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Mon., April 29, 2013 9:00am
After giving $10 million last year to help fund a building that bears his name, the late Dr. J. Harold Harrison and his family topped that by giving $66 million to the Medical College of Georgia for scholarships. The Medical College of Georgia Foundation accepted the gift this weekend.
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Fri., April 19, 2013 3:10pm
Friday, Atlanta Medical Center held a blood drive in honor of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.
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Fri., March 1, 2013 9:19am
The University of West Georgia is launching a sustainable business honors program with the help of a Georgia-based cable and wire manufacturer. Southwire’s $1.1 million gift is the largest in the history of the university’s business school.
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Wed., December 26, 2012 5:30pm
People who live in Albany give the most money to charity, according to a ranking by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. And many other Georgia communities aren’t far behind.
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Fri., September 14, 2012 10:30am
The Georgia State University School of Music has received a multimillion-dollar gift to support music students, faculty and programs. The planned gift comes from Atlanta alumna Aileen M. Valianos and her husband Chris. School officials did not specify the amount of the gift.
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Wed., September 1, 2010 3:12pm
The Nature Conservancy has bought more than a thousand acres of fire-scorched land and donated it to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The land is on the refuge's northwest edge, where wildfires burned a half million acres in 2007.
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Thu., August 20, 2009 2:32pm
Members of the deaf community in Georgia took to the streets Wednesday to f
