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A $2.3 million grant awarded by Lilly Endowment Inc. on Monday will enable the Indianapolis Private Industry Council to continue a jobs program through 2011.
The Ford Foundation committed $80 million to strengthen public programs and policies aimed at helping the unemployed and low-wage workers.
Associated Press - December 3, 2009 2:25 PM ET SEATTLE (AP) - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants to help community colleges use technology to improve and go beyond basic online...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is announcing $3.4 million in grants to help libraries in five states improve broadband Internet access. The foundation also announced Tuesday that it will be helping another 14 states, including Idaho, compete for federal money to improve Internet access.
As demand for library Internet access continues to grow, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced two plans to help libraries improve broadband connections: one involves state broadband improvement plans; the other offers help with getting federal broadband stimulus funds.
The Giving Tree, a nonprofit formed to help the homeless, has acquired the lot on East 22nd Street where it conducts its twice-weekly feeding program, mostly thanks to a $450,000 donation from the property's owner.
BOISE -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is announcing $3.4 million in grants to help libraries in five states improve broadband Internet access. The foundation also announced Tuesday that it will be helping another 14 states, including Idaho, compete for federal money to improve Internet access. The money is being offered as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. A recent ...
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh will develop online classes to be used by community colleges with the help of a $2.5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Micro-grants have found a special place in Minnesota’s American Indian community as the 13-year-old American Indian Family Empowerment Program, organized as an arm of the Grotto Foundation, begins operations as an independent nonprofit American Indian grant-making organization called the Tiwahe Foundation.
Lancaster Theological Seminary learned last month that its Leadership Now: Spiritual Formation With Youth program is receiving a $939,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.And while that's welcome news, it's even more remarkable considering the amount is $175,000 more than what the seminary requested.A...
Eighteen artists from Miami and across the country will receive gifts of $50,000, thanks to a $1 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to United States Artists, a national grant-making and advocacy organization.
SEATTLE (AP) — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving the National PTA $1 million to teach parents about education reform.
William B. Plowman/NBC NewsWire via Getty ImagesBill and Melinda Gates during a "Meet the Press" interview on Oct. 28, which aired Nov. 29.The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving the National PTA $1 million to teach parents about education...
This year’s gift card drive to help WomenShelter has started with a bang in the form of a $5,000 donation. The big check comes from the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Foundation.
"Amera Funding" Diverted Over $2 Million Solicited on Behalf of Fraternal Orders of Police
SEATTLE (AP) — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving the National PTA $1 million to teach parents about education reform. The three-year outreach program would focus first on an effort to create national learning objectives. Right now, most states have their own set of education standards.
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