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Salazar Launches Partnership with All-American Rhodes Scholar Myron Rolle for Innovative Health Program at Indian School

U.S. Department of the Interior

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today was joined by college football All-American and Rhodes Scholar Myron Rolle to announce a new partnership that will introduce an innovative physical fitness and health program into Interior-funded American Indian schools.
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NAP Circle of Leadership Cohort Selected for 2009-2010

Native Americans in Philanthropy announces the next cohort of Circle of Leadership for 2009-2010.
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The Association of Black Foundation Executives Names New President to Lead 38-Year-Old Trailblaizing Organization

(October 27, 2008 - New York, NY) The Association of Black Foundation Executives (ABFE) today announced its selection of Ms. Susan Taylor Batten as its new president. After a careful and thoughtful search process that included interviews with a talented pool of candidates representing all spectrums of philanthropy and business, the Board of Directors selected Ms.
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Kellogg Foundation Names New Program Directors

Kara Inae Carlisle and Lisa Flick Wilson will join the Foundation as program directors in Civic and Philanthropic Engagement. Their work will focus on increasing engagement across and within diverse communities to strengthen vulnerable children, families and communities.
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Indigenous Peoples adaptation to Climate Change

The paper focuses on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol. It also addresses the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the UNESCO World Heritage Convention.
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Status and Trends in the Education of American Indians and Alaska Natives

The National Center for Education Statistics within the Institute of Education Sciences has released the report "Status and Trends in the Education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008."
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Lawsuit over Mismanagement of Individual Indian Trust

BROWNING, Mont., Aug. 7 -- Elouise Cobell, lead plaintiff in the
class-action lawsuit over the government's mismanagement of the Individual Indian Trust, today expressed "disappointment" over the ruling by U.S. District Judge James Robertson.
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Northwest Area Foundation Awards $2.46 Million Grant

Supports reservation's initiatives to reduce deep poverty
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Bush Foundation Supports the Self-Determination of Native Nations

By 2018, all 23 Native nations in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota are exercising self-determination and actively rebuilding the infrastructure of nationhood.
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New Updates to Lobbying Disclosure Act Guidance

On July 16, 2008, the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House issued updated guidance www.lobbyingdisclosure.gov on how to interpret the federal Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA), as updated by the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 (HLOGA).
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