Foundation Gives $20 Million to 3 Miami Institutions
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On Wednesday the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Miami organization that focuses on journalism and community building, added its philanthropic heft to the countyâs cultural development.
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In an effort to increase accountability and better target its charitable dollars, the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley will redirect about $3.6 million from the amount it provides traditional charities to new programs.
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The Bush administration on Wednesday announced it was giving $20 million in direct aid to the Palestinian Authority to help it through a financial crisis.
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An eclectic blues musician, an artist who draws on barrels and a biologist who studies spider silks were among 24 scholars, scientists and artists given no-strings $500,000 "genius" grants, a foundation announced on Tuesday.
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Citing a &quot;renewed opportunity for peace&quot; in the Middle East, the Bush administration said Wednesday it will give $20 million directly to the Palestinian Authority.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new package of grants to fight tuberculosis, bringing to $740 million the amount it has spent or committed so far on the disease.
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Innovation doesn't stop when the giving starts.
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Foundation offers $500 grants to all newborns â provided their parents open a college-savings account.
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A spending bill for this past year included $20 million "for commemoration of success" in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Pittsburgh reaps the benefits of its 20-year investment in the downtown arts scene.
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By Sara Kennedy, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Dec.
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The X Prize Foundation said it was starting a broad fund-raising campaign to reward other innovators.
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IBM has awarded grants to three universities to fund projects that use its new Jazz collaboration technology.
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US News, A university in New York has been funded to keep tabs on IRC conversations with money channelled through the National Science Foundation by the CIA, documents have revealed The CIA is quietly funding federal research into surveillance of Internet
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A Republican Party campaign committee that received $20,000 in 2003 from a man now accused of helping terrorists has donated the money to a foundation that comforts families of wounded soldiers.
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City school officials are expected to announce a five (m) million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will help pay for the district&#39;s secondary school redesign plan, and create new partnerships with colleges in the area.
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By Andres Oppenheimer, The Miami Herald  Feb. 18--Andres Oppenheimer   Several Latin American countries are about to make their most ambitious investment in education ever -- giving out millions of $150 laptop computers to schoolchildren.