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City Year (Seattle)
$1-million to encourage young people to undertake community-service projects to help poor children and low-income neighborhoods

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Duke University

(Durham, N.C.)
$20-million to establish the Duke Scholars Program, which seeks to link exemplary undergraduates with students in professional and graduate schools

Eastside Domestic Violence Program (Bellevue, Wash.)
$100,000 to upgrade its communications and technology systems

Empowerment Africa Foundation (Buca, Cameroon)
$240,000 for programs to eradicate illiteracy among women and youths in Cameroon

Gandhi Institute (Mumbai, India)
$700,000 to promote computer training to unemployed and low-income people in India

Global Health Council (Washington)
$300,000 to purchase an electronic-communications system to provide information on exemplary practices to health-care workers via the Internet

Multi-Service Centers (Redmond, Wash.)
$1.2-million for its capital campaign for the Adelle Maxwell Child Care and Development Center

PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) (Seattle)
$100-million to establish a program to accelerate access to new vaccines for children in developing countries

Seattle Public Library
$20-million for its capital campaign