Last Minute News Topics » grant http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com The latest news Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:42:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cancer charity confronts backlash over grant cuts (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/cancer-charity-confronts-backlash-over-grant-cuts-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/cancer-charity-confronts-backlash-over-grant-cuts-ap#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:17:55 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/cancer-charity-confronts-backlash-over-grant-cuts-ap FILE - In a Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 file photo, Nancy Brinker, founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, speaks at the National Press Club in Washington. Susan G. Komen for the Cure faced an escalating backlash Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 over its decision to cut breast-screening grants to Planned Parenthood. Komen's top leaders, inclluding Brinker, in their first news conference since the controversy erupted, denied Planned Parenthood's assertion that the decision was driven by pressure from anti-abortion groups. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)AP – The renowned breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure faced an escalating backlash Thursday over its decision to cut breast screening grants to Planned Parenthood. Some of Komen’s local affiliates are openly upset, including all seven in California, and at least one top official has quit, reportedly in protest.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/cancer-charity-confronts-backlash-over-grant-cuts-ap/feed 0 AP Newsbreak: 9 states to win early learning grant (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/ap-newsbreak-9-states-to-win-early-learning-grant-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/ap-newsbreak-9-states-to-win-early-learning-grant-ap#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:18:54 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/ap-newsbreak-9-states-to-win-early-learning-grant-ap AP – Nine states will share $500 million in grant money won in a high-profile competition intended to jump-start improvements in often-overlooked early childhood programs, The Associated Press has learned.

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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/ap-newsbreak-9-states-to-win-early-learning-grant-ap/feed 0 Hugh Grant becomes a first-time dad http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/hugh-grant-becomes-a-first-time-dad http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/hugh-grant-becomes-a-first-time-dad#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:06:35 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/hugh-grant-becomes-a-first-time-dad Hugh Grant may have just landed the role of a lifetime: new dad! The 51-year-old actor became a father to his first child, a baby girl, in early October.

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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/hugh-grant-becomes-a-first-time-dad/feed 0 ‘Ground Zero mosque’ wants $5M govt grant http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/ground-zero-mosque-wants-5m-govt-grant http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/ground-zero-mosque-wants-5m-govt-grant#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:26:13 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/ground-zero-mosque-wants-5m-govt-grant Developers of a mosque near Ground Zero are fanning a new flame of controversy by applying for a $5 million federal grant reserved for the redevelopment of lower Manhattan.

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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/ground-zero-mosque-wants-5m-govt-grant/feed 0 Foundation offers challenge grant to help Haiti http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/742/foundation-offers-challenge-grant-to-help-haiti http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/742/foundation-offers-challenge-grant-to-help-haiti#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:24:28 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/742/foundation-offers-challenge-grant-to-help-haiti USS Higgins Arrives Home From Haiti
SAN DIEGO (CNS) – The guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins, the first U.S. Navy ship to reach earthquake-ravaged Haiti, returned to San Diego today after a six-month deployment.

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Haiti relief auction set for Saturday
SENATOBIA – Simply Southern Auctions will hold an auction for victims of the Haiti earthquake from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday.

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Dr. Al home from Haiti
FOX 11 medical expert Dr. Alan Cherkasky spent several days in Haiti. Click on the headline for Robert Hornacek’s report.

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WILDOMAR: Girls sell art for Haiti
After seeing the devastation that occurred in Haiti followingthe 7.0-magnitude earthquake last month, sisters Marley and PresleyMagana wanted to help.

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Foundation offers challenge grant to help Haiti
Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis has created a matching challenge grant to help raise funds for the relief effort in Haiti in wake of the recent earthquake.

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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/742/foundation-offers-challenge-grant-to-help-haiti/feed 0 Lutheran Foundation offers challenge grant to help Haiti http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/742/lutheran-foundation-offers-challenge-grant-to-help-haiti http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/742/lutheran-foundation-offers-challenge-grant-to-help-haiti#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:15:33 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/742/lutheran-foundation-offers-challenge-grant-to-help-haiti Haiti work changes lives of South Jerseyans
Not long after an earthquake devastated Haiti on Jan. 12, Karen Slutsky got a call at 7:30 p.m. in her Cherry Hill home: She was needed as a member of New Jersey’s Disaster Medical Assistance Team.

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Foundation offers challenge grant to help Haiti
Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis has created a matching challenge grant to help raise funds for the relief effort in Haiti in wake of the recent earthquake.

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Could Haiti happen here?
It’s a natural question to ask after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti Jan. 12: Could that same kind of devastation happen in Seattle?

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Press Releases: USAID Administrator Raj Shah and State Department Counselor Cheryl Mills On the Way Forward in Haiti
USAID Administrator Raj Shah and State Department Counselor Cheryl Mills On the Way Forward in Haiti Cheryl Mills Counselor Washington, DC February 2, 2010 MR. CROWLEY: Good afternoon and welcome to the Department of State. It’s been a couple of weeks since two of our most senior officials working on Haiti policy have visited with you, so we thought we’d start up with kind of a Haiti update …

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Lutheran Foundation offers challenge grant to help Haiti
Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis has created a matching challenge grant to help raise funds for the relief effort in Haiti in the wake of the recent earthquake.

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