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Remote Australian Library System Receives Award for Teaching Technology Literacy Skills Through Preservation of Culture
Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries initiative today presented its 2007 Access to Learning Award of $1 million to…
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Serendipity Center to Increase Enrollment and Enhance Programs
PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland-based Serendipity Center, a unique school and mental health facility for at-risk children of all ages, today announced that it has been awarded a capital challenge grant…
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Green Dot to Open 10 New College-Prep High Schools in Watts
The Rose GroupTracy Mallozzi Phone: 310.280.3710 Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3400Email: [email protected] LOS ANGELES — Green Dot Public Schools today announced a $7.8 million investment from the Bill &…
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NYC Grad Rate Tops 70 Percent in New Small Schools for Second Consecutive Year
NEW YORK — Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein today announced that the June graduation rate for new small schools exceeded 70 percent for the second consecutive year, according to preliminary data…
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Celebrating the Class of 2007 in New and Redesigned High Schools
Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — Faced with an alarming national dropout crisis and widening achievement gap, a growing number of educators, school leaders, and policymakers have…
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Leading AIDS Experts Call for Major Scale-Up of HIV Prevention Programs Worldwide
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a new report released today, a panel of leading AIDS experts calls for a major scale-up of global HIV prevention programs, citing new data projecting that expanded…
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Ohio High School Transformation Initiative to Continue Next Phase of Reform in Nine School Districts and 44 High Schools Statewide
Andrea HinesKnowledgeWorks Foundation Phone: 513.929.1335 CINCINNATI — KnowledgeWorks Foundation today announced that it has received a $7.4 million investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to strengthen the work…
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Foundation Welcomes Heidi Sinclair as New Director of Communications
Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that Heidi Sinclair has been named director of communications of the foundation, headquartered…
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Catherine Bertini to Join Agricultural Development Team
SEATTLE — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that Catherine Bertini has joined the foundation’s Agricultural Development team within its Global Development Program as a senior fellow. Bertini…
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Kofi Annan Appointed as Chair of the Board for the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
In Cape TownDani Cohen or Jyoti NarshiPhone: +27.214879000 In the United StatesEllen WilsonPhone: 301.652.1558, ext. 108 CAPE TOWN — The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) today announced…
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