Barbra Streisand gives &#36;10,000 to school
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Barbra Streisand53rd Annual Emmy Awards - 11/4/2001Photo: Michael Caulfield/Wireimage.com" border="0" /> Barbra Streisand has donated $10,000 to a performing arts high school, which says her record label plans to contribute an additional $10,000 worth of audio-visual gear.
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President Bush&#39;s daughter Jenna plans to live in the District of Columbia and teach at a public school serving low-income children.
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OAKLAND, Calif. - A woman who auctioned an old painting hoping to get a few thousand dollars toward her daughter's college tuition was stunned when the picture fetched $600,000.
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NEW YORK -- Barely two years ago, Cristina Rodriguez and her three children were moored on the wrong side of the income gap. A high school dropout, she was making a little more than $200 a week, stapling price tags to shirts and boxing them at a Modell's warehouse. "I didn't use my mouth, didn't use my mind; I only used my hands. I was always going to be broke," she said....
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LOS ANGELES -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will give $1.9 million in hopes of improving student achievement in up to eight schools in the Los Angeles and Central Valley areas, it was announced Tuesday.
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The talented actress wins a National Award.
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Vicky Burress was 47 when she realized her family needed a second income to put two children through college. Despite a thin rÃ©sumÃ©â a high school
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As its record-setting campaign heads to the finish line, the Museum of Fine Arts yesterday announced a $10 million gift from State Street Corp. , the largest single contribution from a corporation in the museum's history.
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David Bowie makes a $10,000 donation to support six black teenagers charged with assault.
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The dancers and actors who participated in the 1974 recordings and workshops that were the foundation of âA Chorus Lineâ have been granted a financial interest in the current Broadway revival.
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Eight high school students who gave their senior class trip money to a teacher with cancer will be able to travel after all, thanks to donations from people who were touched by the students' generosity.
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Hollywood star Paul Newman gives $10m (Â£5m) to the college he attended to start a scholarship fund.
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A New York real estate magnate has given the University of Michigan &#36;100 million, its largest donation ever, and the university's board voted on Thursday to rename the business school for him.
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Grammy-winning singer Lou Rawls, who has helped raise more than &#36;200 million for the United Negro College Fund, is getting an honorary doctorate from Wilberforce University in Ohio.
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Barbra Streisand told a sell-out Berlin concert crowd on Saturday that she was delighted to perform in Germany for the first time after turning down several invitations in the past.
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Making philanthropic history: one woman donates millions to her alma mater, a Quaker high school in Pa.
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Three months after Alexandra Scott died of cancer at age 8, her goal of raising &#36;1 million for cancer research this year by selling lemonade has been surpassed.