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Articles
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Gates Grants Aim to Help Low-Income Students Finish College
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced nearly $70 million in grants as part of an ambitious initiative: to double the number of low-income students.
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Commit Media And Rotary International Team Up For The Concert To End Polio
Featuring the New York Philharmonic and world renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman, the Concert to End Polio in New York City aims to eradicate global polio.
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Malaria Vaccine May Be Available In 2012
A vaccine against the parasitic disease malaria cut illnesses by more than half in field trials and could be safely given with other childhood inoculations...
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Gates Foundation Joins Others In Goal To Cut Homelessness
A partnership of governments, businesses and nonprofits is pledging today to redouble its efforts to help the growing number of homeless families in Washington.
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Causecast nominated for a 2009 Webby Award!
The Webby Awards have nominated Causecast in the Charitable Organizations/Nonprofit category. We're up against some stiff competition and need your help to win!
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Why should Bill Gates be considered a "Cause MVP?" As one of our users says, he's "not just raising awareness, he's actually trying to get things done..."
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Millions of Homeless Schoolchildren
Arianna Huffington urges Americans to act to protect American schoolchildren, a growing number of whom have become homeless as a result of the recession.
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Hope Plus: Online Global Activism Portal To Launch In December
At the Copenhagen Conference, a new web portal will be unveiled. The site, Hope Plus, is targeted at engaging local and international communities in social activism!
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Big Players Scale Back Charitable Donations
The pipeline from corporate America to the nation's charities is starting to dry up, as losses in the stock market mount and the U.S. recession deepens.
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Performance Learning Centers from Across the Country Honored With Inaugural Award for Excellence
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An Ounce of Prevention: Helping the World's Poor Prepare for Disaster
$5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation fosters collaboration between six major humanitarian agencies.
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World Leaders make an Unprecedented Commitment to fight Malaria
World leaders gathered at the 2008 Millennium Development Goals Malaria Summit to celebrate a game-changing $3 billion commitment to ending malaria.
Blog posts
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END WORLD POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
THINK.MTV.COM & MTV NETWORKS TO WORLD PREMIERE WILL. I. AM’S NEW VIDEO INSPIRED BY GLOBAL INITIATIVE Celebrities Band Together to End World Poverty and Inequality in “In My Name” ...
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People are Talking about Child Survival
Bill Frist Former Senate Majority Leader and chair of Save the Children’s Survive to 5 Campaign: "When children die needlessly, we have a moral and humanitarian imperative to act. Our nation ha...
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Fighting Malaria with an MBA: A New Business Plan
Last week, I went to the San Diego State University for their annual Sports MBA Case Competition. Some of the best young sports business minds from across the country put their classroom skills to ...
