U.S. President Barack Obama will donate the $1.4-million he received with his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans' families and survivors of Haiti's earthquake, among others, the White House said yesterday. The following charities will receive a share of the money.
- $250,000 to Fisher House, which provides housing for families of patients receiving medical care at military and veterans hospitals.
- $200,000 to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, which raises funds for long-term relief efforts in Haiti.
- $125,000 to College Summit, an organization dedicated to increasing college enrolment rates.
- $125,000 to the Posse Foundation, which provides scholarships for public high-school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential who may be overlooked by traditional college selection processes.
- $125,000 to the United Negro College Fund, which enables more than 60,000 students each year to attend college through scholarship and internship programs.
- $125,000 to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the leading Hispanic scholarship organization in the United States.
- $125,000 to the Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation, which provides scholarships so young men and women from Appalachia can pursue higher education.
- $125,000 to the American Indian College Fund, which provides scholarships for American Indians.
- $100,000 to AfriCare, whose programs, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa, address needs in three principal areas: health and HIV/AIDS; food security and agriculture; and water resource development.
- $100,000 to the Central Asia Institute, which promotes and supports community-based education and literacy, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Institute's co-founder, Greg Mortenson, was also a Nobel Peace Prize nominee this year, whose book, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace, One School at a Time, recounts his attempt to successfully establish dozens of schools and promote girls' education in rural Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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