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• Speaker Series Event - Breakthrough Research on Building Better Brains

  Join the live Blank Family Foundation Speaker Series webcast at 6 p.m. (ET) on Feb. 28, 2012. The Speaker Series program, "Breakthrough Research on Building Better Brains," will feature Dr. Jack Shonkoff, director of Harvard's Center on the Developing Child. During the webcast, Child Trends President, Carol Emig, will use Twitter to highlight key points and resources related to the webcast. Webcast viewers may participate via Twitter using #B25. For information on the webcast, go to http://blankfoundation.org/brain. No registration is needed to view the webcast.  Read more>>

• The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation Awards $100,000 to the Children's Museum

  The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation has awarded a two-year, $100,000 grant to The Children's Museum of Atlanta to support two community-based outreach programs, Connected Learning ... Connected Communities and Access It! Together, these programs provide increased access to low-income children and families to the museum's programs and facilities.  Read more>>

• The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation Awards $124,000 to Teach For America

  The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation has awarded a two-year, $124,000 grant to Teach for America to launch a leadership-training academy for Teach for America's early childhood education teachers.

  The leadership academy will ensure that Georgia has leaders who are able to drive the change necessary to close the achievement gap.  Read more>>

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