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Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga has been awarded a $124,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation. The grant from the Troy, Michigan based foundation will fund Allied Arts’ Capacity Building, Sustainability and Technical Assistance Program.
The Memphis school board is expected to sign an agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that will provide $90 million for a plan to change how teachers are hired, evaluated and retained.
Dominion Resources Inc. is donating $1 million to a program that helps families pay heating bills. The donation to EnergyShare follows a $1 million contribution that Dominion made in October. EnergyShare helps people experiencing unemployment or other... Dominion Resources - Donation - Philanthropy - Gifts in Kind - Vehicle Donations
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- The Gates Foundation is donating millions for teacher improvement in three U.S. school districts and Los Angeles charter schools, officials said Wednesday.
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) - An organization that maintains the lights on the Roebling Suspension Bridge that spans the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Covington, Ky., is asking local school children to help raise money for new strands of lights.
The Sparta Education Foundation has approved a $31,847 grant for Sparta Middle School. The funding request will supply the seventh and eighth-grade science teachers with 60 Acer “netbooks” along with Vernier LabQuests and Probeware. This combination allows students to electronically collect data in the classroom and in the field, and as a result, enhance the classroom and field experiences with ...
The all-volunteer Sgt Mac Foundation is looking for help with its annual holiday laying of wreaths on veterans' graves
The Foundation for Monterey County Free Libraries has announced it was awarded a $100,000 grant from The David and Lucille Packard Foundation. The funds will help support the homework centers and general operations for the foundation.
Local grant writers have established the first Ventura County chapter of the American Association of Grant Professionals, officials said this week.The new group is forming at a time when charities rely on grants to help them pay for programs. Corporations, government and foundations all award grants, which are usually gifts of funds for specific programs.About a dozen grant writers formed the ...
On Oct. 27, The Sussex Central High School PTSA was awarded a grant from the Cameron Foundation to support the organization in implementing its plans to get more parents involved in their children's education and help increase the graduation rate at the
TIFTON — A $5,800 grant from the United States Poultry and Egg Harold E. Ford Foundation will help to open the doors to careers in the poultry industry for students at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.
The Carson Valley Trails Association has been awarded a $40,000 grant from the Bingham Charitable Fund at the Community Foundation of Western Nevada to support the Genoa Foothill Trail System project. In 2008, CVTA received a $396,378 Question 1 grant from the Nevada Division of State Lands to help fund required environmental assessments, land surveys and construction of the first two of three ...
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation on Tuesday awarded a $30,000 "challenge" grant to United Way of Pueblo County to help newly unemployed individuals and families.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Thursday a $335 million investment in teacher effectiveness, funding experiments in tenure, evaluation, compensation, training and mentoring in three large school systems and a cluster of charter schools.
PLYMOUTH — A year after a fire destroyed the Animal Rescue Foundation, Inc. shelter, the non-profit organization is far along in its effort to rebuild. However, it still has a long way to go, and ARF members aren’t stopping in their fund-raising and promotion because they think about that fire and what they lost and how much the animals have lost.
The Salvation Army of the greater Greenwood area has received $1,000 from the Food Lion Charitable Foundation. The Army will use the gift to provide food for the people in need in the greater Greenwood area.
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