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Education News and Notes
January 22, 2007
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The Southern Minnesota Initiative
Foundation's Early Childhood Initiative and IBM's KidSmart Learning
Project will create 30 Young Explorer Learning Centers throughout
the 20-county region, providing children the opportunity to play and
learn on a computer designed just for them. The computers allow
young children to explore at their own pace and enhance their
learning through technology. IBM also awarded $100,000 to Rochester
Area Foundation's First Steps initiative for early literacy
training. |
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Faegre & Benson established a
scholarship program aimed at encouraging and supporting diversity in
the legal profession. The firm will offer $12,000 scholarships
annually to help students pay for their final years of law school,
and the students will have the opportunity to work as summer
associates at one of the firm's offices. |
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The 3M Foundation awarded 84 Ingenuity
Grants to teachers in 13 states in 2006. The grant program recognizes public
school teachers in grades 3-8, bringing new resources into
classrooms to raise student interest and achievement in math,
science and economics. |
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Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota awarded
a $25,000 grant to the Community Development Work Study Program, a
joint effort of the University of Minnesota's Center for Urban and
Regional Affairs and the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. The
program, a national effort of the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development, provides financial support to educational
institutions to recruit and support economically disadvantaged
students of color who are committed to community development. |
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The Minneapolis Foundation awarded a
$5,000 grant to the St. Thomas chapter of the Genocide Intervention
Network to support the chapter's spring-semester work in education
about genocide, specifically the situation in Darfur, Sudan. The
chapter will also organize a conference in February. |
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50
nonprofits, schools and other organizations across the Twin Cities
received $10,000 grants from the General Mills Foundation to support
programming for the metro area's growing number of people of color,
including immigrant communities. The General Mills Celebrating
Communities of Color grants program is a $500,000 initiative now in
its third year. This year's grant recipients include the ACHIEVE! Minneapolis "Girls
in Action" program, which works with young women in high-school on
personal power, leadership skills, service-learning and career
coaching to help decrease violence among 9th-12th graders, and the
Somali Success School's youth program, which provides after-school
assistance for 8th-12th graders. Find a complete list at
generalmills.com. |
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First-year
agricultural students at two-year colleges are invited to apply for
50 $750 scholarships from the CHS Foundation, which recently
expanded its Two-Year College Scholarship Program to provide greater
financial assistance to more students. The
foundation also provided a $30,000 grant to the Agriculture Future
of America (AFA) organization for program and conference support for
personal and professional training and opportunities for young
people pursuing careers in agriculture. The four-day AFA Leaders
Conference draws more than 300 of the nation’s top collegiate
agricultural students and includes participation and leadership from
nationally prominent leaders in the agricultural industry. |
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The
Indian Land Tenure Foundation received grants from three
foundations to support the introduction of K-12 Indian land tenure
curriculum in Saint Paul Public Schools. Funding from the F.R.
Bigelow Foundation ($50,000), The Saint Paul Foundation ($150,000)
and St. Paul Travelers Foundation ($15,000) will help educate Indian
and non-Indian students about the importance of land, culture,
inheritance rights and sovereignty of Indian people. The curriculum
addresses the history and loss of Indian lands and its impact on
tribal communities in the past and currently. Developed in 2003, the
K-12 Indian land-related curriculum provides base material and
context on the importance of Indian land tenure and the cultural and
historic relationship between Indian people and the land. |
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The Otto Bremer Foundation awarded
a $171,000 grant to the University of Minnesota's Department of
Chicano Studies to foster a new statewide network of Latinos in
higher education and create a Latino media project. |
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Cargill will award $350,000 in
scholarships to high school seniors who plan to enroll in accedited
post-secondary institutions in the fall of 2007. The national FFA
organization will independently process the applications and select
the recipients. |
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