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• Freddie Mac Foundation and Washington Capitals Team Up to Help Region's 6,000 Foster Children

To: FAMILY EDITORS Contact: Patricia Fuentes of Freddie Mac Foundation, +1-703-903- 3504; or Nate Ewell of Washington Capitals, +1-202-266-2357

• U.S. Newswire
• February 09, 2007

• Focus On Childrenthe Children's Foundation Celebrates 125 Years of Providing Care, Comfort and Guidance to the Youngest in Need

When Crystal Weebling of Bloomington became pregnant when she was 15, she recalled her time in foster care when she was younger. She knew where to turn. She called The Children's Foundation, which is part of a statewide organization celebrating its 125th anniversary.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• October 14, 2008

• Carol A. Goss

Ms. [Carol A. Grantmakers for Children Youth and Families; Association of Black Foundation Executives; Women in Philanthropy; Detroit Area Grantmakers; Detroit Parent Network; Michigan's Children; Council of Michigan Foundations; Court Appointed Special Advocates Advisory Committee; Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee; The Links, Inc., Oakland Chapter; McKinley Foundation; Michigan Aids Fund; Michigan Task Force on the Overrepresentation of Minority Children in Foster Care; Minerva Educational Development Foundation; NAACP; New Detroit, Inc.; Skillman Center for Children; Tomorrow's Child Michigan SIDS, Inc. and the Wayne County Task Force on Foster Care Youth.

• Michigan Chronicle
• August 24, 2009

• Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation Presents Country Nites' Holiday Jubilee to Raise Funds for Arizona's 6,500 Foster Children.

• Business Wire
• November 22, 2002

• 'Screw' a Tricky Vocal Turn ; James-Based Opera Aims Spotlight On Almost-Ripe Cast

The Kennedy Center's intimate Terrace Theater was transformed into a mini opera house Monday evening when Lorin Maazel, the New York Philharmonic's current music director, conducted a single performance of Benjamin Britten's chamber opera "The Turn of the Screw. Presented under the auspices of the Kennedy Center's Abe Fortas Memorial Fund for Chamber Music, "The Turn of the Screw" was produced by Mr. Maazel's Chateauville Foundation, headquartered in Rappahannock County, Va. This new production the organization's first fully staged opera features young artists who have been involved in the foundation's mission "to nurture children, foster art, and reclaim the human spirit."

• The Washington Times
• May 24, 2006

• Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation Hosts a Night At the Herberger to Raise Funds for Arizona's 7,000 Foster Children.

• Business Wire
• November 30, 1999

• Indian Children Need Foster Care

There's a shortage of Native American foster families, according to the Utah Foster Care Foundation and Native American Children's Coalition. Currently 26 Native American children are in foster care in the Salt Lake area and only four Native American foster families, according to the foundation.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• September 04, 2004

• British Mp Galloway Takes Emperor's Clothes Off Bush and His Mideast Policies

Bush and the neocons already would be in Damascus an Tehran if it weren't for you," was British MP George Galloway's answer to a Los Angeles question on what more the peace movement can do. The occasion was Galloway's Sep 22 appearance in Los Angeles, two days before he was to address the massive national war protest in Washington DC.

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• Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, The
• Vol. 24 Nbr. 9, December 2005

• Youth Villages Receives $42m Challenge Grant --

Youth Villages said Tuesday that it has received a $42 million challenge grant from The Day Foundation. The grant - the largest in the Memphis nonprofit organization's history - will allow it to help more older foster children become independent adults.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• August 03, 2011

• More Vulnerable Children and Their Families Across the Nation

Law will give more states the flexibility to invest in programs that reduce the need for foster care and ensure more children have safe, stable and permanent families. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Casey Family Programs, the nation's largest operating foundation dedicated to improving the foster care system, today applauded Congress for passing and President Obama for signing into law a foster care funding reform measure that will help keep more children safe from abuse and neglect and improve the lives of vulnerable children and their families across the United States.

• U.S. Newswire
• September 30, 2011