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Article in the Fluvanna Review, 30 January 2012 Billionaire philanthropist Doris Buffett may soon be a major financial contributor to efforts by Piedmont Virginia Community College to help educate Fluvanna women inmates. “Being the daughter and the sister of people who are good at investing money, I look at it in the same way, it’s

Article from AuburnPub.com In a town known for its prison, its support for the military and its penchant for knitting, a few dozen incarcerated veterans have spent the last two decades quietly distributing food, money and thousands of pieces of crocheted clothing to needy children and families. The Veterans Group of Auburn began its charity

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

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

One might expect to find millionaire philanthropist Doris Buffett lunching at some swanky country club Wednesday morning, not sitting in a small library conversing with convicts. But to Buffett, talking with participants in her Sunshine Lady Foundation is much more fulfilling than snacking on watercress sandwiches. Buffett visited Coffeewood Correctional Facility Wednesday, meeting with close

By Kristi Pihl, Herald staff writer Wednesday, May. 25, 2011 CONNELL — An associate degree program at Coyote Ridge Corrections Center that prison officials said helps reduce recidivism has been saved from the chopping block. A private foundation has awarded a $140,000 grant to keep the Connell prison’s associate degree program going until 2012, when

By Carolyn Livengood San Mateo County Times The public is invited to attend “An Evening With Doris Buffett,” the philanthropic sister of billionaire Warren Buffett, from 6 to 8 p.m. March 31 at the San Mateo County History Museum, 2200 Broadway St. in Redwood City. Proceeds from the reception will benefit Caminar and NAMI (National

WARREN, Maine — Olin Williams was 23 years old when his prison cell door closed behind him in 2001. “A dumb kid,” he calls himself in retrospect. His mistakes cost him 15 years in the Maine State Prison for an attempted murder conviction. On the outside, Williams worked as a machinist in a factory. A

Lynne Barber is a name many in the community recognize because of her caring heart and open hands in the field of giving and helping others. Barber has worked extensively over the last decade with local domestic violence prevention centers and now with New Beginnings Pregnancy Center in Ash Flat. Recently, Barber was honored nationally