Chicago charity hands out $500,000 "genius" grants
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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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CHICAGO, Feb. 15  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the last two years, more than $29 million has flowed into campaign funds controlled by Chicago city officials and their challengers, and now it's easy for voters to identify the big contributors and see where the money is going.
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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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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's richest charity, joined with the Rockefeller Foundation yesterday to launch a new development initiative for sub-Saharan Africa that they said would revolutionize food production and reduce hunger and poverty for tens of millions of people.
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation - whose watchword is &quot;We believe that the world&#39;s toughest problems can be solved - if we work together&quot; - is giving $3M to help those struck by the natural disaster that&#39;s wreaked such havoc in South Asia.
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By Michael Biesecker, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 19--DURHAM -- Over the past two years, Mayor Bill Bell has championed a Neighborhood Revitalization Fund that set aside $412,428 in taxpayer money to support private projects in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.
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A charitable campaign created last year by a New York boutique agency is arriving next month in more than a dozen other cities.
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TUCSON, Ariz. Aug. 24, 2004 - The University of Arizona&#39;s Cancer Center has been given a $19.5 million grant for continued research on skin cancer.
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By Sumathi Reddy, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 21--A newly formed Baltimore nonprofit received city authorization yesterday to spend $100,000 from a state grant to buy and rehabilitate one of the former homes of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday.
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By NO BYLINE  A CITY charity is holding a fundraising day to generate much- needed funds.   Pass IT On, which revamps old computers to give to disabled and elderly groups, is holding a jumble sale of computers and accessories   at 14 Wardie Avenue on Saturday, from 10pm-4pm.
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The University of Maryland scientist who co-discovered the virus that causes AIDS is receiving a $15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a potential vaccine, state officials announced yesterday.
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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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For months, Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been fending off accusations he bungled government programs and awarded jobs and contracts to contributors and cronies. But suddenly, one issue has cut through the clutter: a $1,500 gift to one of his daughters.
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The Boston public school system won the nation's largest prize in public education Tuesday, earning $500,000 in college scholarships for making steady gains in the classroom.
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The writer Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, jazz violinist Regina Carter, astrophysicist Matias Zaldarriaga and saxophonist John Zorn are among those selected to receive a $500,000 Âgenius award.Â
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Google Inc.'s philanthropic arm is making more than $26 million in new grants and investments in organizations and companies devoted to causes that the Internet search leader believes will help make the world a better place.
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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.