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One Acre Fund is a social enterprise that supplies smallholder farmers in East Africa with asset-based financing and agriculture training services to reduce hunger and poverty. Headquartered in Kakamega , Kenya , the organization works with farmers in rural villages throughout Kenya , Rwanda , Burundi , Tanzania , Uganda , Malawi , Nigeria ...
A major part of the Virginia Theatre is its restoration. In December 1999, the Champaign Park District received a $900,000 grant from the State of Illinois to restore the then run-down theatre. Extensive work was done to bring the building up to current code, most of it not visible to the general public.
Cline owned a 33,413-square-foot (3,104.2 m 2) mansion in North Palm Beach, Florida, and a home in his native Beckley, West Virginia, with a 150-acre (61 ha) property. [2] Cline was a charter member of Brenton Southern Baptist Church.
Grantees have included One Acre Fund, Saïd Business School's Oxford-Pershing Square Graduate Scholarships, [79] Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, [80] Center for Jewish History, [81] Innocence Project, [82] African Parks [83] and Planned Parenthood. [84] Ackman and his wife, Neri Oxman, are the Foundation's co-trustees as of 2024.
Virginia is a city and the county seat in Cass County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,514 at the 2020 census. The population was 1,514 at the 2020 census. [ 4 ]
Akre established its current location in Middleburg, Virginia in early 2002 while running the FBR Focus Fund, a small- and mid-cap value mutual fund. While Akre was managing the FBR Focus, it performed in the top 1% of small/mid-cap growth funds in 2002, 2004, and 2006, as well as the 2nd percentile in 2001 and the 6th percentile in 2008.
Meijer employs about 70,000 people and operates more than 240 supercenters in six states: Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin, and Michigan, according to its website.
Vernon Crawford (Jack) Cooke (December 6, 1936 – December 1, 2009) was a bluegrass music vocalist and instrumentalist, known for playing the guitar and bass with artists such as Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys.