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The Princeton HealthCare System Foundation announced last week that it had awarded $2.63 million in grants for projects spearheaded by PHCS physicians and staff designed to strengthen the delivery of health care. Launched in 2002, the Foundation’s Grants Program supports a series of projects that enhance public access to the health resources of PHCS. Since the program’s inception, the Foundation has allocated a total of $12.68 million in support of a wide range of initiatives, services and capital expenditures throughout PHCS. This year’s round of grantees features 12 community health initiatives in areas including support for indigent patients, senior citizen education and outreach, and enhanced resources for emergency services and maternal-child health. The PHCS Foundation also presented its annual Walter F. Gips, Jr. Award to Dr. Margaret Lancefield, medical director of the UMCP Outpatient Clinic, in recognition of her contribution to the Grants Program and initiatives in support of the community.

The Princeton-based Coalition for Peace Action is planning a rally as part of a Moratorium Day to protest the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War on Wednesday, March 19. A Regional Rally on the State House steps, at 125 W. State Street in Trenton, from noon to 1 p.m. will take place on Moratorium Day. Carpools from Princeton to the event will leave the Princeton Shopping Center (near Rite Aid) at 11:15 a.m. Confirmed speakers include the Rev. Robert Moore, CFPA executive director, Larry Hamm, chair of the Peoples’ Organization for Progress, Bruce Tornari, a disabled combat veteran of the Vietnam War, and Ladonna Blount, Organizer with NJ Citizen Action. For more information, call (609) 924-5022 or go to: cfpa.peacecoalition.org. In other news, New Jersey Students for Peace, CFPA’s student affiliate, will present its semi-annual Peace Fest this Saturday, March 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton, 50 Cherry Hill Rd., Princeton.

Sustainable Princeton is now accepting nominations for its third annual Sustainable Princeton Leadership Awards, to be given in May this year. Nominations must be received by Monday, April 14. Sustainable Princeton, an initiative of Princeton Township and Princeton Borough to develop a strategic sustainability plan that has helped to fund and arrange an energy audit for Princeton’s schools and municipal governments, held a green home and garden tour in November, and recently purchased home-energy monitors for residents to borrow from the Princeton Public Library. It is organizing a green and local purchasing program for Princeton’s schools and municipal governments in conjunction with Princeton University, and it is developing a Sustainable Community Plan for Princeton. People, institutions, or businesses who preserve and improve Princeton’s natural or social environment, are eligible for nomination by writing: acriscit@princeton-township.nj.us, by calling (609) 921-1359, or by writing the Princeton Environmental Commission, 400 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. Nomination forms can be found on both the Borough and Township municipal Web sites. Nominations must be received by Monday, April 14.

The Princeton Laptop Orchestra is one of 17 winners of the Digital Media and Learning Competition, which awards funds to projects that use digital media in an innovative way for formal and informal learning. The contest, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, awarded $238,000 to the Princeton Laptop Orchestra to support a mobile musical laboratory that students will use to explore new ways of making music with laptops and local area networks. This is the first year for the competition, part of the MacArthur Foundation’s five-year, $50 million digital media and learning initiative designed to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize and participate in civic life. The winning projects were selected from 1,010 applications.

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