Word: bequest
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...addition, last year PBHA spent $100,000 of a bequest from the Margaret Rey Estate on the summer programs. This year, however, Hampton says the organization can only afford to spent $50,000 of the Estate's gift on summer programs...
Through the University of Mississippi, they created the Barksdale Reading Institute, which is financed by the interest produced by their $100 million bequest. Twenty training schools, which will receive $40,000 each, were picked in April. Twenty additional target schools--whose students have lower test scores and therefore will receive greater funding--have just been chosen. The institute plans to add 40 schools a year until the total reaches...