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The Obama administration will nominate a young former executive with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to run America's top foreign assistance program, ending months of speculation and complaints about who would take the vacant post, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
COLLEGE STATION - An endowment contribution from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to honor Dr. Norman Borlaug, "the father of the Green Revolution," will help the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences train future international agricultural leaders. The foundation's $1 million endowment contribution to the memorial Borlaug International Scholars fund will be used to build ...
The Battle Creek-based W.K. Kellogg Foundation today awarded a $16.7 million grant to the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to establish a statewide teaching fellowship program.
( Keystone Symposia on Molecular & Cellular Biology ) Keystone Symposia is pleased to announce that it has received a second grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation worth $2.7 million over three years to fund meetings and Global Health Travel Awards in the Keystone Symposia Global Health Series. Currently, five 2010 scheduled conferences will fall within this grant. Keystone Symposia is ...
The latest donation to the Community Catalyst Fund comes from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Foundation, a permanent endowment established in 2001 to benefit a broad range of charitable purposes.
The Crawford Heritage Foundation will join more than 700 community foundations across the United States in celebrating charitable giving during Community Foundation Week, Nov. 12 to 18.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation today announced a $16.7 million grant that will fund a statewide teaching program for Michigan’s middle and high school math and science teachers.
A charitable foundation based in the United Arab Emirates recently arranged for two prominent Los Angeles surgeons, the father son team of Abbott Krieger and Lloyd Krieger, to travel to Egypt so they could perform specialized surgery. Their unique procedure is designed to help a patient breathe without the aid of a mechanical ventilator.
Sutter Health, a family of doctors, not-for-profit hospitals and other health care service providers, is donating $255,000 to food banks across Northern California. A variety of local food banks will share the quarter-million-dollar donation to help put much-needed meals on the tables of thousands of families across the north state.
ORLANDO, Fla. Olivette Carter, owner of OC Grant Consulting Associates, will present the second series of Nonprofit Capacity-Building seminars on attaining non-profit status and grant funding beginning Nov. 14 in Orlando.The sessions will be held on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon at the Orlando Business Development Center Office, 3218 E. Colonial Drive, Suite G, Orlando 32803. OC Grant...
SAN FRANCISCO----Biomagnetics Diagnostics Corp., a developer of revolutionary diagnostic systems and technology for HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis, and malaria detection, today announced it has submitted an application to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a grant to further develop the Integrate Optical Biosensor Sensor technology it is plans to bring to market.
A significant portion of charitable giving by individuals and foundations in the U.S. is not meeting the needs of nonprofits or of society, Pablo Eisenberg wrote in a column in The Wall Street Journal Nov. 9 (see fixing charitable giving story ). Foundations should increase their grant payout to 6 percent from 5 percent, provide more unrestricted grants, and award more multi-year grants, and ...
STURBRIDGE - The REAS Foundation is urging residents to be a pal to local seniors, helping them to stay warm and cozy this winter, and, this year donating has been made even easier with a PayPal service on the foundation's Web site.
Philanthropy is defined in part as the act of giving to benefit other human beings. The mission of the Vanderburgh Community Foundation is to promote philanthropy in addition to building charitable funds that can be used to benefit the entire community. The foundation maintains an endowment in excess of $12 million. Proceeds from that endowment are used to make grants in such fields as arts ...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving out $4 million in grants to help community foundations, libraries and legal aid services in Washington cope with the effects of recession.
JACKSONVILLE – The Monique Burr Foundation for Children received a charitable $25,000 grant from the Fanny Landwirth Foundation that will be used to fund its Child Abuse Prevention Education programs for children throughout the state of Florida.
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