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CRESSKILL, N.J., May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier granted preliminary approval of the BP oil spill settlement, which includes the medical claims settlement and the economic claims settlement. Now that preliminary approval has been granted, the Court Supervised Settlement Program will begin functioning on June 4th. RD Legal Funding, LLC (“RD Legal”), a leading provider of lawsuit settlement funding solutions, can now advance settlement awards to plaintiffs and attorneys with BP settlements.
With major MDLs and class action settlements, it often takes months, if not years, for involved parties to actually receive their settlement awards, even after the settlement amount has been finalized. RD Legal’s proprietary Fee Acceleration program was designed specifically to bridge this gap by purchasing legal receivables and settlements.
Attorneys and plaintiffs no longer need to wait for slow-paying defendants, administrative delays, or court approvals of fee distributions. RD Legal has the financial resources to fund legal fees up to $20 million and beyond.
“Over the past 3 months, we have advanced over $7 million to attorneys and plaintiffs on settled cases,” said Joseph Genovesi, Senior Vice President of Deal Origination at RD Legal. “If you are an attorney or a plaintiff with a settled lawsuit and you don’t want to wait months or years to receive your money, we are ready and able to help you today.”
Attorneys representing plaintiffs in the BP Oil Spill Litigation, as well as plaintiffs themselves, should contact RD Legal at 1-800-565-5177 for more information about settlement funding solutions. Interim lawsuit settlement funding does not require any kind of payments until the settlement is paid; there are no monthly interest or principal payments, nor are there any upfront points or fees. Once the necessary documentation is received, RD Legal can wire funds within days. RD Legal provides personalized, streamlined service and quick turnaround.
Founded in 1997, RD Legal has established itself as one of the nation’s leading providers of post settlement lawsuit funding to attorneys and plaintiffs. Contact RD Legal at 1-800-565-5177 to speak with a settlement funding expert, or visit
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County jail funding gets more money, rehabilitation less
Sacramento County officials voted unanimously this morning to further reduce spending on rehabilitation for inmates sentenced under a new state law.
The Community Corrections Partnership amended the Sheriff Departments budget for the fiscal year by reducing expenditures for inmate services from $500,000 to $122,000 and put the difference toward jail costs.
The shift further tilts the countys budget for handling new offenders from the state toward incarceration instead of rehabilitation. Activists and some county officials have been critical of the spending pattern, noting that state legislators wanted a greater emphasis on rehabilitation when they passed a law seeking to reduce state prison populations.
While members of the county committee were apparently satisfied with his budget, at least one county supervisor is not. Supervisor Phil Serna, the only board member to vote against the original budget, recently promised a lively debate about the sheriffs budget when it goes to the board for approval.
Sheriff Scott Jones budget for handling offenders who previously would have gone to prison underwent a big revision last week. Previously, the county approved a budget that called for his department to receive $6.1 million in state funding to reopen a jail wing at its Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center.
He changed his budget when questions were raised about how that money was spent. Under his revised budget, Jones attributed jail costs to a per-day rate his department charges the federal government, and the revised budget placed jail costs for the new inmates at $14.2 million – more than twice the original budget.
In addition to the changes in rehabilitation, the new budget also anticipates moving $1.8 million marked for pretrail release and home detention programs and moving the money to the jail budget. The sheriff says delays in those programs have meant that only $1 million will be spent this fiscal year.
Jones has said he knows he wont get reimbursed for the difference, but hopes to end questions about the costs of incarcerating new offenders.
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University of Calgary: Crowd funding helps people find their way
CALGARY, ALBERTA, May 03, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –
Researchers in the Department of Psychology at the University of
Calgary have created an opportunity for members of the public to
directly engage in scientific research and impact the lives of
children living with spatial orientation difficulties.
Giuseppe Iaria, professor of cognitive neuroscience, and graduate
students Aiden Arnold and Ford Burles are engaging members of the
public in crowd-funding, a new funding model where members of the
public can browse through scientific research projects from around
the world. By visiting scifundchallenge.org the public can select a
project and donation amount to play an active role in making
scientific research happen.
The researchers aim to raise $5,000 to develop a video game that will
assess and train children who suffer from Developmental Topographical
Disorientation (DTD), a cognitive phenomenon that has been first
described by Iaria and colleagues in 2009.
“Most of us create cognitive maps in our minds after becoming
familiar with an environment, which enables us to find our way around
familiar surroundings,” says Iaria. “People with DTD, however, have
problems creating this mental representation of their environment.
They get lost daily in familiar surroundings without having suffered
brain damage or a neurological condition.”
Since individuals with DTD experience the same orientation
difficulties since childhood, researchers have come to believe it is
a developmental disorder that can be detected early in life. The
video game they hope to develop, with support from the crowd funding
campaign, will help them to assess children’s orientation skills and
identify the individuals who may be affected by DTD. Intervention at
early stage in life will trigger changes in brain structures that are
known to be critical for the development of healthy orientation
skills.
“The crowd funding initiative will allow us to access funding that
would not otherwise be available at this very early stage of the
research project,” says Arnold. “It will greatly accelerate our
research and our ability to apply it and make a difference for people
with DTD.”
The Helping Children Stay Oriented Through Life project is one of
just five selected from Canada for the SciFund campaign and the only
one in Alberta. The campaign runs for the month of May.
For more information and to donate to the project visit:
www.rockethub.com/projects/7546-helping-children-stay-oriented-through-life
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the nation’s most enterprising city. The university has a clear
strategic direction – “Eyes High” – to become one of Canada’s top
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New Round of SWG Funding For Conservation Projects Announced
HARRISBURG, Pa., May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
Pennsylvania Game Commission Bureau of Wildlife Management Director Calvin W. DuBrock today announced an invitation for project applications to the State Wildlife Grants Program. These projects will help address conservation needs through high-priority projects for endangered, threatened and at-risk species across Pennsylvania.
The federal dollars for this program are awarded through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s State Wildlife Grants Program (SWG). Grant recipients also contribute substantially to the project. Ultimately, the program represents a tremendous windfall for beleaguered Pennsylvania wildlife.
Complete project applications must be received by noon, June 8. The Game Commission hopes to finalize project selections in July and award contracts in early 2013.
“The hundreds of nongame species that inhabit Pennsylvania historically have received limited funding at best,” DuBrock said. “The importance of nongame species has been recognized by the agency for a long, long time. It simply hasn’t had the funds required for comprehensive conservation. Now, with assistance from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and through partnering with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and State Wildlife Grants recipients, we are poised to manage these species like never before.
“State Wildlife Grants and partnering opportunities provide a much-needed infusion of funding that greatly expands wildlife conservation in Pennsylvania. These funds come at time when nongame research and fieldwork are more important than ever and surely will pay dividends to wildlife managers for many years to come.”
Because distribution of SWG funds is based upon land area and population size, Pennsylvania has received a large proportion of these funds, ranking among the top six states in funding received to date. However, conservation needs annually outpace the funds available, so competition for funding remains fierce among prospective projects.
“We look forward to working with our conservation partners across the state to develop the best projects for the sustainability of ecological benefits to the Commonwealth’s wildlife and residents,” DuBrock said. “This program provides us with a means to make a great difference, and we aim to do just that.”
For more information on Game Commission priorities for the 2012 SWG call for projects and guidelines for project applications, visit the agency’s website (
www.pgc.state.pa.us ) and click on the “Call for 2012 SWG Projection Applications” photo button in the center of the homepage.
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FIRST Insurance Funding Innovates Premium Loan Financing With DocuSign eSignature
SAN FRANCISCO, May 03, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
DOCUSIGN MOMENTUM – DocuSign,
the global standard for electronic signature, announced today at its
annual user conference that FIRST Insurance Funding, the Northbrook,
Ill.-based premium insurance financing company, has implemented DocuSign
to accelerate and simplify processing of all loan transactions. FIRST
chose DocuSign’s eSignature solution to increase loan processing
efficiency, lower costs, and further enhance their industry-leading
service experience for more than 2,500 insurance agents, brokers, and
their clients.
“FIRST Insurance Funding is dedicated to providing superior service
through constant innovation,” said Mark Steenberg, Division President at
FIRST Insurance Funding Corporation. “DocuSign’s eSignature solution has
helped us innovate our loan financing processes to better serve our
agents and brokers with an easier, more convenient and secure way to
transact business — ensuring clients get the insurance funding they need
fast.”
DocuSign is helping FIRST Insurance Funding to:
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Increase loan processing efficiency — DocuSign’s eSignature
solution helps agents and brokers achieve straight-through processing
of loans with the fastest, easiest, most secure way to send, sign,
track, and store documents in the cloud
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Reduce costs — DocuSign eliminates printing, faxing, scanning, and
overnighting documents for signature
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Delight brokers, agents, and clients — With DocuSign, FIRST is
able to deliver a more convenient way for agents and brokers to
transact business with clients — anytime, anywhere, on any device
“DocuSign is excited to help FIRST Insurance Funding provide eSignature
convenience to their agents, brokers, and clients,” said Dustin Grosse,
DocuSign’s chief marketing officer. “DocuSign has become the eSignature
standard across insurance and financial services by helping companies
delight their customers with faster and better experiences.”
FIRST Insurance funding has integrated DocuSign into its core business
systems through DocuSign’s Application Programming Interface (API) so
customer data is seamlessly pulled into loan documents for agents and
brokers to send to clients for signature. Information supplied by
customers within loan documents is automatically updated in FIRST’s
business systems — eliminating the costs, errors, and delays associated
with the manually rekeying customer data.
DocuSign’s eSignature solution provides FIRST’s agents and brokers
increased visibility and control into the funding process with real-time
status tracking of loan paperwork so that they can see who has opened,
reviewed, and signed documents. Because DocuSign guides signers through
the signature process and requires that all signatures, initials, and
other needed information are in place before completion, all documents
are returned in good order the first time, every time. Companies
interested in DocuSign’s eSignature solution may visit
www.docusign.com .
About DocuSign Inc. DocuSign(R)
is the leader in eSignature transaction management, and the global
standard for eSignature. DocuSign helps customers accelerate transaction
cycle times to increase speed to results, reduce costs, and delight
customers with the easiest, fastest, most secure global network for
sending, signing, tracking, and storing documents in the cloud. For more
information, visit
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or call 877.720.2040. Visit the DocuSign blog at
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About FIRST Insurance Funding FIRST Insurance Funding Corp.
is a subsidiary of Wintrust Financial Corporation (Wintrust)
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Illinois, with $16 billion in assets. Wintrust engages in the business
of providing traditional community banking services, wealth management
services, commercial insurance premium financing, mortgage origination,
short-term accounts receivable financing, and certain administrative
services, such as data processing of payrolls, billing and treasury
management services. Wintrust provides community-oriented, personal and
commercial banking services to customers located in the greater Chicago,
Illinois and southern Wisconsin metropolitan areas through its 15 wholly
owned banking subsidiaries and more than 100 locations.
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Cut funding from Child and Youth Investment Trust leaves DC students in need
Cut funding from Child and Youth Investment Trust leaves D.C. students in need
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Before the District’s Child and Youth Investment Trust made headlines last year in the embezzlement scandal that has landed former Council member Harry Thomas Jr. a prison sentence, it was a quietly functioning nonprofit that provided critical grant support to hundreds of youth programs across our city.
Former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr.
(Jahi Chikwendiu – THE WASHINGTON POST)
In the wake of the Council’s probe, the trust’s executive director has been let go and the organization is barely surviving with dwindling funds. Now the D.C. Council is set to consider whether the city’s money funding the trust should be reallocated elsewhere, leaving thousands of students without access to after-school, summer and other youth-serving programs across the District.
While it may seem politically expedient to do away with the trust, such a decision would not only be misguided, but also costly. Absent political manipulation, D.C.’s trust leverages millions in private and public dollars to support programs that operate on the barest of margins.
The programs operate in the neighborhoods and in schools (both D.C. Public Schools and the charters) and they are valuable community resources. Funders, especially the large national foundations that invest in whole systems of youth development, will not invest in the District without an efficient intermediary to ensure that their investments will have a measurable impact.
In fact, D.C. has already lost significant private funds as a result — not of a lack of faith in the mission and value of the trust but because of political meddling. Our local philanthropic community, despite having been a committed partner through the years, has made it clear that it simply does not have the resources to keep struggling programs afloat on its own.
Without the trust, thousands of children and youths in the highest-need communities across the city may be left with nowhere to go when school lets out. Trust-funded after-school and summer programs such as Higher Achievement, Beacon House, Martha’s Table, Kid Power, Brainfood and New Community for Children and Families teach important leadership and academic skills, provide exercise and recreation and keep kids safe and out of trouble. Many of these programs, including those at schools, also provide nutritional snacks and meals for children who may otherwise go hungry.
Indeed, the trust must be restructured to boost accountability, but it should also be strengthened to maintain its own integrity and to be more effective. First and foremost, voting board members should not be politically appointed, as they are currently by the mayor and Council, an arrangement that practically invites corruption.
The trust should also develop a community council or board made up of advocates, program providers, youths and parents to ensure that the community’s needs are being heard and met. Finally, the trust should be required to publicly report its data on outcomes and impact on a regular basis.
Across the country over the past two decades, youth funding intermediaries similar to D.C.’s trust have evolved in their structure and scope to become much more efficient, stable and outcome-driven. By instituting protections against undue political influence but maintaining a high level of coordination between community partners and government, youth intermediaries in cities such as New York and Baltimore are able to attract significant private investment and blend multiple funding sources to expand and improve youth services.
This is the value of the trust. Even today, D.C.’s trust serves an important role beyond grant-making as a coordinator, a capacity builder and quality control for youth-serving organizations and agencies. But this function should be expanded as one of the trust’s core responsibilities.
Under Mayor Vincent Gray’s Cradle to Career Initiative, the District is moving in the right direction to promote a more robust and coordinated system of services for children and youths. Instead of reinventing the wheel, the District should take this window of opportunity to rebuild the trust so that it truly serves its intended purpose of enriching the lives of our youths — not lining the pockets of politicians.
Maggie Riden is executive director of the DC Alliance of Youth Advocates , a citywide coalition that works to ensure policies, programs and practices within the District of Columbia that promote and propel youths into a productive and healthy adulthood.
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School funding fiasco — lawmakers decide fate for districts in Ozarks
NIXA, Mo. — Fuzzy math called the Foundation Formula: Missouri schools are waiting in limbo for a decision that may cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Lawmakers in the state capital hold the fate of school funding in their hands. While students are waiting for that final school bell to ring, administrators are preparing their budgets blindly.
Funding for schools has been lacking for years, but lawmakers could make it even worse for some school districts depending on what route they decide to take with the foundation formula.
Parents, community members, and state legislatures expect more and more and more from teachers and schools and districts, said Ozark Superintendent Gordon Pace, yet funding has dropped.
Weve got a system that, said Willard Superintendent Kent Medlin, it might not be broken, but there are some real ailments to it.
As the school year winds down, budget talks are heating up.
Were budgeting; were trying to get ready for next year, said Nixa Schools Executive Director of Finance Brenda Rantz. We dont know exactly what exactly the funding will be.
Funding, meanwhile, is up in the air at the state level.
More students show up every year. You have to have more teachers. You have to have adequate supplies, said Pace.
The current Foundation Formula for schools was created in 2005.
Lost in that shuffle really has been the fact that this was a seven year phase in the formula, said Pace, we were promised seven years ago that by year seven it would be fully funded.
That foundation formula isnt being fully funded. For the 2011-2012 school year, schools received only 92% of funding.
What they did this year was a proration type thing and reduced the funding-which resulted in Nixa being $1.6 million less, said Rantz.
Now the formula could change again. There are five different scenarios making the rounds in Jefferson City.
What ultimately is going to end up happening is that school districts are going to be pitted against each other, said Rantz.
In one scenario, St. Louis and Kansas City Schools come out on top, with schools in the Ozarks losing big.
In whats called Scenario 2, Springfield stands to lose more than $5.3 million. Buffalo stands to lose more than $234,000. Branson and Reeds Spring lose more than $350,000. Its murky for Joplin as well–they could lose $825,000.
Many school districts its a win on one hand and a lose on the other hand, said Dr. Medlin.
The latest scenario is being seen as a compromise. It does the least amount of damage to Southwest Missouri. In fact, it adds revenue to many school districts. While that sounds like a good thing, its not the whole story.
It still wont stretch as far as the growth of our southwest Missouri area, particularly in Ozark, said Pace.
Even though its additional money, its not the revenue we are supposed to be getting, said Medlin.
Schools will still not receive the money they were promised years ago. In the midst of it all, students are the ones left behind.
Are we playing Russian Roulette with our children? questioned Rantz.
Many school districts rely on school foundations and community support when state funding starts to run dry. However, that crutch is starting to not be enough for some districts. They say times are really going to get tough if funding for schools doesnt increase in the near future.
Funding Daily: A big round for pre-IPO Evernote
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Nirvanix nabs $25M from Khosla Ventures
Enterprise storage startup Nirvanix has raised $25 million in its third round of funding, with the goal of bringing enterprise cloud storage to the largest companies in the world. Nirvanix offers its more than 1,200 customers across the globe access to cloud storage in three forms. These include public, hybrid, and private cloud storage types. The new funding round was led by Khosla Ventures with participation from existing investors Valhalla Partners, Intel Capital, Mission Ventures, and Windward Ventures.
LifeStreet Media nabs $66M
Advertising startup LifeStreet Media has raised $66 million in funding. LifeStreet Media offers an in-app advertising solution for mobile and Facebook apps. Nautic Partners led the round for the previously stealth-mode startup.
Evernote raises $70M in advance of IPO, now worth $1B
Evernote has raised $70 million at a valuation of $1 billion in its fourth round of funding. The round was led by Meritech Capital and CBC Capital. Evernote offers a suite of digital note-taking products with the goal of helping you remember everything.
WePay raises $10M
Payment processing service WePay has raised $10 million in funding, the company announced today. WePay is known for its easy, anyone-can-use-it online payment tools, aimed at individuals and “unsophisticated” online sellers. Ignition Partners led the round, with existing investors Highland Capital Partners and August Capital participating.
Fiverr grabs $15M in seed money
Online people-for-hire marketplace Fiverr has raised $15 million in seed funding from Accel Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. The company lets people list their performance services, such as singing or juggling, on the site and starts the pricing at $5 a gig.
NetPlenish secures $1.9M
Mobile shopping site NetPlenish has raised $1.9 million in seed funding. The company helps you get a deal on everyday products, such as toilet paper or soap, by using smartphone apps. Dave McClure’s 500 Startups, Gold Hill Capital, BHV Capital, TEEC Angel Fund, Ludlow Ventures led the round.
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Permanent local funding source for RBA buses still elusive
HAMMOND | The second public hearing to gather comments on the looming shutdown of the Regional Bus Authoritys easygo bus services drew impassioned pleas Thursday for continued service, but little good news.
Bus service to be eliminated June 30 includes transit services for four fixed routes operated by First Transit, complementary paratransit for the elderly and people with disabilities along with the express commuter bus to Chicago.
A permanent local funding source for the regional bus service must be secured before June 30 to retain federal and state money. Gap funding recently offered by the Regional Development Authority is contingent on getting local funding, RBA Executive Director Tim Brown said.
Only three of seven Lake County Council members might vote for a county income tax or a food and beverage tax, he said. Four votes would be needed to pass any county tax, and five votes would be required to override an expected veto by the Lake County Board of Commissioners, Brown said.
Even if some kind of county-level tax could be adopted by June 30, theres nothing to guarantee funds would go to the RBA, he said.
A suggestion by RBA board member Raymond Fletcher that the Gary Public Transportation Corp. take over the RBA service met with opposition from some in the crowd.
GPTC is in the same funding hassle as the RBA. They have to have matching local funds, said Harvey Jackson, business agent for the Teamsters Union, which represents First Transit bus drivers operating the easygo fixed route buses.
Gary will not hire 39 people who just got a warning notice and are about to lose their jobs, Jackson said.
Paige Goepfert, of Munster, said she rides the express bus from Dyer because it goes to the west side of Chicago where she works.
Some people have started a van pool to Chicago to be preemptively prepared for the shutdown, she said. The South Shore train only goes to the east side of the city.
Nunavut asked to boost funding for post-secondary program in Ottawa
The federal government is urging officials in Nunavut to provide more funding for a post-secondary program for Inuit youth in Ottawa thats facing a money shortage, newly released documents show.
Nunavut Sivuniksavut (NS) is a one-to two-year program for young people from Nunavut. It brings them to Ottawa after they graduate from high school to prepare them for jobs in the territorial government, the federal government or the private sector or to attend university.
The school receives funding from the territory, the federal government and economic development organizations based in Nunavut to cover its annual budget of about $1 million.
The federal government believes that its money accounts for the lions share of the schools money since it funds many of those economic development organizations who then pass it onto the school,.
One could argue that the federal government provides roughly 75 per cent of the annual NS budget – whereas the GN (government of Nunavut) only provides 10 per cent, reads one of the documents.
Officials with the federal department responsible for the school, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, prepared the note on Sept. 2 to brief a federal government official before a meeting scheduled with Nunavuts deputy minister of education.
Kathy Okpik, deputy minister of education for the territorial government, declined to comment on the figures since she hadnt seen the documents. However, she said the reason why they hadnt provided more funding in the past was because the school was so far away.
Its out of the territory, and most of what weve been supporting has been in the territory, she said. Thats not to say we dont value the program. Its extremely valuable.
All of the money the territory provides is through funding thats provided to whichever post-secondary institution Inuit students decide to attend. The territory gave the school $70,000 through this for the 2010-2011 fiscal year, Okpik said.
The federal request comes as the school is facing some money issues after expanding the program earlier this year. School officials needed to raise $100,000 at the start of this year to accommodate 36 students instead of the usual 22.
Were cobbling it together and were making do, Nunavut Sivuniksavut co-ordinator Morley Hanson said.
The school hasnt been able to bring in more staff like they had hoped to, he said, but still has enough instructors to run the program as it stands.
One of the meetings objectives was to encourage the Government of Nunavut to provide ongoing operational funding to Nunavut Sivuniksavut, the briefing note reads. The Citizen obtained the documents under the Access to Information Act.
The federal government is currently in the midst of a major review of Inuit education policies. It is working with officials in the territory to develop a new strategy for education Inuit youth.
About 51 per cent of Inuit youth dont complete their high school degree, the documents show, while about 36 per cent receive a post-secondary degree of some kind.
