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Update: Kankakee H.S. studying Gates Foundation plan
Kankakee :: IL :: USA | 8 days ago
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The multimillion dollar investment the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is making in education could have an impact in Kankakee in coming years. Kankakee School District officials are exploring the possibility of implementing a plan created by the foundation...
Tags: Gates Foundation, Kankakee High School, Kankakee, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Kankakee County Illinois, Kankakee Illinois, Education, Superintendent
Gates Foundation program aimed at schools
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility The Gates Foundation is donating millions for teacher improvement in three U.S. school districts and Los Angeles charter schools, officials said Wednesday. The districts are Pittsburgh, Memphis and Hillsborough County in Florida, which includes Tampa,...
Tags: Gates Foundation, Los Angeles, Tampa Florida, Pittsburgh, Gates, Allegheny County Pennsylvania, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Education, Charter school, University of Pittsburgh, Bill Gates
Gates Foundation helps Houston charter schools
Houston :: TX :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation is offering $30 million to help charter schools in Houston get $300 million in tax-exempt bonds to build more schools...The credit support agreement is the foundation's first attempt to use "non-traditional means" to...
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Gates Foundation tests charitable investments and loans
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Exploring philanthropy, non-profits and socially motivated business, from the Gates Foundation to your donation...It has been moving into investments, loans and loan guarantees aimed at furthering its programs. The $30 billion foundation has made several...
Tags: Gates Foundation, Africa, Seattle
Chip Lyons leaving Gates Foundation
Maputo :: Mozambique | 3 months ago
Credibility Foundation , based in Washington D.C., the Glaser foundation announced. He will start the new job in January, succeeding Pamela Barnes...In 2007, the Elizabeth Glaser foundation received a five-year, $9.7 million Gates Foundation grant to research and...
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The Hindu, India: Gates Foundation, NACO pact for AIDS prevention
Naco :: Mexico | 3 months ago
Credibility Launched in 2003 by the Gates Foundation, Avahan funds targeted HIV-prevention programmes in six Indian States and along the national trucking routes...Now Avahan will provide financial and technical support to ensure prevention programmes are sustained...
Tags: Gates Foundation, Dr. Helene Gayle
Rich countries must share pandemic vaccine with the poor: Gates executive
Toronto :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility A top executive in the Gates Foundation has issued a stinging call to rich countries to share pandemic vaccine with developing countries. Dr. Tadataka Yamada says it would be inexcusable to force poor countries to wait until citizens of rich nations have...
Gates grant gives rural libraries 10 computers
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility The new computers, the first of 19 expected by the end of 2010, went to branch libraries in Basin City, Connell, Othello and Prosser...The Opportunity Online grant of $37,000 covers the computers and costs. The Mid-Columbia Libraries had to match the...
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Microsoft couple are awarded honorary degrees
Cambridge :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
Credibility Bill Gates was awarded an honorary degree at Cambridge University yesterday in recognition of his work as a philanthropist and businessman. The Microsoft chairman â believed to be the world's richest man with an estimated fortune topping £20 billion...
Tags: Cambridge University, University of Cambridge, Billionaire Bill Gates, Microsoft Corporation, honorary degrees, honorary doctors, Melinda Gates, gates foundation
Economic downturn hits even the world’s richest foundation
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation may be the world’s richest charitable foundation — both in assets and payouts — but that hardly shields it from the economic downturn. Between January 2008 and April 2009, the foundation’s assets dropped from $39 billion...
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