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Facebook Funds Go to Teachers
(Wall Street Journal) — Some of Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million gift to the Newark school system will be given directly to public schoolteachers, one year after the Facebook founder announced the donation, said three people familiar with the plans. The foundation that manages the gift will announce Wednesday a two-year, $600,000 program that provides $10,000 grants to teachers or groups of teachers who come up with innovative classroom programs, these people said. It’s one of the few programs so far to come out of the high-profile donation, which was announced on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” last year by Mr. Zuckerberg, Newark Mayor Cory Booker and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Kanye’s Charity to Help Dropouts Drops Out
(New York Times) — The charity named for the rapper Kanye West that was intended to reduce high school dropout rates has closed mysteriously. Its former executive director, Joseph Collins, sent an e-mail to associates last month, telling them that he was looking for a job because the charity, the Kanye West Foundation, had closed, and its phone has been disconnected. “I am reaching out to let you know that the Kanye West Foundation (kanyewestfoundation.org) has officially closed it doors after a successful 4+ years of programming and events,” Mr. Collins wrote in the e-mail, which was given to The New York Times by executives from two nonprofit groups that had worked with the organization. “It has been an incredible experience working with Kanye and the board to realize his mother’s vision and I am honored to have been given the opportunity to lead the Foundation.”
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Celebrity Colonization of Africa
(Mother Jones) — OVERSIZED SHADES have replaced pith helmets, but the new scramble for Africa has its share of adventurers, would-be saviors, and even turf battles. As Madonna’s publicist explains, “She’s focusing on Malawi. South Africa is Oprah’s territory.”
8 Young Social Entrepreneurs
(Inc) — FEED Projects’s goal is to market and sell as many bags as possible and to feed and educate the world’s 400 million hungry children. Buy a bag online and you’ll know the exact impact of your purchase. For instance, if you purchase a $60 “Feed1” bag, the company lets you know that you’ll be feeding one school child in the developing world for an entire year; this photograph shows the founders Lauren Bush (left) and Ellen Gustafson visiting Rwanda. To date, FEED has donated more than 57 million meals to hungry children worldwide.
