Dinelle Henley fears for her native Cane Garden Bay, one of the most iconic and pristine beaches of the Caribbean. Like much of the British Virgin Islands (BVI,) the popular seaside village was devastated by winds, waves and flooding when the center of Hurricane Irma passed directly over the territory on Sept. 6.
The Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands (CFVI) is awarding $31,500 in grants to support a variety of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs and projects within the U.S. Virgin Islands public schools and early childhood centers in the USVI.
The National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, in cooperation with HIMSS and HX360, hosted the "Leveraging Health IT to Address Health Disparities: A Leadership Conference", which brought together national leaders who discussed how to leverage the Federal Communications Commission’s Lifeline program, as part of a disaster preparedness-and-response network.