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• in Social Media
  Facebook App to Help Students Hunt for College Financial Aid
  Bill Clinton, MTV, College Board, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Facebook, app, financial aid
  by johnjegan / on Apr 4, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “gates foundation”

 

• APSU’s Degree Compass garners international recognition

  
  Business & Heritage Clarksville — Authority: 435
  Austin Peay State University is harnessing “the Netflix effect” to new heights. More than a year ago, APSU launched Degree Compass, a course recommendation system to help students stay on track toward graduation by. It was dubbed “the Netflix effect” because it provides students with personalized ...
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• Diversity Is In

  
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  Homogeneity is out; diversity is in. Moving clients to the center of the microfinance discourse is producing new data on who they are and how they use (or could use) financial services.     Financial inclusion means much more than simply having or not having a bank account: it goes beyond the mere availability ...
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• UCF’s Virtual Classroom Software Receives Grant For Innovative Teacher Preparation Program

  
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  A $1.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will triple the reach of an innovative teacher preparation program developed at the University of Central Florida that uses avatars in virtual classrooms to train future educators. TLE TeachLive™ improves teacher practice and student learning by ...
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• Gates Grant to PRI for Health Issues Reporting

  
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  PRI is the recipient of a $1.6 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a reporting initiative on health and development worldwide. PRI says it will use the two-year grant to to expand its coverage of issues in poorer nations including maternal health and infant mortality; water, sanitation ...
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• Stand for Children; Another Dangerous Group

  
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  When Stand for Children came to town, I was contacted by a very nice woman who sat down with me to explain who they were and what they were doing.  I found it interesting but I also felt confused.  Were they working with parents or not?  I tried to get a bead on if they were trying to compete or compliment PTA.  ...
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• APSU Degree Compass noted as case study in new e-book

  
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  Austin Peay State University Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University is featured in a new e-book about how colleges and universities are finding innovative ways to reach more learners effectively and with greater impact. The e-book, titled “Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies,” ...
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• Hyderabad foundation gets $100,000 grant for polio vaccine

  
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  Hyderabad, May 10 (IANS) Ella Foundation has won a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a virus against polio after the phasing out of the oral poliovirus (OPV) vaccine, the Hyderabad-based scientific research group said Thursday.“Such a vaccine ...
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• The day Bill Gates came to our school

  
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  http://www.guardian.co.uk The day Bill Gates came to our school How the speakers for schools programme matched our inner city comp with the Microsoft billionaireI will always remember Wednesday 25th January 2012 as the day Deptford Green welcomed American business magnate, billionaire, philanthropist and ...
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• The day Bill Gates came to our school

  
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  How the speakers for schools programme matched our inner city comp with the Microsoft billionaire I will always remember Wednesday 25th January 2012 as the day Deptford Green welcomed American business magnate, billionaire, philanthropist and author, Mr Bill Gates to the school. I applied to the charity ...
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• A Challenge Paper on Water and Sanitation

  
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  A Challenge Paper on Water and Sanitation – 2012 Full-text (pdf) by Frank Rijsberman and Alix Zwane and released by the Copenhagen Consensus Center. The world has met the Millennium Development Goal on the provision of clean drinking water five years early, but is set to miss its goal on basic sanitation ...
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• Formality and Informality: Lessons from the New Findex Survey

  
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  The Findex project helps to correct a long-standing imbalance in evidence on global finance: an abundance of data on the supply of financial services but curiously little that’s systematic and comparative about global demand. Together with the IMF’s Financial Access Survey , we’re finally getting a clear ...
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• Bill Gates, Sr.: Vaccines are an act of love

  
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  This piece by Bill Gates, Sr. was originally published on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Impatient Optimists blog . When my wife was pregnant with our first child, one of the worst polio epidemics in history was tearing through the United States. When my daughter was born, I was excited to be a ...
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• The reality of working in non-profit world: my interview with a Gates Foundation Program Coordinator

  
  Community College Success — Authority: 107
  Many people who want to work in the non-profit industry aspire to work at the Gates Foundation. I am a particular fan of the Gates Foundation due to their dedication and incredible contributions to community colleges (i.e. the Foundation launched a $35 million dollar program to boost community college ...
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• What Is the Role of Libraries in the Age of E-Books and Digital Information?

  
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  Public libraries are a major hub through which Americans gain access to e-books and other digital resources, but these institutions role in the digital transition hasnt been made easy by the nations recent economic troubles. On April 9, the American Library Association released its annual State of Americas Libraries ...
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• Bob Dylan To Be Awarded Presidential Medal Of Freedom

  
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  President Barack Obama has named thirteen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, including Bob Dylan and astronaut John Glenn. The Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests ...
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