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		<title>Challenged Athletes Foundation Awards $2.1 Million in Grants</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://famousphilanthropist.com">Famous Philanthropists - </a></p>Awarded through the foundation's Access for Athletes program, the grants will help underwrite training and coaching, adaptive sports equipment, and competition-related expenses to disabled individuals in twenty countries....
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		<title>Community Foundation Update (5/25/13)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 05:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>San Antonio Area Foundation Announces $1.2 Million in Grants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 05:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p><a href="http://famousphilanthropist.com">Famous Philanthropists - </a></p><p>The foundation awarded sixty-eight grants totaling more than $1.1 million through its Community Grants program and four grants totaling $110,045 through its Biomedical Research program, which is focused on cancer, diabetes, and heart disease....</p></p><p><a href="http://famousphilanthropist.com">Famous Philanthropists - </a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://famousphilanthropist.com">Famous Philanthropists - </a></p>The foundation awarded sixty-eight grants totaling more than $1.1 million through its Community Grants program and four grants totaling $110,045 through its Biomedical Research program, which is focused on cancer, diabetes, and heart disease....
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		<title>University of Virginia Exceeds $3 Billion Campaign Goal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 05:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p><a href="http://famousphilanthropist.com">Famous Philanthropists - </a></p><p>Announced at this year's commencement ceremony, the completion of the campaign was made possible with gifts from more than 220,000 donors, including over 92,000 alumni, 29,000 parents, and 2,600 faculty and staff members....</p></p><p><a href="http://famousphilanthropist.com">Famous Philanthropists - </a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://famousphilanthropist.com">Famous Philanthropists - </a></p>Announced at this year's commencement ceremony, the completion of the campaign was made possible with gifts from more than 220,000 donors, including over 92,000 alumni, 29,000 parents, and 2,600 faculty and staff members....
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		<title>Walmart Foundation Awards $3.5 Million for Job Skills Training</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 04:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p><a href="http://famousphilanthropist.com">Famous Philanthropists - </a></p><p>Building on the Walmart Brighter Futures Project, the League for Innovation in the Community College will provide middle-skills job training for low-income adults and older youth at twelve community colleges around the country....</p></p><p><a href="http://famousphilanthropist.com">Famous Philanthropists - </a></p>]]></description>
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		<title>Millions of Dollars Pledged to Support Oklahoma Tornado Victims</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 04:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p><a href="http://famousphilanthropist.com">Famous Philanthropists - </a></p><p>As communities across Oklahoma and Texas work to clear the rubble and debris left by violent storms earlier in the week, a growing number of businesses, organizations, and individuals have pledged funds to relief and recovery efforts....</p></p><p><a href="http://famousphilanthropist.com">Famous Philanthropists - </a></p>]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Archive Receives $1 Million From Knight Foundation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 04:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://famousphilanthropist.com">Famous Philanthropists - </a></p>The grant will be used to expand the archive's TV News Search & Borrow service, which uses closed captioning to enables users to search, quote, and borrow news broadcasts in its database....
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		<title>Harvard&#8217;s Wyss Institute Receives $125 Million Gift</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 04:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>05.23.13: U.S. News Bits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 17:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Family Divided Over Future of Davidson Foundation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 05:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p><a href="http://famousphilanthropist.com">Famous Philanthropists - </a></p><p>Oakland County Probate Court in Michigan has dismissed a petition to divide the foundation assets of industrial magnate William Davidson, casting the future of the billion-dollar philanthropy in doubt....</p></p><p><a href="http://famousphilanthropist.com">Famous Philanthropists - </a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://famousphilanthropist.com">Famous Philanthropists - </a></p>Oakland County Probate Court in Michigan has dismissed a petition to divide the foundation assets of industrial magnate William Davidson, casting the future of the billion-dollar philanthropy in doubt....
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