Actress gives &#36;1 million to arts school
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Jada Pinkett Smith has donated $1 million to the Baltimore School for the Arts, asking that its new theater be dedicated to classmate Tupac Shakur, who was shot and killed in 1996. The 35-year-old actress graduated from the high school in 1989.
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The Material Girl is about to become a Hall of Famer.
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Arts & entertainment: Royal College of Art to get rich reward for taking in artist made homeless by fire.
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OAKLAND, Calif. - A woman who auctioned an old painting hoping to get a few thousand dollars toward her daughter's college tuition was stunned when the picture fetched $600,000.
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Author Patricia Cornwell announced she is giving &#36;20,000 more to fund scholarships for law enforcement officials attending the University of Tennessee's National Forensics Academy.
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The talented actress wins a National Award.
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A longtime patron has pledged $35 million to the San Francisco Opera in one of the largest donations ever to an American opera company by a single benefactor.
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With the new budget year only weeks away, the House has passed a &#36;142.5 billion spending bill that funds some 500 education, health and job training programs.
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When Vanda Lee goes to settlement next month on the Damascus townhouse she is buying for $360,000, she expects to pay her share of transfer and recordation taxes.
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The Brooklyn Academy of Music on Friday announced the creation of the Samuel H. Scripps BAM Scholarship Fund, for students who pursue a higher education in arts administration, dance or theater. Awards will range from $4,500 to $20,000 and are open to any student who has taken part in the academyâs education program between kindergarten and the 12th grade. Roughly $45,000 will be disbursed yearly. Application details are at bam.org.
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Twenty-seven emerging American artists in theater, dance and film will share a total of &#36;400,000 in grants awarded on Wednesday to winners of the 2004 Princess Grace Awards.
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Fund-raising efforts of woman ordered to pay recording industry $222,000 fall far short of amount needed to fund appeal.
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OAKLAND, Calif. - A woman who auctioned a painting that belonged to her grandmother, hoping to get a few thousand dollars to pay for her daughter's college tuition, was stunned when the picture fetched $600,000.
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Parents at a state-funded faith state school  are being asked  for voluntary contributions of more than Â£1,200 a year.
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Making philanthropic history: one woman donates millions to her alma mater, a Quaker high school in Pa.
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Actress Sandra Bullock has donated &#36;1 million to the American Red Cross to help relief efforts in countries affected by the deadly earthquake and tsunamis in southern Asia and eastern Africa.
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A fund is set up to pay for community activities to remember a school girl shot dead in a Nottingham street.