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People in the News (03/17/02): Appointments & Promotions
The latest staff and board announcements around the philanthropic community....

Marin Community Foundation Awards $680,000 to Clinic Serving Low-Income Residents
The grant is intended to assist the Marin Community Clinic meet the challenges of providing services to a rapidly growing client base....
MacArthur Foundation Awards $425,000 to Inner-City Development
With the grant, Shorebank Corporation's Urban Logic unit will complete development of and launch a line of services that provide an effective way to predict the potential for business success in cities, neighborhood by neighborhood....

Pew Trusts Award $9.9 Million to Establish Genetics and Public Policy Center
Goals of the center include educating influential leaders about reproductive genetics, supporting research to assess public attitudes and concerns about the field, and creating a set of policy options for guiding the use of advances over the long-term....
United Negro College Fund Receives Education Grant Package From Oracle
The Oracle grant is part of a UNCF capital campaign launched to strengthen the technology capacities of the its member institutions by bolstering software, hardware, technical support, training, and faculty development....
University of Washington Receives $756,000 Grant to Study Cell Growth
The university's Cell Systems Initiative hopes to develop a prototype of an observation platform that will allow real-time measurement of complex processes within cells....
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Awards $500,000 to Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of California
The five-year research grant is intended to allow premier research institutions to pursue new avenues of research at their discretion....
AmfAR Awards Over $2 Million for New HIV/AIDS Research Projects
The American Foundation for AIDS Research has awarded research grants for new research on HIV/AIDS, including grants to projects specifically aimed at developing new anti-HIV drugs....

KnowledgeWorks, Gates, and Ford Foundations Award $31.5 Million for Ohio Education Initiatives
The grants will be used to create new small schools and transform large, impersonal high schools into smaller schools in four to six urban districts throughout the state....

UN Global Fund Creates Panel to Review Funding Proposals
The members of the international panel have expertise in the fields of disease control and prevention, clinical care, health education, and international development....
UT-Houston Science Center Receives $20 Million From Brown Foundation
The gift kicks off a major fundraising effort to collect a total of $200 million to build and equip a new research building and recruit and support world-class genetic and molecular scientists....
Independent Sector, Urban Institute Release New Nonprofit Almanac
With more than 1.2 million nonprofit organizations in America employing some 10.9 million workers, the nonprofit sector is becoming an increasingly important part of the U.S. economy....

Robert Wood Johnson Awards $2.6 Million for Community Substance Abuse Services in Eleven Communities
Juvenile drug abuse violations involving young people jumped 144 percent between 1987 and 1996, while two-thirds of young people in juvenile justice facilities receive no substance abuse treatment at all....
Gates Foundation Gives $2 Million for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Kenya
Accompanied by former President Jimmy Carter, William H. Gates, Sr., announced the grants at an HIV/AIDS town forum in Nairobi....
Sloan Foundation Supports September 11 Digital Archive Project
In the hours and days following the attacks, more than 100 million Americans sent or received e-mails expressing support, grief, and shock, and thousands of stories and recollections were documented using Web sites and other digital media....
Standardized Testing Enjoys Support But High School Graduates Still Lack Basic Skills
The study showed troubling data for the fifth year in a row about the basic skills of high school graduates....

United Nations Unveils New Methodology for Including Nonprofits in Economic Statistics
Developed in collaboration with researchers at Johns Hopkins University, the new handbook outlines a methodology for measuring the contribution of nonprofits to national economies....
University of Iowa College of Medicine Receives $63 Million Gift
The gift from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust will be used to support pioneering research programs, capital projects, and grants for individual research projects....

Komen Foundation Receives Intercultural Cancer Council's Leap of Faith Award
ICCl presented the award at its Eighth Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved, and Cancer in Washington, D.C....
People in the News (03/10/02): Appointments & Promotions
The latest staff and board announcements around the philanthropic community....
ATAS Foundation Receives $1 Million Gift for Television Archive and Bob Hope Collection
The Bob Hope archive will be an assembly of existing and future comedy-oriented interviews....

Leeway Foundation Names New President
Sara Becker, the foundation's current vice president, succeeds Linda Lee Alter, becoming Leeway's second president.....
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Short on Funds
When United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan proposed the Fund last year, he said the fight against the infectious diseases would require as much as $10 billion a year....

September 11th Fund Shifts Focus to Longer-Term Assistance
In related news, New York City's Twin Towers Fund has agreed to transer its remaining $100 million to former mayor Rudy Giuliani's private charity of the same name...

Bush Launches Tour to Boost Voluntarism
The president will promote his plan and greet model volunteers across the country....
Survey Finds Minority Americans Lag Behind Whites in Healthcare Quality
Many have communications and financial barriers to care, and lack trust in doctors....
Gill Foundation Announces More than $750,000 in Grants to LGBT Community Centers
21st Century Initiatives project provides support to three important sectors of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community....

IRS Issues Guidance on New Rules for Disaster Relief Charities
The federal agency also advises charities that, in light of the considerable funds contributed for 9/11 relief, it will be reviewing available information and will contact certain organizations for additional information about their activities....