
Source: foundationcenter.org
ARAMARK announced a ten-year, $1 million grant to the National Park Foundation for the organization's new First Bloom project, which encourages children to participate in hands-on natural resource protection activities in national parks.

Source: Chicago Tribune
"Community developer using grant to help others achieve dream of going to college."

Source: GoodBiz113
With just one day left of community voting for the Partners in Preservation program, American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation are asking the public to make a last push for their favorite Chicagoland historic site by voting online daily at

Source: Slate
The MacArthur Foundation anointed 24 new geniuses Tuesday. They granted $500,000 fellowships to artists, engineers, and a host of other creative types.

Source: theithacajournal.com
Grants like this allow agriculture to develop, and when agriculture develops, people get fed!

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They call her "Scary Sherry." She is a one-woman powerhouse who has the attention of legislators and was mentored by James Brady - but she is an incredible entrepreneur. She teaches people to build 501 (c)3 corporations.

Source: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has won one of the largest federal grants in its history to create a center that will explore how to convert cornstalks, wood chips, grass and other plant material into fuel for cars and power plants.

Source: getdemocracy.com
I am absolutely thrilled to announce today that we've received a grant from Mozilla, creators of Firefox.

Source: niche-newsreels.com
In today's fast-paced and eagerly competitive world, not having an education is career suicide. College graduates make anywhere from 40% to 200% more than those that have only graduated from High School.

Source: BBC News
Actor Hugh Grant has been arrested over an allegation he attacked a photographer in London, before throwing a tub of food at him.
Photographer Ian Whittaker told the Daily Star newspaper he was kicked before the tub was hurled at him

Source: CureSpinalCordInjury.com
What's wrong with that? California offered funds for Korean research unit.

Source: hawaiifilmblog.com
The state of Hawaii offers film tax credits, and in some cases, cash grants to lure film and television productions to shoot there.

Source: The Washington Post
The Abraham Lincoln whose birthday we celebrate today is known for his soaring prose. What we remember, however, is Lincoln's planned prose; he kept no diary or other record of his innermost thoughts.

From SFGate: "Peter A.

Source: The New York Times
Evolutionary biology has vanished from the list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students.

Hurray for American Dreamz! Not because I loved it, but because I didn't. I have lavished so much praise on movies recently that I was beginning to sound like David Manning. Let the criticism begin!