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In 2007, One Acre Fund received a $300,000 grant from the Draper Richards Foundation [16] and a $100,000 grant from Mulago Social Investments. Between 2009 and 2010, One Acre Fund received $6.5 million from the Pershing Square Foundation towards its Permanent Fund, which provides the basic capital to make loans to farmers, and in 2010, One Acre ...
The institute is on a 488-acre (1.97 km 2; 0.76 sq mi) site located in the foothills of Mount Burdell, north of Novato, California. Of this, a 238-acre (0.96 km 2; 0.37 sq mi) portion is dedicated to permanent agricultural use; another 70-acre (0.28 km 2; 0.11 sq mi) portion is open public space.
The Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts is a nonprofit organization founded by Catherine Filene Shouse when she donated her Wolf Trap Farm to the National Park Service. [3] The Park is operated as a public/private partnership between the Park Service, which staffs and operates the park grounds, and the Foundation, which produces and ...
The Television Academy Foundation has reworked its Summer college internship and fellowship programs for 2021, in recognition of the pandemic and the resulting uncertain job market. Applications ...
The ten-week internship in Washington, D.C., places students in Senate and House offices, committees, Cabinet departments and the White House, where they are able to observe government decision-making processes first-hand. In 2006, the Foundation expected to award 12 internships on the basis of merit to Native Americans and Alaska Natives who:
A landmark educational institution of Karachi— RLAK Govt. College of Home Economics has a proud history. The Government of Pakistan proposed the idea for the establishment of a college of home economics in Karachi as part of its first-ever six-year Development Plan of Education (1951–1957) shortly after Independence, realizing the necessity and importance of investing in the education of ...
On Tuesday, TTU System officials announced a gift of 6,000 acres from the 3 Rivers Foundation for Arts and Sciences. The property includes the Comanche Springs Astronomy Campus and facilities 10 ...
The Lord's Acre Movement is an international social movement that originated in Bluffton, Georgia in 1922, [1] when Rev. Henry M. Melton asked each of the farmers in his congregation to set aside one acre of farmland, donating the proceeds of "the Lord's acres" to the church. [1] After word spread that the acres were untouched by the boll ...