Charity News from Saturday, Apr. 1, 2000AmeriCares Reaches $2.5 Billion Milestone in Life-Saving AidAmeriCares Foundation | AmeriCares, the international and national disaster relief organization, announced today that it had passed the $2.5 billion mark in aid delivered to disaster victims and developing nations around the world. In addition to providing millions of ... People Are Talking About Heifer International Heifer Project International | Owning a few [Heifer] dairy cows can make a huge difference. "In Sichuan, China, where Heifer provided 300 goats to 89 families, the number of goats has tripled in two years, raising annual incomes 30-50 percent." Washington Fifth Grader Wins Arbor Day National Poster Contest National Arbor Day Foundation | Nebraska City, Neb--Jonathan Zander, a fifth grade student in the Snohomish Home Education Cooperative, of Snohomish, Washington, is the grand prize winner in the 2000 Arbor Day National Poster Contest. The national contest is co-sponsored by ... St. Jude Research Study Reveals Mechanisms of Neuron Receptor Function in the Brain St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | (Memphis, Tennessee, April 1, 2000 ) Research led by developmental neurobiologist Michisuke Yuzaki, M.D., Ph.D., at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital shows how glutamate receptors work between neurons in the brain. This understanding paves ... College Fund To Support Tribal Colleges High Performance Computing Initiative American Indian College Fund | The nation's tribal colleges and universities are launching the Tribal Colleges High Performance Computing Initiative--an unprecedented public-private partnership designed to bring modern technology to these remote colleges and the Indian ...
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