, two-year deal.
Donaldson has a .285 batting average with 111 home runs and 300 RBIs over three seasons in Toronto.
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You can use the matte filters to create a new alpha channel or add to or subtract from a clip's existing alpha channel. Matte filters work equally well with clips that already have an alpha channel and with clips that have alpha channels created using a key filter, such as the Chroma Keyer.
There are three matte filters used most often in conjunction with the Chroma Keyer:
Note: Instead of relying solely on the feathering and edge thinning controls of the Chroma Keyer filter, you should allow some fringing when you adjust the Chroma Keyer's settings, so that you can more precisely eliminate fringing with the Matte Choker.
The following example illustrates how to use the Four-Point Garbage Matte filter to eliminate the outside edges of a clip being keyed.
Apply the Four-Point Garbage Matte to the clip being keyed. Open this clip in the Viewer, then click the Filters tab.
It may be easier to see what you're doing if you turn off the Chroma Keyer, Matte Choker, and Spill Suppressor filters first.
In the Four-Point Garbage Matte filter, click the Point 1 point control.
Move the pointer to the Canvas (the pointer turns into a crosshair pointer), then click to change the location of the matte corner defined by Point 1.
Repeat steps 2 and 3 for the Point 2, Point 3, and Point 4 point controls, until you've created a box that crops out everything outside the green screen surrounding the actor.
To round the four corners of the matte, adjust the Smooth slider, if necessary.
If necessary, adjust the Choke and Feather sliders.
The Choke slider adjusts the overall size of the matte, without changing the shape; the Feather slider blurs the edges of the matte.
The parameters of the Garbage Matte filters can be keyframed, in the same way as the parameters of any other filter. This can come in handy if you need to use one of the Garbage Matte filters to crop out the outside edge of a green screen in a shot where the camera is panning.
In the following example, two sets of keyframes are created to compensate for a simple pan in the clip being keyed.
With the playhead on the first frame of a clip, apply and adjust the Four-Point Garbage Matte filter.
For more details about using this filter, see Example: Using the Four-Point Garbage Matte Filter.
Once you've created the proper shape for the first frame of the clip, click the keyframe buttons for the Point 1, Point 2, Point 3, and Point 4 parameters.
Move the playhead to the last frame of the clip, then readjust the Point 1, Point 2, Point 3, and Point 4 point controls to fit the new position of the green screen.
Keyframes are created automatically when you make these adjustments. The change of the matte's shape and position is calculated for each frame in between the two sets of keyframes you've created. If the motion of the camera is consistent, the position of the matte should follow the position of the background screen. If the motion of the camera is inconsistent, you can create more keyframes to adjust the shape and position of the four matte points as necessary.


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It's no surprise that Mitt Romney is pulling in more money from Wall Street than Barack Obama. The sheer magnitude of that difference is fairly staggering though. Politico's Ken Vogel and Abby Phillip report, "For three years, Wall Street's been telling the world how much it can't stand President Barack Obama. Now, thanks to campaign finance filings, it's possible to put a price tag on just how much: Mitt Romney's presidential campaign and the super PAC supporting it are outraising Obama among financial-sector donors $37.1 million to $4.8 million. Near the front of the pack are 19 Obama donors from 2008 who are giving big to Romney. The 19 have already given $4.8 million to Romney's presidential campaign and the super PAC supporting it through the end of April, according to a POLITICO analysis of Federal Election Commission filings. Four years ago, they gave Obama $213,700. None of them has given a penny to the president's reelection campaign or the super PAC supporting it."
Super PAC don Sheldon Adelson is increasing his standing as the leading funder of super PACs by reportedly giving $10 million to the super PAC backing Romney's campaign, "Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson has given $10 million to Restore Our Future, a pro-Mitt Romney super PAC, according to the Wall Street Journal. The contribution makes Adelson the single biggest donor to the super PAC, which is allowed to raise unlimited sums from individuals, corporations and unions. ...Adelson's infusion marks the next stage for the super PAC as it pivots to target President Barack Obama. The billionaire's massive contribution signals that traditional GOP mega-donors will come out to fund the general election efforts of independent groups, from Restore Our Future to the Karl Rove-linked Crossroads groups, the American Action Network, the American Future Fund and others."
The Wall Street Journal notes where Adelson's next contributions will be going, "Mr. Adelson has told friends that he intends to give at least $100 million to conservative causes and candidates this election cycle. He contributed some $250,000 to Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who just won against a labor union-forced recall election there. But he has also told his friends and colleagues that he would prefer to keep his contributions under wraps in order to avoid controversy, and will likely focus donations mostly on non-profits affiliated with political PACS, which don't have to disclose the names of donors. He is expected to donate to the conservative non-profit Crossroads GPS, which was founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove, a longtime friend of Mr. Adelson, according to Republican fundraisers."
Newt Gingrich, the previous beneficiary of Adelson's largesse, now says that elections are, "rigged, frankly, in favor of the wealthy."
A Stanford University study shows that donors not giving to Obama's reelection after giving in 2008 tend to be either very liberal or conservative.
Obama and Romney are spending an unbelievable amount of time raising money, the New York Times reports.
The Los Angeles Times follows the payments between conservative non-profits groups.
Mitt Romney makes a $3.3 million ad buy. The Karl Rove-linked Crossroads groups go in for $4.6 million targeting Democratic senators and Senate candidates.
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Committee: Barack Obama for President
Candidate Opposed: Mitt Romney
Spot: "Mitt Romney: Out of Touch"
Market: Unknown.
Buy: Undisclosed.
Committee: Democratic National Committee
Candidate Opposed: Mitt Romney
Spot: "Fewer of Me"
Market: Unknown.
Buy: Undisclosed.
Committee: Mitt Romney for President
Candidate Opposed: Barack Obama
Spot: "The Only Ones Affected?"
Market: Unknown.
Buy: Undisclosed.
Committee: Republican National Committee
Candidate Opposed: Barack Obama
Spot: "Lost Focus"
Market: Unknown.
Buy: Undisclosed.
Committee: American Future Fund
Candidate Opposed: Barack Obama
Spot: "Fast and Furious"
Market: Unknown.
Buy: Undisclosed.
Committee: American Future Fund
Candidate Opposed: Heidi Heitkamp
Spot: "Come Clean"
Market: North Dakota.
Buy: Undisclosed.
Committee: Crossroads GPS
Candidate Opposed: Heidi Heitkamp
Spot: "Change"
Market: North Dakota.
Buy: Undisclosed.
Committee: Crossroads GPS
Candidate Opposed: Sherrod Brown
Spot: "Cheap"
Market: Ohio.
Buy: Undisclosed.
Committee: Crossroads GPS
Candidate Opposed: Claire McCaskill
Spot: "Spending"
Market: Missouri.
Buy: Undisclosed.
Committee: American Crossroads
Candidate Opposed: Tim Kaine
Spot: "Behind"
Market: Virginia.
Buy: Undisclosed.
Committee: American Crossroads
Candidate Opposed: Shelley Berkley
Spot: "Arms"
Market: Nevada.
Buy: Undisclosed.
Committee: American Crossroads
Candidate Opposed: Bob Kerrey
Spot: "Consequences"
Market: Nebraska.
Buy: Undisclosed.
Committee: SEIU
Candidate Opposed: Josh Mandel
Spot: "Careful"
Market: Ohio.
Buy: ~$263,049.
Committee: Jeff Flake for Senate
Spot (TV): "Arizona's Battle-Tested Conservative is Jeff Flake"
Spot (Radio): "Arizona's Battle-Tested Conservative is Jeff Flake"
Market: Arizona.
Buy: Undisclosed.
These numbers represent spending by independent groups, like super PACs and non-profits, to support or oppose a particular candidate in 2012. Fundrace will update this spending daily to help show which candidates are gaining from the proliferation of independent groups in this coming election.
Presidential Race:
Mitt Romney (R), $7,327,516 to support, $16,094,914 to oppose. (Oppose: +$481,123)
Barack Obama (D), $509,622 to support, $1,646,047 to oppose. (Oppose: +$18,000)
Most Outside Spending for Congressional Candidates:
TX-Senate: Ted Cruz (R), $838,270 to support, $2,301,676 to oppose.
TX-Senate: David Dewhurst (R), $501,126 to support, $2,481,715 to oppose.
IN-Senate: Richard Mourdock (R), $1,442,961 to support, $634,899 to oppose.
IN-Senate: Dick Lugar (R), $208,628 to support, $1,671,841 to oppose.
OR-01: Rob Cornilles (R), $98,051 to support, $1,219,148 to oppose.
American Action Network, $3,337 to support Jesse Kelly for Congress in Arizona's 8th District.
FreedomWorks for America, $7,590 to support Dan Liljenquist for Senate in Utah.
FreedomWorks for America, $12,448 to oppose Orrin Hatch for Senate in Utah.
Restore America's Voice, $18,000 to oppose Barack Obama for President.
Campaign for Primary Accountability, $1,820 to oppose Charles Rangel for Congress in New York's 13th District.
SEIU COPE, $263,049 to oppose Josh Mandel for Senate in Ohio.
SEIU COPE, $481,123 to oppose Mitt Romney for President.
National Rifle Association of America Political Victory Fund, $430 to oppose Barack Obama for President.
The 60 Plus Association, $1,841 to support Scott D'Amboise for Senate in Maine.
The American Bicentennial Baby's PAC, Galveston Island, Texas, Treasurer: Tim T. Day.
Have-Nots Unite! Half-Knots Unite!, Milford, Conn. Treasurer: David Ralph Wanta. (Super PAC)
Empower Citizens Network, Akron, Ohio, Treasurer: Robert Warther. (Super PAC)
Elect A New Congress, Galena, Ill., Treasurer: William W. Fawell. (Super PAC)
Christians for the Separation of Church and State, Renton, Wash., Treasurer: Naomi Helene Washburn. (Super PAC)
Coastal Securities Inc Federal PAC, Houston, Texas, Treasurer: Brian Folk. (Super PAC)
Defenders of Wildlife Action Committee, Washington, D.C., Treasurer: Jamie Rappaport Clark. (Super PAC)
We Just Want Stephen Colbert to Come to Our College SuperPAC, St. Mary's City, Md., Treasurer: Susan Edra Grogan. (Super PAC)
IUPAT District Council 82 PAC, Little Canada, Minn., Treasurer: Warren Harder.
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AEG Power Solutions unveils its new outdoor storage converter
The enhanced Protect SC.600 version allows a seamless transition between off-grid and on-grid mode...
AEG Power Solutions, a well known provider of power supply systems and solutions for all types of critical and demanding applications, unveils its latest version of their Protect SC. 600 Storage Converter, now with a new outdoor enclosure which reduces global installation costs and simplifies system usage, for any type of battery storage energy application, on or off-grid. The Protect SC.600 bi-directional power converter from AEG Power Solutions with IGBT technology is based on their highly successful Protect PV solar inverter platform. The core element of any battery energy storage system, the converter charges and discharges batteries to store or provide power according to the application requirement such as frequency control, peak shaving, energy shifting (temporary storage to re-inject power when maximising profitability), or voltage control (often used to balance the voltage instability generated by integration of renewables in the grid). Protect SC. 600 provides an outstanding conversion efficiency factor for both the charging and discharging phases.
The enhanced Protect SC.600 version allows a seamless transition between off-grid and on-grid mode. This function is available as an option. This extends the battery energy system's usage beyond its core functions, such as peak shaving for system back-up in the event of a grid blackout. This presents an additional benefit for any industrial or commercial customer who invests in battery systems primarily to decrease their energy costs and have an all-in-one installation that also integrates the security of their power supply. This new option is a must when battery energy storage is used in remote areas or islands where grid reliability is uncertain or for full off-grid applications in similar geographies.
Protect SC. 600 can be easily implemented in a turnkey solution including batteries and medium voltage transformers. The new outdoor enclosure has been designed to house one Protect SC.600, an optional AC low voltage circuit breaker, a communication interface as well as an auxiliary power supply.
The outdoor enclosure replaces the usage of containers whose weight and size make it difficult to transport and handle. With Protect SC.600, up to four units of the new outdoor system can be loaded onto a truck, and transported where on site, the complete units can be moved with a forklift truck replacing the need for heavy load cranes. The outdoor enclosure decreases the cost by 20% compared to container solutions. Combined with outdoor transformers this is a smart solution for building battery storage installations. The new Protect SC. 600 is currently running at several sites around the world in various types of energy storage installations, operating successfully with lead-acid, Lithium-ion or redox flow batteries, and already establishing records for its reliability and efficiency.
Website: www.aegps.com


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