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WMU Students grant $13,750 to local nonprofits

(4/26/2010)

http://www.wmich.edu/wmu/news/2010/04/086.shtml

KALAMAZOO–Music education for public schools, breast pumps for mothers with vulnerable babies and leadership development programs for youth struggling with mental illness were some of the local programs that received a boost recently from a Western Michigan University nonprofit leadership class.

Students granted a total of $13,750 to five Kalamazoo nonprofit organizations through the American Humanics program at WMU. Funding for the awards came from a Campus Compact and Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund program called Students4Giving…

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