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Al Milgrom was the kind of guy who always seemed young, even when he wasn t. At age 96, he came out as the oldest emerging documentary filmmaker with the premiere of Singin in the Grain, his portrait of a multigenerational Minnesota polka band.
But he s better known for fostering the Twin Cities film scene.
Milgrom founded what is now the Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul, taught cinema at the University of Minnesota and launched the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. Along the way, he built an audience for foreign and indie films while bringing such famed directors as Werner Herzog, Jean-Luc Godard and Milos Forman to town.
Boardable’s board management software for nonprofits raises $8 million
Indianapolis-based Boardable, a provider of board management software tools for nonprofits, has raised $8 million in a new round of financing, the company said.
The investment came from Base10 Partners with participation from the company’s seed-stage backer, the Indianapolis-based enterprise investment firm High Alpha.
Boardable provides organizational tools to help nonprofits better manage their board meetings and offers management solutions for nonprofit operations.
Software and services developers catering to the nonprofit sector are seeing more interest from investors as they look for new verticals that have been underserved by technology companies in the past. Earlier this year, Resilia, a New Orleans-based startup, raised $8 million for its own spin on services for nonprofits and charity organizations.
1,200 New Orleans Hospitality Workers Receive Cash Grants and Financial Coaching
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PerkUp and Neighborhood Trust team up to provide immediate cash relief, ongoing support to hospitality workers facing economic hardship
“With the PerkUp CAFE initiative, we have been able to extend critical financial assistance and counseling to all employees who have suffered economic hardship, even those employees who lost their jobs.” NEW ORLEANS (PRWEB) December 21, 2020
PerkUp Financial Health, a New Orleans based workplace financial health platform providing financial education and other online tools to help employees make healthy financial decisions, and Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners, a national nonprofit and leader in worker financial health, joined forces to provide nearly 1,200 hospitality workers hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic with cash grants and free financial coaching.
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It is with a heavy heart that I report on the passing of Carol Dickerson Sutton, the acclaimed stage and screen actress who appeared in so many unforgettable films, including Horace Jenkins recently restored 1982 classic, Cane River. She died of Covid-19 on December 10th at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans just a few days after her 76th birthday. In Cane River (which we screened at Ebertfest last year), she plays Ms. Mathis, the mother of a young woman, Maria (Tommye Myrick), who falls for a man, Peter (Richard Romain) from a different class background.
Advertisement I first met Carol on the set of Cane River 40 years ago, Myrick recently told Sandra Schulberg of IndieCollect, the film preservation organization behind the film s restoration. She played my mother. On the last day of the shoot, our director, Horace Jenkins, realized belatedly that he needed a major confrontation between us. But we had already wrapped and cameraman
He was diagnosed with a fractured throat on Monday, and the Lions have been in contact with three specialists about his condition.
Asked if Ragnow risks doing more damage to his vocal cords by playing, Bevell said that s what the Lions are leaning on the specialists to determine. I wish I could give you really good information, but I can tell you this, Bevell said. I know that we went from our people to the specialist, and the specialist will really guide us on that information and whether it’s safe for him to go back out in the game. I can tell you we’re not going to put him out there if it’s not safe. We don’t want long repercussions of this for him down the road, and I don’t think he would want that either. So, we’ll take the information that we get from the specialist and go with that.”