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Doris Buffett Visits the Learning by Giving class at the University of Nebraska Omaha
D&E President Dr. G.T. "Buck" Smith announced that donors from across the globe have contributed $498,625.45.
Doris Buffett - Warren's sister – believes in helping by paying money forward
Doris and Warren visit the prison. Read NY Times writer Peter Applebome's article covering this year's Sing Sing Graduation. Still shot from the documentary "Zero Percent", courtesy of Moxie Pictures
The Doris Buffett Story, the inspiring story of a woman who is using her wealth for philanthropy, is now available.
Doris Buffett started The Sunshine Lady Foundation shortly after she inherited money in 1996. She's donated more than $100 million in her own money.
The foreword for the new autobiography on Doris Buffett, was written by her more famous brother, Warren.
Read more of the article from the Charleston Daily mail.
NY Times Article By STEPHANIE STROM
FOR 11 nights last month, several dozen homeless people slept on plastic sheeting and soiled blankets outside the gleaming new $500 million headquarters of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle. Their objective was a $30,000 grant to help reopen shelters that had been closed by cuts in government funds.
Intro to Philanthropy - Students in college course seek applications for $10,000 in grant money
By Michael Theis
October 18, 2011 - Students in a philanthropy class at the University of Mary Washington are looking for local nonprofits to apply for $10,000 in grant money. It’s the sixth year that students taking Dr. Robert Rycroft’s class Economics of Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector.
Each year, Doris Buffet’s Sunshine Lady Foundation has provided $10,000 to the class for students to distribute. It’s just one of several philanthropy classes which Buffet’s foundation has funded over the years through the Learning by Giving program. This year, the Learning by Giving program is sponsoring eight philanthropy classes at universities across the nation.
By Heather Steeves, BDN Staff, WARREN, Maine —
Shaun Libby, 32, of Standish was a teenager when he killed a man while trying to rob a gas station. He has grown up a lot since then.
On Wednesday, Libby and eight other men received degrees from a Maine State Prison
college program.
It has been proven by myriad studies that obtaining a college degree in prison reduces
the chance that inmates will commit new crimes and end up back in the system. Libby,
who has 20 years left on a 40-year sentence for murder and robbery, quoted those statistics
as he spoke at his commencement in front of family and teachers gathered in the visitation
room at the prison.
Class with cash seeks recipient
By Michael Bamesberger WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
LINCOLN — A University of Nebraska-Lincoln management class is giving students the chance to play philanthropist. Their assignment? To select a local nonprofit organization to receive up to $5,000.
Known as “Project Impact Lincoln,” the assignment is designed to teach students about providing grants and evaluating funding proposals, while seeking out an organization that will have the greatest impact on the community.
“They’re so excited because this is real money we’re talking about,” Colleen Jones, the associate professor who teaches the class, said of her students. “We’ll be able to apply the theories we learn in class to the real world.”
Students are seeking applications from local organizations until Nov. 1. The applications will be judged based on the number of people served, the potential for longterm impact and the organization’s ability to successfully execute its proposed project.
Find out what Efroim Gruzin’s, owner of Virginia Websites Online, answer was while being interviewed by the Free-Lance Star Newspaper.
