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Updates on: Verizon Foundation’s grant to West Virginia School District, Cisco Foundation’s award to MIND Research Institute

The Verizon Foundation has awarded $48,000 to the West Virginia Department of Education. The grant will be used to provide train teachers in the use of Verizon’s Thinkfinity, a Web portal that provides access to lesson plans and interactive materials for K-12 students. Verizon recently announced that it will award $1.2 million in grants to schools in 17 states.– T.H.E. Journal

The MIND Research Institute, a non-profit education research and publishing organization, received a $500,000 cash grant from the Cisco Foundation – this on top of a previously awarded grant of about $500,000 in equipment, bringing the total donation to $1 million. The funds will be used to develop MIND’s elementary and middle school math programs and make them available over the Internet. – T.H.E. Journal