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...grants to local charities based on indicators of poverty and unemployment levels. The first installment of $576,665 (out of a total pool estimated at $15 million to $20 million) will go to agencies in the 15 least populous states, including Utah, Maine and the Dakotas. Metropolitan areas, where hunger and homelessness are most acute, can expect help through the winter. Ken Kragen, president of the Hands sponsor, U.S.A. for Africa, explained the caution: "You don't want to just throw money out there. It would have been there two days after Hands Across America if we had thought that...
...messy personnel struggle in September at the top of Ted Bates aggravated the feeling among some advertisers that power hunger or greed might be the true motivating force behind the mergers. Chairman Robert Jacoby, even after taking home an estimated $100 million of the $450 million merger price, proved unwilling to give up authority to his new bosses, Admen Charles and Maurice Saatchi...
Pratt, Shin, and Daniel Buchanan '88 helped serve rice, beans, and dayold baked goods provided by "Bread, not Bombs," a group whose philosophy links military budgets to hunger. The Kendall Square-based group salvages and hands out food from local restaurants and supermarkets along with anti-nuclear leaflets. The servers request but do not require payment for the food...
...University shelter, along with Harvard's Freshman Urban and Hunger Action programs, has been planning the event since late September. More than 20 Harvard students have been involved in the project...
Last year, when Bike-Aid was first created, both groups sponsored rides to promote awareness of poverty and hunger issues and development projects in the third world and the U.S. Bike-Aid and the four-year-old CFH decided this fall that, rather than compete as they did last summer, they should collaborate...